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President Mugabe Exposes Western Hypocrisy

AFRICANGLOBE – President Mugabe yesterday rapped the western alliance for its deafening silence over Israeli atrocities in Gaza where over 2,200 people, mostly unarmed men, women and children were killed during a four- week Israeli bombardment. Addressing the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly here yesterday, President Mugabe did not echo the platitudes […]

Israel Continues to Mistreat Africans, Despite High Court Order

AFRICANGLOBE – Israel’s Interior Ministry’s Population, Immigration and Border Authority announced on Monday morning that it had ceased summoning asylum seekers to the Holot detention facility, but its officials have continued to order Africans to the facility. The authority is also refusing to cancel summonses given out after the High Court of Justice ruled that the […]

World Must Honor President Mugabe

AFRICANGLOBE – President Mugabe deserves to be honoured by the progressive world for consistently standing up to the oppressive hegemony. At the recent UN General Assembly meeting, President Mugabe openly challenged the Western alliance’s deafening silence over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict where over 2,000 defenceless and vulnerable people were recently massacred by the Israeli army. It […]

Imperialism and the Ebola Catastrophe

AFRICANGLOBE – “The present [Ebola] epidemic is exceptionally large, not primarily because of biologic characteristics of the virus, but in part because of the attributes of the affected populations, the condition of the health systems, and because control efforts have been insufficient to halt the spread of infection.” —Dr. Christopher Dye, director of strategy, World […]

Saudi Arabia Uses Ebola Excuse to Ban Some Africans from Hajj

AFRICANGLOBE – As millions of Muslims begin the annual religious pilgrimage of Hajj to Mecca, several thousand West Africans will be absent after Saudi Arabia banned travelers from three African nations. Riyadh turned down visas to more than 7,000 would-be pilgrims from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, where an outbreak of the virus has killed […]

Libya’s Tale of Two Neocolonial Parliaments

AFRICANGLOBE – Trucks fitted with anti-aircraft cannon, troops and cement roadblocks protect the five-star hotel in Tobruk that is now the surreal last bastion of Libya’s fugitive parliament. Holed up in the Dar Al Salam seaside resort and pretending that all is normal, elected legislators debate laws and plan the future from the eastern city […]

Situation Won’t Escalate into War if Dam Talks Collapse – Ethiopian President

AFRICANGLOBE – Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) has accomplished 40 per cent of the building process, Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome said Friday, adding that the first phase will be complete next June producing 700 megawatts. The tripartite committee and international consultancy office are not arbitrators, Teshome added in an interview with Sky News Arabia, referring […]