Latest Africa
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Hamouchene: Welcome to the new Algerian revolution
While the first wave of the revolutions ended in defeat, it was sure to be back in Sudan and now Algeria with enormous and persistent protest movements
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Bennaidja: Algerians Adopt Civil Resistance to Push for Political Change
Since late February, Algerians have been protesting every Friday on the streets of the capital Algiers and other major cities to demand the departure of the regime that has ruled the country since independence in 1962
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It transpires again that the US has two foreign policies, that of Trump, which favors brutal dictatorships unreservedly, and that of his cabinet officials, which favors brutal dictatorships with more nuance and caution
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Prashad: This is the Hour of Madness
You came to us centuries ago as traders. Our rulers welcomed you. They traded with you in good faith. But that was not enough for you. You wanted to dominate our lands, to make our people work for you
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Feffer: The Dictator and the Nihilist
Whistleblowers and protesters play a key role in ensuring accountability. But ultimately, democratic systems should be built to ensure institutional accountability
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Rachidi: The People’s Uprising in Algeria
The demonstrations were the biggest the country had seen in decades
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Tchie: How Sudan’s protesters upped the ante
Following months of protests, and a prolonged sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was placed under house arrest on April 11
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“We woke up and you will pay”
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Cordall: Algerian Protesters Reject Military’s Gambit to Maintain Power
After weeks of mounting protests in Algeria, with hundreds of thousands gathering to call upon ailing 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to relinquish office, there are further signs of the president’s inner circle deserting him
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Holthaus: Mozambique floods cover more ground than NYC, Chicago, D.C., and Boston
Aid workers in Mozambique describe the floodwaters as “inland oceans extending for miles and miles.”
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Fisk: Bouteflika has turned Algeria into a necrocracy
Why do these wretched men not retire, gently, diplomatically, in a dignified way? They surely do not fear death. Presidents attract assassins. Retired presidents do not
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AFP: Algeria: Street Crowds, Youth, Overthrow sixth Arab President
Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced Monday he is dropping his bid for a fifth term in office, scrapping the upcoming elections altogether after weeks of protests against his candidacy
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Organizer: Mass Uprising in Algeria
In tandem with this movement in which union activists and leaders seek to reclaim their unions for independent struggle, the working class is also seeking to set itself in motion
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Bond: Budgeting for black-out in South Africa
The African country with by far the most advanced infrastructure and largest energy supply increasingly appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in its economic, ecological and electricity systems
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McBride: Climate Change in Africa: Is My House on Fire?
Understanding how social identities like race, class, and gender shape climate change communication is increasingly important; and similarly, the different strategies used in climate change action
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Three inspiring activists — from Spain, UK and Kenya — share their experiences of taking on bankers and the lessons and insights from their ongoing struggles
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Baroud: Why African Countries Are Normalizing with Israel
Diplomatic ties with Chad and Mali may garner Netanyahu a few more votes next April, but they will also contribute to the Israeli illusion that it can be an international darling and an Apartheid regime, simultaneously
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Imperial vultures and sub-imperial doves both turn away from economic carcass
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: South Africa Searches for a Financial Parachute
An open, frank public discussion about the IMF’s regrettable history and current agenda is sorely needed
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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
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...
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: Taylor Trial Concludes; Judges Begin Deliberations
As the trial of Charles Taylor is comes to a...
Egypt
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Fisk: Egypt’s Brutal Crackdown on Workers’ Rights
Khaled Abol Naga – an outspoken critic of the Egyptian...
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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
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