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The international community has mounted an emergency relief operation for Libya, where devastating flooding triggered dam bursts, killing thousands of people and sweeping entire neighbourhoods into the sea.
UN Humanitarian Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said that "climate...
MUCH of the ex-colonial world, having set up dirigiste regimes to wrest control over its natural resources from metropolitan capital and to build up industries behind protectionist walls, was sought to be re-assimilated into imperialist hegemony through the neo-liberal...
Photo © UN Women/Gaganjit Singh - Women from rural areas learn how to build solar power items. A new UNCTAD report reveals that Africa has the potential to become a significant exporter of higher value-added goods, driving economic...
Thomas Scripps
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The impoverished West African state of Niger is the latest flashpoint in the struggle by the imperialist powers for a redivision of the world. The issues involved in the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine—a...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has issued a grave warning regarding the escalating food crisis in Sudan. The ongoing conflicts and economic downturn are causing significant damage to the nation, making urgent and intensified...
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Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
In the extensive mythologizing of Nelson...
The United States government held the US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent. Rather than routine diplomacy, Washington’s approach in the summit was guided by...
Photo: People are seen at a makeshift market in Bunagana, a border town in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on Oct. 1, 2022. (Xinhua/Alain Uaykani)
In early November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
By Mahdi Blaine
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As a child in the 1960s, my mother would routinely pass a secondary school on her way home in downtown Algiers named Lycée Frantz Fanon. To her, the name was...
By Hilary Lynd
South African discourse about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continually references Soviet support for the exiled ANC. But the past is more complicated than official Russian and South African statements suggest.
he night before he commanded Russian troops to...
