Africa

It couldn’t have gone unnoticed the news coverage of Obama’s visit to Ghana and Africa but underneath the PR gloss of the memories of slavery roots , a much more mercenary purpose existed. The new scramble for Africa Today’s race is not for colonies to conquer but for natural resources and America has stepped up pursuit...
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Xenophobia flourishes in Africa too, encouraged by state-building. It is not only in the West that black people are subjected to racism and abusive languages by the host nation’s population as “bloody foreigners”, “parasites”, “aliens”,”refugees”, etc, but also Africans living in other African countries are grimly accustomed to the same abusive language. Matters have sometimes...
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Although the peace accord of 2003 ended five years of war in other parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, fighting has continued intermittently in the eastern Kivu region. The latest bout began on October 25, when the rebel forces of Laurent Nkunda resumed their offensive, accompanied by the usual atrocities against civilians,...
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The end of Apartheid and the election of the ANC to power was supposed to see the grinding poverty of the townships ended, but the ANC have turned out to be powerless to run capitalism in a way that would end exploitation and poverty. Despite 15 years of power the ANC are just another...
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South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics this week announced it had negotiated a 99-year lease on some 3.2 million acres of farmland on Madagascar ,about half the size of Belgium , That’s nearly half of Madagascar’s arable land, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization, and Daewoo plans to put about three quarters of it...
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Refugees who haven’t eaten for days cheered when the first humanitarian convoy in a week arrived at their camp November 3rd, but the jubilation turned into anger when U.N. workers dumped soap instead of food. U.N. officials admit hunger at the Kibati camp, where tens of thousands of refugees have sought safety, is dire but...
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The World Socialist Party has always explained war as having its root cause within the capitalist system . It is our contention that war has always been fundamentally economic . The blood-bath that has been taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo is no exception . Our case is supported by this article . “The...
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“…Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of “least democratic in Africa.” But while he has been singled out for condemnation by the West, leaders of other autocratic states in Africa have largely been able to avoid sanctions and isolation. Many have friends in...
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About 12 people were killed and more than 50 were taken to hospitals with gunshot and stab wounds last night in Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city. Local police used tear gas and rubber bullets in attempt to try to stop the attackers – gangs of armed youths. (BBC) This was not, however, the racial violence...
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We have posted before here about the harrassment and oppression of the indigenous peoples of southern Africa , the Bushmen . We sadly report that this is continuing . The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been forced from their ancestral lands in a wave of evictions by the Botswana government. In 2006...
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