Students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London have occupied the Brunei Gallery Suite in protest at a Ministry of Defence exhibition being held there and in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
The British government’s hypocrisy over the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe is jaw-dropping. Gordon Brown has said that "enough is enough" and that the United Nations security council should meet to discuss action against Robert Mugabe’s government.
The US has suffered a bloody defeat in the "third front in the war on terror" after Ethiopia announced it will be ending its occupation of Somalia at the end of the year.
Around 200 people protested in Manchester last Saturday against the killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the deportation of Congolese asylum seekers.
Demand justice for Jose Stalin
The Unison union at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in central London is demanding its members are balloted for strikes over the suspension of branch chair Jose Stalin.
The tradition of thrilling Afrobeat, developed by the late Fela Kuti, is kept alive by his son Femi. With its hypnotic pulsing rhythms punctuated by bursts of brass, Afrobeat was always influenced by US music, from jazz and soul through to funk.
Supporters of the free market crow that foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa has grown more than 30-fold since 1980. This, they say, proves market deregulation works.
The deal between president Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and Morgan Tsvangirai’s opposition MDC has been widely hailed as heralding the end of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
