And who exactly are these people? Who set them up? Who is funding them?

They give the impression that they reflect African opinion, but if I said the EU are funding them, would I be wrong?

(The EU is funding organisation that want public participation in the African Union!!?? What's the problem with doing that for the EU?)

(this comment is not directly aimed at the above article - it is a technical request by an IMC reader/poster, for the contributors of stories about Zim to compile their articles better.)

I think we can all agree that what is going on in Zim is terrible, but the amount of articles on the newswire about the crisis is pushing lots of other stories off the bottom of the page and let's face it, anti-Mugabe sentiment can be found everywhere on the mainstream media here in the UK, so is it needed to have such a large amount of it here on IMC? I can pick up the Daily Mail, Express, Times, Guardian etc and read pages of these releases as it totally suits the agenda of the British establishment.

The majority of the news stories here have little or no anti-state, anti-capitalist content, being largely cut-n-pasted from elsewhere. Wouldn't it be better for the posters putting these stories up to make a single news item with links to the relevant articles to prevent space being used up so much?

Africa is dominated by scum-bag dictators, and 'The West' doesn't give a fuck about democracy or human 'rights'. Activism based on these features is a waste of time in my opinion, as neither 'democracy' or 'human rights' mean anything to those states supposedly sworn to protect them. - Look at the Gabon, where President Omar Bongo has lived squat over the people since 1967, backed by Western oil corporations as he violently suppresses dissent and lives a life of palatial luxury. Or look at any one of these corrupt regimes propped up by the system which removes them when the puppet forgets it is slave to the puppeter.

Against all leaders- 'authoritarian', 'democratic', 'progressive' or otherwise.

Who's behind you and who set you up - or are you just simply following instructions from the transistor radio set you gurgled about last week?

Ms Yemisrach Kebede is the director of CCP-AU, She speaks English and French, you can phone her on 00 201 63 41 64 87 and ask her who set her up and who is behind her. Or if you're shy you could just gawk at her on facebook and see who her mates are.
 http://es.facebook.com/people/Yemisrach_Kebede/684680096

But let's save you the trouble of phoning her and just read who CCP-AU say they are.

"The Center for Citizens participation in the African Union (CCP-AU) is a platform of CSOs/NGOs aiming to encourage African citizens engagement and participation in the African Union. CCP-AU interim steering Committee is composed by the following organizations: Action Aid - Ethiopia, African Center for Humanitarian Action (ACHA), African Rally for Peace and Development (ARPD), Afroflag Youth Vision (AYV), Christian Relief and Development Association (CRDA), Organization for Social Justice in Ethiopia (OSJE) and Oxfam."

oh yes. imperialist lackeys every last one of them. All you need to do is check out your local OXFAM store and chat to the little old dear behind the counter. Try asking her to sell you something without a plastic bag. Her name is Meryll.

gr

I liked that gurgle ribbid! By the way I have to confess I did gawk at Yemisrach on facebook for a short while, well she is attractive is she not?

Jason