NOVANEWS Club of Mozambique Peter Kenworthy Swaziland’s big-spending absolute monarch King Mswati III is spending millions of dollars on a new personal jet and other luxuries, while many of his poor citizens rely on food […]
NOVANEWS EAP Ramzy Baroud The Mandela that now stands erect in Ramallah has been incorporated into the zeitgeist of this city, particularly the rich and beaming neighborhood of massive white-stone villas and luxury cars. It […]
NOVANEWS GETTY IMAGES Fidelis Allen Isn’t it the height of hypocrisy for a British politician to label Nigeria as fantastically corrupt? Britain built its economy on the wealth looted from colonies such as Nigeria. Today, […]
NOVANEWS Yves Engler Self-described Africa scholar Gerald Caplan’s recent praise of Canada’s relations with Uganda is superficial and misleading. He ignores Canada’s support for imperialism in East Africa that goes back to the days of […]
NOVANEWS Yves Engler Despite a long list of abuses by Canadian mining companies in Africa – and elsewhere – it’s very difficult to hold them accountable at home. Will the new government of Justin Trudeau […]
NOVANEWS Yves Engler Unlike the US or France, Canada is not a leading military force in Africa. But Ottawa exerts influence through a variety of means including training initiatives. Canadian Forces have trained hundreds of […]
NOVANEWS ccirn.qc Yves Engler The Canadian mining magnate is just one in a long line of Westerners who ask the world to believe what they say but ignore the actual results of what they do […]
NOVANEWS PZ Mary Serumaga State brutality is integral to the electoral cycle in Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda. There are campaign beatings, ballot beatings and post-election beatings. Ugandans this week witnessed pre-swearing-in beatings. They can expect swearing-in […]
NOVANEWS Posted by News Post Why is the relationship between the highest levels of US Gov (Treasury Department) and Saudi Arabia hidden from us? A recent Bloomberg News story suggest: “Saudi Arabia’s Secret Holdings of […]
NOVANEWS peacebrigades.org.uk Dan Griffin Gacheke Gachihi of Bunge la Mwananchi (People’s Parliament) social movement says his country faces a “very serious problem of shrinking democratic space”. Kenya has witnessed the criminalisation of human rights activism, […]