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 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, […]
NOVANEWS THULI DLAMINI Sungu Oyoo In South Africa, over $60 million was lost through a well-orchestrated fraud from the mineworkers’ death benefits pool. 46,000 widows and orphans lost their benefits in this fraud revealed in […]
NOVANEWS REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST Norman (Otis) Richmond (aka Jalali) President Obama in 2009 signed a proclamation establishing the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission. The commission was supposed to organize activities to mark the 100th anniversary, in 2011, […]
NOVANEWS Wars of regime-change and the domination of international finance capital will continue to strangle the continent. Redstate Abayomi Azikiwe Whatever the outcome of the U.S. elections this year, Washington’s militarized imperialist policy towards Africa […]
NOVANEWS By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research Today the African Union faces formidable development and security challenges May 25, 2016 marks the 53rd anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now […]
NOVANEWS BW Sobantu Mzwakali A man cannot hate the whip with which he is being flogged but then be expected to love the person doing the flogging. When such a black man, lying helpless bleeding […]