STWR - Share The World's Resources

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

When it comes to chosing between a dictator and the long-suffering people, African leaders have always instinctively sided with the autocrat, no matter how disreputable he - almost always he - is. Now neighbouring African leaders who have propped up Robert Mugabe for most of his 28-year autocratic rule of Zimbabwe will now have to make a decision they have never had the courage to take before: support the people, instead of the dictator in question.

This report examines the current war and genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which started in the mid-1990s, placing emphasis on the roles of Western covert operations, corporations and the plundering of resources that has resulted.

As President Bush embarks on his journey to Africa, he is looking to secure his legacy in part through his administration’s development initiatives on the continent. One of those initiatives is the administration’s support for expanded debt relief for the continent. A closer look at this administration’s record on debt should begin with the question often posed by Africa-based civil society groups: who owes whom?

One of the things Kenyans will have to get used to from now onwards is the fact that outsiders will be putting us in the same category as Somalia, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone and other war-torn African countries. 

In an attempt to polish his image and advance U.S. interests in the twilight of his presidency, George W. Bush is visiting Africa.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan launched formal peace talks Tuesday as a fresh round of reprisal killings swept the country.