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1 November 2007
Neil Cafferky spoke to Sadiq Abakar, an asylum seeker from Darfur, after a Save Sadiq protest against his deportation outside the UK Home Office.
25 October 2007
Release Saburi Akande Akinola, Taiwo Hassan Soweto and Olatunde Dairo now
Nigeria: Student leaders framed on murder charges: THREE STUDENT leaders of a major Nigerian university are being held in prison on trumped-up charges of conspiracy to murder...
17 October 2007
Students on trumped-up charges
Nigeria: THREE NIGERIAN student activists from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ife Ife, are in jail on made-up charges including conspiracy to murder and attempted murder....
11 October 2007
Darfur bloodshed fuelled by land and oil grab
A CONSTRUCTION boom fuelled by oil revenues is sweeping through Khartoum, the capital of Sudan... By Alison Hill
20 September 2007
Lobby demands asylum for Sadiq
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Save Sadiq: Lobby demands asylum for Sadiq, photo Jack Royston |
12 July 2007
South Africa: union leaders call off biggest-ever strike
ON 28 June, public sector unions called off South Africa's biggest-ever strike, involving nearly one million workers which began on 1 June...
5 July 2007
Why the United Nations fails the test of internationalism
DESPITE THE failure of the United Nations (UN) since its inception to prevent and resolve wars and conflicts, and its inability to eradicate crushing poverty and prevent climate change on a world scale, many (including those ...
28 June 2007
Nigeria: Four-day general strike ends
THE LATEST general strike in Nigeria ended on 23 June when the trade union leaders accepted a government offer that granted most, but not all, of their demands....
21 June 2007
South Africa - third week for public-sector strike
A PUBLIC sector strike in South Africa has entered its third week, with workers remaining determined to maintain pressure on the government to substantially improve its pay offer.
7 June 2007
South Africa: Public sector workers in mass fightback
IN WHAT independent television channel, ETv, described as the biggest strike since 1994 (the year the ANC government came to power), the overwhelming majority of South Africa's one million public sector workers started an in...
7 June 2007
Black and Asian group: Socialist ideas to unite all workers
The Socialist Party Black and Asian group in London met recently to discuss the work of the group and the difficulties facing black and Asian communities in Britain today...
2 May 2007
Nigeria: The Nigerian government, fearing mass protests against its blatant rigging of the April 14 state and April 21 national elections, attempted to clamp down on any sign of active opposition at the May 1 rallies
26 April 2007
Nigerian elections - a dangerous farce
EVEN BY the standards of Nigeria's previous elections this April's state and national elections were a complete farce....
12 April 2007
Zimbabwe: State thugs crackdown on protests
Economic meltdown pushes masses to the edge: AN ACUTE political, economic and social crisis is gripping Zimbabwe. With mass unemployment, hyper-inflation and crumbling services, Zimbabwe's trade...
4 April 2007
Darfur: Deported asylum seekers tortured and murdered: AN INVESTIGATION by the United Nations (UN) in 2005 accused the Sudan-backed Janjaweed militias of carrying out the mass murder of civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan...
7 February 2007
Darfur - another failure of Western 'conflict resolution'
OVER THE last three years, between 200,000 and 400,000 people died in the Darfur conflict, in western Sudan...
1 February 2007
BETWEEN APRIL and July 1994 nearly one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the Rwandan government and its Hutu militias. ...
25 January 2007
Workers brave regime's bullets
Guinea general strike: OVER 40 people have been killed by security forces since the trade unions launched a general strike on 11 January in the west African country of Guinea....
18 January 2007
Iraq: Bush continues his dangerous blunder
"THE MOST dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" were the words Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran used to describe Bush's latest revised Iraq strategy...
11 January 2007
Ethiopia invasion throws Somalia further into crisis
THE LONG-suffering Somali people, after enjoying six months of relative stability, have once again seen their country thrown into chaos...
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