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• Global South leads the way towards universal healthcare coverage
  An increasing number of developing countries are introducing universal healthcare coverage, according to research published in The Lancet. In the early 20th century, two models of universal healthcare coverage emerged in the United Kingdom and Germany, but countries from the global South are creating their own models. The survey of nine developing countries in Africa and Asia found that the new models vary considerably but have several common characteristics, including increased revenue and health budgets, larger risk pools and use of the private sector. AA
  
  
• Tanzania: Daud Mwangosi - A line has been crossed
  Journalists were covering the opening of a new office in Nyololo of a new political party `Chadema’. They tell us that Daud Mwangosi was in Nyololo together with several other journalists , in defiance of police orders against political activities during the census period. There was a heavy police presence in the village. Many photos were taken.Mangosi was badly beaten , and then shot dead with a tear gas canister at point blank range. Police have killed blatantly many protesters in recent years in an apparent attempt to intimidate parties in opposition to the ruling CCM. JK
  
  
• Tutu calls for Blair and Bush to be tried over Iraq
  Tutu points out that only Africans have been tried yet in the ICC, and proposes that Blair and Bush should be tried there because of lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction, acting like immoral playground bullies, and killing so many Iraqi’s. Blair replied listing all the ills that Saddam Husein had done. JK
  
  
• Political crisis in Mali and the rise of fundamentalisms
  A coup d’état and the occupation of northern Mali have left many searching for answers to a deepening crisis. AWID spoke with Head of Cooperation at the Netherlands Embassy in Mali, To Tjoelker, and socio-anthropologist Lalla Mariam Haidara, native of Timbuktu and specialist on women’s rights in Mali, to shed light on the situation. JK
  
  
• Beyond turf wars in coup-hit Guinea-Bissau
  International actors need to commit to a common strategy to help coup-plagued Guinea-Bissau implement the security, justice and electoral reforms it needs to escape its status as a link in drug trafficking to Europe. The latest International Crisis Group report, urges the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), notably Angola and Portugal who are driving its policy, to set aside differences and work with the transitional authorities to define a mandate for the ECOWAS mission in Bissau and then seek UN Security Council approval of it. ECOWAS, with support from international partners, must be allowed to take the lead in setting benchmarks for the interim government to follow and ensuring that donor aid is linked to achieving them. MM