EDITORIAL:
- A new campaign seeks to put an end to political disappearances in Africa, write Polly Dewhirst and Ewoud Plate
- Pambazuka News comment: Why did the G8 and international agencies say and do nothing about the crisis brewing in Niger during the recent Live 8 extravaganza?
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
- Abdelbagi Jibril reviews the life of John Garang and assesses the chances for peace in Sudan
- Tristen Taylor and Simon Delaney explain the legal minefield that must be negotiated in South Africa in order to exercise the right to protest
- Is there a life after office for ex-presidents in Africa? Henning Melber investigates
LETTERS: Readers on mass struggles, being divided to death by EPAs and Charles Taylor in Nigeria
BLOGGING AFRICA: Read the second edition of our column on the African blogosphere by Sokari Ekine
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Famine in Niger and Mali; Army officers take power in Mauritania; Violence in Khartoum following Garang’s death
HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights and the WTO; DRC rights campaigner murdered at home
WOMEN AND GENDER: Call for more women’s rights protocol ratifications
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Mugabe goes east and goes home; Of stuffed ballots and empty stomachs in Zimbabwe
DEVELOPMENT: Discontent on WTO talks; Structural injustice and the MDGs in Zambia
CORRUPTION: Making the G8 accountable
MEDIA: Journalists’ group calls for change in Egypt
INTERNET: Blogging and podcasting come to Africa
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