A Swedish documentary filmmaker released a film last year called “Last Chapter—Goodbye Nicaragua.” In it he admitted that he unknowingly facilitated a bombing, almost certainly orchestrated by the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, which took the…
Category: Africa
Lonmin, Platinum Industry at Root of Marikana Massacre in South Africa: 44 people killed in week of violence prompting government to declare week of mourning Lonmin Platinum PLC has ordered its striking workers back to…
Contention between China and the United States is extending far beyond the current hot spot of the South China Sea. As China’s economy continues its rapid expansion, a truly global realignment of power is taking place. Regions that were dominated by the West for centuries are now coming into China’s orbit, challenging America’s position at the top on a once-unipolar world. This trend is particularly evident in Africa. The United States is now seeking to counter China’s economic and political inroads in the African continent. The Africa policies of both the US and China are important not only in their own right, but also because these policies serve to indicate the significant differences in these two powers’ general foreign strategies and world views. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been quick to question China’s relationship with Africa, and highlight the purported difference in Africa policy between the US and China. During her visit to Senegal (the first stop of her African tour), she promoted “a model of sustainable partnership that adds value, rather than extracts it”. She went on to promise: “America will stand up for democracy and universal human rights even when it might be easier to look the other way and keep the resources flowing.” [1]
Many were surprised on June 24, 2012, when the Egyptian army let Mohamed Morsi be declared Egypt’s first Islamist president in the freest elections in the country’s history. He confronted and won the army-backed candidate,…
What is happening in Syria is a sign of things to come for the region. Regime change is not the sole goal of the US and its allies in Syria. Dividing the Syrian Arab Republic…
Secretary of State responds negatively to continent’s needs for greater independence: : More Militarism to Ensure Profits Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured eight African countries over an 11-day period where the United States top diplomat…
Modern culture emerged in southern Africa at least 44,000 years ago, more than 20,000 years earlier than anthropologists had previously believed, researchers reported Monday. That blossoming of technology and art occurred at roughly the same time that…
Since reassuming his post as Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin has lost no minute in addressing the most urgent geopolitical threats to Russia internationally. Not surprisingly, at the center of his agenda is the explosive situation in the Middle East, above all Syria. Here Putin is engaging every imaginable means of preventing a further deterioration of the situation into what easily could become another “world war by miscalculation.” His activities in recent weeks involve active personal diplomacy with Syria’s government as well as the so-called opposition “Syrian National Council.” It involves intense diplomacy with Erdogan’s Turkey regime. It involves closed door diplomacy with Obama. It involves direct diplomacy with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sham elections installed him. The process was farcical. Illusion substituted for reality. Obama called his ascension “another milestone in the country’s transition to democracy.” EU leaders hailed “Libya’s first free elections.” They called them the…
Their Fifth Ministerial Conference Attracts 50 African States A two-day meeting on July 19-20 in Beijing was the focus of international attention with the bringing together of ministers from 50 African states and officials of…