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BY DAVID ROVICS
This may sound either arrogant or forgetful, but I could not possibly remember the number of times I was in the same room or at the same protest as Desmond Tutu. And...
By Mahdi Blaine
Photo Credit: Dubdem on Flickr CC BY 2.0.
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...
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In early June 2021, the United States military led a major military exercise on the African continent: the African Lion 21. Major General Andrew Rohling of the US Army’s Southern European Task Force said it was the ‘largest US...
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...
Supporters of the M62 movement in Niger in a demonstration to demand the departure of foreign forces
The military coup in Niger is already three weeks old. The putschists are cementing their rule, having gained the upper hand in...
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,...
In November 2020, the Moroccan government sent its military to the Guerguerat area, a buffer zone between the territory claimed by the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). The Guerguerat border post is at the...
Sajeev Nair
The passing away of Dr Kenneth David Kaunda on 17 June 2021, the first President of Zambia at the age of 97, who led the country under one party rule from 1964 to 1991 marked the end of...
By Dean Baker
This is a very serious question, even if I’m using a bit of clickbait here. I’m not out to get Dr. Fauci, who deserves some sort of Nobel Prize for trying to give straight information to...
By Ramzy Baroud
Image: Members of General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), civil associations and political parties march in Sandton, Johannesburg as they hold anti-Israel banners during a pro-Palestine demonstration, on 27 January 2022....
