Africa
A political and military accord signed between the Sudanese government of Omar
al-Beshir and Chadian President Idriss Deby in January was dissolved in the
aftermath of an attack by a Darfur rebel group on May 10. The so-called Justice
and Equality Movement (JEM) carried out an assault in Omdurman resulting in the
deaths of approximately 200 people....
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The Brooklyn-based December 12 Movement issued the following statement titled "West launches preemptive propaganda strike to depose presidency
of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe" on March 30 from Harare, Zimbabwe....
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Chad, in central Africa, was brutally conquered by France over a century ago and made part of its colonial empire. Today, while nominally independent, it is
the fifth poorest country in the world, according to the U.N. However, it has become a significant, though not major, exporter of oil in the past three years....
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The U.S. and European imperialist powers are responsible for the genocidal
slave trade that decimated Africa, the genocide of the Indigenous population of
the Americas, the colonial wars and occupations that looted three-quarters of
the globe. It was German imperialism that was responsible for the genocide of Jewish people. To call for military intervention by these same powers as the answer to conflicts among the people of Darfur is to ignore 500 years of history....
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For those people who know Mali's capital Bamako has only a handful of large buildings -- some government offices, the luxury hotel at 15 stories, the international bank and the great mosque -- it may have been a surprise that this city was picked for the African session of 2006's Polycentric World Social Forum (WSF)....
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For the first time in the five years of the WSF's existence, the issues of Africa were at its center. According to Malian organizer Mamadou Goita, "We had over 300 people from the rural areas of Mali alone, while another 8,000 came from neighboring countries. All of them participated in the forum and enriched the discussions. This has never happened before."...
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Two demonstrations were held in Detroit today against the rising tide of United States militarism in Iraq and Somalia....
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Audio streaming of panel discussion...
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