South African, "The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign is an alliance of labour, social movements and other civil society organisations in South Africa that are mobilising for real solutions to the threat of climate change. Cutting the pollution of those gasses that lead to climate change is urgent and involves doing many things. Overcoming unemployment and giving decent work to our people is just as urgent. By placing the interests of workers and the poor at the forefront of strategies to combat climate change we can simultaneously halt climate change and address our jobs bloodbath. This is why we campaign for our government to create a million climate jobs now. Our demand is based on well-researched solutions for how South Africa can immediately begin a just transition to a low carbon economy. + 7 point program
Shale Gas and its Implications reviews estimates that have been made for shale gas deposits in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, South Africa and the Western Sahara and highlights the challenges to their development. In a foreword to the report, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, affirms the Bank’s willingness to support these and any other member countries and sub-regions that have shale gas prospects
"La population a hérité de 50 millions de tonnes de résidus radioactifs stockés à Arlit et Areva continue de pomper gratuitement 20 millions de mètres cubes d'eau par an pendant que la population meurent de soif", a dénoncé M. Mamane. Selon lui, "les rues et les habitations d'Arlit sont construits à l'aide de résidus radioactif et la nappe phréatique usée et contaminée s'assèche par la faute d'Areva". "Le pire c'est que Areva continue de nier tout cela", a-t-il déploré.
"La population a hérité de 50 millions de tonnes de résidus radioactifs stockés à Arlit et Areva continue de pomper gratuitement 20 millions de mètres cubes d'eau par an pendant que la population meurent de soif", a dénoncé M. Mamane. Selon lui, "les rues et les habitations d'Arlit sont construits à l'aide de résidus radioactif et la nappe phréatique usée et contaminée s'assèche par la faute d'Areva". "Le pire c'est que Areva continue de nier tout cela", a-t-il déploré.
The recent coup in Niger has been seen in the West as a setback for democracy. The reality is more complex.
By Boaventura Monjane | September 7, 2023 FPIF
Amid these challenges, the continent requires a Pan-Africanist popular project to unite social movements and progressive intellectuals. Such a project aims to resist imperial and neoliberal projects and counter anti-democratic, anti-poor governance.
The African Sentinel is a pan-African quarterly publication founded by a vision of creating a renaissance around Africa-focused long-form and cross-border investigations; as well as visibilising of critical but unseen stories, histories, and countries. The publication was grant-funded for the first issue by the Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR) and SIDA.
On May 16, General Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, announced that AFRICOM, the American military mission in AFRICOM, would expand its activities, sending soldiers throughout the continent in a new plan of training, and it would involve a new combat detachment. Now—combat division, I should say. Now joining us to talk about this is Maurice Carney. He's the executive director and cofounder of Friends of the Congo, based in Washington, D.C.
Said: " il nous faut considérer l’oeuvre de Camus comme une transfiguration métropolitaine du dilemme colonial : c’est le colon écrivant pour un public français, dont l’histoire personnelle est irrévocablement liée à ce département français du Sud ; dans tout autre cadre, ce qui se passe est inintelligible."
Daina Ramey Berry Feb 4, 2024, Forbes : The transatlantic slave trade is a painful part of world history. Yet new research and DNA evidence offer novel ways to teach difficult history to school-aged students.
The Panthers' Capitol 'invasion' all came about as a result of an American racial divide that existed 50 years ago and in some measure continues today.
May 19 2013, By LOYISO SIDIMBA AND CANDICE BAILEY BAE arms deal > 5 billion euro German corvettes, Thyssen Rheinstahl Technik GMBH 1994 < 200 million euro Thabo's commission ca 20 million euro
President Condé of Guinea at Davos , Jan 2014 (Guardian 22.1.14): "... we live in a global economy. We simply can't deal with the network of corruption embedded in a few key western institutions from a distance of nearly 3,000 miles. These corrupt practitioners operate from the west, but their practices are global and require a global response. Only tighter, more responsive and highly co-ordinated action between law enforcement authorities in both developing nations and the world's financial centres will be effective... With international legal co-operation, Guinea will soon be announcing the outcome of an investigation into some of the most disturbing allegations of mining corruption in Africa's history. I ask other countries to do the same with their own financial institutions."
A British parliamentary inquiry has heard that more than $650m ( £420m) worth of European Union aid to Africa may have been badly spent. In some cases, not enough local people were trained in how to maintain the necessary equipment - so after a few years it just stopped being used. But the biggest problem was finance - or getting long-term agreement from the communities and governments of poorer countries on how the water supply would be funded
BBC 22 October, 2002 About Camp Boiro in the Guinea of Pesident Ahmed Sekou Touré. "Ms Barry said most of the victims in the graves near Kindia had been killed during the night of 17-18 October 1971, when repression reached its zenith."
"satire" October 2014
"Boko Haram have thanked Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai for her role in helping mediate a landmark ceasefire deal between the group and the Nigerian army.
Nigerian media announced on Friday that the militant group, which has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of people since 2009, had reached an agreement with the Nigerian army, which would include the release of the estimated 200 schoolgirls abducted earlier this year.
“Malala appeared to our leader [Abubakar Shekau] in a dream and said that kidnapping girls was not the answer,” an unnamed spokesperson said on a video released by the group.
“We will go back to focusing on restricting boys education, because there is less stress in that industry,” he said."
Dave Marsh on Harry Browne's book The Front Man: Bono (In the Name of Power): "...what topples is not only Bono’s stature but the excuses his chosen trade, liberal philanthropic paternalism, makes for itself. Langston Hughes wrote that the animal that should be chosen to represent liberals is not a donkey or an elephant but an ostrich. This book could be subtitled Bono (With His Head in the Sand)." "If I knew how to get my remaining liberal friends to accept evidence-based political journalism, I’d say this book has redemptive power."
"The biggest Brazilian investor in Africa - and one of the biggest investors in the continent from anywhere - is Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, which is usually known as Vale. It is one of the three biggest mining companies in the world and is the world's biggest iron ore miner, controlling about 27% of the global market. It also produces coal, nickel, copper, bauxite, alumina, aluminium and a wide range of other commodities. As a result of the needs of its mining operations, it also invests heavily in power plants, railways and port infrastructure. Vale currently has investments totalling $7.7bn in nine African countries and plans to invest more than $18bn in Africa over the next five years but much will depend on the direction of global markets over that time." "The firm's biggest investment, however, is its Moatize coal mining project in the Moatize Basin of Tete Province in northwestern Mozambique."
Anthony Butler, columnist in Business Day SA, 22 Feb 2013: "One field in which Brics leads the world is nuclear power. Fifty of the 66 nuclear reactors at present under construction are in Brics states....South Africa's R1-trillion procurement from a Chinese-French consortium, steered by Motlanthe, will reach a "point of no return" by June, according to Department of Energy director-general Nelisiwe Magubane. In an interesting coincidence, the energy minister has promised a "nuclear determination" by March. Sceptics in the Treasury, the National Planning Commission and the Department of Science and Technology argue there is simply no fiscal space for such a project.... A Brics bank, however, could facilitate "public corporate" models of financing.
10 MAY 2013 - JESSICA HATCHER, IAN COBAIN The British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency.
"The Zambian sugar-producing subsidiary of Associated British Foods, a FTSE100 company, contributed virtually no corporation tax to the state's exchequer between 2007 and 2012, and none at all for two of those years."
The Kaiser plan, masterminded by ten experts who hopscotched the country for six weeks, foresees harnessing the power of the crocodile-infested Volta River to work aluminum plants. First step is to build a 230-ft.-high dam near Kosombo (see map), 60 miles
Sreeram Chaulia 11.3.14: "What transpired thereafter was that Botswanans got cheated by China in a way they can never forget or forgive. Beijing’s state-owned China National Electric Equipment Corporation (CNEEC) initially looked like a knight in shining armour in 2008 when it bagged a $970 million contract to deliver a 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant in four years. Come 2012, however, CNEEC handed over a small fraction of the finished work, that too with serious technical flaws and flouting of safety standards that claimed the lives of Botswanan workers." "Botswana is Africa’s least corrupt country as per the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, and the usual Chinese tricks of bribing African elites and having it their way stood no chance. In January 2014, the Botswanan government invited a German company to take over maintenance and operation of the power plant, and to “identify problems created by CNEEC and rectify them,” adding further costs to taxpayers and leaving the country simmering with anger at the agony of load-shedding."