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The Hidden Genocide in Ethiopia
The Ethiopia of Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party, is a dark and frightening place, where anyone challenging the government are at risk of violence and arrest. People from the Amhara ethnic group are...
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Senegal’s Elites Wanted to Trash Democracy. Voters Didn’t.
Last Thursday night, cheers bellowed across Senegal’s capital Dakar. A few blocks from where I stood in the city’s posh Plateau district, Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye left the prison they...
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From Salt River to the Sea
As the fans streaming toward Athlone Stadium in Cape Town were greeted by vendors selling Palestinian flags, it became clear the match about to take place would be as noteworthy as it was unusual: the...
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Sudan Hunger Crisis: 230,000 Children and Mothers Could Die in Coming Months
Sudan is on track to become the world’s worst hunger crisis, according to the United Nations. For over a year, fighting between the Sudanese military and the rival Rapid Support Forces has disrupted...
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Israel Remains Intent on Genocide Despite World Court Orders
Israel is continuing its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza and hindering humanitarian relief efforts despite specific orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or the...
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Another Left Is Possible
One hundred and twenty delegates gathered at Wits University from 14 to 17 December 2023 to launch Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO, Zabalaza means Struggle), an eco-socialist, feminist and anti-racist...
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Building Towards a Movement for Socialism
South Africa is in a deep crisis, where the real and persistent failures of capitalism threaten a descent into barbarism and the destruction of life. In the debris of anti-capitalist politics in South...
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The Hidden Genocide In Ethiopia
The Ethiopia of Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party, is a dark and frightening place, where anyone challenging the government are at risk of violence and arrest. People from the Amhara ethnic group are...
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Congo Beyond The Hashtags
While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism. The 2023 AFCON tournament in Côte d’Ivoire saw the...
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Egypt Has Betrayed Palestinians in Their Time of Greatest Need
“Famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where an estimated 70 percent of the population faces catastrophic hunger, according to the United Nations Food Agency. Israeli journalist Zvi Bar’el reported...
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The Limits of International Solidarity
On December 29, 2023, South Africa initiated a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for atrocities in occupied Palestine, which were argued to rise to the threshold of...
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Epic Fail
Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States...
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Remembering one year of war in Sudan | The Take
April 15 marks one year since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its paramilitary rival the Rapid Support Forces. The war has caused the largest displacement crisis in the world...
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South Africa: Unlike ANC Governments, We Must Practice Consistent, Inclusive...
“An injury to one is an injury to all.” — Popular, global workers slogan This slogan originated in the early 1900s when it became the official motto of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an...
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When Namibia Stands Up to Germany: How Gaza Revolutionized the Global South
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a...
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More than a Domestic Conflict
When war broke out on 15 April 2023 between Sudan’s military, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary unit of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by...
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When Namibia Stands Up to Germany: Why the Global South is Rising for Palestine
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a...
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Colonialism Revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo
140 years ago this November at the Berlin Conference, Belgium’s King Leopold was recognized as the sole owner of the Congo Free State, a territory including the entirety of today’s Democratic Republic...
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The People’s Minimum Demands and Abahlali’s Position on Election 2024
In the 19 years since our movement was founded we have struggled to liberate ourselves from the chains of poverty, indignity and repression. We have organised in our communities, built new communities...
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Europe’s Indifference to Rwanda’s Atrocities is Costing Congolese Lives
In April 2012, a group of largely Tutsi Congolese military officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mutinied and crossed the border into Rwanda, where they announced the creation of a new...
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Born Free?
Ernest Mancoba was born east of Johannesburg in August 1904. He was the eldest son of a miner. He trained as a teacher and taught isiZulu to schoolchildren until he was introduced to woodcarving. He...
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Africa’s Call to Triple Finance a Chance for the North to Rebuild Trust
“The current system needs more than just adjustment – it needs an overhaul. Africa must be at the centre of these reforms, but our criticisms have for too long fallen on deaf ears.” This was the...
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Malaria is a Women’s Rights Issue
Walk into any community health centre and look at who is at the bedside of the patients. Women. Young girls who should be in school instead of tending to the sick. Young women who should be at work...
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Against Global Indifference to Atrocities in Darfur
As the deadly war in Sudan enters its second year, it is nearly impossible to overstate the global indifference and inaction in the face of ongoing devastating mass atrocities in Sudan. The...
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Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder
Africans have long been promised trade liberalisation would accelerate growth and structural transformation. Instead, it has cut its modest production capacities, industry and food security. Berg...
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Reflections on Student Activism
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed...
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The World’s Forgotten War
“Don’t worry, Séra, the entire world is watching them, they won’t be able to do anything.” “You think so?” “Of course.” In my heart of hearts, I knew I was wrong. The World Cup was about to begin in...
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S. Africa v. Israel on Rafah Genocide
South Africa returned to the International Court of Justice in the Hague on Thursday over the Israeli invasion of Rafah, which its attorneys alleged is a further act of genocide in Gaza. South Africa...
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There is an Alternative to Costly, Carbon-emitting Chemical Fertilisers
At the recent African Union (AU) Fertilizer & Soil Health Summit in Nairobi on 7-9 May, African leaders unveiled the new 10-year Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan 2023-2033. Designed to...
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At Western Sahara: Visiting a Forgotten People
South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom movement...
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