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Current Feed ContentMALI: People’s Forum takes stance against privatisationAs G8 leaders wrapped up their forum in Hokkaido in Japan, some 13,000km away, the hundreds of people who had gathered for the seventh annual alternative People’s Forum, this year held in the town of Koulikoro, Mali, were issuing a closing statement to their own conference, and its tone was defiant. The focus of discussions on 10 July, the final day, was on privatisation. Participants issued a statement urging the Malian authorities “to take bold steps against privatisation and to extend... |