Human rights
USA/UK Committed Genocide against Iraq People
By Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service USA/UK committed genocide against Iraq people between 1990/2012 killing 3.3 million including […]
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Peace & Security
Africa's female fighters: They bled and died on the battlefields of freedom – and were forgotten after victory By Marthe Van Der WOLF
One of the boys: Congolese soldiers attend a decoration ceremony for 89 new lieutenants, including nine women, at a military academy in Kananga in […]
Analysis
Will Obama's Arab coalition stay the course?
NEW YORK – US President Barack Obama has pulled off a diplomatic coup, knitting together a coalition of Arab nations with differing […]
Activism
Food and the FAO’s insecurity with the two-thirds world By Rahul Goswami
In its State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 report (SOFI 2014), which has just been released, the ‘world’ according to the United […]
Analysis
Exposed: The ‘heroic Ebola doctor’ myth by Jon Rappoport
Every psyop [psychological operation] needs heroes as well as villains.So-called epidemics are managed out of a playbook.The playbook looks very much like something the […]
Activism
Mayan people’s movement defeats Monsanto law in Guatemala By Christin Sandberg
On September 4, after ten days of widespread street protests against the biotech giant Monsanto’s expansion into Guatemalan territory, groups of indigenous people joined […]
Analysis
US militarizes response to Ebola crisis while Cuba pledges medical aid By Abayomi Azikiwe
A team of eight experts and journalists visiting the southern region of the West African state of Guinea were found dead in the town […]
Activism
Idris Elba Releasing Mandela-Inspired Album Ft. James Blake, Mumford & Sons, Spoek Mathambo, DJ Spoko + More
British actor Idris Elba is gearing up to release a Mandela-inspired eleven-track album in November. mi Mandela, “a celebration of South African music inspired by Nelson Mandela,” its […]
Society
Becoming an adult in today’s world
What does it mean to be an adult these days? What are some of the challenges facing emerging adults? The transition from adolescence to […]
Analysis
Libya, the ‘failed state’, needs to look back
In March 2011, at the time the so-called leaders of the free world were foaming at the mouth and trying to outshout each other […]
Analysis
The US and global wars: Empire or vampire? By James Petras
To the growing army of critics of US military intervention, who also reject the mendacious claims by American officials and their apologists of ‘world […]
Action alerts
High time to build a movement of solidarity to end UN occupation of Haiti By Ajamu Nangwaya
“From the beginning of our century until now, Haiti and its inhabitants under one aspect or another have, for various reasons, been very much […]
Action alerts
Land occupations continue in Durban
South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo report on the illegal eviction of shacks in an occupied settlement by municipal authorities. Evictions at […]
Activism
'Organization is the weapon of the oppressed' Ferguson, mobilization and organizing the resistance by Ajamu Nangwaya
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor […]
Activism
Obama’s big joke! By Antoine Roger Lokongo
Brahim Senouci recently wrote a piece in his blog which well depicted an Africa at the crossroads. According to Senouci, ‘of course, slavery and […]
Activism
The NGO-ization of resistance By By Arundhati Roy
A hazard facing mass movements is the NGO-ization of resistance. It will be easy to twist what I’m about to say into an […]
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Imagine all the people, living life in peace: Stop the killing, end the siege of Gaza By Marilyn Langlois
Imagine: A group of kids in Richmond playing outside. Maybe a pick-up soccer Children in Gaza running for their lives. What if they were […]
Features
Binyavanga: Africa’s bankrupt middle-class
In the attempt to make Africa more like Europe (and Africans more like Europeans), perfectly convenient local solutions are discarded for grand ideas. So, […]
Art & Peace
SOMALIA: Renowned female artist and MP Saado Ali Warsame shot dead in Mogadishu
Mogadishu (RBC) Unidentified gunmen have today shot and killed renowned Somali artist Saado Ali Warsame near her hotel in Mogadishu around 12.00 pm local […]
Articles
Young Namibian makes satellite booster from scrap
A young inventor from northern Namibia has innovatively used scrap material to build a satellite dish booster to enhance people’s internet connectivity, especially those […]
Analysis
Trouble in the Village: A Review of Dak’ Art 2014
Dak’ Art 014 is an art exhibition showing over 120 artists of African descent. It opened on 9th May, with a main international showcase […]
Activism
Africa Top 10 Problems: Not the ones You were thinking about! By Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
Africa is not poor. Africa is a rich continent inhabited by poor people. Once we fix the people problem, everything else will fall into […]
Articles
Congolese: Returning home and building a dream
By Daisy Carrington and Dianne McCarthy* Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has found itself in the middle of a construction boom […]
Analysis
Live from Bangui: Why Inclusive Dialogue Matters in CAR
Last June, when I first arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR), one of the resident ex-pats suggested I visit ‘Cinq Kilo’ – Bangui’s […]
Action alerts
Letter from Gaza by Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert on 20 July 2014
Dr Mads Frederick Gilbert (centre) at Al-Shifa hospital on July 17th, treating a wounded Palestinian child, after an Israeli air strike killed 4 children […]