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April 2013
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1 April 2013, by Houda Chergui
ICC indicts Kenyatta
Kenya elected its new president, former Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta on March 9, and many wonder what the long-term consequences of the elections will be, as there has never been an election in (…) -
1 April 2013, by Anne Guay
Civilian Activism in Syria
Civil war rages on in Syria. As the death toll reaches an estimated 70,000 Syrian civilians, over 1.1 million are refugees in neighboring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt and 2.5 million (…) -
1 April 2013, by Houda Chergui,
Kamal Lahbib
From Porto Alegre to Tunis
More than 50 regional forums and seminars have taken place since 2002. Algerian generals are still hostile toward the idea of a North African movement, and Libya is still dealing with the (…) -
1 April 2013, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu
Burkina Faso: Gold, a Double-Edged Sword?
Talatout Boukari, community leader of Essakane in Burkina Faso, in partnership with the international organization FIAN, was in the Netherlands to raise awareness on the negative impact of (…) -
1 April 2013, by Michael Reford
Does Chavismo Have a Future?
The left in Latin America had struggled for a rebirth. The days of CIA- backed coups and assassination of leftists have calmed somewhat. The longstanding fight against imperialism has seen a (…) -
1 April 2013, by Kaveh Boveiri
Bordered and Borderless University Life: A Review of the Recent Happenings in Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
If you happen to be interested in ancient art, you may have come across the Thinker of Hamangia and The Seated Woman. These figures, dating back to the Hamangia culture of around 5200 BC in the (…) -
1 April 2013, by Esther Vivas
From the World Social Forum to the Arab Revolts
Tunisia, cradle of the revolts in the Arab world, hosts from today [26 March] and until Saturday the World Social Forum (WSF), the most important international meeting of social movements and (…) -
1 April 2013, by Oluwafunmilayo Oyatogun
Bailiff Champion: Nnimmo Bassey
The conversations in Nigeria are ever so often shaped around what’s wrong with our country and everything the leaders are not doing. What we fail to celebrate are the efforts, big and small, of (…) -
1 April 2013, by Feroz Mehdi
Event: Fighting Big Oil!!
Fighting Big Oil!! Date: Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 14:00 - 16:00 Defender of climate justice in Africa and in Europe, central figure in the fight against multinational oil corporations, (…)