Africa

Eddie Haywood
Why is the US at war in West Africa?
25 Oct 2017
“The expanding levels of US military forces arrayed across the continent have increasingly taken on the character of an occupying army.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Ingabire Day: We Are All Victoire and Victoire Is All of Us
18 Oct 2017
“Ingabire wants the surviving Hutu refugees to be able to return home safely to join a real reconciliation process in Rwanda.”
Monique Bedasse
On the Move: Rastafari, Tanzania, and the Lessons of Pan-African Action
18 Oct 2017
“Tanzania’s government and Rastafari asserted a different way of ordering the world through the repatriation: pan-Africanism.”
Mark P. Fancher
U.S. Troop Deaths in Niger: AFRICOM’s Chickens Come Home to Roost
18 Oct 2017
“The Trump administration is talking about a potential imminent U.S. military action to hit back.”
Jason Burke
Secret Trials of Thousands of Boko Haram Suspects to Start in Nigeria
18 Oct 2017
“Many of the detainees had been held in custody for years without access to a lawyer or ever having appeared before a judge.”
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Ethiopia, the Day After: The Firestorm
18 Oct 2017
“The people of Ethiopia are showing their defiant resistance.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Ugandans Resist Land Grabbing and US-backed Dictatorship: an Interview with Phil Wilmot
11 Oct 2017
“One man essentially wants to exploit all the wealth of the country for himself.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Ugandans Resist Museveni’s Bid for Life Presidency
04 Oct 2017
“Shouts and screams filled the chambers.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
US-backed Dictator Paul Kagame Risks Another Violent Implosion by Tightening his Grip on Rwanda
27 Sep 2017
“Kagame claims to be a champion of gender equality but the only two women who have ever tried to stand against him electorally are behind bars.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
The Pentagon’s Human Rights Auxiliary Targets Burundi
20 Sep 2017
“The US and allies are trying to beat the October deadline when Burundi will have made its way out from under the court's imperial jurisdiction.”