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Articles about the African continent
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Burundi workers free labor leaders
Four union representatives were released on Dec. 8 after being arrested just days before for their roles in a strike…
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World AIDS Day: capitalism ignores the millions infected
In the 26th year of the HIV/AIDS crisis, the profit system has only exacerbated the epidemic. An estimated 33 million…
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Ugandans protest visit by Queen Elizabeth
Ugandans had to fight against the police with rocks in order to demonstrate against the visit of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth…
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Somalia crisis deepens, anti-imperialist forces regroup
Nine months of illegal occupation by the U.S.-backed Ethiopian military has left over 400,000 Somali people displaced with no access…
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Washington green-lights Egypt’s nuclear program
On Oct. 29, Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, announced the country’s plan to build several nuclear power plants. This plan was…
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Protest remembers anti-imperialist Thomas Sankara
On Oct. 15 in Washington, D.C., a demonstration commemorated the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, the president…
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Kenyans protest U.S.-sponsored tortures
Kenyan Muslims vowed on Friday, Aug. 31 to hold weeks of protests to compel the government to end its involvement…
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‘Save Darfur’ campaign lies about Sudan
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority ruled on Aug. 8 that the statistic used by the Washington, D.C.-based Save Darfur Coalition in…
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U.N. ‘peacekeepers’ dispatched to help imperialists conquer Sudan
Following a recent U.N. Security Council decision approving a 26,000-strong occupation force to Sudan, the government of the oil-rich country…
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Drug giant Pfizer sued for killing Nigerian children
The state government of Kano, Nigeria, filed criminal charges against the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer in July for improper drug…
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