Trump’s tariffs have destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of women in Lesotho’s textile industry
Unable to pay rent, thousands have returned to their villages, whose subsistence farming-based economy cannot sustain their families. Desperate, many have taken the dangerous road across the border to the illegal mining enterprises in South Africa.
NUMSA leads indefinite strike at South Africa’s leading cookware manufacturer
Set to enter its third day on August 6, the strike will continue indefinitely until the company concedes union rights, the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) maintains.
Cholera threatens starved IDPs in war-torn Darfur
Once a haven for the displaced, North Darfur’s Tawila is now ground zero for a deadly cholera outbreak.
On the long march to sovereignty: Niger’s revolution against French neocolonialism enters third year
Enduring a financial siege by France and terror attacks by its alleged proxies, the popular military government that replaced the puppet regime in Niger enters the third year of its rule, with concrete progress to show in agriculture, education, and power-generation.
Unions and civil society protest against proposed labor rights dilution in South Africa
40 organizations represented in the protest allege that the 65 proposed amendments to labor laws allow dismissals of workers on accusation of misdemeanors without formal hearing, increase casualization, and incentivize large-scale retrenchments and outsourcing to downsize businesses.
US deportation of migrants to Swaziland further undermines the legitimacy of its embattled monarch
King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch in Africa who survived an insurrection by using the army against the pro-democracy movement, has further weakened his position by caving to the US pressure to accept its deportees.
The saga of peasant resistance: how farmers defeated the land grab by India’s Karnataka state
The nearly 1,200 days-long resistance to forced land-acquisition by India’s Karnataka state yielded victory on July 15, with the chief minister scrapping notices sent to farmers, recognizing their struggle as “historic”.
Liberians kept in dark about their government’s agreement with US mining company
Signed before the Liberian president’s meeting with Trump, the USD 1.8 billion deal allows a US mining company to use a strategic Liberian railway to export Guinean iron ore to the US.