Africa
As World Looks Away, Death Stalks Democratic Republic of Congo
From the eastern DRC, Nick Turse reports on one of the most enduring catastrophes on the planet.
By Nick Turse
in GOMA, North Kivu Province,
Democratic Republic of Congo
October...
“Notre maison brûle” mais Chirac n’a rien fait pour l’éteindre, au...
Alors que les grands médias présentent Jacques Chirac comme un fervent défenseur de l'écologie, invoquant son discours de 2002 à Johannesburg où il déclarait...
Our house is burning down and we’re blind to it!
SPEECH BY MR JACQUES CHIRAC
PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
TO THE PLENARY SESSION
OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
JOHANNESBURG
MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2002
Mr President,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Our...
“We’re in a Crisis of Deaths”: Migrant Death Toll Tops 900...
August 28, 2019
At least 40 refugees and migrants are feared dead off of the coast of Libya after a boat carrying dozens of people...
Robert Mugabe, Ousted Zimbabwean President & Liberation Leader, Dies at 95
September 06, 2019
Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, Robert Mugabe, has died at the age of 95. In 1963, he helped found the Zimbabwe African National...
Mugabe, Land, Thatcher, Blair & Imperialism
By Tony Norfield
21 November 2017
So, farewell then, Robert Mugabe, ruler of Zimbabwe for 37 years. As the western media celebrate your demise, and Zimbabwe’s...
Huit ans après : la « printanisation » de l’Algérie
Par Ahmed Bensaada
04 Avril 2019
Une foule dense, une ambiance festive, des jeunes dans la fleur de l’âge, des slogans incisifs, de l’humour subtil et...
Ruptures d’arc ? Yemen, Arabie Saoudite et Iran
By Dr. Badia Benjelloun
12 août 2019
L’ouverture d’un nouveau front au Sud Yémen complexifie un peu plus la situation dans ce pays au seuil d’une...
French-backed Libyan militia airstrike kills 42 civilians
By Alex Lantier
7 August 2019
On Monday, a month after military strongman Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) bombed a refugee detention camp near...
NATO going global! Promoting war worldwide
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says alliance needs to address the rise of China
Partners must be concerned with ‘the fact that China is...