Africa: if not now, when?

The most exciting moment in its own way of the World Social Forum in Dakar broke out around 16:00 local Thursday, February 10, while the assembly of the peoples of the Maghreb intervention of an Egyptian boy, who arrived in Senegal stunned after 14 days of continuous presence in square in Cairo. In the days before the focus had been alerted by small processions sometimes walked the streets calling for the end of the campus for nearly three decades of dictatorship backed by the West.

"The North acknowledges the indipendenzadel South Sudan"

Since yesterday the 54th was born in Africa, South Sudan. Yesterday, the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir has officially taken note of the willingness of the inhabitants of southern regions which have decided to establish their new nation. Four million voters, 98.8 percent said yes to independence.

The interim president of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir said that the South and the North must have strong relationships. Ruai Alier Deng, Khartoum's ambassador in Rome and a man of strong central government says the fattoquotidiano. en that "the North will respect the outcome of the referendum" even if that does not hide the way of independent regions of the South is still long and many problems to solve.