The year is drawing to a close, memorable for its unrelenting spotlight on coronavirus. Reflecting on…
Year: 2020
Trump and Somalia
The outgoing president took another deceptive public step on Dec. 2: He ordered the remaining 700…
Arts project re-imagines the realities of Riverlea
A photography and theatre project gives residents from the ruptured and under-resourced community an opportunity to…
Sudan struggles to cope with refugees of war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
As many as 43,000 refugees crossed over from Tigray into Sudan during the two-and-a half week-long…
Half a million march in France against police violence, racism By G. Dunkel
In an explosion of anger and political rejection, 200,000 people marched in Paris Nov. 28 while…
Ethiopia: Civil War and Nation Building in the 21st Century
2 Dec 2020 – In light of the Ethiopian central government’s military clash with regional forces in…
The Power of the Haitian People WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH HAITI December 10 – December 16, 2020
View this email in your browser. The Power of the Haitian People WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH…
Africa: Scheme to Stop ‘Conflict Diamond’ Sales Is Not Working – Report
Cape Town — The international scheme to prevent the sale of diamonds from funding violence and…
Cornel West: We Must Fight the Commodification of Everybody and Everything
AN INTERVIEW WITH CORNEL WEST Philosopher and activist Cornel West discusses the presidential election and why…
Myanmar: Fair Elections But Challenges Ahead by Rene Wadlow
The 8 November 2020 elections for the two houses of the Myanmar Parliament were carried out…
The Silence of the International Community on Western Sahara
Enguiya Mohamed Lahu is President of Nova, a Sahrawi youth-led organization for the promotion of non-violence Women…
Does WFP Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Nov 24 2020 (IPS) – On 10 December, representatives for the World Food Programme (WFP) will…
Once again, South African domestic workers win in court, expanding domestic workers’ rights everywhere!
Sylvia Mahlangu outside Constitutional Court Great news! Last week, South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruled that domestic…
Is this a vaccine apartheid?
Optimism emerged last week following a vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech companies for Covid-19…
A Year of Revolt
Last year a wave of militant protests spread across North Africa and West Asia, in a…
Decolonising Pandemic Politics
If the consequences of the current pandemic are global, discussions about alternatives have not lived up…
Refugees Welcome: 15 Pieces of Street Art and Graffiti from Europe and beyond Showing Solidarity in the ongoing Refugee Crisis
EU immigration and border politics have been subject to criticism for years¹ – particularly regarding the increasingly militarized…
The enduring legacy of Congolese Franco, 30 years on
Why is a Congolese musician who died three decades ago still one of the best-known entertainers…
The World Turned Upside Down: Rodney’s 1972 masterpiece
In 1972 Walter Rodney published his masterpiece How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Rodney’s book took a similar approach…
What Africa and Europe can learn from the American elections ?
Jude Oboh, a Dutch cityzen from Nigeria living in Atlanta(Georgia) gives us his observations on the…
CGNK at the Human Rights Council 45th sessions: Truth and progress
Despite a complicated health situation, the Human Rights Council has preserved the core of its work…
DÉJÀ VU – In tragic vein: Wole Soyinka on Nigeria’s unrest By Wole Soyinka
To the affected governors all over the nation, there is one immediate step to take: demand…
Text Messages | The words of Che Guevara
His image may be instantly recognisable as the face of revolution but Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s words…
Prof. Johan Galtung on the Psychology and Theology of Nuclear Weapons: The Human Factor
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and…
“Colonizing the Atmosphere”: How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis
New analysis finds the Global North is responsible for 92% of all excess global carbon dioxide…