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Behind the popular revolt in Sudan (January 22, 2019)
Interview with journalist and former Sudanese Communist Party activist Rashid Saeed Yagoub. Amgad Fareid Eltayeb outlines the situation and background to the revolt in Sudan. Also, a solidarity statement issued by the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists.
Sources News Releases (September 11, 2017)
News releases from organizations and companies on a wide range of topics. Includes an extensive topic index, an archive of releases going back to the 1970s, and links to experts and organizations knowledgeable about the issues covered in the releases. Available via RSS feed as well as on the Sources.com website.
Cuba leads fight against Ebola in Africa as west frets about border security (October 12, 2014)
The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed.
Young bloggers jailed for over 2 months without charge (July 11, 2014)
Six young social/political issues bloggers were jailed in Ethiopia, the worlds 3rd worst jailer for journalists, without charge.
The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria (May 30, 2014)
‘I will sell your girls in the market.’ - Abubakar Shekau. From time to time in the life of a society, one episode or a series of episodes shock the social system and brings to the fore long festering sores that need resolution. The kidnapping of over 200 young girls and the depravity of those who proclaimed that these youths would be sold into sexual slavery are one of such episodes. The statement about selling the girls in the market brought out the deep contradictions of Nigerian society and called for firm and clear resolution of the questions of slavery, exploitation, sexual violence, male oppression and the manipulation of religion to serve the needs of particular sections of the looters and zealots of Nigeria.
Ethiopia's seed banks - under threat from G8 plan to 'develop' Africa (April 25, 2014)
Ethiopia leads the way in preserving crop seeds by engaging farming communities in the effort, and making the exchange of seeds part of village life and culture, reports Claire Provost. But now it's all at risk from a G8 plan to open Africa to corporate agriculture.
Ethiopia's 'slow genocide' in the Omo Valley (April 7, 2014)
A 'slow genocide' is unfolding in Ethiopia - one driven by greed rather than hatred.
UK 'aid' is financing a corporate scramble for Africa (April 3, 2014)
The corporate power-grab will be disastrous for the small-scale farmers who feed at least 70% of Africa's people.
Africa's Farm Revolution - Who will Benefit? (February 18, 2014)
A farming revolution is under way in Africa, pushed by giant corporations and the UK's aid budget. It will surely be good for the global economy, but will Africa's small farmers see the benefit?
The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises (January 18, 2014)
A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
Kalahari Bushmen unite to end oppression (December 26, 2013)
Representatives of the Basarwa or Bushman peoples of Botswana step up their fight to end structural oppression of their communities.
Mandela the radical (December 6, 2013)
Nelson Mandela will be celebrated principally for the dignity with which he emerged onto the world stage after decades in prison and for the forgiveness that he displayed towards his former enemies in forging a democratic, multi-racial South Africa from the poisoned legacy of apartheid.
The Mandela Years in Power (December 6, 2013)
South Africa's democratization was profoundly compromised by an intra-elite economic deal that, for most people, worsened poverty, unemployment, inequality and ecological degradation, while also exacerbating many racial, gender and geographical differences.
Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom (December 6, 2013)
Mandela's Paradoxes Made His Journey Even Greater (December 6, 2013)
Mandela was in it to win it. He sought concrete, historic and “big” change, knew that it could not be achieved without the support of public opinion, and proved expertly flexible in, through trial and error, discovering what worked and what did not work, and embracing what did work.
Nelson Mandela (December 6, 2013)
Mandela was not alone. The struggle to liberate South Africa was a collective effort. Moreover it was the power of the most downtrodden, the workers in the factories, the poor in the community, working class women and youth that brought the Apartheid government, if not completely to its knees – at least to negotiate the terms of the end of their racist system.
Nelson Mandela: A Dissenting Opinion (December 6, 2013)
It is an indication of what Mandela was up against that the man who fought so hard and long against a brutal apartheid regime was so completely defeated when he took power in South Africa. That was because he was no longer struggling against a rogue regime but against the existing order. As I suspect Mandela realised only too well, one cannot lead a revolution when there are no followers.
Who was Nelson Mandela? (December 6, 2013)
We should treasure the memory of the Mandela our rulers hated: the lonely, courageous, unbowed political prisoner, condemned for his resistance to racial oppression.
Working To Honour Nelson Mandela's Legacy (December 6, 2013)
As the world mourns the passing of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, his close friend and political stalwart Tokoyo Sexwale says much needs to be done to honour his legacy.
Failed neo-liberalism sees SA sleepwalking into a revolution (November 18, 2013)
Two decades into democracy the outcomes of our economic system and its policy framework are unambiguous: increased poverty, increased inequality, increased unemployment, escalating costs of living and doing business. How else does one measure the success of any economic model if not on its ability to provide sustainable increases in the well-being to the majority of its citizens?
Last Sparks From Tahrir Square (February 12, 2013)
Once again, the prisons of Egypt are full. The hospitals are overflowing with injured men and women. But the fight, the ‘process’ goes on; it is not dying. Tahrir Square died, but the revolution is getting stronger.
Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis (January 8, 2013)
The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
African Odyssey Turns to the South (December 27, 2012)
Chronicles the economic hardships faced by Africans and the means they take to alleviate their suffering.
African odysseys turn to the south (November 14, 2012)
Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent’s dreamland, South Africa. It’s a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
South Africa After Marikana - Interview (November 1, 2012)
Suzi Weissman interviews Leonard Gentle.
Marikana A Point of Rupture? (October 15, 2012)
South Africa, despite 18 years of majority rule, continues to be one of the most unequal societies on an increasingly unequal planet and is in crisis. Around half the population, mostly black Africans, live below the poverty line. Almost half of all black African households earned below R1670 a month in 2005–06, while only 2 percent of white households fell in that income bracket.
World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model (September 3, 2012)
A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is cooling and this bold project may now be at as much at risk as the wildlife itself.
The Brutal Tragedy at Marikana (September 1, 2012)
The following statement, “A Brutal Tragedy that Never Should Have Happened,” was issued by the editors of Amandla! immediately following the August 16 shooting of striking miners.
Further on Marikana Miners (September 1, 2012)
The circumstances surrounding the mass murder in Marikana, and the political wildfire it unleashed for the African National Congress and the trade union movement, are the subject of an ongoing discussion within the South African and international left. Background material on the South African political climate.
The Left and South Africa's Crisis (September 1, 2012)
An interview with Brian Ashley, the editor of the South African journal AMANDLA!
Social Movements in South Africa (September 1, 2012)
Investigation into the current political movements in South Africa.
A "Tunisia Moment" Coming? (September 1, 2012)
A prominent commentator and a brother of the former president, Moeletsi Mbeki caused a major stir last year when he announced that South Africa is headed for a “Tunisia Moment.”
South African journalists probed over scandal coverage (July 31, 2012)
South African authorities should immediately drop a criminal investigation against three newspaper journalists who have sought to report details on a multi-billion-dollar arms scandal, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
Western Uganda: crop-raiding elephants call for plan bee (June 6, 2012)
Attempts to stop the destruction of farmers' crops around Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park had failed until research into elephant reactions to bees provided an answer.
African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (Book Review) (June 3, 2012)
This book sets out to place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
Book Review: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (June 3, 2012)
Conspicuously absent from the renewed and resurgent discourse amongst anti-capitalist forces and the popular imagination was sub-Saharan Africa, “black Africa,” the Africa of the eternal cycle of dictators, corruption, famine, “bad governance” and debt. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions ambitiously sets out to remedy this and place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939, 1969) (June 3, 2012)
A small and dangerous volume, this republication of C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969.
Egypt's Aunt Peaceful (May 3, 2012)
Ghada Shahbender knows the Egyptian Revolution Didn´t Start in January 2011, because she was there seven years ago reminding the government ¨We Are Watching¨
Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land (April 11, 2012)
Ten years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help boost exports and employment opportunites.
Indonesia's Smoking Epidemic (March 30, 2012)
Cigarettes are a rite of passage for boys in Indonesia, where 70% of the adult male population smokes. Activists and health care professionals are advocating for age restrictions on tobacco products and a ban on tobacco advertisements.
Kenyan grafitti artists target vulture politicians (March 30, 2012)
A crew of Kenyan grafitti artists are making murals that urge citizens not to re-elect corrupt politicians who have a legacy of exploiting tribal differences to gain power.
The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences (March 20, 2012)
The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa.
One latrine at a time (February 24, 2012)
Diarrhoea kills more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined – and its main cause is food and water contaminated with human waste. Liberia's president is trying to change all that. Building latrines must be a key priority to promote health and sanitation.
A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa (February 13, 2012)
The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner.
Germany and Genocide in Namibia (2012)
Between 1904 and 1908 imperial Germany waged an atrocious and inhumane war of extermination against the Herero, Nama, Damara and San peoples in its former colony ‘German South West Africa’, now the Republic of Namibia.
It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth. (November 2, 2011)
The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
Dollarization, Democracy & Daily Life in Zimbabwe (November 1, 2011)
Satellite TV is big in Zimbabwe; owing to the limited and propagandistic programming on state-sponsored Z-TV, and the travails of night travel on a decaying road network, just about every house in Harare, from the poor/working class Mbare township to the luxury suburb of Burrowdale, sports a dish that brings South African soapies, Al Jazeera and, most importantly, the latest in reality TV to living rooms across the land.
Another Immoral Adventure (October 24, 2011)
When we support brutal governments in foreign countries – be it through aid, training, or troops on the ground – there are real and lasting consequences for the people who live there. There are many reasons to oppose the US incursion into Uganda (the risk of blowback, the chance of escalation, the furtherance of the imperial presidency, the financial cost, the practical fact that we can’t intervene everywhere, and so on), but the most important argument is moral.
The Earth Grabbers (July 22, 2011)
Climate justice means that the Minerals-Energy Complex will have to take the same course as apartheid.
Workers Guarantee the Egyptian Revolution (March 9, 2011)
The middle class, which sacrificed much in this astonishing revolution, faces the task of choosing an ally at this critical juncture. If these young, educated people choose the army and the Muslim Brotherhood (who are also part of the middle class), the result will be the foreclosure of freedom. However, if they choose their natural ally, the working class, they will discover a powerful partner in protecting the achievements of the revolution and in building a new democracy.
Anatomy of Egypt's Revolution (February 17, 2011)
Like perfect storms, several factors have to simultaneously and collectively come together for popular uprisings or protests, even massive ones, to turn into a revolution. That is why only a few of them have been successful in world history.
The Making of Egypt's Revolution (February 1, 2011)
Cotton-pickin trade (December 10, 2010)
Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
Saving past is first step to the future (October 15, 2010)
The archives of southern Sudan are all currently housed in a tent donated by USAid. Many documents have been damaged due to the poor storage facilities. The Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit research group and scholars from Oxford plan to digitize and find a permanent home for the collection in the near future.
Globalizing the Culture Wars (April 2, 2010)
Uganda, like many countries in Africa and around the world, adheres to long-standing heterosexual and patriarchal traditions as to what is acceptable sexual behavior. In the West, such traditions are shared by a dwindling minority. The bourgeois capitalist marketplace has reconfigured that which is morally acceptable. Sexual practices among adults are areas of personal erotic experience, protected private activities.
Connexions Library Arabic Title Index (2010)
Connexions Library French Title Index (2010)
Reporting Gender Based Violence (December 28, 2009)
Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices (December 14, 2009)
Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
The Malawian who harnessed the airwaves (November 16, 2009)
Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives (October 22, 2009)
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
IFJ Condemns Campaign against Independent Media in Morocco (October 7, 2009)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins today its affiliate the Syndicat national de la presse marocaine (SNPM) in condemning the Moroccan government's campaign to muzzle critical journalists.
Mobile Schools Help Nomadic Somalis Fight Drought (September 17, 2009)
Mobile schools - secular pre-schools which follow these groups as they move to find pasture and water for livestock - are an attempt to help nomadic communities develop more options as the climate becomes increasingly hostile.
Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Arabic (September 4, 2009)
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Arabic.
Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Portuguese (September 4, 2009)
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Portuguese, and from English to other languages.
Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus (February 25, 2009)
'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Arabic text (2009)
Connexions Library: Africa Focus (2009)
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Afrikaans (2009)
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Afrikaans.
Congo's War, Women's Holocaust (March 1, 2008)
Which current war has taken more lives than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur put together?
Manela's Democracy (April 1, 1999)
Nelson Mandela's ideological legacy — in South Africa and globally — is startlingly complex. He has provided inspiration for the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world, and he has made himself a symbol of reconciliation in a world in which their oppression continues. To understand his historical role, and come to terms with his legacy, we need to see how his greatness and his limitations stem from the same source.
The Civic Movement in South Africa: Popular Politics, Then and Now (1997)
The tradition of democracy within the progressive movement in South Africa remains alive and well, judging not only by the recent, high-profile contestation of ANC provincial elections, but also by grassroots democratic impulses within the civic movement.
Tourism and regional development in Mexico and Chiapas after NAFTA (1997)
The Freedom Charter (1955)
Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
Sources Wikipedia Article - Arabic (2008)

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