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23 August 2010 Strikers at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto and Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg were attacked by South African police using water cannon and rubber bullets last week. On Saturday, the government won an injunction banning the strike by civil servants and insisting they return to work... » read this article

Maputo, Mozambique (UPI) Aug 4, 2010 Mozambique and the United States are staging joint Shared Accord Exercises 2010 military exercise.   The Shared Accord Exercises 2010 is being conducted in Mozambique's southern Moamba province district, Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique reported Tuesday. A Mozambique Defense Ministry news release from Mozambique's... » read this article

Several African states have been targeted by successive U.S. administrations for regime change and political domination. Those facing threats from the U.S. include, but are not limited to, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is essential that the anti-war movement in the U.S. firmly... » read this article

Ebocha, Nigeria — Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb. An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But polio is not the only threat Justice faces. Almost since... » read this article

This interview by Agnès Rousseaux and Alexandro Rosinhawas was published by the French information web site BASTA! [2] on January 27, 2009. It is based on Jean Ziegler’s latest book “Hatred of the West” (La Haine de l’Occident - Albin Michel, October, 2008) Jean Ziegler [1], one of the leading... » read this article

1 July 2010 West Africa has become the scene of intense competition between international mining companies as the price of minerals has risen after the recession of 2009. At the centre of this development is a region that covers parts of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. It is recognised as... » read this article

When you hear the phrase “The Road to the World Cup,” it usually refers to the qualifying process that takes place every four years. Center Line Soccer managing editor Jay Hipps wanted to start at the beginning, so he brings us this report from Montevideo, Uruguay, the site of the... » read this article

The devastating Somali civil war since 1991 forced the Somali marine and fisheries sector to an abrupt collapse and almost all Somali fisheries activities shut down. The vessels of the Somali national fishing fleet were abducted and have never been returned. It is estimated that at least 200,000 people lost... » read this article

On May 24, 2010, the Guardian (U.K.) published a highly confidential document released by the South African government.  The 1975 document reveals a secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, Israel’s Foreign Minister at the time (and today Israel’s President)  and South Africa’s Defense Minister P. W. Botha. Israel offered... » read this article

MSF has successfully completed a special eye surgery camp, aimed at giving hundreds of Somali’s back their sight. Between April 21 to 29, MSF, working together with Dr. Abdirisak Dalmar, a Somali Consultant Ophthalmologist & Head of Training and Research at ‘Right to Sight’, screened around 3,000 people and operated... » read this article

Oil gushing from an undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico has damaged BP's reputation and share price but accidents involving other companies in less scrutinized parts of the world have avoided the media glare. Investors have knocked around $30 billion off BP's value since an explosion at a drilling... » read this article

At the close of the historic first African Grandmothers’ Gathering, in Manzini Swaziland, 500 grandmothers from 13 countries issued a clarion call to the world, demanding economic independence, and the necessary resources to build their own capacity to raise healthy families in the midst of the AIDS pandemic. They called... » read this article

Editorial note: The criminal attempts at owning the world's food supply by bio-tech companies, such as Monsanto, Syngenta, et al. are among the most critical issues we are facing today and we must fight against those lethal attempts with tooth and nail. And all this is done for the horrendous... » read this article

The 'Africa Development Indicators 2010' report on 'quiet corruption' is one more example of the World Bank's distractive politics. Distractive because it seeks, wittingly or unwittingly, to sidetrack issues that are fundamental to understanding the continuing poverty and underdevelopment of Africa. Distractive also because it seeks, probably consciously and purposely,... » read this article

Lured by the vast natural resources of the Black Continent, Washington decided to set up AfriCom. But the GI deployment to Africa does not coincide with any needs in particular: everything is up for grabs. Seizing a windfall opportunity, they first went into Somalia militarily in the early 1990’s. Their... » read this article

We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel... » read this article

The media blitz in the Western and American press against Nigeria which is an age - long practice assumed a frightening dimension recently following the unfortunate December 25, 2009 incident in which a Nigerian child adopted by the West attempted to blow up a plane in the United States. But... » read this article

On 23 December 2009 the UN Security Council took an illegal and unjust resolution (1907/2009) imposing sanctions on Eritrea. The sanctions adopted include an arms embargo, travel bans and asset freezes for both officials and individuals. This resolution was adopted on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations and has therefore no... » read this article

Jason Hickel asks whether ‘environmental determinism’ – the theory that Africa’s development has been hindered as a result of ‘the environmental conditions that Africans inhabit’ – accurately explains Africa’s poverty. While he commends its attempt to stop blaming underdevelopment 'on the presumed genetic inferiority of black people’, he finds the... » read this article