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Latest Africa
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The US has set up covert programs to train and equip native teams patterned on their instructors, the US Army Delta Force in several African countries
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Turse: The U.S. Military’s New Normal in Africa
A Secret African Mission and an African Mission that’s No Secret
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Balogun: ‘Dear world, your hashtags won’t #BringBackOurGirls’
Thanks for your concern but calling for America rather than Nigeria to take action does more harm than good
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Iltis: Hypocritical West exploits Boko Haram’s crimes
The social media campaign for Western intervention against Boko Haram ignores past violence and current Western military interventions in Africa
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Denepitiya: Ghana’s Invisible Working Class
Ghana is struggling to deal with the rise of Kayayo’s, a destitute working class who go unacknowledged by policy makers
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Bond: Africa’s number one economy, for wealth evaporation
Millions hate these kind of repressive relationships in the MINTS and BRICS
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Piascik: Rwanda: The Victims Who Weren’t Commemorated
The ruling class and their media stenographers have brought us through the looking class big-time: war is peace, lies are truth, and genocidists are liberators
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Cole: Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army
The horrific story of the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls from their school in Borno Province, northeastern Nigeria, by the Boko Haram terrorist group has again underlined the problem of violent fundamentalism in Africa
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Schechter: “When South Africa Called, We Answered”
New book tells how a global anti-apartheid movement helped South Africa win its freedom, and the lessons for us
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Jacobs: Chris Hani’s Political Legacy
For my generation at least, Chris Hani was the natural successor to Mandela
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Bond: South Africa’s “Very Good Story” Of Social Democracy
If the ANC’s bragging about its social policy continues without substantial reforms, then violent protests will continue
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Kasrils: Ronnie Kasrils calls for ‘no vote’ for African National Congress
The Vote No! campaign calls on South Africans to "vote no" at the May 7, 2014, general election due to the corruption and neoliberal economic policies of the African National Congress
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Bond: BRICS and the Tendency to Sub-Imperialism
The rise of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc represents a potentially important geopolitical and economic force
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Turse: AFRICOM Goes to War on the Sly
U.S. officials talk candidly (just not to reporters) about bases, winning hearts and minds, and the “war” in Africa
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Pilger: South Africa: 20 Years Of Apartheid By Another Name
The violent inequality that now stalks South Africa is no dream
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Bond: South Africa’s Resource Curses and Growing Social Resistance
The struggle has just begun—and by the looks of desperation on the faces of both sides within the borders of Madibeng, it will be a long one indeed
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Amin: Rwanda, Twenty Years Later
There are no signs of the region moving away from continuous wars and chaos allowing permanent imperialist interference and plunder of its resources
Books on Africa
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Donohoe: Public Health and Social Justice
see http://phsj.org/public-health-and-social-justice-reader/
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Hudson: Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change
'This is an excellent new work and a must read...
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Marqusee: Street Music: poems by Mike Marqusee
The poems, including the long sequence, “Multiple Myeloma, a suite”,...
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Lee: Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition
"Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the...
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Milstein: Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism
Consisting of ten collaborative picture-essays that weave Cindy Milstein’s poetic...
ZMag Africa
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Glazebrook: The African Union, Algeria, and Mali
Africa’s classic depiction in the mainstream media as a giant...
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Glazebrook: Libya, Africa, and AFRICOM: An Ongoing Disaster
The scale of the ongoing tragedy visited on Libya by...
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Berkowitz: Invisible Children: A Trojan Horse for the Religious Right
In early March, the organization Invisible Children burst onto the...
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Berkowitz: Gates Foundation Enables ALEC to Privatize Public Education
In the war being fought over the survival of public...
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Glazebrook: NATO’s War on Libya Is A War on African Development
Africa, the key to global economic growth,” was a refreshingly...
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Catron: Obama’s Hypocrisy Insults Palestinians’ (and Americans’) Intelligence
Barack Obama wants it both ways. Like every U.S. president...
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Petras: Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The Colonial Predator Legacy
The attempted rape and sexual abuse of an African cleaning...
Africa Video
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Dixon: The Beginning of Apartheid’s End – the 20th Anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Ceremonies in several African countries and the Caribbean this week...
Africa Audio
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Dixon: The Beginning of Apartheid’s End – the 20th Anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Ceremonies in several African countries and the Caribbean this week...
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Blogs on Africa
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Fitz: Health Care in a Global Environment
It is possible to provide health care much more cheaply...
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Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
“A little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6d “In...
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Wilson: Oxfam on Corn/Climate/Hunger: One-Horned Analysis Lacks Farm Bill Macro Solutions
I've started tweeting, and I've been running into a lot...
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M'Gehee: Interview with William Penn University’s Statesmen Status on Rwanda’s Paul Kagame
The following are my answers to a list of questions...
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: Why Insurance companies and Western Navies Love Somali Pirates
On the 11th October the BBC’s defence corespondent Caroline Wyatt...
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Greeman: Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of...
Egypt
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The "Arab winter" that began last year with the US-backed military coup in Egypt, is falling fast over Gaza
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Sabry: Egypt’s Sisi Launches Brutal Austerity Plan
The government's decisions, all publicly defended by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb, raised the prices of every form of fuel for both ordinary consumers and industrial facilities and the prices of electricity and natural gas supplies for household use
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Kotb: Me, my mom, and President Sisi
This time I was not backing down; I had to get to the bottom of why - after all of this- she still supported Egypt’s former army chief
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Cole: Can Tony Blair Mess up Egypt even Worse?
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has agreed to advise the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Lybia
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Franzblau: Libya: A Cautionary Tale
Beset by infighting among militias and rampant arms trafficking, Libya in 2014 is a cautionary tale about the long-term consequences of military intervention
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Milne: The fruit of Nato’s war in Libya
The dire consequences of the west's intervention are being felt today in Tripoli and across Africa, from Mali to Nigeria
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Jones: Libya Is A Disaster We Helped Create
Today's Libya is overrun by militias and faces a deteriorating human rights situation