Colonialism in Africa
Zimbabwe: Relations between MDC opposition and Mugabe deteriorate
By Chris Talbot, October 13, 2000
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said last month that Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe should step down from office or “we will remove you violently”. Tsvangirai was speaking at a ral...
British Paratroops kill at least 17 in Sierra Leone hostage shoot-out
By Chris Talbot, September 11, 2000
In a dawn raid, British soldiers raided the village controlled by the West Side Boys militia, 45 miles east of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown. Soldiers from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) resc...
Journalists face spying charges in Liberia
By Chris Talbot, August 25, 2000
Four journalists arrested in Monrovia, in the African state of Liberia, are in prison facing charges of spying. They had been filming and conducting interviews in Liberia for the last four weeks for B...
US reasserts its interests in Africa, sending troops to Nigeria
By Chris Talbot, August 16, 2000
Several hundred United States Special Forces troops will be sent to Nigeria in the next few weeks to lead an extensive training mission. The move is the response of the Clinton administration to being...
Justifying the role of imperialism in Africa
Aid to Africa: So Much to Do, So Little Done, by Carol Lancaster
By Ann Talbot, August 4, 2000
University of Chicago Press, 1999, ISBN: 0226468399
Carve-up of diamond and mineral rights exposed, as Britain continues recolonisation of Sierra Leone
By Chris Talbot, June 26, 2000
After his visit to the capital Freetown earlier this month, Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told parliament that the government's main objective in Sierra Leone was to take the diamond-producin...
Peace efforts fail to halt Ethiopia-Eritrea war
By David Rowan, June 13, 2000
Fighting between Ethiopia and Eritrea has intensified over the past few weeks despite peace talks sponsored by the United Nations and mediated by the Organisation for African Unity (OAU). The United S...
Britain outlines its colonialist ambitions in Sierra Leone
By Chris Marsden, May 27, 2000
This weekend sees the replacement of Britain's 600 Paratroopers in Freetown with 1,000 Royal Marine Commandos. The transfer has been interpreted as proof that British forces will be in Sierra Leone fo...
Britain's military intervention in Sierra Leone part of a new "Scramble for Africa"
By Chris Marsden and Chris Talbot, May 20, 2000
Britain's sending of over a thousand crack troops to Sierra Leone is a major turn to direct intervention in Africa that has serious repercussions for both the African masses and workers in the West.
Atrocities in Sudan linked with fight for oil
By David Rowan, May 17, 2000
Recent allegations have pointed to the involvement of western petroleum companies in the bloody conflict for control of the oil-rich Unity and Western Upper Nile regions of Sudan.
Two weeks of protests in Tunisia
By Brian Smith, April 14, 2000
Recent disturbances in Tunisia have been described by the French newspaper Le Monde as "the first warning shots aimed at President Ben Ali".
Toll of killings by Ugandan cult exceeds 400
By Chris Talbot, March 28, 2000
Latest estimates of the number who died in the church fire at Kanungu, southwest Uganda total over 400. Indications are that the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God church members used explosiv...
