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That’s essentially the conclusion of a long piece by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal in the most recent issue of World Affairs Journal about the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. They describe his controversial past in Argentina, his media-driven personality, his disastrous management of his office, how he miscalculated with his indictment [...]

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Britain’s Channel 4 News–hardly raving anti-globalizers–reports on the rationale behind multinational oil company Shell’s decision to pay a “humanitarian” settlement to Nigerian activists who sued the company for the role in the state murder in 1995 of Ogoni writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and a number of others. Via Real News Network

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The theatrical Muammar Gaddafi, the leader of (his) United States of Africa, speaking in Rome yesterday: “The Africans do not have problems of political asylum. People who live in the bush, and often in the desert, don’t have political problems. They don’t have oppositions or majorities or elections.” “These are things that only people who [...]

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I generally take the utterances and writings of Richard Dowden, the director of the 100-year old, London-based Royal African Institute, serious. Among others, the Institute also publishes (with Zed Books), “African Arguments,” which is a series of short book-length provocations on key policy questions, as well as the academic journal, “African Affairs“–in the video interview [...]

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Good piece of liberal left, American satire, by comedian Andy Cobb, lampooning rightwingers’ dislike of government.

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The trial by the family and supporters of Ken Saro-Wiwa (hanged by Nigeria’s military in 1995 on trumped up charges in the Niger Delta) Shell Oil will resume on Wednesday. But this time not for the actual hearing–postponed “indefinitely” by the presiding last week–but for a pre-trial conference between the lawyers of the two parties. [...]

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In a video report (above) and print article reporter Delphine Schrank (for The Atlantic) “… visits the empty lakes and scattered elephant bones left behind by the DRC’s ongoing violence.” You can also watch short interview clips on the website of the International Reporting Project (they paid for the trip).

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Next week (between June 4 and 7) European voters go to the polls to elect representatives for the 736 seats of the European Parliament. Polls indicate that traditionally centrist (and Pan-European parties) will take the bulk of the seats. 72 of these seats will be contested in Britain. And there, the far-right, racist British National [...]

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“… While that may seem counter-intuitive to Americans accustomed to bleaker images of Africa, recent studies have documented the flight of immigrant professionals from the United States to their home countries. Chinese and Indian workers increasingly say they see better opportunities and lifestyles at home. And diaspora associations of Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans and other Africans [...]

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