Latest Africa
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Bond: Africa’s pioneering Marxist political economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
Samir Amin’s celebrated life was amongst the most trying, but also rewarding, of his generation’s left intelligentsia
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How Trump’s “America First” Policy Enabled Ethnic Cleansing in the DRC
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Bond: Scholars get drunk on their own rhetoric in South Africa
A ‘think tank’ is sometimes a group of people paid to...
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Burrowes: Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited
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Engler: France’s Role in Africa
To build a movement for justice and equality for everyone on this planet, we must start by questioning everything governments, corporations and other powerful institutions tell us
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Rachidi: Morocco’s Movements Take to the Streets
Fighting for Water, Labor Reforms, and Human Rights
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Rachidi: “People Are Not Afraid Anymore”
The Legacy and Impact of Morocco’s February 20th People’s Movement
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Bond: Cyril Ramaphosa relaunches neo-liberalism
After Jacob Zuma’s firing, South Africa risks budget austerity and even renewed BRICS ‘poisoning’
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Prashad: Riots Rage in Sudan Against Cruel IMF Austerity Policies
Will the president be forced out just as he surrenders to the West?
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Swanson: The Question of Sanctions: South Africa and Palestine
Sanctions against apartheid South Africa are, in the opinion of...
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Hamouchene: Tunisia: protesting austerity, demanding sovereignty
The recent protests show that Tunisia is still a cauldron of popular resistance against neoliberal and neo-colonial attacks on the country’s sovereignty
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Wilmot: Organizing for a DRC without Kabila
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to 80...
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Turse: Drug Wars, Missing Money, and a Phantom $500 Million
Pentagon Watchdog Calls Out Two Commands for Financial Malfeasance
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Fletcher: Reflections on Zohra Drif’s Memoir of the Algerian Revolution
Is the civilian population of a colonial-settler regime ever a legitimate military target?
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Bond: New evidence of Africa’s systematic looting
A brand new World Bank report, The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018, offers evidence of how much poorer Africa is becoming thanks to rampant minerals, oil and gas extraction
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Baroud: The New Cold War is happening in Africa
The ongoing US mini wars on the continent will push the continent further into the abyss of violence and corruption, which may suit Washington well, but which will bring about untold misery to millions of people
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Prashad: Mining Companies Make Billions, Children Left Illiterate
Those who can least afford to pay the heaviest price
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The “good guys” shaping and selling U.S. foreign policy and weapon sales exemplify the heartless indifference of the smugglers who gamble human life in exceedingly dangerous crossings
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Prashad: Migrants Without Shoes
Six to nine million Ethiopians have needed food aid of one kind or another last year, as severe drought and poverty have combined to create a near famine situation
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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Fletcher: Zohra Drif’s Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
In her actions as a militant, Drif casts aside the romanticization of revolution
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Bond: Africa’s Systematic Looting
Last year, the Bank appointed Zambia the main pilot country study within the project “Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services
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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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Reviews by Jeremy Kuzmarov, Edward S. Herman, and Jane Slaughter
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Glazebrook: The African Union, Algeria, and Mali
Africa’s classic depiction in the mainstream media as a giant...
Africa Video
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Abu-Manneh: What’s Happening in Egypt?
What's happening in Egypt these days — and in Tunisia...
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Tighe Barry, a US activist with Code Pink, who has been...
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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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Abu-Manneh: What’s Happening in Egypt?
What's happening in Egypt these days — and in Tunisia...
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Tighe Barry, a US activist with Code Pink, who has been...
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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...
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 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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Fisk: Egypt’s President facing serious questions
Civilians and police and security forces have repeatedly been targeted in recent years
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Baroud: The Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation
It should be made clear that any unity agreement that pays heed to the interest of factions at the expense of the collective good of the Palestinian people is a sham
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Shawcross: “All We are Saying”
In a recent New York Times survey only 36 percent of U.S. adults could correctly locate North Korea on an unlabelled map. Yet according to a recent poll (Chicago Council on Global Affairs) 75 percent of Americans believe that North Korea’s nuclear program is a critical threat to the United States.
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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
Lybia
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Cockburn: The Battle for Libyan city of Derna
Coastal city is renegade general's last major target in east of country, where water, food, medicine and electricity are already running out
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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