Africa

children playing on a van in a desert refugee camp

Marc B Sanganee visited a refugee camp in Western Sahara — home to the Sahrawi people and administered by the Polisario, which is fighting to liberate their homeland from Morocco.

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With South Africa's May 29 general elections approaching, Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Federico Fuentes spoke to South African socialist Mazibuko Jara about the African National Congress’s (ANC) prospects of holding onto power after 30 years in office and how the radical left is likely to fare.

Sudanese refugee camp in Chad

April 15 marked one year since war broke out between rival military factions in Sudan, sending the country into a spiralling social and humanitarian crisis. Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Susan Price spoke with the Sudanese Australian Advocacy Network’s Wilson Madit Kuek about the scale of the crisis, SAAN’s work and prospects for peace and democracy.

Boat with refugees

British socialist Dave Kellaway reviews Matteo Garrone’s latest film, Io Capitano (Me Captain), which follows the agonising odyssey of a teenage Senegalese migrant from his home thousands of miles away to the shores of Sicily.

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Opposition figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector from the Patriots of Senegal party (PASTEF), was sworn into office as Senegal’s new president on April 2 after his historic election on March 24. Susan Price looks at the factors behind his victory.

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Critical theorist, feminist and author Nancy Fraser continues her conversation with Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Federico Fuentes, focussing on the role of expropriation and transnationals in modern imperialism, and the challenges facing anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists.

Mural in Belfast

South Africans are deeply disturbed by the character assassination and threats levelled against Leila Khaled, an icon of anti-colonial struggle, writes South African human rights activist, Salim Vally.

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Paul Gregoire argues that against the backdrop of efforts by the West and Israel to undermine the post World War II global order, the people’s revolt in West Africa takes on global significance.

The war on wages, Assange's final appeal & French farmers take action

Â鶹´«Ã½ÌýÂá´Ç³Ü°ù²Ô²¹±ô¾±²õ³ÙÌýIsaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.

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The Nigerien government has decided to nationalise the operation of its drinking water, ending its contract with the French Veolia Group, reports Kerry Smith.

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The military governments in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced on January 28 that they would leave the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and have formed their own alliance, reports Al Mayadeen English.

book cover and protest in Egypt

Maree F Roberts reviews Vincent Bevins' book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, which chronicles the 2010's uprisings in Egypt, Brazil, Turkey, Ukraine and elsewhere, and asks why these mass protest movements failed to bring about revolutionary change.