Swaziland monarch’s call for UN recognition of Taiwan is “not sovereign diplomacy, but imperial control”: Communist Party
Swaziland is the only African country to recognize Taiwan, which helps perpetuate the continent’s last absolute monarchy, enriching the royal family and arming its repression, while grabbing Swazi land and exploiting its cheap labor.
Famine, cholera, and ethnic massacres loom large over North Darfur’s besieged capital
About 260,000 civilians, half of them children, are trapped in the besieged city, cut off from food, water, and medical supplies by an advancing paramilitary, notorious for ethnic cleansing.
AES countries exit the ICC, denouncing it as “an instrument of neo-colonial repression”
Accusing the Court of selective targeting and incompetence in “prosecuting established war crimes, crimes against humanity, [and] genocide”, the AES announced its exit, months after deciding to establish the Sahelian Criminal and Human Rights Court (CPS-DH).
Nigeria’s oil workers resist monopolization by Africa’s richest man
After dominating sub-Saharan Africa’s cement production and cornering large portions of its market in sugar, salt, and packaging industries, the Nigerian multinational conglomerate Dangote Group is moving fast to monopolize fuel distribution.
Exiled Swazi activists protest Trump deportation deal outside US embassy in South Africa
King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, is accused of accepting USD 500 million from the Trump administration to accept deported criminals in Swaziland.
Thousands suffer cholera with no medical care in war-torn Sudan’s Darfur
Almost 12,200 people have been infected with the deadly disease that has claimed over 500 lives in the region in less than three months since it was first detected in the crowded camps for displaced people in North Darfur.
Tens of thousands protest in Ivory Coast against the slide into dictatorship
Taking power in 2011 with the help of French military intervention, 83-year-old President Alassane Ouattara is attempting to grab office for a fourth term by barring both main contestants from running for the upcoming election in October.
Trump’s tariffs have destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of women in Lesotho’s textile industry
Unable to pay rent, thousands have returned to their villages, whose subsistence farming-based economy cannot sustain their families. Desperate, many have taken the dangerous road across the border to the illegal mining enterprises in South Africa.