Africa's Land and Family Farms - Up for Grabs?

Over the years many Big Ideas have been imposed on Africa from outside. The latest is that the region should sell or lease millions of hectares of land to foreign investors, who will bring resources and up-to-date technology. None of the blueprints has worked, and African farmers have become increasingly impoverished. It is time for Africans to turn to their own histories, knowledge and resources. In the early 1990s, when I was living in northern Ghana, an elderly woman farmer decided that I needed some education.. » read more

War in the Congo. An Ongoing Humanitarian Catastrophe

Dec. 14, 2009 GOMA, KIVU, EASTERN CONGO: After a week in Kinshasa talking about war in Congo, it was time to see it, or at least visit its epicenter in the East. This is where rape is used as a weapon of war, where rebel groups challenge government forces militarily and occupy territory. 1.8 million people have been displaced causing a major humanitarian crisis; territory seems to change hands regularly and, as they say, tension is high.. » read more

Congo: Knowing the enemy

Dec. 9, 2009 Photojournalist Susan Schulman travels to Congo with the Rwandan defence force as part of a groundbreaking attempt to destroy Rwandan Hutu militia the Interahamwe, also known as the FDLR VIEW VIDEO http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ video/2009/dec/08/congo-fdlr-rwanda  . » read more

US after new military ventures in Africa

Oct. 22, 2009 The United States is taking its military venture in Africa to new levels amid suspicions that Washington could be advancing yet another hidden agenda. American operatives are expected to fly pilot-less surveillance aircrafts over the Seychellois [Seychelles] territory from US ships off its coast, in what Washington claims are meant to spy on the Somali pirates, according to a BBC report on Wednesday. Washington has also started to equip Mali with USD 4.5 million worth of military vehicles and communications equipment, in what is reported to be an increasing US involvement in Africa.. » read more

South Africa World Cup 2010...and the Shooting's Already Started

June 15, 2009 Only 70 miles from a 2010 World Cup football stadium, a farmer's wife and a boy aged 13 learn to defend themselves with lethal weapons. They say thousands of white landowners have been killed by Zimbabwe-style marauders; their black rulers accuse them of belligerence and right-wing tendencies. Aidan Hartley reports on the war of words you won't read about in your World Cup holiday brochure.     Farmers' wives learn how to defend themselves on a farm-attack prevention course near the Zimbabwean border in South Africa Bella wakes. She hears a strangled, gurgling sound.. » read more

China Puts '700,000 Troops' on Sudan Alert

Posted Nov. 15, 2008 TO VIEW THIS PDF DOCUMENT CLICK ON: www.e-e-e.gr/news_report/documents/sina _against_whites/military/daily_telegraph.pdf. » read more

U.S./U.K. Allies Grab Congo Riches and Millions Die - 2001-03 UN Expert Reports

November 4, 2008 Once again, the suffering of African people caught up in a war that makes little sense to non-Africans has made the front pages in western media, as more than a million people have been displaced in the past week by renewed fighting in the Eastern Congo.2  For most Americans who don’t pay much attention to the details of African history and politics, the humanitarian disaster in the Congo has exploded into public consciousness, as if the 25-year war to control Central Africa began only yesterday.   The “ Congo story” Behind the Headlines               But, in fact, the human rights disaster that the people of the world are watching on our TV screens is just the most recent human tragedy in a 25 year struggle for economic and political dominance in Central Africa that has been raging since the decline and eventual collapse of the Soviet influence in Africa in the 1980’s and early 1990’s.  A sad fact of the 20th Century is that, even after the end of formal “colonialism” in the mid-20th Century, ruling African elites in virtually every African nation have looked to one or more powerful “sponsors” in the developed world to gain or retain power.  And, to grab the personal wealth that goes with political/military power in Africa.. » read more

Inside Mugabe's Violent Crackdown

Notes, Witnesses Detail How Campaign Was Conceived and Executed by Leader, Aides Saturday, July 5, 2008; A01 HARARE, Zimbabwe -- President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a government training center near his rural home in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30. In a voice barely audible at first, he informed the leaders of the state security apparatus that had enforced his rule for 28 years that he had lost the presidential vote held the previous day. Then Mugabe told the gathering he planned to give up power in a televised speech to the nation the next day, according to the written notes of one participant that were corroborated by two other people with direct knowledge of the meeting. But Zimbabwe's military chief, Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, responded that the choice was not Mugabe's alone to make.. » read more

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