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| The PeaceAfrica Blog
News, ideas and debates from individuals and groups working to build peace in Africa, including those involved in the Special Initiative for Africa.
Tade Aina of the Ford Foundation sends excellent news: As you all might have heard, our friend and colleague, Betty Murungi, Director for Africa, Urgent Action Fund, was awarded the Kenya National honor of the Moran of the Order of...
Really interesting interview with Moeletsi Mbeki on allAfrica.com timed to appear just before his brother the President of South Africa's state of the nation address. Moeletsi Mbeki is a businessman, media operator and political commentator. He is also the deputy...
Belated 'happy new year' to all. January has introduced some troubling and perplexing stories as far as conflict in Africa is concerned (such as the events in Gambella in Ethiopia), but there's still good news on the Liberia front and...
Brian of Nyerere's Ghost (a great blog) comments below that there don't seem to be many civil society groups in West Africa. Not sure what he's comparing the region with but here's a list of groups that immediately comes to...
An unsung but fascinating project aimed at promoting African integration is being pursued at the Center for the Advanced Study of African Society in Cape Town. The idea is to develop orthographies for African languages which haven't been formally annotated...
A shout out for Pambazuka News - the free "information service for social justice in Africa" reaching 60,000 people every Friday. It features a challenging editorial every week and, like this blog, highlights news about groups involved in the Special...
Good article by Akwasi Aidoo of the Ford Foundation on what SIA is all about: African Solutions for Africa
140 people from all over West Africa have attended the first ever Ecowas Civil Society Forum in Accra, Ghana. Kayode Fayemi of the CDD writes to say that the outcome of the meeting will be discussed by the Ecowas Council...
Key political and social actors from Guinea-Bissau are meeting on historic Gorée Island this weekend to try and break the cycle of coup and political failure in their country. The talks were to have begun on the 15th of September...
This blog is dedicated to tracking the work of individuals and civil society groups across Africa whose goals are to build peaceful, stable communities, to support greater communication and collaboration across Africa's many different fences and frontiers and to grow...
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