A Language of Blood Has Gripped Our World
Sudan’s forgotten civil war has killed at least 150,000 and displaced nearly 13 million. Understanding its political details is key to tracing the causes and potential solutions to the conflict.
Time For All Anti-Imperialists And Justice Loving People To Defend Burkina Faso
By Black Alliance For Peace Africa Team, Black Agenda Report / Popular Resistance The Black Alliance for Peace demands an end to U.S. and Western interference in Burkina Faso. The…
Somaliland: British Colony, Palestinian Concentration Camp?
Multiple mainstream media reports indicate officials in Tel Aviv and Washington are making discrete overtures to Hargeisa on the topic.
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Withdraw From International Organization of La Francophonie
Ostensibly meant to foster greater cooperation between Francophone countries, the three countries allege that the OIF has become “a remote-controlled political instrument” operated from Paris to suit its “geopolitical considerations”.
Twenty-Five Days of Debt-Service Payments Could Emancipate African Women from 40 Billion Hours of Water Harvesting
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
Congo, Jazz & the CIA: Oscar-Nominated ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ Revisits Lumumba Assassination
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat's Belgian director Johan Grimonprez explains that Lumumba's assassination was “the ground zero of how the West was about to deal with the riches of the…
‘Long-Overdue’ Trial to Begin After Decades of Shell Polluting Nigeria
"The spills have terribly affected the Bille community," said one Nigerian plaintiff. "Our ecosystems are dead. Our livelihood depends on fishing."
BRICS Expands to 54.6% of World Population By Adding Nigeria, Africa’s Most Populous Country
With the addition of Nigeria, BRICS now has 10 full members and nine partners.
Carbon Credits Are Supposed to Funnel Money to Poor Countries. Do They?
Researchers say there is "no evidence" that they bring economic benefits to communities where projects are based.
More Countries Are Voting ‘No’ on Advancing Human Rights in Africa
By Kasmira Jefford / Geneva Solutions African and Asia-Pacific countries are increasingly opposed to resolutions on human rights issues on the African continent, according to findings by two nongovernmental organizations.…
IMF-Driven Policies Spark Deadly Protests in Kenya
Kenya protests turn deadly with 23 killed in clashes over tax hikes. IMF’s influence on Nairobi’s budget ignites public fury and violent police crackdown.
Is Shell’s Exit From Nigeria a Front To Dodge Legal Responsibilities?
The oil giant is selling its Niger Delta subsidiary – but lending the new owners the money for the purchase.
UN Puts Spotlight on Attacks Against Indigenous Land Defenders
Indigenous peoples around the world are harassed and killed at alarming rates. Will the world act?
Epic Fail
The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack Up Its War and Go Home.
After Expelling Palestinian Workers, Israel Turns to the Global South for Labor
Israel has thus far signed agreements with Kenya and Malawi to bring in workers to its agricultural sector, which has otherwise relied on Palestinian and Thai migrant labor.