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You can have both: pressure on the state to perform its duties towards citizens, and good NGO activity. But that calls for a sense of proportion. About development. About people’s entitlements. About the real reforms this country needs. Reforms to do with land, water and forest resources. With education, health, nutrition and employment.
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
P Sainath
As recently as 2009, France is said by some to have supported rigged elections in Gabon to ensure that Bongo’s son came to power after his father’s death, guaranteeing France’s continued access to the country’s resources.
A persistent motif is the need to restrain anger and irritation with other people, to put up with their incompetence or malice, to show them the errors of their ways.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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