Interviews
Zimbabwe's Mugabe Demands End to Sanctions - But Some Call for More
November 19, 2009
"While President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe again called this week for the lifting of travel and financial restrictions imposed by Western countries on him and other ZANU-PF officials, some argue that targeted sanctions should be tightened to increase their effectiveness..."
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ZIMBABWE: Watchdog Groups Urge Ban on Diamond Exports
November 2, 2009
"The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human rights violations stemming from Zimbabwe's lucrative diamond industry..."
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Africa Action's Briggs Bomba on VOA TV to Africa: Straight Talk Africa: World Habitat Day
October 9, 2009
"Join Voice of America News on “Straight Talk Africa” for this one-hour television and radio call-in simulcast when host Mwamoyo Hamza and his guests discuss managing urban development on the African continent..."
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Gerald LeMelle on 'America's New Frontline: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?'
October 1, 2009
The U.S. is bound by shared history to Africa - a history that has been a source of much pain and conflict. Recently, however, there have been two significant developments which may define the relationship between the U.S. and Africa for decades to come. In a special two-part series Rageh Omaar travels to the U.S. and through East and West Africa to investigate the American strategy for the continent..."
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Clinton to chair Security Council session on sexual violence
September 30, 2009 - Howard LaFranchi , Christian Science Monitor
"Hillary Clinton will promote a US-sponsored resolution Wednesday that seeks to strengthen a measure approved last year that condemns the use of rape in conflict..."
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Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Yields Economic Benefit; Politics Stalled
September 15, 2009 - Voice of America, Voice of America
"Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Global Political Agreement that gave birth to Zimbabwe’s unity government. Briggs Bomba, Director of Campaigns at Africa Action, joins Tom McDonald, U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe from 1997 to 2001 and Marian Tupy, a policy analyst with the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity to speak with Voice of America about his observations and analysis on the current conditions in Zimbabwe today..."
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Cutting Off the Collection Call
September 14, 2009 - Shawn Zeller, Congressional Quarterly, www.cq.com/
"This article, written and published by Congressional Quarterly, quotes Africa Action on Vulture Funds (File Hosted by www.mediafire.com)..."
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KPFA Radio: GUEST: Michael Stulman, Associate Director for Policy and Communications at Africa Action
August 31, 2009 - www.uprisingradio.org
"A coalition of advocacy groups is pressuring Congress to pass a bill that would help end so-called “Vulture Fund” profiteering at the expense of impoverished nations. Click here to listen to the segment..."
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Africa Action on CNN, Inside Africa: Money, Politics and Human Rights
August 25, 2009
"China is now Africa's biggest trading partner, having overtaken the U.S. last year. Click here to watch and listen to Africa Action's executive director, Gerald LeMelle, on CNN..."
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FINANCE-US: "Vulture Funds" Prey on Poor Debtor Nations
August 19, 2009 - Eli Clifton, Inter Press Service
"Since 1996 donor countries - including the U.S. - have committed 90 billion dollars in bilateral and multilateral debt relief to over 30 countries. VULTURE funds profit from this debt relief," Michael Stulman, associate director of policy and communications at Africa Action, told IPS..."
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