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After decades of famine, grinding poverty, colossal debts and enormous slum-growth, Africa is indisputably the worst casualty of economic globalization. As the region takes the further brunt of man-made climate change, the rich nations hold a moral responsibility to coordinate a massive transfer of resources and a significant restructuring of economic priorities to ensure continued, sustainable development for the impoverished continent.

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South Africa: Not Yet Post-Colonial

Recent violence between the poor and the poorer in South Africa was the by-product of the country’s stagnation - it has achieved what it set out to do racially, but not economically or socially. The old colonial model of modernity is still the basis for power. By Johann Rossouw.

Africa’s Food Crisis the Handiwork of IMF, World Bank

The food crisis in Africa had been building up for years, with the World Bank and IMF resident proconsuls reaching into the very innards of the state’s involvement in the agricultural economy to rip it up, argues Walden Bello.

Africa's Unnatural Disaster

Africa's hunger problem is about more than production, writes Sameer Dossani. At the heart of the continent's agricultural crisis is the failed policy paradigm promoted by the World Bank and IMF - defined by a quasi-religious belief in free markets.

AFRI(OIL)COM: Will the Next War for Oil be in Africa?

With almost 10 percent of the world's remaining oil, Africa represents the next phase of U.S. military interest - but the only lasting solution is to quit America's oil addiction, writes Antonia Juhasz..

How Europe Underdevelops Africa - And How Some Fight Back!

Despite a history of colonial repression and exploitative modern-day trade deals with the EU, African civil society movements are beginning to win through.

Millions of Children Falling Through the Cracks

A significant proportion of the world's 2.2 billion children, many of whom are victims of violence, sexual abuse, labour exploitation and preventable diseases, are from the crisis-plagued African continent.

South Africa's New Struggle

The ANC government has allowed the world's most voracious companies to escape reparations for poisoning the land and its people.

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