Pambazuka News

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Published by Fahamu since 2000, Pambazuka News (http://www.pambazuka.org/) is a pan-African electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa providing: contemporary commentary and in-depth analysis on politics and current affairs development, human rights, refugees, gender issues and culture in Africa. It is designed to be a tool for progressive social change.

Pambazuka News is published in English and French. Since 2000, more than 300 issues in English and French have been published. It has an estimated readership of half a million.

Pambazuka News also produces the AU Monitor blog which to provides regular feedback to African civil society organisations on what is happening with the African Union.

The podcasts and videocasts produced by the Pambazuka team were amongst the first African podcasts.

Pambazuka News was also a key player in the campaign for the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.