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· May, 2006

Stories about Eritrea from May, 2006

Eritera: Political prisoners

EMDHR Reads and Writes! points to an article in the UK Guardian about an Eritrean singer, Helen Berhane who has spent most of the past two years locked inside a...

Written by Sokari Ekine
29 May 2006

Senegal: Immigration as colonization

“No Sarkozy! Immigration does not come from a vacuum,” says (Fr) Semett in a post on French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy's immigration policies. “With centuries of merciless exploitation of subsaharan...

Written by Alice Backer
25 May 2006

Chad: What is France doing there?

Generation Consciente, Une Autre Afrique asks (Fr) “What is France doing in Chad? In Africa?” and answers: “The day before yesterday, they waved the communist threat to explain France's presence...

Written by Alice Backer
18 May 2006

Africa: Clandestine Emigration

Seckasysteme would like to see (Fr) “a summit of West African heads of state so that clandestine emigration can be uprooted and so as to find a durable solution to...

Written by Alice Backer
17 May 2006

Africa: Looking to Latin America?

AfroBlog responds to the question put by the BBC “Should Africa look to Latin America”.…For Africa it would be ideal to learn from the experiences of Latin America but realistically...

Written by Sokari Ekine
16 May 2006

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