Stephen Lendman

US imperial wars reflect mass slaughter, widespread destruction, ecocide, resource theft, exploitation, unspeakable human pain, suffering and misery, as well as permanent occupation.

Sifelani Tsiko

Africa tomorrow celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the continental body — the African Union — at a time the continent is posting enviable economic growth. For the continent the priority is keeping up this momentum and meeting the challenges that lie ahead.

Rasputin Masamvu

The recently conducted United States Presidential elections had vital lessons on the substance and quality of presidential aspirants. The debates between the Presidential aspirants and their deputies largely focused on the protection of the American interests at home and abroad. What came out clearly from the debates was that the Mitt

Ruth Butaumocho

In my last instalment on this column, I quoted the words of the first female British Prime Minister, the late Margaret Thatcher, over women’s involvement in politics when she said, “In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man, if you want anything, done, ask a woman.”

Geoges Nzongola-Ntalaja

THE African Union (AU) is now 50 years old. Amid the celebrations this week, the AU — which was established as the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 — needs to take stock of its strengths and weaknesses as an intergovernmental organisation designed to promote the pan-African agenda politically and economically.

Guy Anold

THE disunity over major issues and individual quarrels between members that emerged at the OAU summit in Mauritius in June 1976 raised once more the question as to whether the OAU was about to break up. But as Nigeria’s Commissioner for External Affairs, Joe Garba, said earlier in the year at the time of the Angola Summit: “The OAU is

Zimbabwe’s mining sector has conjured so much interest from local and foreign investors, particularly in the last few years when global demand for minerals such as platinum, chrome, gold and others has gone up significantly.

Jonathan Franklin

WITHOUT going over the edge to Rush Limbaugh territory, the internal spying on reporters and politicization of the IRS do raise the question. Could Obama be trumping “Tricky Dick” on the latter’s home turf? Few politicians can match Richard Milhous Nixon for obsession with leaks, propagation of secret wars and creation of a list of enemies.

The controversy over last year’s Al Qaeda assault on US diplomatic and CIA facilities in Benghazi, Libya has been revived amid a deepening political crisis for the Obama administration.

Last week, ALPHA Media Holdings chairman Trevor Ncube was in the news deploring what he called “the continuing state of media repression and restrictions in Zimbabwe”.
Given that he has issued similar or related statements before, that part of his assessment of media reforms in the country was not surprising.

Julius Nyerere

In May 1963, 32 independent African states met in Addis Ababa, founded the Organisation of African Unity, and established the Liberation Committee of the new organisation, charging it with the duty of co-ordinating the liberation struggle in those parts of Africa still under colonial rule. The following year, 1964, the OAU met in Cairo. The Cairo