Archive for the ‘AFRICA’ Category


Mali under Indefinite Occupation
May 20th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Chinua Achebe: A Reflection of When Things Fall Apart
March 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Cameroon: Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions
March 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
The BRICS Come to Durban
March 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
(Français) Cameroun: Violations de Droits Humains Commises dans le Cadre des Poursuites Judiciaires pour «Homosexualité»
March 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Introducing BRICS from above and BRICS-from-below
March 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Washington Steps Up Africa Intervention
March 11th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
What France Wants in Mali
March 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
African Campaign for Education on Nonviolence
March 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Africa and AFRICOM: Neo-Imperialism and the Arrogance of Ignorance
March 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
War on Terror Is the West’s New Religion
February 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Obama’s Wars in Africa: 100 Military Personnel in Niger
February 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
(Italiano) La Nostra Terra, le Nostre Vite
February 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
French Imperialism Moves Deeper Into Mali
February 25th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
(Español) Vientos Africanos
February 18th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
The African Union, Algeria and Mali: The West’s War against African Development Continues
February 18th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
A Key Question: How Do We Make the Economy Work for the Poor?
February 18th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
(Português) Os BRICS de Olho na África
February 18th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Disaster Capitalism in the Maghreb: War, Refugees and Profit in West Africa
February 11th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
U.S. Plans to Add Drone Base in West Africa
February 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Mali: Neo-Colonialism Meets Islamic Fundamentalism… And the People Suffer
February 4th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
Niger Gives Green Light to U.S. Drone Deployment
February 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
The Real Invasion of Africa Is Not News And a Licence to Lie Is Hollywood’s Gift
February 4th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
Habits of French Colonialism
February 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Good Terrorist, Bad Terrorist
February 4th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
Belgian MP Laurent Louis Talks against War in Mali and Exposes International Neo-Colonial Plot
February 4th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Storm over the Sahara: US, France Creating another Osama?
January 28th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
Biking to Success in Mozambique
January 28th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Eritrea: Hear No Evil
January 21st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Burn, burn – Africa’s Afghanistan
January 21st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Algeria, Mali, and Why This Week Has Looked Like an Obscene Remake of Earlier Western Interventions
January 21st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
By Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria
January 21st, 2013 ( No Comments »)
US ‘Inadvertently’ Creates a Terrorist Haven in Mali
January 14th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
The Master as “Guest”: The U.S. Military Swarms over Africa
January 14th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
Mali: Hijacked Autonomy, Outsized Ambitions, French Intervention
January 14th, 2013 ( 1 Comment »)
AFRICOM’s Imperialist Quest
January 14th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
What’s at Stake in the Central African Republic?
January 7th, 2013 ( No Comments »)
US Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries
December 31st, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Mali: The ‘Gentle’ Face of Al-Qaeda
December 31st, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Africa Lost 1.6 Trillion in Capital Flight and Odious Debt Over Forty Years
December 3rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Kenya Bans Importation of GMO Foods
December 3rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Congo: What the International Community and Media Should Do
December 3rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
UNHCR Welcomes Brazilian Residency for Angolan and Liberian Refugees
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Debating Homosexuality and Human Rights in Malawi
November 26th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Nigerian Lawmakers Move Ahead on Anti-Gay Bill
November 19th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Malawi Activists Say Scrapping Sodomy Laws an ‘Uphill Battle’
November 19th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Bad News for Africa: 3,000 More U.S. Soldiers Are on the Way
November 12th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Obama’s War in Africa
November 12th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
AFRICOM Preparing For another ‘Humanitarian’ Military Intervention?
November 5th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Land Deals in Africa Have Led To a Wild West – Bring On the Sheriff, Says FAO
November 5th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
White House Widening Covert War in North Africa
October 15th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Rhetoric and Reality of AFRICOM: Lessons from Mali
October 1st, 2012 ( No Comments »)
France’s Hollande Calls for Mali Intervention, Clinton Says Nation Can’t Fight Islamists Alone
October 1st, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Ivorians Deal with European Stink
October 1st, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits
September 10th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
At Stake in Mali: Refugees at Every Border
August 6th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Obama’s Scramble for Africa: Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon’s “New Spice Route” in Africa
July 23rd, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Ethiopia: Are the Islamists Coming?
May 28th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
DR Congo: Victim to the Western Quest for Justice
May 21st, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Action Plan to End Banishing of “Witches” in Burkina Faso
May 14th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
AFRICOM Overheard by Lacville
April 16th, 2012 ( 2 Comments »)
Kenya: Restoring Hope in Kawangware
April 16th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Liberia’s Government Finding a Way to End FGM
April 16th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
An Odious Affair: The UN in Somalia
April 9th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Thinking Fanon, 50 Years Later
March 19th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Nigeria Oil Corruption Highlighted by Audits
March 12th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
Somalia’s Rich Maritime Resources Being Plundered, Report Says
February 27th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Chevron Rig Burns Off Nigeria as Damage Hits Shore
February 20th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
How Did Rwanda Cut Poverty So Much?
February 20th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Mali’s Plan to Probe Child Labour in Gold Mines
February 20th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
The Division of Nigeria – Who Gains?
February 13th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Nokia Publishes Policy on African Conflict Minerals
February 13th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
The IMF and US African Command (AFRICOM) Join Hands in the Plunder of the African Continent
January 9th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Coca-Cola Accused of Propping Up Notorious Swaziland Dictator
January 9th, 2012 ( No Comments »)
In Nigeria, Boko Haram Is Not the Problem
January 9th, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Violence and Conflict Theories & Obstacles to Peace in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
January 2nd, 2012 ( 1 Comment »)
Unreported Horrors – Male Rape in DR Congo
November 28th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Remilitarisation of Africa Set to Fail
November 21st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
US Africa Command a Tool to Recolonise Continent
November 21st, 2011 ( 2 Comments »)
Landgrabbing in Ethiopia: Legal Lease or Stolen Soil?
November 14th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Yet Another Report Lambasts Shell Nigeria
November 14th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Scramble for Africa
November 7th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Cape Verde Recognised for Political, Economic Leadership
October 31st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels
October 24th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Africa: More Dangerous to Be a Woman than a Soldier
October 10th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
My First AK-47: Kids Awarded Guns in Somali Recruitment Game
October 3rd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
New Law Prohibits Practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Guinea-Bissau
September 26th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Homophobia in Africa
September 26th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
U.S. Assembling Secret Drone Bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Officials Say
September 26th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Ugandan Bishop Calls on Christian America to “Stop Exporting Hate”
September 26th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Food Emergency: How the World Bank and IMF Have Made African Famine Inevitable
September 12th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Death by Tabloid
September 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
‘The Worst Crisis I Have Ever Seen’
September 12th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Famine in the Horn of Africa: Malthus Beware
August 29th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
How Zenawi ‘Weaponizes’ Famine in Ethiopia
August 29th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Somalia? Which Somalia? Just Some Facts About Everybody’s–Nobody’s Land
August 29th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Global South Key to African Economies
August 8th, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Can Africa Develop a Regional Response to ‘Resource Grabbing’?
August 8th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Famine in East Africa
August 1st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Famine Continues to Ravage East Africa
August 1st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa
August 1st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
New Born South Sudan Has Ambitious Goals
July 18th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Fragile Peace Greets Independent South Sudan
July 11th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
DRC: Children Still in Prison despite Law
July 11th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Ugandan Farmers Reject Genetically Modified Crops
July 4th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Somali Doctor: ‘If I was sane, I would have fled!’
July 4th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Chad Signs Plan to End Recruitment and Use of Children in National Army and Security Forces
July 4th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
New Insights into Beleaguered Africa
June 20th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Sudan: Half the Horror Remains Untold
June 13th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Forty-Eight Women Raped Every Hour in Congo, Study Finds
May 16th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Swazi Village Tastes Sweet Success with Sugarcane
May 2nd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Madagascar: Community Resistance to Corporate Land Theft
April 25th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Cote d’Ivoire: The Forgotten War?
April 4th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Let’s Make Female Genital Mutilation a Part of History
March 28th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Continuing Colonialism: World Bank Funds Mining in Africa
March 28th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The South African Scourge
February 28th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Conflict and Violence in Africa: Causes, Sources and Types
February 28th, 2011 ( 8 Comments »)
Peace-Building in Africa
February 21st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Vision: How Yoga Is Transforming a Kenyan City
February 21st, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Ethnicity and Indigene/Settler Conflict
February 14th, 2011 ( 4 Comments »)
Africa’s New Country
January 31st, 2011 ( 1 Comment »)
Stakeholders in the Côte d’Ivoire Crisis
January 31st, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Tribute to Patrice Lumumba on the 50th Anniversary of His Assassination [17 Jan 1961]
January 24th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Balkanization of Sudan: The Redrawing of the Middle East and North Africa
January 24th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
A Campaign Goes Viral to Stop ‘Corrective Rape,’ Used to ‘Cure’ South African Women of Homosexuality
January 17th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Africa: Letter to AU over Homophobia Concerns
January 17th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Mauritania: Activists’ Trial Puts Spotlight on Anti-Slavery Law
January 17th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Exposing the Real Tunisia
January 17th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Emerging Peace and Security Architecture in the Horn of Africa: Prospects and Challenges
January 17th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Sudan Referendum: Southerners Flood Home to Vote in Post-War Secession Poll
January 10th, 2011 ( No Comments »)
The Eve of Secession: What the Future Might Hold for Southern Sudan
January 3rd, 2011 ( No Comments »)
Homophobia Plagues Africa
December 27th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Africa Is Resisting the Threat of Europe’s Free Trade Agreements
December 6th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Liberia: Searching For Solutions to Land Disputes
November 29th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Which Way Sudan?
November 29th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
The Tribulations of the Tuareg
November 29th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
The US, the AU and the New Scramble for Africa
November 8th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Nigeria: Shell Oil’s ‘License to Kill’?
October 25th, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
In Kenya, Farmers Grow Their Own Way
October 11th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
The Real Pirates in Somalia: Washington, Paris and Oslo
October 4th, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
Is Mozambique an African Success Story?
September 20th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
…Meanwhile, over in Ghana
September 13th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
The New African Land Grab
September 13th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Half of Niger’s Population Hungry
August 23rd, 2010 ( 2 Comments »)
Humanitarian Catastrophe in Niger: Where is This Story?
August 16th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
AFRICOM and Uganda’s Dance with Death
August 9th, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
New Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa into Military Zones
May 24th, 2010 ( 1 Comment »)
The Role of Natural Resources in Civil Wars
May 10th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Mps Push for Continent-Wide Ban on Female Genital Mutilation
May 10th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Reconciliation Lessons from Africa
May 3rd, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Under the Disguise of Counterterrorism: Obama Expands U.S. Military Ops in Africa
April 26th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Morocco: U.S. Lawmakers Support Illegal Annexation
April 19th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
Land Grabs Continue As Elites Resist Regulation
April 19th, 2010 ( No Comments »)
AFRICOM BACKS BLOODSHED IN CENTRAL AFRICA
April 12th, 2010 ( No Comments »)