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Latest Africa
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Interview about the the 1998 invasion of the Congo by the US puppet armies of Rwanda and Uganda and its consequences almost two decades on
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Monjane: African peasants highlight their struggles
At a recent international conference organized by the world’s largest peasants movement, Via Campesina, African peasants had opportunities to share their experiences of struggle and to learn
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New Report Shows Corporations and Western Governments Continue to Profit from Looting of Africa
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Bramall: Billions are being pumped out of Africa
In 1943, US President Roosevelt visited the Gambia. The sheer...
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Engler: Entrenching colonialism in Africa
The recent seizure of phosphate from a Moroccan state company in South Africa and Panama is a blow to corporate Canada and a victory for national independence struggles
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At the World Economic Forum-Africa, Germany pitched a dubious new G20 corporate strategy
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Fletcher: 70 Million Africans In Danger of Famine
We tend to believe that famine is primarily the result of natural disaster, but the African countries affected by famine are all ones that have all been severely affected by political instability and war
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Kamal: 20 Million Could ‘Starve to Death’ Within Six Months
Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen
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Bond: South Africa: Mass protests
On South Africa’s political left, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party dominated recent news by leading a mass march on President Jacob Zuma’s office in Pretoria
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Turse: America’s War-Fighting Footprint in Africa
Secret U.S. Military Documents Reveal a Constellation of American Military Bases Across That Continent
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Northey: Colonial history in the French elections
Algeria, Le Pen, and fascism at the heart of Europe
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South Africa’s two main warring political blocs – the...
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Hoffman: A controversial American school chain and the battle to teach Africa’s children
There are serious questions to be asked about whether private companies and development agencies should be allowed to experiment on African children
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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Bond: G20: A Threat to Africa?
while once preaching isolationism, Trump has already expanded hectic, albeit low-profile, Africa Command interventions from the Maghreb across the Sahel to the Horn
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Never underestimate the global myopia and indifference that lurks beneath the surface of the United States’ supposedly Leftist higher educational system
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Coleman-Adebayo: “Negroes Need Not Apply:” The EU-Africa Malta Conference
Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, offers the solution of pouring “hundreds of millions in additional aid into Africa to try to discourage hundreds of thousands of people from heading to the EU.”
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Woldemariam: Caring About Animals, Dehumanizing African Asylum Seekers
What is yet to enter the public discourse is Western complicity for the circumstances that generate refugees. The contributions of the U.S.-British "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq and the U.S.-British-French "Mission Accomplished" in Libya to the refugee exodus is rarely acknowledged.
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Visram: Greek Austerity & African Patronage
The current situation in Greece resembles the debt peonage that many African countries have been subjected to for decades. They suffered the consequences of the so-called structural adjustment under the supervision of the international finance institutions and the result was economic and social devastation.
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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...
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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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 truth...
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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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addict: 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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Cook: Egypt-Saudi Red Sea islands deal
Tel Aviv could use diplomatic capital gained in its approval of Tiran and Sanafir deal for support on Palestinian issue
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Essam: Egypt Silencing Independent Media
The Egyptian government’s efforts to crack down on critical media platforms reached news heights this week
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Fisk: Egyptian President employing militia in the Sinai
A sign of how desperate his war against Isis has become
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On arrival in his cell, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy discovered that he was imprisoned with men whom he had interviewed only a few months earlier as members of the Morsi government
Lybia
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Prashad: The US-NATO Invasion of Libya Destroyed the Country Beyond All Recognition
Libya is ruled by a patchwork of rival heavily armed gangs that have sown terror in the population
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Baroud: War to Stop War: Libya’s Operation Odyssey Lightning
The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East
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Prashad: It’s Bombs Away for the USA in Libya
Almost guaranteed to spread more misery across North Africa
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Militias have had a free run of the country and the entry of the I.S. has only led to a worsening of the violence, arson and mayhem that have been the order of the day