UK admits colony deal was about U.S. military base
Ceding Chagos Islands to Mauritius is meant to keep the Diego Garcia military base, London has said Britain ceded its last African colony as the...
The dangers of Western plans to extract Africa’s raw mineral reserves
In a piece in the November/December 2024 edition of Foreign Affairs, headlined, “America’s Strategy of Renewal: Rebuilding Leadership for a New World,” U.S. Secretary...
In first speech since release, Assange says imprisonment set ‘dangerous precedent’
by Julia Conley, CommonDreams.org In his first public statement since being released from prison in June, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged European lawmakers to take...
German police conduct raid on homes of pro-Palestinian activists
Police in Germany have raided the homes of five pro-Palestinian activists in Berlin in its latest Islamophobic move. German authorities said Sept. 30 that...
‘Broad impunity persists’ for law enforcement violations against Africans and people of African descent: rights experts
Africans and people of African descent who have encountered human rights violations by law enforcement officials rarely receive justice as authorities are not held...
Guatemala to send 150 military police officers to help fight gangs in Haiti
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala—Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said at the UN General Assembly that his country would send 150 military police officers to help Haiti...
Palestinian, Filipino and Mozambican activists given human rights award
STOCKHOLM—The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Oct. 3 to three activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique and to a UK pioneering...
France’s new premier postpones election in New Caledonia until next year
NICE, France—France’s new Prime Minister Michel Barnier announced Oct. 1 that a provincial election scheduled for December in the restive French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has been...
Is U.S. State Department returning to Cold War soft power influence peddling?
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his State Department are taking a page out of America’s past Cold War tensions with the Union...
Another African nation interested in joining BRICS
Membership presents an opportunity to challenge the dominance of the dollar and euro, the Burkinabe prime minister says Prime Minister of Burkina Faso Apollinaire Joachim...