East Africa
Andrew Young, bagman for US capitalism in Africa
By Lawrence Porter, April 30, 2007
Andrew Young, the former black civil rights leader and confidant of Martin Luther King Jr., has recently come under criticism for his dirty dealings with corrupt African governments, especially for hi...
Call for Nigerian presidential election to be annulled after massive corruption
By Ann Talbot, April 24, 2007
Even before Nigeria’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was announced the winner Monday, calls mounted for the country’s April 21 presidential election to be annulled.
War crimes investigation after Ethiopia shells civilians in Somali capital
By Ann Talbot, April 16, 2007
The European Union (EU) has begun a war crimes investigation after Ethiopian and Ugandan forces backing the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) attacked civilian areas in the Somali capital of Mogad...
US government admits backing Zimbabwe’s opposition
By Ann Talbot, April 9, 2007
The US government has admitted to supporting the opposition to President Robert Mugabe. This is the first time that the Bush administration has officially acknowledged that it backs opposition groups ...
Mass strike movement in Guinea
By Chris Talbot, March 13, 2007
The West African country of Guinea has been hit by general strikes in January and February, as well as mass demonstrations protesting against the despotic rule of President Lansana Conté.
Hu rejects accusations that China has colonial ambitions in Africa
By John Chan, February 15, 2007
In the course of his recent eight-nation tour of Africa, Chinese President Hu Jintao was forced to rebut a mounting chorus of claims that Beijing was behaving like a colonial power on the continent. T...
US Senator Barack Obama and the war in Iraq
By Tom Eley, February 13, 2007
Barack Obama, the junior US senator from Illinois, formally announced his candidacy for US president in a speech in Springfield, Illinois on Saturday. Obama, who has emerged as a leading contender for...
Somalia: African Union force agreed
By Ann Talbot, January 23, 2007
The African Union has agreed to send a 7,600-strong peacekeeping force to Somalia to replace the Ethiopian troops who invaded the country in December. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has insiste...
US backs Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia
By Ann Talbot, December 28, 2006
The Bush administration is openly backing Ethiopia’s invasion of its neighbour Somalia.
Darfur: Bush and Blair plan no-fly zone and consider air strikes against Sudan
By Ann Talbot, December 20, 2006
The Bush administration is considering imposing a no-fly zone over the Darfur region in western Sudan. It would be backed up by the threat of air strikes, a naval blockade and an extension of the exis...
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
November 24, 2006
Europe
An exchange on Stalinism with a South African reader
November 20, 2006
Below we publish an edited email exchange on Stalinism between a reader of the World Socialist Web Site in South Africa and Barbara Slaughter, a veteran Trotskyist who rejected the counterrevolutionar...
