"The pillage of Africa"

Britons Examine Causes, Solutions to Africa's Problems
Many adults in Britain believe bad administrations are mostly to blame for the current setbacks of African countries, according to a poll by YouGov published in the Daily Telegraph. 79 per cent of respondents blame corrupt and incompetent African governments.

The pillage of Africa
Adventure and abundant natural resources brought the early European settlers to Africa – and the same goes for many subsequent generations of fortune-hunters to this very day.

'Thanks Robbie, we'll take it from here'
Few of the Live 8 stars have any real knowledge of the issues, writes John Harris - and where are all the black performers?

Anarchist groups plan takeover of Geldof's march
as DJ attacks Live8 line-up as 'too white'
Anarchists from around the world are planning to cause chaos at next month's G8 summit in Gleneagles as a row broke out last night between Bob Geldof and DJ Andy Kershaw over the absence of black musicians at events staged to benefit Africans.

Black magic fear grips Britain
Police fear that dozens of children may be victims of black magic in Britain and a case last week of three adults found guilty of torturing a young girl whom they believed to be a "witch" is just the tip of the iceberg.

Hunt on for Africa's 'elephants'
Africa is being eyed anew for potential "elephants" in the oil and gas sector, riding on the back of soaring oil prices, the depletion of resources elsewhere and newfound stability in many countries, experts say.

Coffee: From Africa to the world
Caffa village in Ethiopia is believed to be the birthplace of coffee. Arabica coffee is thought to have been discovered here sometime in the 850s.

Zambians 'not fooled' by timing of Zuma visit

Trial reveals corrupt drift of South Africa
Although President Thabo Mbeki makes routine speeches against corruption, his government is showing an increasing tendency to clamp down on the media and the judiciary in its effort to sweep the problem under the carpet.

ANC youth: Charge Zuma
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) has called on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to charge deputy president Jacob Zuma.

The Centrality of Peasant Movements in Latin America

The Killed Fields
A former Cambodian child soldier who once hid explosives underground now shows tourists around a land-mine museum.

For 2,000 years there was no such conflict
The land of Palestine was inhabited by Palestinian Arabs. In 1850 these consisted of approximately 400,000 Muslims, 75,000 Christians, and 25,000 Jews. For centuries these groups had lived in harmony: 80 percent Muslim, 15 percent Christian, 5 percent Jewish. But then in the late 1800s a group in Europe decided to colonize this land. Known as "Zionists," this group consisted of an extremist minority of the world Jewish population.

A Hard Truth to Portray
At one of the few museums to stage America's shameful past, slavery re-enactors want to reflect more of the brutality.

CAFTA: by Toni Solo
The pressure is on for the survival intact of the Bush administration's larcenous "free trade" policies, at least in their most virulent form. Writing on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the Washington Post last week (1), Robert Zoellick gave a good insight into the mindset of the imperial bootleggers currently struggling to maintain their choke-hold on Latin America.

The disappearing tiger
A century ago, 100,000 tigers roamed the world. Today it may be around 3,000. And poaching and official indifference mean that even India's premier reserve is not immune

Reaching beyond the myth of Mao
Communist party leaders must tell the truth about Tiananmen

Revisited. The Secret Behind the Sanctions
How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply
Over the last two years, I've discovered documents of the Defense Intelligence Agency proving beyond a doubt that, contrary to the Geneva Convention, the U.S. government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply after the Gulf War. The United States knew the cost that civilian Iraqis, mostly children, would pay, and it went ahead anyway.

Running all out, U.S. refineries can't meet demand for gasoline
America's unquenched thirst for gasoline is stretching the nation's refineries to their limits. Even so, no new refineries are likely to be built soon, and that helps ensure that gas prices will stay high as America becomes increasingly dependent on foreign-made gasoline.

Exiled islanders return to radioactive paradise
Exiles from a tropical paradise poisoned by American nuclear tests are at last preparing to return to the island where they were used as human guinea pigs to monitor radiation.