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Ethiopia’s US-backed occupation of Somalia is fast unravelling, threatening US control over the Horn of Africa.

An all-out strike by state sector teachers in Nigeria has ended after four weeks with a government recommendation that teachers get a 27.5 percent pay increase.

South Africa was brought to a standstill on Thursday of last week by a one-day general strike demanding government action over rising living costs.

The high price of oil is driving a new scramble for Africa that will bring more misery to the continent.

About 300 members of Women Of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) marched through the country’s second city Bulawayo yesterday afternoon.

Negotiations aimed at ending Zimbabwe’s political crisis were stalled as Socialist Worker went to press.

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The Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees last week coordinated a series of meetings to discuss solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe.

Gordon Brown has caused controversy by saying that the British government will help Nigeria in West Africa to "tackle lawlessness" in the oil producing Niger Delta region.

Harassment of trade unionists in Zimbabwe has continued since the election.

An indefinite national strike has closed primary and secondary schools across Nigeria in West Africa.

The most effective challenge to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s dictatorship is to help the Zimbabweans who have been struggling against the regime for the best part of a decade.