By Lawrence Freeman Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has made an audacious salient call for debt cancellation for low income countries. It was published in the Opinion section of the April 30, New York Times, Why the Global […]
By Salimah Valiani The pandemic has shown the need for medical care and interventions that have nothing to do with profit. But not even SA’s proposed National Health Insurance would fit the bill. *** Covid-19 has […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr The Comoran patient was in contact with a 50-year-old man on his latest trip to France. Comoros’ President Azali Assoumani Thursday announced the first COVID-19 case in this South-Eastern African nation. “While other […]
By Lorraine Chow Global Research, This article was originally published in 2016. Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically modified (GMO) cotton and maize into the country’s food and farming systems. One-hundred organizations […]
Morocco/Western Sahara: Detained journalists, peaceful protesters at risk of Covid-19, must be urgently released The Moroccan authorities must urgently and unconditionally release all those imprisoned solely for peacefully protesting or expressing their views including dozens […]
by ELIZABETH SCHMIDT Late last year, President Trump provoked a furor when he declared his intent to withdraw some 1,400 US troops from West Africa, where he claimed they had quelled the terrorist threat. He sparked […]
By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida Global Research, Every day the news about Chinese investments in the Africa are highlighted in newspapers around the world. On the one hand, western critics believe that Beijing is seeking to […]
by KENNETH GOOD Photograph Source: DEMOSH – CC BY 2.0 Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with the looting of state resources, using violence to avoid any possible accountability. Elections serve as key points […]
What is behind Israel’s warming ties to Sudan? Israeli-Sudanese relations have been fraught with public tensions and secret collaborations — with the fate of refugees in Israel hanging in the balance. By Inbal Ben Yehuda Protesters […]
Egyptian school girls wear masks for protection against swine flu at a school in Cairo on October 4, 2009 [KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images]March 2, 2020 at 1:05 pm Sources have told the London-based publication Egypt […]