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Trump, Kagame, Tshisekedi & the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace: A Peace Deal Short on Peace
Let’s start with the basics. We are told this is “one of the deadliest and longest-running wars…
Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation
Lands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of…
Sudan’s split in two (again) is now more concrete
Khalid Elwalid in Khartoum ‘Hemedti’ now controls all of Darfur, continuing the genocide that began with…
80 Years after Hiroshima: High Time for a Fresh START By Marilyn Langlois
In On a Highway to Hell, former weapons inspector and anti-nuclear activist Scott Ritter alerted us to…
Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Denied Bail, Remanded to Prison By Ann Garrison
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s arrest belies Rwanda’s pretense to liberal democracy and its pretense to…
State security is terrorising citizens at record levels across East Africa
Robert Amalemba in Nairobi Over the weekend, Kenyans learned that a 31-year-old teacher and blogger, Albert…
France’s final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on
In recent months, the viability of France’s nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of…
Commemorate Genocide against the People of DR Congo
UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne The Congolese Action Youth Platform (CAYP) is campaigning for the recognition of the…
Dramatic escalation in eastern Congo by Peter Küpfer
The situation in eastern Congo is once again escalating dramatically. After long months of the planned…
“In war, the first victim is the truth”
Thirty years of economic warfare over raw materials in eastern Congo by Peter Küpfer On 9 November 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal punished a…
China rolls out red carpet for African leaders
BEIJING — September 02, 2024 8:59 AM China rolled out the red carpet on Monday for…
The Escalating Conflict in the Sahel: A Geopolitical Quagmire
Tags: Africa, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, NATO, Niger, Predatory Capitalism, Resources, Sahel, Savage Capitalism, Violent conflict The Sahel, this vast arid region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean…
Far-Right Surge or Status Quo? Understanding the 2024 European Elections
Between June 6 and 9, residents of the European Union (EU) went to the polls to…
New World, New Hope: The Struggle for a Free Western Sahara Continues
Life under occupation is a constant struggle. This is continually expressed at the international media conference…
World Press Freedom Day: Journalists the “Ultimate Allies in Human Rights”
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service 3 May 2024 –…
East Congo – the perpetual humanitarian catastrophe continues:The never-ending war targets mainly the civilian population by Peter Küpfer
Before our very eyes yet another humani- tarian catastrophe unfolds in East Congo. Many alarming reports…
The unifying power of music: The American conductor Kent Nagano and his dream by Winfried Pogorzelski
Music awakens and inspires the inex- haustible creativity of man. It creates mo- ments of happiness,…
From Port-aux-Prince to Africa: Unveiling the Haitian Crisis
22 Mar 2024 – In recent past weeks, the situation in Haiti has drawn international attention…
In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Tags: Africa, D.R. Congo, DRC, Genocide, Paul Kagame, Rwanda Hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into Congo after Paul Kagame seized…
It is not zuma and lazyness, it is poverty and inequality
IT IS NOT ZUMA AND LAZINESS, IT IS POVERTY AND INEQUALITY! Nassoro Kitunda (Political Economy Analyst-…
Argentine Diplomats Expelled From Colombia Following Explosive Comments by Milei
Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei is under fire from his counterparts in the region for comments…
With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped from ‘Never Again’
A Palestinian man holds a child as he mourns the death of twin babies Naeem and…