Governance

On 4 December 2013 the Dutch government decided to offer debt relief to Sudan, an extraordinarily misguided action, the more so since Sudan was the only country favored by such relief.

On 6-7 December, Paris hosted the annual France-Africa summit.

By the time the ink of this article dries, probably the East African Community (EAC) heads of state will have signed the monetary union in Kampala (30 November, 2013), effectively paving a way for a single currency for Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and those other countries that will j

To the spirit of Mandela,

You are now canonised among other saints.

This beautification began immediately after your release from prison and whilst you shook hands with your former political enemies.

If there is a country where self-hatred is the national creed, it is the Dominican Republic, an overwhelmingly mulatto nation that seems constantly at war with its own Blackness.

As we all know racism (white supremacy) is a worldwide phenomenon. There isn’t any corner of the world that this great evil has not reached. Wherever capitalism sinks its roots, there too you will find racist notions and actions.

As we evaluate the outcomes of the recent UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, one lesson that we are invited to learn, again, relates to our strategy for getting effective action taken on the ongoing climate catastrophe and other critical environmental problems.

Placing his legacy in a revolutionary perspective is important in countering the corporate media view that attempts to strip away the actual history of collective struggle in South Africa and its influence on the international movements against racism, imperialism and class exploitation.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela finally finished his long walk to freedom in the last month of the Year 2013.

During the last two weeks we have lost two titans of African politics: the first, and somewhat lesser giant, was Ambassador Axmed Maxamed Adan (Qaybe) of Somaliland, and the second, was the inestimable Madiba – Nelson Mandela of South Africa.