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Australia: Child’s death exposes impact of privatisation of refugee services
By Susan Allan and Margaret Rees, January 6, 2006
It has only recently come to light that Richard Niyonsaba, a two-year-old refugee from Africa, died on November 5, his first night in Australia. His tragic death is yet another example of the Howard government’s inhumane treatment of refugees and its policy of systematic cover-up. The government&rsquo
What happened to “African socialism”?
A reply to a reader
By Chris Talbot, May 19, 2005
The following is a letter from a WSWS reader, followed by a reply by Chris Talbot.
Tanzania’s worst ever rail crash
By Barry Mason, July 2, 2002
Some 281 people died on June 24 when a passenger train crashed while travelling across Tanzania, from Dar Es Salaam on the coast to Mwanza on the southern shore of Lake Victoria. The train, with 22 coaches and around 1,500 passengers, is reported to have lost power while attempting to climb a long incline.
British government split over Tanzanian radar system
By Chris Talbot, December 29, 2001
A public row in the British government surrounded the granting of a licence to a British aerospace firm, BAE Systems, to export a $40 million air traffic control system to Tanzania. The purchase of the system was opposed by the World Bank, following its own research that showed it was unsuitable and that a
African Union initiative offers little prospect of end to Burundi civil war
By John Farmer and Chris Talbot, July 28, 2001
The peace agreement signed at Arusha, Tanzania, last Monday appears to offer no solution to the civil war that has continued in this small country since 1993 and has resulted in over 200,000 deaths.
Tanzania: Brutal government clampdown on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba
By David Rowan, February 17, 2001
The Tanzanian government has carried out a brutal crackdown on its political opponents, involving the shooting of unarmed civilians. Human Rights Watch accused the Tanzanian security forces of going on the rampage and of using unrestrained force during recent demonstrations organised by the Civic United Fro
Congo War Drags On—Uganda and Chad pull out
By Chris Talbot, May 14, 1999
After nine months of a war that has engulfed much of central Africa and directly involved at least eight surrounding countries, two of the main participants fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) have pulled out. Uganda, which was backing the rebels, and Chad, which came to t
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