Africa

Gambia blasts the International Criminal Court

The western African country of Gambia announced on Oct. 25 that it was withdrawing from the Hague-based International Criminal Court,…

November 11, 2016

Protest supports Zimbabwe

Protesters chanted “Mugabe is right! Stand and fight!” outside the United Nations General Assembly in New York City Sept. 21.…

September 30, 2016

Message to U.N.: Zimbabwe will never be a colony again!

Protesters chanted "Mugabe is right! Stand and fight!" outside the United Nations General Assembly in New York City Sept. 21.…

September 24, 2016

Victory to Zimbabwe!

More than 100 people marched and rallied in New York City on Sept. 17 in defense of Zimbabwe; the country’s…

September 22, 2016

Lessons of the 1976 Soweto Rebellion

On June 16, 1976, students in the Southwest Townships (Soweto) outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, stayed home from school to…

June 12, 2016

African liberation struggles drove Portugal’s April 1974 revolution

It was April of 1974. A popular folk song serving as a secret signal to the captains in Portugal’s Armed…

June 3, 2016

U.S. sanctions aim to starve Zimbabwe into submission

President Barack Obama’s administration, utilizing the Office of Foreign Assets Control, announced on March 2 the extension, for another year,…

March 25, 2016

Unable to prevail through ground war, U.S. bombs Somalia

On March 7, the Pentagon announced it had killed 150 members of the al-Shabab [“the youth”] guerrilla movement in a…

March 17, 2016

Zimbabwe diamonds, El Nino and the economic crisis in Southern Africa

The Zimbabwe ministry of mines announced in the capital Harare on Feb. 23 that all but one of the firms…

March 14, 2016

Ebola cases reappear in Liberia, Guinea

Regional and international health officials emphasize that the Ebola virus disease crisis is not over, as three new cases have…

December 2, 2015