U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan Richard Williamson and activists testifying before the Security Council decried the international community’s failure to stop Darfur’s “genocide in slow motion” and protect the people of Sudan.

Despite five years of genocidal counter-insurgency warfare in Darfur, millions among its ravaged civilian population will soon enter a third month receiving only half the necessary food rations from the UN’s World Food Program (WFP).

Thus begins a disturbing and racist article entitled “Don’t Expect Jacob Zuma to Fix South Africa” by Joel Hilliker, found in the March 2008 issue of the reactionary protestant periodical, The Philadelphia Trumpet.

Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo at the 4th International Conference on African Development held in Yokohama City (May 28-30) promised to double Japan’s Official Development Assistance volume for Africa to 200 billion yen within the next five years.

The strange logic of western political discourse consists of paradigms such as the following: the "Third World" is named as such by the "First World" because it somehow inherently inferior and developmentally backwards compared to the "First World," even though its shortcomings are largely due to exploitative, extractive "First World" economic policies.

Robert Mugabe government continues to delay democratic victory of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and increases oppression.

No region of the world was so devastated by both commercial and industrial capitalism and the imperialisms they fostered than Africa. From the 16th to the 19th century, Africa was robbed of tens of millions of its people for the slave trade.

New Brunswick, N.J. – The U.S. operates 90% of all foreign military bases on earth, said peace activist Cathy Goodman at an Apr. 15 event held at Rutgers University co-sponsored by the U.S. Peace Council and Rutgers Against the War.

Since yesterday Burkina-Faso, the smallest county in West Africa, has been on strike. The cause is the high cost of living. Trade unions, first among them the General Labour Confederacy of Burkina-Faso (GTTB), demand pay rises and above all significant cuts in basic foods prices.

“Look East My son. Look East.” Those were the sage words of Kenyan journalist, Wanjohi Kabukuru, as he assayed the results of his President’s visit to Beijing, in just the latest journey from the continent – Africa – most ravaged by the savagery of imperialism.

Relief agencies in Sudan have expressed concerns over an alarming increase in the number of attacks by bandits against people carrying out humanitarian work in the strife-torn region of Darfur

According to historical evidence, the slave trade was responsible for the alarming underdevelopment of Africa today. Slavery caused ethnic fractionation and undermined states constituted as such.

Recent attacks by militias and Sudanese government troops on West Darfur villages in which scores of people were killed and thousands displaced, violated international humanitarian and human rights law, the UN said.

In a key briefing to Congress on 13 March, General William “Kip” Ward, head of the US Command for Africa, AFRICOM, devoted only 15 seconds of his four-and-a-half minute opening remarks to a possible humanitarian role.

Although the South African government's Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is on track to achieve its main objective of creating one million jobs for the poor by 2009, significant and sustained poverty alleviation is unlikely, according to an independent review of the project.

DETROIT – South Africa is at a crossroads, said Political Affairs Editor Joe Sims here at the Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Mar. 1.

It is an idealized interpretation - favorable to Franklin Delano Roosevelt - of his differences with the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, that are a true view of the contradictions between the decadent British Empire and the rising imperialism of the United States.

The most recent and failed uprising of opposition groups to the government of Chad is another episode in the drama lived by a people in one of the poorest nations on Earth.

As President Bush returns to the United States from his whirlwind tour of Africa, Africa Action notes with concern that coverage of Bush’s trip has concentrated on particular successes in individual countries while ignoring the systemic, continent-wide development challenges that unjust U.S. economic policies continue to promote.

Of the news that has been good about the global economy in recent years, the reports least emphasized are those pointing to a revival of growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.