August 2, 2008 – 10:29 pm
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
Published Aug 2, 2008 7:50 AM
With the current economic crisis worsening in the United States and Europe, conditions in the former colonial nations have reached critical proportions. In Eastern Africa, mounting food deficits, a sharp decline in living standards and rising energy […]
The USA has started to expand its military presence in African countries through humanitarian channels, which can only aggravate the tense situation in the continent.
The Pentagon used to control only three percent of the funds assigned as humanitarian aid to Africa ten years ago. Nowadays, the Pentagon is in charge of 22 percent of those […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
Published Jul 19, 2008 9:39 AM
Russia, China double-veto sanctions
A new round of post-elections destabilization attempts by the Western imperialist countries suffered a monumental defeat when the U.S. and British-sponsored vote to impose additional sanctions against Zimbabwe in the U.N. was double-vetoed by Russia and China on July 11.
In an article […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
Published Jul 19, 2008 9:44 AM
In a move that can only be interpreted as an act of war, the International Criminal Court on July 14 indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for alleged crimes, including genocide and crimes against humanity. The global corporate […]