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The African media survey is compiled by the International Refugee Rights Initiative in New York. It covers newspapers from the African continent that are accessible online and also includes articles accessed through a subscriber-only database.
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Survey of African media coverage
March 16-31, 2010
All the articles may be found here.
Featured articles:
South Africa- News24
Donors aim to give Darfur $2bn
21 March 2010
An international donors conference aimed on Sunday to raise $2bn in pledges for projects intended to ensure the safe return of more than 2.7 million people displaced during the war in Darfur.
The one-day conference in Cairo was organised by the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Conference and also included representatives from the US, European nations, UN agencies and aid groups.
Host Egypt said the conference highlighted the importance of development in achieving peace and stability in Darfur.
"It is time has come to finally end the crisis and the end of this circular war in the region," said former South African president Thabo Mbeki at the opening session on Sunday. "And so the livelihood of the Darfurians must be improved through development."
Read the article here.
Nigeria- Business Day
They-re off
22 March
Campaigning is underway for the country's first real multi-party elections since 1986, due to be held on April 11th. Voters, opposition politicians and foreign governments, all seemingly united in their dislike of President Oman Al-Bashir, had hoped that these polls would bring about a "democratic transformation" of the country. But there is every sign the Sudanese will have to wait quite a bit longer for genuinely fair elections.
The coming polls are a result of a peace deal signed in 2005 to end a 50-year on-and-off war between the Muslim northern half of the country and the Christian and animist south. According to the UN, they are also "some of the most complicated elections ever".
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Uganda- The Independent
Bashir, ‘genocide’ in Darfur, and the war on terror
23 March 2010
At a public debate on rethinking Darfur in late 2009 in the Makerere University main hall, Mahmood Mamdani, having published Saviors and Survivors just recently, argued that there was no genocide in Darfur. Fellow discussant Dismas Nkunda one of the Directors of the Darfur Consortium argued otherwise, and indeed passionately.
As he does in his book, the professor argued that calling for external intervention in Darfur as “saving” blacks from Arab perpetrated genocide was stripping the crisis of context — and was potentially fatal.
The high point of the Darfur crisis came about when the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued a warrant of arrest for the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in July 2008. Bashir’s charges included conspiracy to commit genocide along with other war crimes. He was also charged with racially polarising Darfur between blacks and Arabs, subjecting survivors to slow death from malnutrition and torture in the IDP camps. The single source of violence in all these charges is the government he heads. To these, Mamdani says all “bear no historical scrutiny”.
Read the article here.
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