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Keeping the pain of Biafra in by atane:
A few people have asked me what my uncle kept inside for years in this post. My…
The wretched of the sea: an Algerian perspective By Hamza Hamouchene
The securitisation of immigration control has failed to solve the migrant crisis because it ignores the…
The World is Overpopulated, The Fault to the Rich By Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
Let’s me tell you what is on the world news agenda for the next months: world…
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis – reviewed by Desné Masie
Tom Burgis’ The Looting Machine is a rollercoaster read. Filled with vignettes on spooks, smugglers and…
Mildred Aristide speaks of education and health
On the occasion of the 8 March International Women’s Day, Kimpa Vita Press present you an…
Congo-Kinshasa: Leveraging Mobile Tech to Combat Conflict and Corruption By Eliot Pence
Washington, DC — Rarely has so small a law stirred so much debate about so distant…
Juba: Panaaru Community Resilient Remains Immutable by Ater Garang Ariath
Dinka Panaaru resilience remained unchallengeable despite huge ramification that left by the ongoing war in South…
Ebola, the African Union and bioeconomic warfare: Health questions and the challenges for Africa By Horace G. Campbell
INTRODUCTION As the Ebola outbreak rages, and there are projections of more than 1.4 million persons…
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…
Uruguay’s President Mujica says vulture funds are after Argentina’s oil
Image Telam, Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica Uruguayan President Jose Mujica conveyed his concern at the U.S.…
Millions of Widows Face Abuse, Poverty, Homelessness, Rape, Cleansing, Burning…
No woman should lose her status, livelihood or property when her husband dies, yet millions of…
The Mutarule massacre: conflict from below in eastern Congo – By Kris Berwouts
Cows and land remain central to many local conflicts in South Kivu. On the evening of…
Nigeria doesn’t need more oil wells
Nnimmo Bassey discusses the continuing protests by the Niger Delta people against oil pollution and makes…
Like It or Not, Île à Vache Haiti “Open for Business” by MARK SCHULLER
Cross-posted from Counterpunch. Recently Haiti President Michel Martelly celebrated his third year in office. He…
Solidarity economies: A guerrilla war against capitalism. Part One
An interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo by Beverly Bell and Jessica Hsu These glassblowers are also…
Why 1 million Chinese migrants are building a new empire in Africa By Howard W. French
After days of coordinating with me over patchy cell phone connections, Hao Shengli arrived in Mozambique’s…
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK by Ayana Labossiere
I will never forget my first trip to Haiti. In 1990, at five years old, I…
Story of North Korean gold shows real world's interdependence'
Reuters/Michael Dalder It is too premature to make any accusations on the basis that the…