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The 14th of July 2015 will always be remembered as a day in infamy in Rwanda’s entire history. In a joint session of Parliament, legislators unanimously voted to remove term limits, thus paving the way for President Paul Kagame to rule for life.

INTRODUCTION

The Strategy of Economic Partnership identifies priority areas of BRICS cooperation - in such sectors as power, manufacturing, mining, agribusiness, and innovative technologies and many others, according the summit documents.

In December 2013, a political dispute within South Sudan’s ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), escalated into an armed confrontation in Juba involving forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and those loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar.

[The first part of this article appeared last week at this link: http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/features/95145 .]

THE US: EUROPEAN-OCCUPIED AFRICA, ‘GRAND AREA’ PLANNERS, GENOCIDE

When you think of Angola most people think of the 27-year-long civil war which ended in 2002. Some may even think of oil and diamonds.

Thus spoke Reeyot Alemu to the Voice of America- Amharic Service on July 9, 2015, a few hours after she was literally thrown out of the infamous Meles Zenawi Prison in Kality (Ethiopia’s “Robben Island”), on the outskirts of Addis Ababa:

There is never going to be development. Not in Africa, at least not in Zimbabwe where I come from, or in any other place that we continue to define as developing, less developed, underdeveloped. Someone needs to say it.

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The kota sold by Christies for Euro 5.5m in Paris on 23 June 2015.

The Art Newspaper informs us that a kota has fetched a very high price in Paris: