Témoignage d’une rencontre avec une sénatrice pygmée ba-twa du Burundi Par Christian Staquet-Chibambo, septembre 2013 [Note : des liens hypertextes s'ouvrent en cliquant sur les mots qui sont à la fois en italique et en gras] Il y a quelques semaines, le 18 mai, une...
AFSA Press Release 15th August 2013 ____________________________________________________________________ Africa’s Food Sovereignty Under Attack By Corporate Interests Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of pan-African networks, with...
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) will next week meet in Ethiopia to discuss strategies for resistance against genetically modified (GM) seeds. AFSA is a Pan African platform comprising networks and farmer organisations working in Africa including...
"Ghana must urgently place a moratorium on the cultivation, importation and consumption of genetically modified foods." The call is contained in an appeal by Food Sovereignty Ghana, a Ghanaian grass-roots food advocacy movement, after credible reports of the start of...
- Corporate takeover of agriculture & land will increase hunger, groups claim Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Harare, Mombasa, 3rd June 2013 At the heart of the leading initiatives to “modernise” African agriculture is a drive to open markets and...
“The countries that cooperate with us get at least a free pass,” acknowledged a senior U.S. official who specializes in Africa but spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution. “Whereas other countries that don’t cooperate, we ream them as best we...
The French left as well as the the right have dreams of imperial expansion. A number of NATO participants share a vision of the Mediterranean as a NATO lake, an internal sea, surrounded by Europe. The dream is to extend Europe around the entire coast of the Mediterranean and...
The US has concluded a SOFA, status of forces agreement, with Niger, and is setting up a drone base there. Craig Whitlock writes: "The base in Niger marks the opening of another far-flung U.S. military front against al-Qaeda and its affiliates, adding to drone combat missions...
On Mali: “Leaders of our Western countries are taking the peoples for imbeciles!” Belgian MP LAURENT LOUIS stands against war in Mali and exposes the international neo-colonial plot Feuillien Geraldine· Thank you, Mr President. Dear Ministers, dear...
Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. Is it not simply amazing that the NPP continues to make the sort of public comments they make about their case before the court, knowing very well they would not be allowed to go unchallenged? The problem that this sort of...
