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Ben Bella, guts and inspiration of Algerian Revolution, mourned

April 20, 2012 By Dennis Laumann

Ahmed Ben Bella, a leader of Algeria's liberation struggle and the country's first president, died on April 11 at his home in Algiers.

What’s behind the coup in Mali?

March 27, 2012 By Emile Schepers

On March 22, soldiers of the Republic of Mali in West Africa, led by junior officers, carried out a coup d'état against the elected president, Amadou Toumani Touré.

Europe and Africa: a genocidal history

March 21, 2012 By Emile Schepers

During the "scramble for Africa" at the end of the 19th century, Germany had entered the game partly for economic and partly for geopolitical reasons.

Why are we still stuck with failed U.S. policy on Cuba?

February 15, 2012 By Sam Webb

And yet normalization of relations with Cuba seems dead in the water. What explains the tenacity of this retrograde policy?

Obama’s dangerous Asia “pivot”

January 12, 2012 By Conn Hallinan

The Obama administration is in the middle of a major shift a "strategic pivot" says the Oval Office, in two regions of the world: Asia and Africa.