NOVANEWS hangthebankers.com William Gumede An internal IMF report admitting the destructive nature of neoliberalism may have come too late for many African countries. The neoliberal structural adjustment programs have led to economic hardships, political instability […]
NOVANEWS Why colonial country based law firms cannot be used for arbitration and drafting rules of engagement for independent states. Minga Negash Seid Hassan Mammo Muchie and Abu Girma Moges Ethiopian authorities have reportedly engaged […]
NOVANEWS Publico Fredson Guilengue Last week Mozambique invited former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to mediate the simmering conflict between the ruling party and opposition. The impact of this […]
NOVANEWS Getty RIAO-RDC and GRAIN After many years of running oil palm plantations, the world’s largest food company Unilever sold the lands it had grabbed mostly to foreign companies. The communities living next to and […]
NOVANEWS mining.com Yves Engler There are 2,600 Mauritanian workers employed by Kinross Gold of whom 1,041 are permanent, costing the company $36 million, while there are 130 expatriate employees who cost $43 million. Toronto-based Kinross […]
NOVANEWS Colin Todhunter Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination to plunder the natural resources of the continent, especially its strategic energy and mineral resources. That’s the message from a […]
NOVANEWS Holy Ghost Fathers Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe Isn’t it an interesting coincidence that Britons have voted to leave the European Union exactly 50 years after the British government helped ruthlessly crush the Biafra secession in Nigeria? […]
NOVANEWS By Adam Hochschild Some time ago I wrote a book about one of the great crimes of the last 150 years: the conquest and exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium. […]
NOVANEWS Yash Tandon There is a distinct possibility of a much smaller “Little England” looking at itself in the mirror and asking how it might salvage its relations with Africa in order to continue to […]
NOVANEWS Andrew Crowley Giuseppe Maio President Robert Mugabe is not solely to blame for the economic problems facing Zimbabwe as many in the western world have claimed. In some economic policies like land reform, Mugabe’s […]