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Zimbabwe incumbent President, ZANU-PF re-elected in historic poll
Over 70 percent of the electorate participated in the voting where some 23 presidential candidates and dozens of political parties were on the ballot. This is the first election since the resignation...
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The search for an elusive peace in the Horn of Africa
This is a region of East Africa, which has been deeply fractured due to the legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism since the 19th century. The area has been a focal point for interventions by the...
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Roots of Aretha Franklin, proletarian culture and the rise of black Detroit
Detroit artist and social activist Aretha Franklin passed into her ancestral realm on Wednesday morning 16 August while surrounded by family and friends in her Detroit Riverfront condominium downtown....
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South Africa, finance capital and the land question
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the technical recession announced inside the country and internationally is only a transitional phase. The ruling African National Congress (ANC)...
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Theoretical contributions of Samir Amin (1931-2018)
Sub-Title: Delinking from the Eurocentric world systemHe was a prodigious researcher and publisher issuing over 40 books, hundreds of articles and papers dealing with the relationship between the...
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Zimbabwe post-elections prospects and challenges
A report in the state-run Zimbabwe Herald newspaper on 20 September said that the cholera outbreak, which has killed over 30 people and sickened more than 5000 others, has been contained in the capital...
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Towards a sustainable peace in the Horn of Africa
Previously on 9 July, a document was signed by the leaders of the Horn of Africa states in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. This most recent agreement is designed to expand the initial understanding...
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Cuban President visits New York to speak before the UNGA
Defending the sovereignty of Cuba and other states throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Diaz-Canal emphasised that the nations within the region had a right to adopt the political and economic...
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Reflections on five decades since the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968
Friederich Engels wrote extensively on the problems of the working class under the early phase of industrialisation during the period from the mid-1840s through the 1880s in both England and the US....
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Exploitation and dislocation continues in Detroit
During the early morning hours of Sunday 7 October, members of Unite Here Local 24 in Detroit went on strike against the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel located downtown on Washington Boulevard. The union...
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Midterm elections generate further polarisation in the United States
Sub-Title: Voter suppression, ending modern day slavery, and the prospects for social transformationIt had been predicted that the House of Representatives would be lost by the Republicans to the...
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Yemen war intensifies after Washington and London calls for ceasefire
Sub-Title: Brutal killing of Saudi columnist draws criticism of US and British arming of RiyadhAt present, Yemen is facing famine due to the targeting of hospitals, schools and neighbourhoods in an...
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ANC prepares for upcoming elections in South Africa
In a matter of a few months the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa will test its political support through national elections. It has been a quarter-century since the national...
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Universal healthcare in Africa is a necessity for genuine development
Many of the news stories about African Union (AU) member states focus on the outbreak of infectious diseases, which are a direct result of the legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism, where the...
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Africa in review 2018: Electoral politics, social stability and the need for...
Introduction There is much to be learned from developments on the African continent in 2018 where the nation states and masses of people are continuing their quest for authentic national liberation and...
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Africa in review 2018, part II: Regional instability and the politics of...
Introduction Over the last 12 months events on the African continent have reinforced the centuries-long relationship with the imperialist nations through the process of economic exploitation of human...
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Africa in Review 2018, part III: Imperialist militarism and the quest for...
Bombing operations by the United States military against the Horn of Africa state of Somalia have escalated during the course of 2018. Once the administration of President Donald Trump came into office...
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Reflections on the 60th anniversary of the convening of the first AAPC...
At that time Ghana was the fountainhead of Pan-Africanism where the previous year the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and its founder Kwame Nkrumah won independence from British colonialism....
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Somali war: A continuing result of United States foreign policy
On 30 November 2018 the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that airstrikes were launched on al-Shabaab positions in Lebede killing nine people. (Reuters, 2 December 2018) Although...
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400 years (1619-2019) after the beginning of African enslavement in the...
In late August of 1619, approximately 20 Africans were brought to the shore of Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, then a colony of Britain, having been captured by Portuguese colonisers in the Ndongo...
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