In the small African country of Uganda it has been estimated that over 25,000 children have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a group of militants that has plagued the Acholi region of Northern Uganda for over twenty years. The children that have been abducted are often forced to participate in the torturing and killing of fellow child captives and members of their own family.
Desmond Desai, Chair of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) in South Africa, speaks about the influence of corporate power in his country.
Fifty years ago, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to achieve independence. And fifty years ago, in the fall of 1957, my father took my brother and me - just out of high school - to visit this new nation, and to interview Ghana's prime minister Kwame Nkrumah and the other shining lights of the Pan-African independence movement.
Toward Freedom publisher writes about a recent trip to Rwanda, community justice courts in the country, the situation under current President Paul Kagame and Keith Harmon Snow's article on Paul Rusesabagina.Prisoner at Gacaca Court*
The World Social Forum's greatest achievement in Nairobi was creating this space where over 70,000 people representing social movements from all over the world could gather and reflect on successes and strategize for the future. One key thing that came out was the formation of the Africa Water Network.
"I'm not talking for Hutus or for Tutsis. I am talking for all those people who have no voice, who cannot have access to the media. I'm trying to be their voice. But I am not talking for Hutus. I am not talking for Tutsis. Because with Paul Kagame, whoever frustrates him, whoever might raise a voice, whoever talks against him-being Hutu or Tutsi-Kagame sees them as his enemy."Paul Rusesabagina
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