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19 March 2006

Buying In, Selling Out or Scraping By: Francophone African Bloggers on Social Mobility and Education

Written by Alice Backer · Ideas, Arts & Culture

School on Hold While Mom Scrapes By Carine. Courtesy Tony Katombe. Le Blog du Congolais shares (FR) the touching story of Carine, a 22 year-old from the DRC with an...

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6 March 2006

Voices from Zimbabwe and the Great Lakes

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

Zimbabwe: Last weekend Zimbabwean politics were rocked by the flamboyant reentry of former student activist turned rocket scientist turned businessman Arthur Mutambara. Mutambara, who captivated the nation's imagination with his...

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20 February 2006

Voices from Zimbabwe and the Great Lakes

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

Zimbabwe: Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), a civic action group looking out for the welfare of Zimbabwean women, held their third annual valentine's day protest march. This is Zimbabwe blogged...

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6 February 2006

Voices From Zimbabwe and the Great Lakes

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

Zimbabwe: Inflation continues to rule the day in Zimbabwe where they recently introduced a 50,000 dollar note in a bid to help hauling the country's porous currency around. Ironically, said...

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23 January 2006

Zimbabwe–Great Lakes Blog Roundup

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe, the last of Africa's “big men” turns 82 late next month. Members of the ruling ZANU-PF have begun murmuring about ambitous plans for an extravagant birthday bash...

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14 December 2005

Voices From Zimbabwe Plus

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

Zimbabwe: With the elections gone and the country firmly in their grip, the ruling ZANU-PF unravelled their newest ploy to silence hostilities from their own citizens. Trevor Ncube, the publisher...

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29 November 2005

Voices from Zimbabwe Plus

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

The people of Zimbabwe gave the ruling ZANU-PF and indeed all forms of purposeless politics their boldest affront to date as very few Zimbabweans turned up to vote during the...

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22 November 2005

Voices from Zimbabwe Plus

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe took center stage a couple of times at WSIS in Tunis last week. First up was Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president calling for an end to the use of...

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15 November 2005

Voices From Zimbabwe Plus

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

Zimbabwe:This is Zimbabwe in Surviving Zimbabwean Democracy presents a summary of the major arguments for and against the MDC's participation in the senate elections which a are now under two...

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1 November 2005

Voices From Zimbabwe Plus

Written by Zimpundit · Weblog

A weekly blog round up of the latest from the Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, Malawi, and Zimbabwean blogospheres.

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Updates about Burundi

2 June 2006

Updates

Reflecting on Senegal's drowned migrant crisis and migrations towards the West in general, Robert Sagna, the Mayor of Ziguinchor, Senegal blogs (Fr): “Developed countries (…) build quasi-impenetrable walls through “visas”. Visas (…) are not the right solution. (…) The youth from the South has chosen emigration. It is our responsibility to make sure that is not the only choice. Then let's make sure that migrations are not “chosen” but “organized” through a North-South dialogue. (…) Repression can never be a good durable solution, it makes things worse.”

• Alice Backer

25 May 2006

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“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 countries and a continuous transfer of their riches to the North, it is logical that the disinherited masses from Africa turn to Europe to recapture their goods (…) The colonization of Europe is imminent.”

• Alice Backer

19 May 2006

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” [French Interior Minister] Sarkozy's immigration law [CESEDA] passed in the French National Assembly! ” says (Fr) Aimafrica . “For a country like Mali, this could be the beginning of an economic catastrophy. France … after having looted our riches and our people, wants business as usual. She no longer wants our unskilled hands, just our most brilliant minds! … Our brothers who have been clandestine for years will remain in that state for life!”

• Alice Backer

18 May 2006

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Commenting on a recent tiff between French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade over France's new policy of “choosing its immigration,” Forum Realisance says (Fr): “Wade is dead on because it is evident that France wants its pick of the best of African elites and takes for granted that (…) immigrants lured in with promises of an Eldorado (…) receive very little in return (…) It is high time that France (…) change its backhanded segretationist policy towards Africa and accept a responsible partnership that encompasses respect for development in Africa rather than confining it (…) to a role of furnisher of raw materials, reservoir of labor, technicians and affordable intellectuals or simply to a role of docile market for exports.”

• Alice Backer

17 May 2006

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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 in Africa. Yesterday Anglo-American jolts justified the need to stay. Today Islamist regimes peak their heads in and explain our presence. Tomorrow Chinese imperialism will be evoked.”

• Alice Backer

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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 the problem.” “Hundreds have died since the beginning of the year for having simply tried to escape misery,” continues the blogger. “Images are shocking of these corpses that even sharks don't want, floating on the ocean, that end up on Spanish shores.” He posts photos.

• Alice Backer

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Agathon Rwasa publishes archived material dating back to 1972 on US policy towards Burundi - various memos from Henry Kissenger and Richard Nixon.

• Sokari Ekine

16 May 2006

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Generation Consciente, Une Autre Afrique posts (Fr) a list of French universities, centers, laboratories and other French institutions that specialize in the study of Africa.

• Alice Backer

8 May 2006

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Agathon Rwasa reports that the Burundian government has ordered the police to “beat anyone that does not obey the law”.. The President is reported to have said “I told journalists that if the police tell you not to go beyond this line and you do so, they have the permission to beat you,”

• Sokari Ekine

11 April 2006

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Generation Consciente, Une Autre Afrique publishes (FR) a list of francophone journalists who cover Africa.

• Alice Backer

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