Peter Kenworthy

In a letter, Danish solidarity organisation Afrika Kontakt, along with Danish Member of European Parliament Rina Ronja Kari and other Danish organisations, has urged the President of the United Nations Security Council to give the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO, a mandate to m

Are you tired of reading books, reports or articles by middle-aged, middle-class professors, authors, NGO-employees or journalists (like me) about how poverty-stricken Africans feel about, or should react to, their poverty?

Mzwandile Masuku’s childhood in Swaziland included barking police dogs at 4 o’clock in the morning, armed police raiding his family’s house while he ate breakfast, and visiting his father Mario Masuku in prison. For the past ten months he has had to visit his father in prison yet again.

Officials from the United Nations, the African National Congress and an array of mostly former, but also present, world leaders have participated in the Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla, occupied Western Sahara, to the delight of the colonizer, Morocco.

“Saharawi political prisoners are daily exposed to systematic torture and ill-treatment, harassment, medical neglect and other abusive treatment”, the Committee for Supporting the UN Settlement Plan and the Protection of Natural Resources in Western Sahara (CSPRON) said in a statement last week.

Crans Montana Forum is an international organization that invites ministers and civil servants from all over the world to its annual forum. According to the organisation’s website, the goal of the forum is to work for international peace, stability and global dialogue.

After having consulted both the Norwegian authorities and the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara, engineering company Mesta chose not to conclude a deal with the American salt producer Crystal Mountain.

“The Terrorism Act's definition is ridiculously overboard,” says Mlungisi Makhanya. “It does not follow international norms on the combat of terrorism”.

‘Organizing young [Zimbabwean] women into representative leadership structures is key for harnessing young women’s power and ability to stand for themselves and challenge injustices,’ a recently published paper by the Institute for Young Women Development (IYWD) concludes.

Arriving in the Saharawi Refugee camps in the Algerian desert near Tindouf, the home of over 150, 000 or around a third of the Saharawi population indigenous to Western Sahara, one is immediately struck by the extreme heat, the lack of water, and the aridness of the landscape.