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.

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.

President Bush has pursued a tactless strategy of intervention through financial sanctions and unilateral political and diplomatic efforts that fails to promote real democracy for Zimbabwe.

An offensive by government-backed militia in northern West Darfur has destroyed two towns that had hosted thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

No Easy Victories is a remarkable and often insightful collection of essays and reflections, many of which have been penned by those who played leading roles in the dramatic story of how a conservative hegemon was compelled to retreat somewhat in its support for colonialism and apartheid.

The insincerity of President Robert Mugabe's government in agreeing to the opposition's demands for laws allowing the right to demonstrate has now been fully exposed by the banning of an opposition march which police had previously approved.

Libya’s plan to deport up to two million illegal African migrants is forbidden under international law and some of those expelled risk torture back home.

The African National Congress national conference drew to a close today as votes were being counted for a new national executive committee and with a public address and press conference by its new president Jacob Zuma.

Progress was a central theme of South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki address to the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress which opened Sunday. The meeting is being held in Polokwane, capital of South Africa’s northern province of Limpopo.