Mali

A US soldier fires a gun in practice for war
Features

The bloodshed and wars they don’t want you to see

Imperialist crimes exposed
19 March 2022
Mali’s military ousts prime minister after strikes shake country’s rulers
International

Mali’s military ousts prime minister after strikes shake country’s rulers

The president and prime minister of Mali, West Africa, have been ousted by the army officer who led a military coup last year.
28 May 2021
Mali’s military oust Western-backed president amid mass protests
International

Mali’s military oust Western-backed president amid mass protests

The French-backed president of Mali, West Africa, resigned on Tuesday after soldiers seized him from his home. His demise follows months of mass protests against corruption and lack of democracy.
19 August 2020
Shaking off colonial restrictions in 1960s Bamako—the photography of Malick Sidibe
Reviews & Culture

Shaking off colonial restrictions in 1960s Bamako—the photography of Malick Sidibe

photographer Malick Sidibe became known as “the eye of Bamako” for his black and white images chronicling youth culture in Bamako in the wake of Mali’s independence in 1960.
08 November 2016
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International

West’s intervention caused Mali chaos

Unidentified gunmen stormed the Radisson luxury hotel in Mali’s capital of Bamako on Friday of last week. They killed at least 27 people.
24 November 2015
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Reviews & Culture

Mali All Stars

The influence of music from the west African state of Mali is disproportionate to its population.  
08 July 2014
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Socialist Review Archive

Resisting intervention: imperialism and protest in Mali

Leo Zeilig looks at the latest episode in a long and bloody history of Western imperialism in Africa, fuelled by the scramble for the continent's resources
01 March 2013
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International

French attack on Mali is an imperialist venture

French warplanes began pounding the northern half of the West African state Mali on Friday of last week.
15 January 2013
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What We Think

Rulers’ racism masks imperialist war in Mali

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously supported Western intervention in Mali.
15 January 2013
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International

Kenya bombs famine victims

A Kenyan air strike killed five people, including children, in Jibil food distribution camp in southern Somalia last Sunday, according to Médecins san Frontières.
01 November 2011
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News

My life in austerity Greece

Amalia is a 31-year-old living in Athens, Greece.
25 October 2011
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Alex Callinicos

Crisis of capitalism is far from over

Leon Trotsky paints a brilliant portrait of the last tsar, Nicholas II, in his great History of the Russian Revolution. He treats Nicholas’s weakness, malice, and stupidity as symptoms of a decaying regime.
09 August 2011
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Jean Charles De Menezes family hacked

The family of Jean Charles De Menezes, the man killed by police on the London Underground in 2005, had their phones hacked by the Murdoch empire. Malicious lies about Jean appeared in the press.
19 July 2011
Workers at the heart of the Egyptian Revolt
Features

Workers at the heart of the Egyptian Revolt

There was a deceptive sense of normality in Cairo when I arrived there last week. At the airport, groups of tourists discussed the temperature in Luxor and arrangements for their tour. Roads were full of the usual traffic.
22 March 2011
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Features

Tunisia: patterns of revolt

The Tunisian revolution has dramatically interrupted what passes for normality in the Arab world. Despite huge economic inequality, the hated domination of US imperialism, and the occasional assassination, the region suffers from astonishing political stagnation.
25 January 2011
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International

Poverty and Western intervention lies behind piracy

A Somali pirate rang the BBC last week demanding a ransom for a British couple who have been kidnapped from their yacht. He said, "We only need a little amount of $7 million."
03 November 2009
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International

War intensifies in Somalia

A US airstrike on a suspected Al Qaida leader, Saleh Nabhan, in Somalia has triggered a new round of fighting in the east African state.
22 September 2009
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International

Somalia: the pirates are in Washington

The US has confronted Somalia, once again, with its guns blazing. This time special forces killed a group of Somali pirates who were holding captive a US ship’s captain.
14 April 2009
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A major defeat for US in Somalia

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.
02 December 2008
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International

Toxic scandal in Somalia gave birth to new piracy

When the Asian tsunami of Christmas 2005 washed ashore on the east coast of Africa, it uncovered a great scandal.
25 November 2008
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Reviews & Culture

CD review: Welcome to Mali – Amadou & Mariam

The new album by the Malian artists Amadou & Mariam features special guest appearances by Keziah Jones, "M", Tiken Jah Fakoli, Toumani Diabate and Juan Rozoff.
18 November 2008
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US and British deal hits the buffers in Iraq

A deal that would formalise the occupation of Iraq by the US and Britain has run aground – again.
21 October 2008
The US and Britain: a strained ‘special’ relationship
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The US and Britain: a strained ‘special’ relationship

It will come as no surprise to know that British troops helped the US to train the Georgian army. Or that Britain is providing assistance to the US-Ethiopian puppet regime in Somalia, a regime notorious for torture and massacre.
21 October 2008
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International

Somali rebels drive back Ethiopia’s army of occupiers

Ethiopia’s US-backed occupation of Somalia is fast unravelling, threatening US control over the Horn of Africa.
16 September 2008