Africa
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Middle East Report Online: The Hazy Path Forward in Sudan by Sarah Washburne
Bashir was defiant, denouncing the warrant as ‘neo-colonialism,’ and praising his supporters in Martyrs’ Square as ‘grandsons of the mujahideen,’ a reference to the participants in the Mahdiyya uprising against Anglo-Egyptian rule in 1885. The atmosphere was almost one of jubilation; one might have mistaken the crowds for soccer fans celebrating a win. Continue reading
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Amandla! TV – Can we eat our vote?
Here is the promo for our first production from Amandla! TV For more from amandla visit www.amandla.org.za Continue reading
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Socialist Green Coalition Launched in South Africa
The formation of the Socialist Green Coalition in South Africa is a challenge to the parties supporting the status quo, in the general elections to be held in April. Continue reading
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A Congo Journey By Makeda Crane
He spoke of U.S., Britain, Rwandan and Ugandan companies profiting from the unregulated mining and selling of Congo’s vast mineral deposits, and I wondered: How many Congolese lives had been sacrificed to produce the coltan in my cell phone? Continue reading
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The conflict in the Congo is a resource war waged by U.S. and British allies By Kambale Musavuli
Herman Cohen’s ‘Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?’ in the New York Times reflects the disastrous policies that favor profits over people. In his article, the former lobbyist for Mobutu and Kabila’s government in the United States and former assistant secretary of state for Africa from 1989 to 1993 argues, ‘Having controlled the Kivu… Continue reading
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Music of Resistance – Seun Kuti – Part 2
Only 14 when his father, Fela Kuti died, did his son Seun has decided to carry on his legacy. Music of Resistance went to meet him. Continue reading
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Video: Music of Resistance – Seun Kuti – Part 1
Fela Kuti is one of the most significant musicians to ever come out of Sub-Sharan Africa. Through his music he confronted government corruption, multi-national corporations, and police brutality in Nigeria. Only 14 when his father died, his son Seun has decided to carry on his legacy. Music of Resistance went to meet him. Continue reading
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Shawn Hattingh, South Africa and the "The Disease of Privatization"
The South African Department of Health was not willing to go any further and discuss the underlying reasons why, fifteen years after apartheid, people still don’t have toilets or clean drinking water. Continue reading
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Africans must rewrite own history by Phillip Emeagwali
The history books may deprive African children of the heroes with whom they can identify, but in striving for your own goals, you can become that hero for them — and your own hero, too. Continue reading
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Paul D’Amato: The tale of two apartheids
At an official state banquet held for Vorster in 1976, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin toasted the ‘ideals shared by Israel and South Africa.’ Continue reading
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Global Energy War: Washington's New Kissinger African Plans
It is here that then EUCOM and NATO top military commander Jones arranged the foundation of the future AFRICOM. Continue reading
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Plundering the Congo
Wayne Madsen: Congo has fallen prey to a lot of people that want to loot its natural resources http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1875001 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The Destabilization of Congo
Wayne Madsen: Ethnic divisions are being stoked by client states of the US who arm both sides http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1874988 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Keith Harmon Snow: Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa Part 2
War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old clichés about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as ‘news’. Meanwhile, early indications out of America are that President-elect Barack Obama will assemble a foreign policy-team primed for business as usual. Continue reading
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Don Mattera on Jerusalema: SA's Oscar Hope…
In Jerusalema, the Hollywood spectre almost consumes the narrative of South Africa’s urban cities, as they struggle to combat and overcome the insidious local and foreign sub-culture of criminality, corruption and the usurpation of our social edifices before our very eyes. Continue reading
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Mike Whitney: Somalia: Another CIA-backed coup blows up
The United States has lost the ground war in Somalia, but that doesn’t mean its geopolitical objectives have changed one iota. The US intends to stay in the region for years to come and use its naval power to control the critical shipping lanes from the Gulf of Aden. Continue reading
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China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America’s New Military Command By F. William Engdahl
Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing… Continue reading
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Hidden histories confirmed: So much for the ‘Mother of Parliaments’
24 November 2008 — williambowles.info “This we do by rigging the parliament through official majorities, a restricted franchise and so forth” — From the minutes of the British Colonial Office, 14 December, 1959 Back in June of 2006 I wrote a piece, based on a story in the New African magazine on how the British… Continue reading
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South African legend Miriam Makeba dies – 10 Nov 2008
14 November 2019 — Youtube Miriam Makeba, or ‘Mama Africa’, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice, has died at the age of 76, leaving a great legacy behind. Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari looks back… Continue reading
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Prof. Peter Erlinder : U.S./U.K. Allies Grab Congo Riches and Millions Die
Once again, the suffering of African people caught up in a war that makes little sense to non-Africans has made the front pages in western media, as more than a million people have been displaced in the past week by renewed fighting in the Eastern Congo. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 