Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia’s relations with the continent, but in the global power struggle involving the US, Europe, China, India, Turkey and others. Many media reports and analyses placed Lavrov’s visit to Egypt, the Republic of Congo, Uganda and Ethiopia within the[Read More…]
The African Union was founded in 2002 as a successor to the Organization of African Unity (OAU), an intergovernmental organisation that functions as a link between the African countries. With the union commemorating its 20th anniversary this year, the continent has faced several challenges in recent years, including civil wars, stalling transitions, Islamic militancy, food insecurity, and climate change-related threats. The[Read More…]
Apparently, it is coup season in Africa, and the reasons for these upheavals always vary, from outright power grabs by opposing political factions to foreign-backed attempts at controlling central governments and resources. Pointing out governance issues identifies a serious aspect around the ‘ease’ at which coups take place successful or not. Regional and continental entities are generally at the forefront[Read More…]
Overview On the 8th of October 2021, France organized a Montpellier conference, claiming a new approach to its relationship with Africa. The conference took place in the background of growing anti-French sentiments across several Francophone West African states. For example, the new military junta in Mali indicated their intention to seek military support from Russia, a role traditionally reserved for[Read More…]
Africa’s role model, Eritrea, located on the Red Sea will mark 30 years of independence this coming Monday, May 24. When a rag tag band of afro coiffed Eritrean rebels drove captured Ethiopian tanks into the streets of our capital Asmara thirty years ago it marked the first successful armed struggle for national liberation on the continent. Others had fought[Read More…]
This article seeks to draw attention to one aspect of African sovereignty that does not get adequate coverage. Admittedly, many are aware of illicit financial outflows that cripple development or the fact that Africa has been a net creditor to the global financial system even though the countries within are debt ridden. This article will draw the lines between the[Read More…]
Sudan says River Nile water levels have dropped as a reservoir behind Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance dam has filled up, hitting out at “any unilateral actions taken by any party.” Egypt has also demanded “quick official clarification” from Ethiopia. Sudan and Egypt are downstream, and fear the large dam will greatly reduce their access to water. Ethiopia sees the hydroelectric project[Read More…]
The first foreign visit of the new French President Emmanuel Macron, after a now habitual trip to Berlin, was to Gao in northern Mali as head of the French military. The visit was an attempt to be seen as paying attention to the efforts of French troops in operations in northern Mali and other states of the Sahel region of[Read More…]
Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson is the Harvard educated, Nobel Prize winning President of Liberia with a long bloodstained history of support for warlords both past and present. She used to be the de facto foreign minister for that most bloodthirsty of warlords former Liberian “President” Charles Taylor, and she addressed the US Congress in his support. President Johnson is the queen[Read More…]
AT the 28th Summit meeting of the African Union (AU) held in Addis Ababa on 30 January 2017, Morocco’s readmission to the continental body generated heated discussion. At the end of the day the Kingdom of Morocco managed to win over sufficient member states on its side and it was allowed to join the fold unconditionally. Morocco left the[Read More…]
With ethnic uprisings spreading across an Ethiopia now ruled by martial law there is only one nationally based organization in place to lead the eventual regime change in the country and that is the revolutionary Islamic movement. Presently all the liberation resistance movements in Ethiopia are ethnically based with their senior leadership in exile, mainly in neighboring Eritrea. The only[Read More…]
The west uses “democracy”, as in elections, to control Africa. This has resulted in over half a century of murder and mayhem because all but one African country is a mixture of different ethnicity’s and nationalities with tribalism dominant in African societies. Elections mean tribal winners and tribal losers and no in between, or consensus based governance. This has been[Read More…]
Dangers Of Ukraine War Turning Nuclear 
Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine, and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward- Part 4M 
Searching for a Foremother’s Stolen Gravestone 
PUCL condemns the remission of the sentence of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis case as arbitrary, unfair and dangerous for Indian democracy 
Ageism in Indian media narratives 
The Maybe Mob and the Rushdie Attack 
Israel’s Premature ‘Victory’ Celebration: The defining War in Gaza Is Yet to Be Fought 
Kaleidoscopic Images of a Culture 
What Was Lost By Corporate Tax Cut Could Have Doubled the Budget for 20 Crucial Ministries and Departments 
Sri Lanka’s determined Non-Compliance of UNHRC Resolutions in Defiance of UN and UNHRC Charters 
Palestinian armed struggle: The resistance that dare not speak its name 
The New Idols of the Market Place 
Red Flags of Cold war in the Indian Ocean: From IS-claimed Easter attacks to Yuan Wang–5 
Black September Massacres in Sri Lanka 
Tribute to Souren Bose on 25th death anniversary 
Daughter of Two Bengals 
PM Modi Idolizes Savarkar: Second Killing Of The True Martyrs 
Iraq Finance Minister Ali Allawi Resigns Over Political Crisis 
Protests of Apple Growers Continue With Resentment over Adverse Impact of Big Business 
This Time the Collapse Will Be Global Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine, and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward – Part 4J 
India’s tree lovers get together for a nation-wide tree festival 
Urgency of Rising above Narrow Interests for Peace and Environment Protection 
A ‘holy’ conspiracy? Not quite 
Living on a Planet of Lies 
Nuclear war will eliminate more than 5 billion people – oppose war 
China’s Second Round of Military Drills Near Taiwan After More U.S. Lawmakers Visit The Island 
Western ‘Naturalism’ Disrespects Nonhuman Animals and the Entire Natural World 
Washington Wants a New Cold War—But That’s a Bad Idea 
Is it enough to fly the Tricolour to prove one’s patriotism? 
Threat of state-takeover of forests alarms Tripura’s indigenous people 
Groundwater management, farm subsidies & food security- Need to adopt a holistic view 
Following Raid In Trump’s Home, The Far Right Calls For Civil War In The U.S. 
5G Spectrum – Is it a distress sale? CAG may look at it carefully 
India 
Sale of talcum powder to be stopped globally by Johnson & Johnson 
This Is No Time for Climate Complacency 
A Military Rich in Dollars, Poor in People 
RSS’s International Wing Defeated at Californian City of Manteca 
European Imperialism and How India and Pakistan Won and Lost August 14-15, 1947 National Freedom 
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