Municipal workers organised in the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (Imatu) have joined South Africa’s continuing strike wave.
The Obama administration is preparing a new military intervention in Somalia under the pretext of humanitarian concern for starving drought victims.
The number of days lost in strikes across South Africa approached 30 million at the end of July.
The African Union is propping up the Transitional Federal Government that was installed in Somalia by the US-backed Ethiopian invasion of December 2006.
The media and politicians are working assiduously to obscure the political motives of the killer, his connections to far-right and fascist organizations, and the political and moral responsibility borne by establishment parties and politicians.
Two former News of the World executives have challenged the evidence that James Murdoch gave to a House of Commons select committee last week.
The right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik appeared in court yesterday and confessed to the mass murder of 76 people in Norway, many of them children.
Engineering workers in South Africa are in the second week of a strike calling for a 13 percent pay rise.
South Sudan formally declared its independence on July 9. President Barack Obama was among the first to recognise the new country. He welcomed the “birth of a new nation”.
Washington has intervened in Libya with bombing raids aimed at overthrowing the Gaddafi regime. Now it is preparing another African intervention and has Sudan in his sights.
Augustin Bizimungu, head of the Rwandan army at the time of the 1994 genocide, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Rome today for a two-day meeting of the Libya Contact Group.
Police have opened fire on protesters in Uganda and imprisoned many in recent days.
President Goodluck Jonathan’s electoral victory has left Nigeria divided along regional, political and class lines.
