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Africa
U.S. military intervention in Africa has been further exposed for the imperialist project that it truly is when in early June the State Department issued bounties for the capture of several leading resistance figures in Somalia....
Posted Jul 1, 2012
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The United States under the Obama administration is intensifying efforts to penetrate the African continent through seminars, military training operations, recognizance missions, Special Forces deployment, naval patrols and proxy wars. ...
Posted Jun 25, 2012
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This year’s African Union Summit was scheduled to take place in the southern African state of Malawi, but it has been relocated to the AU headquarters in Ethiopia — a country whose troops have been fighting in Somalia in collaboration with the U.S.
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Posted Jun 13, 2012
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The Hunger Project reports that out of a global population of 6.8 billion, 925 million people do not have sufficient food for members of their households. Moreover, 98 percent of undernourished people live in the so-called developing countries — those states that are colonies or former colonies....
Posted May 26, 2012
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A major battle outside the Somalian central city of Baidoa on March 10 showed that the imperialist-backed war against Al-Shabaab is far from over. ...
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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As the United States and the European Union escalate their military and economic roles on the African continent, mounting political crises have resulted in much social unrest. From Libya and Kenya to Nigeria and Somalia, internal turmoil, labor unrest and mass resistance illustrate the interconnectedness of events throughout the international scene.
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Posted Mar 14, 2012
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Back-to-back conferences held Feb. 23-24 to determine the destiny of Somalia and Syria took place outside the respective countries with the full backing of the imperialist states, guaranteeing that these efforts oppose the best interests of the two countries’ people.
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Posted Mar 1, 2012
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The London Conference on Somalia will be held on the present situation and future of the East African state on Feb. 23. Former colonial power Great Britain, which held portions of Somalian territory during the 19th and 20th centuries, is scheming with other Western governments to impose a compliant political system on the strategically located nation.
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Posted Feb 23, 2012
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The Pentagon and the White House continue to deny that United States military forces are directly involved in the current war over control of the Horn of Africa state of Somalia. Nevertheless, a Washington-directed drone struck an internationally supervised displaced persons camp just outside Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
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Posted Feb 12, 2012
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In his speech assuming the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the Republic of South Africa, President Jacob Zuma criticized the U.N. for its stance that led to the eight-month war against Libya.
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Posted Jan 22, 2012
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On Jan. 16, under extreme government pressure, the Nigerian Labor Congress and the Trade Union Congress leaders ended a week-long general strike after the federal government cut gasoline prices from $3.51 to $2.27 per gallon....
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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The African National Congress, the continent’s oldest liberation movement, marked the 100th anniversary of its formation on Jan. 8. ...
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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A state of emergency was declared by Federal Republic of Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan on Jan. 1....
Posted Jan 9, 2012
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The Wikileaks website released cables showing that plans for the Kenyan military invasion of southern Somalia had been mapped out for nearly two years and refuting claims that the intervention was done without Washington’s knowledge. ...
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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December 17 marks the anniversary of a year of uprisings, strikes, government resignations and regime change on the African continent. A resource-rich and strategically located geopolitical region, Africa has experienced numerous mass demonstrations, general strikes, rebellions and full-scale military assaults as part of a heightening global class struggle for control of the continent’s economic and political future....
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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A very important conference on climate change took place in Durban, South Africa, during early December. ...
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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Washington and its NATO allies have intensified their military operations on the African continent. ...
Posted Dec 12, 2011
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United States and French military involvement in Africa is taking a deadly toll in the country of Somalia. Despite Washington’s denials, the people of this nation are suffering under the impact of yet another imperialist-driven war.
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Posted Nov 20, 2011
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As the U.S.-NATO war against Libya enters another phase, the neocolonial designs on the state with the largest oil reserves in Africa become more and more obvious....
Posted Nov 14, 2011
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An all-out offensive against the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance movement based in Somalia is currently underway in the southern region of this Horn of Africa nation. A combined force of U.S. Predator drones and French naval vessels is targeting four towns in the southern region so that Kenyan military forces on the ground can seize Kismayo, a port city under the control of Al-Shabaab. The city is a major source of trade and serves as the economic lifeline for the resistance movement, which has been labeled by the U.S. as a terrorist organization allied with al-Qaida....
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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Col. Moammar Gadhafi, leader of the Libyan people for 42 years, was brutally targeted, tortured and executed in a series of events on Oct. 20 in the coastal city of Sirte. The city is a bastion of resistance to the U.S.-NATO war in Libya....
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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News spread around the world on Oct. 20-21 that NATO planes had struck a car caravan leaving Sirte in Libya, wounding Moammar Gadhafi, and that the Libyan leader was captured alive and subsequently killed. ...
Posted Oct 21, 2011
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Another barrage of corporate media reports surfaced Oct. 17 that the NATO-led National Transitional Council rebels had taken “most” of the city of Bani Walid. The battle for this area has been raging for over a month. Troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi had forced the retreat of opposition units on several occasions....
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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On Sept. 30 Pentagon/Central Intelligence Agency drones assassinated Anwar Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, two U.S. Muslim citizens....
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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Johnnie Stevens of Workers World Party: Attacking Libya is attacking Africa! The war against Libya is a colonial war against all of Africa!...
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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As the world capitalist economic crisis accelerates, growing food deficits,
poverty and imperialist militarism have prompted dislocation and unrest
throughout the African continent....
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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South African President Jacob Zuma paid a state visit to Libya on May 30 that
proved to be a fruitless effort to bring about a ceasefire in the war launched
by Western-backed rebels and NATO forces, which have intensified their bombing
of the capital of Tripoli and other areas of the country. Zuma was acting on
behalf of the African Union, which held an extraordinary meeting on May 25
aimed at bringing an end to the war against Libya....
Posted Jun 6, 2011
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On April 18, reports of student unrest in the central city of Koudougou,
Burkina Faso, told of youth burning down the headquarters of President Blaise
Compaore’s ruling party and the prime minister’s house. This is the
latest in a series of mass protests, which have struck this West African state
for more than two months....
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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With the corporate media’s attention concentrated on Libya, its oil
reserves and the real danger of U.S. and NATO’s military intervention,
one could almost forget that enormous popular revolts are percolating
throughout North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula....
Posted Mar 9, 2011
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The U.S. has imposed sanctions on President Gadhafi and his family’s bank
accounts; by contrast, the U.S. did not impose similar sanctions on Mubarak and
his reported $70 billion in bank accounts. While President Barack Obama has
publicly called for Gadhafi to step down from office, he treated Mubarak with
kid gloves before the resolve of the Egyptian masses forced Mubarak to leave
office....
Posted Mar 2, 2011
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A popular uprising in the North African state of Tunisia since
mid-December has driven President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled the
Western-allied government for 23 years, into exile. Protesters said that they wanted more than just Ben Ali’s
departure. The demands of the youth and workers have been centered on the need
for full employment and the control of inflation stemming from the impact of
the global economic crisis...
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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Tunisian residents living in the New York City area gathered at the United
Nations to rejoice at the fall of the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben
Ali. ...
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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A dispute over a recent election in the West African state of Ivory Coast has
prompted calls by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for President Laurent
Gbagbo to step down. This echoes the position of the U.S. State Department....
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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WikiLeaks release of U.S. State Department diplomatic cables continues to
expose Washington’s Africa policy for its imperialistic designs....
Posted Dec 18, 2010
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Documents released by the WikiLeaks website under the direction of Australian
national Julian Assange provide insight into U.S. political maneuvers on the
African continent. Although more attention was paid to diplomatic cables on
events in Saudi Arabia, Britain, Iran, etc., there are significant leaks
related to the frustrations of the U.S. State Department in influencing
developments in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Morocco and Algeria....
Posted Dec 8, 2010
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A new study on Zimbabwe’s last decade of land redistribution revealed
that millions of Africans have made significant gains in agricultural
production and income generation in this former British settler colony.
Zimbabwe won its independence in 1980....
Posted Dec 5, 2010
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Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid, Spain, on Nov. 13 in response to a
Nov. 8 massacre carried out by Moroccan security forces in a displaced
person’s camp at Laayoune, Western Sahara, in northwest Africa. Dozens of
Sahawari people were killed, and up to 4,500 injured in the massacre....
Posted Nov 21, 2010
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A 10-day joint military exercise involving the European Union, the U.S. Africa
Command (AFRICOM) and the African Union headquarters based in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, was recently uncovered in a series of press releases from the
Pentagon and other sources....
Posted Nov 3, 2010
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A military and political crisis for the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal
Government in Somalia has prompted calls for additional troop deployments under
the ostensible command of the United Nations Security Council....
Posted Oct 27, 2010
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On Sept. 9 U.S. Marines seized the German-owned M/V Magellan Star vessel off
the coast of Somalia. The Antiguan-flagged, 8,000-ton container ship had been
taken over by Somalis the day before....
Posted Sep 19, 2010
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Leaders of the unions involved in the public sector strike in the Republic of
South Africa have called for the suspension of the work stoppage in order to
discuss the government’s latest offer. An estimated 1.3 million workers
have been on strike since Aug. 18 demanding a 8.6 percent pay increase and a
1,000 rand (U.S. $138) monthly housing allowance. The strike has crippled the
educational and health care sectors....
Posted Sep 9, 2010
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Seven people were killed and 280 suffered injuries in the Southern African
nation of Mozambique in early September, when crowds rebelled after a 30
percent increase in food prices. The unrest in Mozambique has prompted concerns
that other African states as well as countries internationally will face
similar problems related to escalating food prices....
Posted Sep 8, 2010
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Some 1.3 million workers in the Republic of South Africa walked off the job on
Aug. 18 after talks with the government collapsed. The government failed to
meet their demands for an 8.6 percent increase in wages and a housing allowance
of $170 per month....
Posted Sep 1, 2010
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Constantly in the U.S. we are told that the solution for the people of
Africa, who overwhelmingly live in extreme poverty, is for U.S. corporations
and oil companies to invest there.
For a long time Marxists have struggled to expose this bit of supposed
“common knowledge.” Walter Rodney wrote a ground-breaking work
called “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” that showed how Africa
was impoverished and destroyed by Western domination and colonialism....
Posted Aug 22, 2010
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Following a protracted political struggle waged by Zimbabwe and its allies
against U.S., British and European Union imperialist efforts to ban its sale of
diamonds, Zimbabwe sold the first group of diamonds from the Chiadzwa mines
— 900,000 carats — on Aug. 11. The sales earned $72 million in one
day....
Posted Aug 18, 2010
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Many articles have been written reflecting on five decades of historical
experience — referred to as the 50th anniversary of the “Year of
Africa” — since 17 African nations gained political independence.
Yet few pay adequate attention to the indispensable role of women in the
campaigns for national liberation and their continuing efforts in the present
century....
Posted Aug 13, 2010
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Corporate media coverage in early August of British model Naomi
Campbell’s testimony at the Special War Crimes Court on Sierra Leone
doesn’t provide a clue to the background of this trial against former
Liberian President Charles Taylor....
Posted Aug 11, 2010
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This year’s African Union summit, which was held in the East African
state of Uganda on July 25-27, came under tremendous pressure from the
U.S.-supported government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The head of
state sought to turn the entire continent’s attention toward implementing
Washington’s foreign policy objectives in Somalia....
Posted Aug 1, 2010
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Bomb blasts in and around the Ugandan capital of Kampala on July 11 killed at
least 74 people who were gathered at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant
watching the finals of the 2010 World Cup....
Posted Jul 16, 2010
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Five decades after the independence of the former Belgian Congo, the genuine
emancipation of this Central African state is yet to be realized....
Posted Jul 15, 2010
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Israel and its apologists bristle when Israel is called an apartheid state.
Most loudly shouting, “Israeli apartheid,” however, are those who
know the best — the workers of South Africa, who suffered the most under
South African apartheid. South African trade unions have denounced the siege of
Gaza and the apartheid wall on the West Bank, and have urged forward the
boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS)....
Posted Jun 16, 2010
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In West Africa’s Sahel region the threat of famine has caused dislocation
and suffering for millions in Niger, Mali, Chad, eastern Cameroun, Burkina
Faso, Mauritania and other states. This region, located south of the Sahara
Desert, has been hit by drought and crop failures over the last several
months....
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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Recent international press reports indicate that the U.S. military has started
a renewed covert action plan to send special operations commandos into areas of
the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The objective of this policy is
in part to carry out targeted assassinations against people considered U.S.
enemies....
Posted Jun 7, 2010
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Emem Okon traveled halfway around the world from Nigeria to Houston to attend
the annual stockholders meeting of Chevron Oil Company on May 27. But she and
13 others were denied entry despite having legal proxy credentials....
Posted Jun 7, 2010
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This year’s May Day commemorations are taking place amid escalating
racist and xenophobic attacks against immigrant communities in the U.S. and
Western Europe. The passage of an Arizona law that legalizes racial profiling,
and the electoral campaigns by right-wing, anti-immigrant parties in Hungary,
France, Italy and the Netherlands, illustrate the need to intensify efforts at
building international solidarity among workers and the oppressed....
Posted May 1, 2010
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The year 2010 is the 50th anniversary of the Year of Africa, when 17 former
colonial territories gained their national independence during 1960.
The liberation movements in Africa had gained momentum after World War II, when
the European colonial powers were weakened by their mutual destruction from
1939 to 1945....
Posted Apr 25, 2010
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Despite widely publicized claims that the opposition parties in Sudan will
boycott the elections scheduled for April 11-13, President Omar al-Bashir has
reiterated that the national poll will not be derailed....
Posted Apr 11, 2010
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According to journalist Rick Rozoff, “The U.S. military has already been
involved in counterinsurgency operations in Mali and Niger against ethnic
Tuareg rebels, who have no conceivable ties to al-Qaeda, not that one would
know that from Levin’s comments.” Former U.S. diplomat Daniel
Simpson was quoted recently in regard to the Pentagon’s involvement in
Somalia as saying that the operation was designed to “test out AFRICOM
ground and air forces in Djibouti for direct military action on the
continent.”...
Posted Mar 17, 2010
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A recent statement issued by the Obama administration indicates that it is
planning to carry out aerial bombardments in the Horn of Africa nation of
Somalia. The announcement comes amid intense fighting in the capital of
Mogadishu between the two Islamic resistance movements, Al Shabaab and Hizbul
Islam, and the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government that is ruling the
country....
Posted Mar 14, 2010
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Against all odds the southern African nation of Zimbabwe is celebrating its
30th year of independence from British settler-colonialism....
Posted Mar 11, 2010
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It appears from statements by Obama administration officials and U.S.
intelligence sources that further military attacks are being planned against
Yemen. This impoverished country on the Arabian Peninsula has been bombed
several times in recent weeks. Reports indicate that the U.S. is behind these
actions, in which dozens of people are reported to have been killed....
Posted Jan 6, 2010
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A bomb blast at the Shamo Hotel in Mogadishu on Dec. 3 has further destabilized
the unpopular and fragile Transitional Federal Government of Somalia. It clings
to power due to the deployment of 4,500 troops under the auspices of the
African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), a move engineered by the U.S.
government through the U.N. Security Council....
Posted Dec 10, 2009
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Two recent conferences held on the African continent reaffirmed the
determination of women to achieve genuine equality and political empowerment....
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Abayomi Azikiwe from Detroit at the
WWP National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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The U.S. military maneuvers and exploitation of resources in Africa have not
provided any relief to the hundreds of millions of people suffering from
unemployment, poverty and food deficits on the continent. In conjunction with
the workers, farmers and their organizations in Africa, the progressive forces
in the United States must oppose all efforts aimed at the further exploitation
of the continent’s resources as well as the occupation of its lands by
the international capitalists and their military forces....
Posted Nov 15, 2009
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A decade ago on Oct. 14, 1999, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere passed away in
his East African nation of Tanzania. Nyerere was one of the leading political
figures to emerge during the post-World War II era of anti-colonial and
anti-imperialist struggles that swept through Africa, Asia and Latin
America....
Posted Oct 29, 2009
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Zimbabwe’s inclusive government was thrown into crisis in the
aftermath of the arrest of the Western-backed Movement for Democratic
Change-Tsvangirai Treasurer Roy Bennett on Oct. 14. Bennett, who has been
charged with possessing arms for the purpose of criminal activity, terrorism
and inciting acts of insurgency, had been out on bail since March....
Posted Oct 21, 2009
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After a major address before the Columbus Council on World Affairs, the
U.S.-backed president of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Sheik
Sherif Sheikh Ahmed, told journalists that his fragile regime could not prevent
the seizure of power by the two main resistance groups in the Horn of Africa
nation....
Posted Oct 18, 2009
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Internal struggles in Nkrumah’s Convention Peoples Party broke into the
open, once even resulting in an August 1962 attempt to assassinate the
president with a bomb attack....
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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According to the history books, 100 years ago on Sept. 21, 1909, Kwame Nkrumah,
the founder and leader of the African independence movement and the foremost
advocate of Pan-Africanism during his time, was born in the western Nzima
region of the Gold Coast, later known as the independent state of Ghana....
Posted Oct 4, 2009
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Mokgadi Caster Semenya is a South African runner who won the
women’s 800-meter gold medal at the 2009 World Championships. She was
subsequently challenged by competitors to prove her gender and subjected to sex
tests by the International Association of Athletics Federations. South African gender and political analyst Nomboniso Gasa responds....
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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Abdel Basset al-Megrahi returned home to Libya Aug. 21 to a hero’s
welcome. He had been held in a Scottish prison for eight years in connection
with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21,
1988. This political prisoner’s release created the conditions for a renewal of
attacks on the North African state of Libya....
Posted Aug 26, 2009
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Developments indicate clearly that the interest in African affairs by the
current U.S. administration means a continuation of promoting and advancing the
economic and political priorities of the U.S. ruling class....
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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This year’s Group of 8 Summit in L’Aquila, Italy, once again
demonstrated the failure of capitalist economic policies to bring genuine
development to the African continent. The summit’s final day discussed
the G-8 providing aid to Africa for agricultural programs. The fact that
previous pledges of $50 billion made at the 2005 meeting in Gleneagles,
Scotland, have not been met, however, made African leaders even more skeptical
about the role of Europe and the United States in the future of the
continent....
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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South Africa is in a frenzy of construction in order to host the 2010 World Cup
soccer competition. Complaining of low wages, the 70,000 construction workers
hired for the project walked off the job July 8....
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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Sirte, Libya, was host to the 13th African Union Summit held July 1-3. The AU,
an organization representing all 53 independent states in Africa, held
extensive discussions on how to build unity and cooperation on the
continent....
Posted Jul 8, 2009
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Over the last two years Africa has been severely affected by the downturn in
the world economy, resulting in 53 million more people being thrust into
poverty. As a result of the legacy of colonialism and neocolonialism, the
prices of exports from the continent have gone down while the cost of food,
fuel and other commodities imported into Africa has increased drastically....
Posted Jul 5, 2009
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In just eight months, over 20,000 South African autoworkers have been
“retrenched.” In response to these and other layoffs in
manufacturing, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has launched
a “fight for jobs” campaign. NUMSA won a major victory on June 17
in the Johannesburg Labor Court against General Motors South Africa....
Posted Jul 3, 2009
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On June 4 President Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world while visiting
Cairo, Egypt. His speech covered seven major sources of tension between the
U.S. and Muslims worldwide. He stated that “we should not ignore sources
of tension,” but “we must face these tensions squarely.”
Overall, however, Obama’s speech contained a good deal of rhetoric,
contradiction and hypocrisy....
Posted Jun 29, 2009
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The worsening security situation in Somalia has prompted the U.S.-backed
Transitional Federal Government to declare a state of emergency and issue a
call for outside military intervention to prop it up against the popular resistance....
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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In Britain and Ireland it’s called a redundancy and in South Africa
it’s called a retrenchment, but a layoff by any other name is still a
layoff. On June 11 the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa issued a
statement announcing a court action and possible strike over what they call a
“jobs bloodbath.”
“General Motors South Africa (GMSA) destroyed over 1,300 jobs since
2007,” the union charged,...
Posted Jun 19, 2009
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What distinguishes the contemporary economic crisis within global capitalism
from other downturns over the last three decades is that the rapid
deterioration of the social conditions of working people and the oppressed is
taking place simultaneously all over the planet. Considering that development within the imperialist countries is based largely
upon the super-exploitation of the labor and natural resources of people in the
colonial and neocolonial countries, it is not surprising that the economic
crisis is having a far more dramatic impact on the masses of workers and
farmers in Africa....
Posted Jun 18, 2009
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Sudan is one of Africa’s major oil-producing countries, and has therefore
been targeted for destabilization and domination by the Western imperialist
states led by the U.S. The country has maintained an independent domestic and
foreign policy over the last two decades and has refused to cooperate with the
U.S. on a number of its initiatives related to the Iraq war and relations with
Iran and Palestine....
Posted Jun 14, 2009
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An ongoing struggle between Nigeria’s federal government and the people
of the Niger Delta has reached a new level in the aftermath of the May 13
military operation in the West African oil-producing region.
The root of the current repression in Nigeria is the role of U.S. and
European-based multinational oil firms that have looted the resources of the
people of the oil-producing areas inside the country for decades....
Posted Jun 7, 2009
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This May 25 is the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Over 30 member-states formed the
continental body in 1963 amid a groundswell of independence struggles. Every
year this date is celebrated on the continent and in the world as “Africa
Day” or “Africa Liberation Day.”...
Posted May 31, 2009
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Utilizing the pretext
of fighting “terrorism” on land and “piracy” at sea,
the U.S. administration under Obama is maintaining the same foreign policy as
the previous government headed by George Bush, which targeted Somalia and the
region of east Africa for regime change and the establishment of a permanent
military presence in this area of the African continent....
Posted May 22, 2009
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The April 22 national elections in South Africa showed widespread continued
political support for the ruling African National Congress. The ANC won close
to a two-thirds majority in the elections, securing victories in all the
provinces with the exception of the Cape, where the opposition Democratic
Alliance won out over the ruling party...
Posted May 13, 2009
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In the aftermath of the April 12 sniper killings of three Somali teenagers by
the U.S. Navy, several U.S. agencies met on April 17 to conduct a review of
military and foreign policy toward this Horn of Africa nation. The State
Department, Pentagon and Justice Department have outlined a series of options
to ostensibly fight “piracy” in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian
Ocean....
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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After the execution of three Somalis and the wounding and capturing of another
in the Indian Ocean on April 12, a leader of the so-called pirates vowed to
avenge the deaths of these youth who held the U.S. captain of a cargo vessel
known as the Maersk Alabama for five days. The Pentagon’s version of events has been disputed by the Somalis who support
the vessel seizures. They contend that the three young men were killed after
they agreed to end the standoff and release Phillips....
Posted Apr 13, 2009
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In the aftermath of the issuance of warrants for the arrest and prosecution of
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, the imperialists and their allies are
escalating political, diplomatic and military attacks on that African country....
Posted Apr 9, 2009
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With the situation reaching critical proportions in the U.S. and other
industrialized states, the impact of the economic crisis is becoming more
apparent in the so-called developing countries, particularly the African
continent. Even though some Western analysts consider the African continent to
be a marginal region, this area has been thoroughly integrated into the world
capitalist system since the 19th century....
Posted Mar 27, 2009
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‘We, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, believe the action by South
African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) members in Durban [by
refusing to unload an Israeli ship--WW] indicates a new phase in Palestinian
solidarity in South Africa.’...
Posted Feb 23, 2009
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The Ethiopian government of Meles Zenawi had sent its army into Somalia,
largely at the behest of the Bush administration. Fierce
resistance to Ethiopia’s occupation over the last two years resulted in
the formal withdrawal of Ethiopian forces in early January....
Posted Feb 11, 2009
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Recent political developments surrounding the formation of a national unity
government in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe provide greater impetus
for the peoples of the continent and world to demand the immediate lifting of
economic sanctions against the country....
Posted Feb 4, 2009
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The name “Mama Africa” was bestowed upon
Makeba because she was the first person to make African music heard and known
internationally....
Posted Dec 7, 2008
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Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of Pan-African News Wire, contributing WW editor and a leader of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions in Michigan.
...
Posted Dec 2, 2008
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The attitude in the imperialist establishments of Europe and the U.S. toward
Black Africa is so dripping with racism that almost every mention in the mass
media of this rich and vibrant continent takes it for granted that the people
will be perpetually poor and their societies woefully underdeveloped. We always
hear of “aid” for Africa—which amounts to little more than a
pittance—but never of the great wealth produced by African workers that
continues to be taken out by imperialist corporations, which feast off its
minerals, its rubber, its lumber, its diamonds, and more and more, its
oil....
Posted May 4, 2006
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