Africa

Torture, show trials common in neocolonial Libya

A video released last week showing the beating and torture of Saadi Gadhafi is not an anomaly in contemporary Libya…

August 15, 2015

New book exposes U.S. ‘hidden war’ on Africa

Journalist Nick Turse has researched the increasing role of the United States Africa Command (Africom) over the last seven years,…

August 9, 2015

Trial of Ebola vaccine seen as promising

A recent trial of a vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus disease has taken place in the West African state…

August 5, 2015

Zimbabwe and the killing of Cecil

It has taken the illegal and cruel killing on July 1 of a beloved lion named Cecil by a stereotypically…

August 4, 2015

Ebola Virus Disease not yet defeated in West Africa

Even though the three states where the Ebola Virus Disease struck last year have been declared free of the epidemic,…

July 26, 2015

Imperialist wars, growing income gap undermine U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals

This year, the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals were scheduled to reach certain objectives in reducing poverty and improving living…

July 9, 2015

NATO launches the Trident war exercises, threatens Russia, Africa and Middle East

This article by Manlio Dinucci appeared in Il Manifesto on June 16. We republish it here with the author’s permission.…

June 18, 2015

New book exposes U.S.’s ‘hidden war’ on Africa

Journalist Nick Turse has researched the increasing role of the United States Africa Command (Africom) over the last seven years,…

May 8, 2015

Instability in Libya and Tunisia caused by U.S., NATO

Just two days before the 59th anniversary of Tunisia’s national independence from France in 1956, gunmen took over the Bardo…

March 30, 2015

Despite reported decline, struggle against Ebola continues

African leaders, health care professionals, international humanitarian organizations and others have praised the work battling the latest and most deadly…

March 7, 2015