June 29, 2017
Dishonoring Uganda’s Refugees By HELEN C. EPSTEIN
NEW YORK – When United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres traveled to Uganda earlier this month, his stated mission – to raise billions of dollars for the country’s growing…
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Year: 2017
June 27, 2017
As Deadline to Leave Saudi Arabia Nears, Ethiopian Workers Trapped Between Two Bad Choices
Thousands of Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have pleaded to the Ethiopian government to expedite their return by helping them prepare documents to secure exit visas, as…
June 27, 2017
The 1944 Thiaroye Massacre in Senegal, a Shameful Episode of the French Colonial Period in Africa Written by Abdoulaye Bah
On December 1, 1944, an unspeakable tragedy took place at the military camp of Thiaroye, a small village in the suburbs of Dakar. Thirty-five Senegalese Tirailleurs (a type…
June 27, 2017
In a Guardian Story About an Environmental Conflict in Kenya, the White Saviour Rides Again By Christine Mungai
The Guardian recently published an article by Tristan McConnell, their correspondent in Nairobi, Kenya, titled “Who shot Kuki Gallman? The story of a Kenyan conservationist heroine.” McConnell…
June 26, 2017
Wherever this Canadian mining company goes in Congo, violence seems to follow
Banro operates in a region that has seen incredible violence over the past two decades and the secretive company has been accused of fuelling the conflict. In 1996…
June 26, 2017
Caught Between Two Fires: Sudanese Refugees in Jordan By Dina Baslan
Ahmad is poised as a journalist from Kutum, a town that lies 120 kilm away from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in Sudan. His towering figure…
May 29, 2017
Editorial: Meanwhile Around the World by Johan Galtung
A lot is happening. As in “Trump’s First Hundred Days of War Crimes” (CouterPunch 19 May 2017), breaking international law as if it did not exist, killing in…
May 26, 2017
SOS: Save our seas By Rene Wadlow
On 5 to 9 June 2017, the United Nations will bring together in New York the representatives of governments, of governmental regional associations such as the Alliance of…
May 25, 2017
Getting Assange: the Untold Story by JOHN PILGER
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not…
May 8, 2017
The Post Glory Exuberance Disorder-PGED By Prof. Johan Galtung
Very well known is post trauma stress disorder, PTSD; no doubt a very painful disorder experienced by many, most, maybe by all of us. Something went very wrong:…
May 3, 2017
Why the World Needs to Know About Western Sahara’s Seemingly Endless Struggle for Independence
An interview with a Sahrawi Journalist and Activist.By Amira Ali. In 1975, Morocco, under King Hassan II, invaded Western Sahara; and since, the Sahrawi people — female-dominated society…
May 3, 2017
Kamuina Nsapu Insurgency Adds to Dangers in DR Congo
Writtern by Hans Hoebeke The Kamuina Nsapu insurgency arose last year as a locally rooted conflict in the Kasai-Central province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),…
May 3, 2017
Italy and Migrant Crisis: NGOs colluding with Smugglers and Arab slavery of black Africans in Libya
Sawako Uchida and Lee Jay Walker Sources: Modern Tokyo Times Carmelo Zuccaro, an Italian prosecutor, claims to have major evidence that several charities are involved with…
May 2, 2017
From Colonialism to Trumpism: Remembering Aimé Césaire by Abraham Ramirez
This article previously appeared in Counterpunch. “Even in 1950, Césaire knew American empire and its indefensibility.” We have much to learn from our ancestors; not only from…
May 2, 2017
Dr. Maryse Narcisse; the Woman who should be President of Haiti
Photo: Bill Hackwell Dr. Maryse Narcisse, presidential candidate for the Fanmi Lavalas Party in the recent election, that was once again stolen from the Haitian people, spoke today…
April 24, 2017
Reducing Urban Violence By Johan Galtung
Mayors from around the world, Ladies and Gentlemen, To reduce direct violence in cities we have to move from urban violence culture to an urban peace culture and…
April 22, 2017
Day of Mother Earth by Rene Wadlow
The United Nations General Assembly in 2009 through resolution A/RES/63/278, under the leadership of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, designated 22 April as the International Mother Earth Day.…
April 18, 2017
The Last Country We “Liberated” from an “Evil” Dictator Is Now Openly Trading Slaves Written by Carey Wedler
It is widely known that the U.S.-led NATO intervention to topple Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 resulted in a power vacuum that has allowed terror groups like ISIS…
April 3, 2017
Meanwhile, Around the World EDITORIAL By Johan Galtung
Starting with EU at 60, making small states (Luxembourg!) big by being members of something bigger, but making bigger, even imperial, states smaller by being “members”. The Netherlands…
March 28, 2017
#CelebrateAfrica | Revealing the folly of humanity with Maroussia Mbaye
Written by Vinesh Parmar Maroussia Mbaye is a patron for the #CelebrateAfrica campaign launched by New African, Canon and Picfair to share the Africa its citizens want to…
March 28, 2017
The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
This photo was taken during the celebrations for the independence of French Cameroon (1960). At the time of independence, Cameroon had one of the largest schools systems…
March 28, 2017
Haiti Action Committee Denounces Attempted Assassination of Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
In the wake of the electoral coup which installed Jovenal Moise, a right-wing protégé of former President Michel Martelly, as Haiti’s new president, there has been a marked…
March 27, 2017
Political poetry as a crime: Inside the surreal trial of Dareen Tatour
Arresting a Palestinian for publishing a political poem is extraordinary. Having to prove at trial that police mistranslated her poem is nothing short of surreal. By Yoav Haifawi…
March 27, 2017
Peter Tosh’s resistance against racism, apartheid and settler-colonialism
March 21 is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A notable cultural icon in the struggle against racism is Jamaican reggae artiste Peter Tosh. He was…
March 27, 2017
For a free and sovereign Haiti
Hundreds of popular organizations, networks and movements of Latin America and the Caribbean launched a Week of Solidarity with Haiti, March 15-22, with a petition demanding the total…