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USA/Africa: privatisation of health aid

Paul Martial — 2026-02-12T11:34:10Z

Recent agreements between the United States and some fifteen African countries are radically reshaping health cooperation on the continent, even as Washington has just left the World Health Organisation (WHO).
These new partnerships are part of the so-called America First Global Health strategy, which makes aid conditional on US priorities. In December, Washington signed memoranda with some fifteen countries setting specific objectives for epidemic surveillance, laboratory strengthening (…)

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Africa, Zambia, Guinea-Bissau

Africa: The Club of Five and the Sociopath

Paul Martial — 2025-07-29T08:54:00Z

The return of the United States to the African scene is aimed at taking advantage of the continent's riches, a clearly stated objective of the Trump administration.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Africa, Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Mauritania

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky”: 100 Years of Amilcar Cabral

B. Skanthakumar — 2024-08-30T08:10:54Z

Anticolonialist and anti-imperialist, party organizer and guerilla warfare strategist, diplomat and publicist, revolutionary theorist and internationalist, Amílcar Cabral was among the most original Marxists of the 20th century.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Portugal, Historical events and figures, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde

“We need to consolidate the path of democratization”

Sumaila Jaló — 2023-11-04T11:01:48Z

“And these movements are becoming increasingly politicized. These are movements that came into being with the aim of responding to the demands of the moment. And as they progress, they discover that there is a bigger problem, that there is an outdated political system that needs to be confronted.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Guinea-Bissau

What's Left in Africa?

Firoze Manji — 2015-02-05T18:28:39Z

The early 1950s witnessed an extraordinary sweep of popular mobilisations across the continent inspired by aspirations for emancipatory freedom – an end to the colonial yoke. Across the continent, nationalist parties convinced people that the path to freedom was through political independence.
Since then, many of the gains of independence, which cost the blood and lives of millions in Africa, have been reversed with the privatisation of the commons and public utilities, as well as by dispossessions of land, by unemployment and by the increasing costs of food, rent and other necessities of life. In response, discontent has been growing across the continent, with spontaneous eruptions and mass uprisings that have in some cases resulted in the overthrow of regimes nurtured and nourished by imperialism (e.g. in Tunisia, Egypt and Burkina Faso). In such circumstances, one would have thought that there would have been fertile grounds for the emergence of strong left working class movements across the continent. But why has this not happened?

- IV481 - February 2015 / Africa, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Congo, Guinea-Bissau