Middle Africa
The war in Libya and the new scramble for Africa
By Chris Marsden, March 29, 2011
Today’s international conference on Libya in London will be dutifully reported in the media as a gathering of concerned parties determined to honour their pledge to safeguard civilians from reprisals by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Oil-linked inflation destabilizes Africa, Middle East
By Alex Lantier, March 5, 2008
Writing in 1845 in The German Ideology, the young Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels noted, “It is certainly an empirical fact that separate individuals have, with the broadening of their activity into world-historical activity, become more and more enslaved under a power alien to them [...] which has bec
US government to set up new military command in Africa
By Lawrence Porter, May 18, 2007
In an ominous development mirroring the explosive expansion of US militarism, the Bush administration has designated Africa as a continent of “strategic national concern,” and has initiated a new military policy to coincide with this new classification.
WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
Africa and the perspective of international socialism
Part Two
By Richard Tyler, March 27, 2006
Published below is the conclusion of a two-part report on Africa by Richard Tyler to an expanded meeting of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board (IEB) held in Sydney from January 22 to 27, 2006. Part one was posted on March 25. Tyler is a WSWS correspondent and a member of the Socialis
Franco-African summit: the scramble for Africa intensifies
By Alex Lefebvre, March 3, 2003
On February 19-21, French President Jacques Chirac hosted a Paris summit of African heads of state, entitled “Africa and France, Together in a New Partnership.” Extending an invitation to many countries traditionally considered outside France’s sphere of influence, Chirac invited represent
What water privatisation means for Africa
By Barry Mason and Chris Talbot, September 7, 2002
Among the many business stands at the Johannesburg World Development Summit were dozens of water companies expecting to make deals with the governments of underdeveloped countries for water and sewage provision worth billions of dollars.
Threat of Middle East war spurs grab for West African oil
By Trevor Johnson, August 20, 2002
With a US-led war on Iraq looming that could disrupt oil supplies from the Middle East for many years to come, the question of securing alternative sources has become a vital concern for both the US and Europe.
Pro-US military strongman elected president in Mali
By Chris Talbot, May 23, 2002
Military strongman General Amadou Toumani Toure (known as ATT) was declared the new president of the West African country of Mali on May 16, in a run-off vote that followed the first round of voting held at the end of April.
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