Africa

The Land Question: Unpacking Expropriation Without Compensation in South Africa

July 27, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Reparations, Socio-Economic Struggles, South Africa

by Nombuso Mathibela, originally published on Pambazuka News “Pay no one for land acquired illegally.” The radical thesis of seizing property from white landholders without compensation was adopted in the ANC’s 54th National Conference in December 2017 and subsequently most vehemently motioned in the National Assembly by the opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The motion was passed with[…]

Regional Geopolitics and the Future of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

July 12, 2018 UNAC Editor Congo

Congolese policemen arrest opposition activists participating in a march to press President Joseph Kabila to step down in the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital Kinshasa, September 19, 2016 ~Reuters by Kambale Musavuli, Published on The Daily Maverick, 22 June 2018 The uncertainty in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has garnered the full attention of regional and continental[…]

General strike in South Africa

June 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Labor Struggles

Strikers in Johannesburg, SA, April 25, 2018 protest austerity and oppression of workers by Marty Goodman, originally published on Socialist Action, May 30, 2018 Worsening poverty and attacks on organized labor by South Africa’s neo-liberal African National Congress (ANC) government have ignited a wave of working-class militancy, resulting in a general strike on April 25. The militant action targeted a[…]

500 Years is Long Enough! Human Depravity in the Congo

June 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples

Native Prisoners at Boma Taking the Air, The mortality rate among natives at Boma [under Leopold] is enormous, the normal death rate being 50-70%, under favorable conditions . . . by Robert J. Burrows, originally published on CounterCurrents Blog, May 25, 2018 I would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among[…]

In Praise of Blood

June 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Imperial Wars

African dictators Paul Kagame and Laurent Kabila slaughtered and impoverished the people of central Africa on behalf of and assisted by western corporations and western governments. The following has been excerpted from Judi Rever’s compelling new book, In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rawandan Patriotic Front, with permission of the publisher, Random House Canada. Originally published on Black[…]

UN Declared Humanitarian Crisis in the DRC, President Kabila Rejects Aid

April 15, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo

President Joseph Kabila insists that there is no humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, even as millions of children starve. Kabila “doesn’t want anything to reinforce what is widely understood: that the instability in the country is caused in large part by his refusal to step down from power,” says Friends of the Congo’s Maurice Carney Interview with[…]

Congolese Youth Face Repression for Speaking Up

April 15, 2018 UNAC Editor Congo

Young activists who are in the forefront of challenging the Joseph Kabila regime have been subjected to indefinite detention By Kate Janse van Rensburg, originally published on The Dawn News, April 10, 2018 Christian Lumu Lukusa and James Katshingu were kidnapped by the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa on November 22, 2017. They[…]

DRC President Kabila Crushes Peaceful Demonstrations

March 12, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Featured

Note: This article by Kambale Musavuli was originally published on the Friends of the Congo Blog as “Kabila’s New Years Eve Message to the Congolese People: We Will Crush You!” on January 18 of this year. Since it’s publication the DRC military has repeatedly crushed peaceful protests led by students and clerics. These protests have been truly peaceful – no[…]

Resource Sovereignty: Venezuela, Africa and the Global South

March 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Poverty and Sanctions, Venezuela

“The Congolese people in particular and Africans in general need to learn from their brothers and their sisters in the Global South.” In his September 20, 2017 speech at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump threatened Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. In October, his administration indicated that it will not recognize the results of Venezuela’s presidential election on April 22[…]

Drones In the Sahara

March 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Imperial Wars

by Joe Penny An American Base with Ground Operations in Nigeria Late in the morning of October 4 last year, a convoy of Nigerien and American special forces soldiers in eight vehicles left the village of Tongo Tongo. As they made their way between mud-brick houses with thatched roofs, they were attacked from one side by dozens of militants, if[…]