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  IPS Inter Press Service - Africa

POLITICS-ANGOLA: Some Parties More Equal Than Others
LUANDA, Aug 28 (IPS) - It seems like a playground game. Every day, Angola?s main opposition party sends teams out across Luanda to hang flags, posters and pictures of their leader Isaías Samakuva.
RIGHTS-SIERRA LEONE: Activists Will Accept Only Full Abolition
FREETOWN, Aug 28 (IPS) - Sierra Leonean rights activists have served notice on the government that they will campaign against any attempt to retain the death penalty in the new constitution and insist the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are fully adopted.
Q&A: "They Mobilised Violence For Their Own Reasons"
NAIROBI, Aug 27 (IPS) - The text of the Kenyan National Dialogue and Reconciliation Accord, brokered by former UN chief Kofi Annan in March this year and released to the press in full last Sunday, identifies land as one of the central issues creating "economic, social, political and environmental problems" in the country.