Riek Machar has been under house arrest since March
South Sudan vice-president charged with murder and treason
Joseph Winter and Nichola Mandil in Juba South Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar has been charged with murder, treason, and crimes against humanity in a move that some fear could reignite the country’s civil war. Justice…
19 September 2025
Forged in Struggle, Bound for the Future: Zimbabwe and China’s Ironclad Friendship Against Imperialism
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa Seventy-six years ago, the People’s Republic of China rose from the ruins of foreign aggression and humiliation to become a beacon of hope for the world’s oppressed peoples. Forty-five years ago,…
16 September 2025
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro
Venezuela, Imperialism, and the Global Struggle for Sovereignty
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa September 8, 2025, marks not only a commemorative moment for progressive forces across the Global South but also a profound reflection on the unfinished struggle against imperialism. Latin America, the Caribbean,…
14 September 2025
Current world map: courtesy of Reddit Maps
AFRICA MAP SIZE MYTH
By Fortune Madondo A Geographical Lie The current standard world map is wildly misleading, a tool of miseducation, and perpetuates a geographical lie. And mostly Mother Africa (the Continent of Africa) is the victim, presented…
10 September 2025
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Tianjin: China, Russia, and India Redraw the Map of a Post-Imperialist World
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa Western headlines have tried to reduce the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin to a spectacle of handshakes, smiles, and photographs. To them, the meeting of China’s President Xi Jinping,…
9 September 2025
TICAD9 and the Mirage of Japanese Partnership: Why Africa’s Future Lies with China, Not Neo-Imperialism
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), once promoted as a vehicle for deepening Africa–Japan relations, has increasingly revealed itself as a hollow theatre of neo-imperial gestures. The Ninth Tokyo…
9 September 2025
Zim-China Friendship Shines Bright: A Revolutionary Bond Rekindled at WWII 80th Anniversary Celebrations
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa History is not just a record of the past; it is a weapon for the present and the future. On the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War…
3 September 2025
New Swedish deputy envoy: “Parliaments are the beating hearts of democracy”
New Swedish deputy envoy: “Parliaments are the beating hearts of democracy”
By Moses Magadza Windhoek – The newly appointed Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Sweden in Pretoria, Mr. Kristian Olsson Selerud, has hailed parliaments within the SADC region as the…
3 September 2025
Namibia's Vice President Lucia Witbooi
WITBOOI TO CAPITALIZE ON ALGERIA’S EXPERIENCE IN OIL AND GAS
By Vitalio Angula Namibia’s Vice President, Lucia Witbooi, will leverage the country’s status as a frontier oil and gas market to capitalize on Algeria’s experience as an oil-producing nation at the Intra-Africa Trade Fair starting…
2 September 2025
MEC Ewan Botha addressing stakeholders at the Premier Hotel, Kempton Park, carbon emissions reduction meeting last week
Member of Executive Council Botha Warns: Climate Education Fails Without Economic Relevance
By Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg, 2 September 2025 South Africa’s Gauteng Province Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Environment, Ewan Botha, has drawn on his childhood experiences to highlight gaps in climate change education and…
2 September 2025
