The legacy of Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara
The military government of Burkina Faso recently said that its intelligence service had thwarted a coup attempt and alleges it was plotted in the Ivory Coast. Reflecting on the Interim President Ibrahim Traoré, a captain in the military who came to power during a 2022 coup, you can’t help but see Traore as trying to fill the very large...
Ben-Gvir says GOP leaders agree Gaza ‘food and aid depots should be bombed’
by Brett Wilkins - CommonDreams.org An Israeli drone strike on a food distribution center in central Gaza that killed three Palestinians on April 24 underscored remarks earlier in the week by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister. Who said that Republican leaders told him during a meeting at U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort that they agree with his policy of bombing...
Lies unraveled: Ex‑minister says Israel faked Gaza tunnel image to stall truce deal
Former Israeli minister of military affairs, Yoav Gallant, has admitted that a widely circulated photo of a large tunnel near the Gaza-Egypt border, released last year, was fabricated to delay a prisoner swap with Hamas and exaggerate threats against Israel. Israel’s military claimed it had uncovered an unusually large tunnel in the Philadelphi Corridor—near the Gaza border with Egypt—in August 2024....
France must compensate Haiti: 200 years of illegitimate debt that plunged the country into crisis
by Florencia Abregú - The Peoples Dispatch April 17, 2025, marked two centuries since one of the most unjust episodes in modern history: the forced collection of an illegitimate debt that France imposed on Haiti as a condition for recognizing its independence. On April 17, 1825, King Charles X signed an ordinance forcing the nascent republic to pay 150 million gold...
Cuban medicine will always be at the service of life
by Wennys Diaz Ballaga - Granma The Cuban health system is not a set of scattered institutions, but a coherent community-based network, and its axis, Primary Health Care, transverses all levels of medical care and focuses on individuals and families through integrated networks that reach the entire territory, said José Angel Portal Miranda, Cuba's Minister of Public Health, in his...
Muslim prisoners ‘singled out’ for violent treatment in England: Charity
A social justice charity has uncovered evidence that Muslim prisoners in England are disproportionately subjected to excessive force, including the use of batons and painful restraint techniques, in a majority of prisons with significant Muslim populations. The charity, Maslaha, petitioned nine prisons with significant Muslim populations for detailed reports on staff use of batons and rigid bar handcuffs against inmates....
A Pan African shift appealing to youth is growing in the Motherland
Africa is experiencing a resurgence of fearless leadership in the spirit of visionary leaders of the past like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea-Conakry, Amilcar Cabral of Guinea-Bissau, Muammar Gadhafi of Libya, and Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, to name a few. These leaders were known for their unbending stance on Africa and African people. Now in that...
Namibia is first African nation with a female president and vice-president
In a first for the continent of Africa, a country has two women as its heads of state. It is a milestone that many countries inside and outside the Motherland have not achieved. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, is Namibia’s president, and in March of this year, she appointed Lucia Witbooi, 64, as the country’s first-ever female vice-president. Nandi-Ndaitwah was declared the winner...
‘We are in complete shock’: Israel bombs last fully functioning hospital in North Gaza
by Olivia Rosane Israeli forces bombed the last fully functioning hospital in northern Gaza early April 13 morning, killing at least three people, including a 12-year-old boy. The missile attack on al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City is the latest in what has been described as Israel's "campaign of genocide" to systematically attack Gaza's healthcare infrastructure, which has damaged 33 out of Gaza's 36 hospitals. The Episcopal Diocese of...
UN forum on People of African Descent examines reparations and AI challenge
The fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent opened on April 14 at United Nations headquarters in New York. Organized by the UN human rights office, the week-long session “Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence,” will echo global calls for reparations for the historical legacies of enslavement and...