Africa

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Human Suffering Worsens in DRC, the Heart of Africa
28 Jun 2023
A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amanda Lock Swarr’s Book, “Envisioning African Intersex”
28 Jun 2023
This week’s featured author is Amanda Lock Swarr. Swarr is Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network
AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #47
28 Jun 2023
Black Agenda Report Contributing Editor Ann Garrison analyzes the continued plunder of the Democratic Republic of Congo by U.S. allies Uganda and Rwanda in the latest Black Alliance for Peace AFRICOM…
Abayomi Azikiwe
World Refugee Day Marked by 108 Million Being Displaced
28 Jun 2023
The recent drownings of 500 refugees in the Mediterranean call attention to the displacement of millions of people as a result of imperialist actions.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Ukraine Stays with the West But Russia Is Winning and Has the Receipts
21 Jun 2023
A delegation of African leaders travelled to Ukraine and Russia to help broker peace. But the collective west insists on prolonging the conflict.
Jon Jeter
Violence is Their Religion!: How Murder Gives the White Settler Purpose
21 Jun 2023
This episode of Black Republic Media is the second in a series entitled, Murder Inc: The White Settler Republic as Homicidal Maniac.
Review of African Political Economy
The June Days – Senegal’s struggle for justice
21 Jun 2023
In Senegal supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko protest his exclusion from next year's elections after a disputed conviction in a criminal case.
Yves Engler
Canadian Looting of Zambian Resources Led to Debt Crisis
21 Jun 2023
Canadian mining interests looted Zambia of its assets and created that nation's debt crisis.
Tanupriya Singh
A Deadly Fight: Senegal’s Political Crisis Escalates After Repression of Protesters
14 Jun 2023
At least 16 people were killed after protests broke out in Senegal following the sentencing of leading opposition figure Ousmane Sonko to two years in prison. Mass public unrest has grown against…
Friends of the Congo
Anniversary Report: Six-Day War, Democratic Republic of The Congo
14 Jun 2023
Uganda and Rwanda began their incursions into the Democratic Republic of Congo 23 years ago. Full reparations to victims have not been paid and the two invader countries still act with impunity.