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Thoughts on Bessie Head – an African woman.…

As US power falls, people-power is rising...Never before has a United States Presidential election been given so much coverage in the Western World as its being given now…

President of South Africa (though not for much longer).…

Some great news coming out of Johannesburg in the battle against water privatization…

Inside the minds of politicians privatizing public assets...Despite widespread and vocal global disgruntlement about privatisation, governments keep on keeping it on…

*Shane Bauer* went to Pine Ridge to find out why some Native Americans have ripped up the treaties and declared an independent country – Lakotah.…

While countries that proudly claim to be 'democracies' are supposed to bask in the beauty of different voices and ideas, the reality seems quite different…

With the Climate Campin the UK now underway, it is a good moment to reflect on some of thestakes involved in climate change activism…

As a radio program thats always in search of new horizons, this weeks co-host is a pioneering reporter from Somalia Ahmed Abdisalam Adan who explains the most recent conflict in his country from his HornAfrik newsroom bunker in the capital, Mogadishu…

Anti-water privatization activists from all over Africa met today atthe World Social Forum to launch a new African Water Network aimed atstrengthening co-operation and co-ordinating efforts to ‘oppose waterprivatization in all its forms’; to work for a participatory model ofpublic control over water; and to assert that water is a fundamentalhuman right…