https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:39:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-campaign-against-the-uaes-war-in-sudan/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-campaign-against-the-uaes-war-in-sudan/#respond Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294649 Last November, the RSF militia committed a heinous massacre in Elfashir; thousands were killed in one day, including patients at a hospital, women, and children, who were lined up and shot to death. Satellite images explain that the militia put the victims in a mass burial to hide its crime. This massacre was indeed enabled [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-campaign-against-the-uaes-war-in-sudan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:12:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294357 Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports are preparing for an international day of action on 6 February to oppose the growing militarization of transport infrastructure, as well as port management’s and governments’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza. “If we don’t take this step, all our other demands will be crushed under war,” Francesco [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-states-are-terrifying-but-they-are-brittle-i-witnessed-this-in-tunisia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-states-are-terrifying-but-they-are-brittle-i-witnessed-this-in-tunisia/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:37:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294198 Fifteen years ago this month, a mass movement in Tunisia overthrew the 24-year reign of U.S.-backed despot Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. What seemed impossible merely weeks prior became real. Today, living in the United States, things feel daunting, hopeless, terrifying: It is hard to imagine how to reverse the intensification of the police state, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-states-are-terrifying-but-they-are-brittle-i-witnessed-this-in-tunisia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/davos-trump-and-sisi-push-but-ethiopia-holds-its-nile-line/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/davos-trump-and-sisi-push-but-ethiopia-holds-its-nile-line/#respond Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:25:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293883 The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam rises on the Blue Nile, that ancient river has become a mirror reflecting the unfinished business of decolonisation, development and diplomacy. The debate unfolding between Ethiopia, Sudan and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/davos-trump-and-sisi-push-but-ethiopia-holds-its-nile-line/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-decides-securing-national-ambitions-through-the-hydrological-cycle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-decides-securing-national-ambitions-through-the-hydrological-cycle/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293840 Algeria has embarked on major and strategic undertakings: agricultural revitalization, ambitious housing programs, development of the South, and the strengthening of food and territorial sovereignty. These orientations respond to real needs and reflect a strong political will to build a stable, productive, and sovereign country. For these large-scale investments to fully achieve their objectives over [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-decides-securing-national-ambitions-through-the-hydrological-cycle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-train-of-regeneration-green-peace-for-the-oases-from-bechar-to-tindouf/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-train-of-regeneration-green-peace-for-the-oases-from-bechar-to-tindouf/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293725 Facing the strategic challenges in Algeria’s Southwest — water security, sustainable resource management, territorial stability, and socio-economic development — it is essential to complement major national projects with integrated approaches capable of amplifying their long-term benefits. This contribution aims to do just that. It offers a complementary perspective on a state-led infrastructure project, exploring how [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-train-of-regeneration-green-peace-for-the-oases-from-bechar-to-tindouf/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-somaliland-gamble-is-repeating-the-bloody-history-that-created-al-shabaab/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-somaliland-gamble-is-repeating-the-bloody-history-that-created-al-shabaab/#respond Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293669 On Boxing Day 2006, Ethiopian troops, endorsed by the United States, rolled into Mogadishu. Their intervention, aimed at crushing the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and installing “a weak, decentralised client state … willing to settle for ongoing state collapse rather than risk a revived Arab-backed government in Mogadishu”, shattered a fragile moment of order and birthed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-somaliland-gamble-is-repeating-the-bloody-history-that-created-al-shabaab/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-complicity-of-the-west-in-the-sudans-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-complicity-of-the-west-in-the-sudans-war/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:31:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293638 In April 2023, a war broke out in Sudan between the national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia. It is estimated that millions were displaced and thousands were killed. The UN now considers the country to have the worst humanitarian crisis. But this war is mainly fueled by external actors, primarily the UAE, which [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-complicity-of-the-west-in-the-sudans-war/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/outscooped-by-trump-the-strike-on-nigerias-real-target-was-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/outscooped-by-trump-the-strike-on-nigerias-real-target-was-venezuela/#respond Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293260 Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it immediately, not only to get the story out first but to warn the world if it’s about something bad that might be coming. Shortly after Trump bombed Nigeria on Christmas day, I wrote a piece [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/outscooped-by-trump-the-strike-on-nigerias-real-target-was-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-israels-move-in-somaliland-fits-in-its-broader-strategy-for-regional-dominance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-israels-move-in-somaliland-fits-in-its-broader-strategy-for-regional-dominance/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293199 As Donald Trump proclaimed a “forever peace” in the region last October, Israel proceeded to dramatically escalate its military operations, launching repeated assaults across Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and beyond. In Gaza, Israel has violated the ceasefire over a thousand times; in Lebanon, it continues to target resistance forces; in Syria, it attempts to destabilize the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-israels-move-in-somaliland-fits-in-its-broader-strategy-for-regional-dominance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-gulfs-cold-war-saudi-uae-rivalry-spills-into-africa/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-gulfs-cold-war-saudi-uae-rivalry-spills-into-africa/#respond Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:02:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293088 In the sterile, high-altitude boardrooms of the Gulf, the mantra for the last decade has been one of shared destiny. From the 2017 blockade of Qatar to the initial intervention in Yemen, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi appeared to be the twin engines of a new, assertive Arab order. Yet, as 2026 begins, that veneer of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-gulfs-cold-war-saudi-uae-rivalry-spills-into-africa/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-in-sudan-is-between-two-wings-of-a-comprador-parasitic-capitalist-class/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-in-sudan-is-between-two-wings-of-a-comprador-parasitic-capitalist-class/#respond Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293026 As the war in Sudan that has unleashed the world’s worst humanitarian crisis nears a thousand days, “a cessation of hostilities, a humanitarian truce going into the new year” is an “immediate goal” of the US, said its State Secretary, Marco Rubio, in his year-end press conference. Donald Trump, he insisted before the US cabinet [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-in-sudan-is-between-two-wings-of-a-comprador-parasitic-capitalist-class/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-footballers-walk-into-a-stadium/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-footballers-walk-into-a-stadium/#respond Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:42:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292875 Zinedine Zidane, Kylian Mbappé and Riyad Mahrez walking into the same stadium sounds like the opening line of a bad joke, yet it is exactly what the Africa Cup of Nations is bracing for on Sunday night, when Algeria face Burkina Faso at the Stade Moulay Hassan. Mahrez will be there as Algeria’s captain, the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-footballers-walk-into-a-stadium/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/manufacturing-global-crises-wont-give-u-s-foreign-policy-legitimacy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/manufacturing-global-crises-wont-give-u-s-foreign-policy-legitimacy/#respond Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:28:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292869 For anyone paying even modest attention to the current administration’s foreign policy posture, a Christmas Day bombing justified as “protecting Christians from ISIS” in Nigeria was neither shocking nor clarifying. It fits a familiar rhetorical script. What it did not fit was reality. Nigeria’s violence is real, devastating, and long-standing, but it is not best [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/manufacturing-global-crises-wont-give-u-s-foreign-policy-legitimacy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:21:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292854 At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly failed in its mandate to cut the continent’s foreign debt and assure that appropriate climate-finance grants will be available. Nevertheless, even while the world economy’s value chains suffer disfigurement thanks to Donald [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/was-colonialism-a-crime-algerian-parliament-criminalizes-130-years-of-french-rule/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/was-colonialism-a-crime-algerian-parliament-criminalizes-130-years-of-french-rule/#respond Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:54:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292830  The Algerian newspaper al-Masa’ reports that on December 24, the Algerian parliament passed a law recognizing French colonialism in that country, 1830-1962, as having been a crime that involved mass killing, rape, displacement of populations, usurpation of land, and marginalization of people. The law also makes claims on France for reparations. The great Algerian historian Mahfoud [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/was-colonialism-a-crime-algerian-parliament-criminalizes-130-years-of-french-rule/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-launches-christmas-strikes-on-nigeria-the-9th-country-bombed-by-trump/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-launches-christmas-strikes-on-nigeria-the-9th-country-bombed-by-trump/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292802 President Donald Trump—the self-described “most anti-war president in history”—has now ordered the bombing of more countries than any president in history as US forces carried out Christmas day strikes on what the White House claimed were Islamic State militants killing Christians in Nigeria. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-launches-christmas-strikes-on-nigeria-the-9th-country-bombed-by-trump/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/managing-water-differently-algeria-facing-hydrological-extremes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/managing-water-differently-algeria-facing-hydrological-extremes/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292706 What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but as an ecological and economic capital to preserve and develop? Across the country, the same paradox is emerging: prolonged droughts and declining groundwater levels, punctuated by sudden, devastating floods. In a matter of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/managing-water-differently-algeria-facing-hydrological-extremes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-complicity-who-kills-in-the-congo/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-complicity-who-kills-in-the-congo/#respond Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292689 In recent years, more people around the world have begun to encounter images of Congo’s suffering on their phones: a child emerging from a cobalt mine, a collapsed tunnel, families fleeing violence. Viral clips of displaced communities and reports of mass killings circulate across our screens. Yet even as this visibility grows, what remains almost [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-complicity-who-kills-in-the-congo/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/surprising-lessons-for-the-u-s-resistance-to-trump-in-sudans-recent-history/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/surprising-lessons-for-the-u-s-resistance-to-trump-in-sudans-recent-history/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:32:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292405 Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and you’ll end up in another place where a genocide is in progress. It’s one we don’t hear much about in the United States, probably because it’s happening in an African nation, one of those places Donald Trump refers to as “shithole countries.” (Interestingly, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/surprising-lessons-for-the-u-s-resistance-to-trump-in-sudans-recent-history/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thailand-and-cambodia-a-trump-brokered-truce-falls-apart/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thailand-and-cambodia-a-trump-brokered-truce-falls-apart/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:28:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292403 When the hastily confected Fifa world peace prize was bestowed on Donald Trump last week, the ceasefire in the Thai-Cambodian border dispute was among the achievements cited. Mr Trump also boasted of having ended war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He brags of having brought eight conflicts to a close and has just had the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thailand-and-cambodia-a-trump-brokered-truce-falls-apart/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-missing-voices-of-western-sahara/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-missing-voices-of-western-sahara/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:22:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292400 Every year in October, sweater weather settles in, coffee orders are syrup-laden, and the United Nations building in New York transforms into a stage for tense deliberations over the renewal of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) peacekeeping mission. This year, the Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2797, renewing MINURSO’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-missing-voices-of-western-sahara/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reefolution-respond-to-marine-ecosystem-disruption/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reefolution-respond-to-marine-ecosystem-disruption/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:46:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292391 Decades of inaction responding to rapidly increasing carbon emissions, industrial overfishing, point source contamination, and similar compounding pressures on our planet’s oceans have begun obvious, large scale disruption of marine ecosystems.  84.4 % of the world’s coral reefs experienced mass bleaching, and ongoing, record high ocean heat for several years are just some of the recent extreme, systemic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reefolution-respond-to-marine-ecosystem-disruption/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climateflation-and-water-scarcity-why-africa-faces-the-worlds-sharpest-food-security-risks/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climateflation-and-water-scarcity-why-africa-faces-the-worlds-sharpest-food-security-risks/#respond Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:42:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292323 In Lagos, a maize seller recently doubled her prices within a single year. In Morocco, pipelines stretch across barren plains, carrying desalinated water to farms that once relied on rainfall. Across much of the continent, the pattern is unmistakable: in the regions most exposed to climate shocks, the future of food security is becoming increasingly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climateflation-and-water-scarcity-why-africa-faces-the-worlds-sharpest-food-security-risks/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/sudan-nigerias-israel-problem-pan-africanism-resistance-from-burkina-faso-to-niger/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/sudan-nigerias-israel-problem-pan-africanism-resistance-from-burkina-faso-to-niger/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:23:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292231 In this episode of MintCast- Host Mnar Adley invites Journalist- Ahmed Kaballo to discuss the truth about Africa’s resources and sovereignty. Ahmed, had his channel: African Stream removed from YouTube for speaking out on topics like this.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/sudan-nigerias-israel-problem-pan-africanism-resistance-from-burkina-faso-to-niger/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sudanese-paramilitary-drone-strikes-kindergarten-killing-dozens-of-children/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sudanese-paramilitary-drone-strikes-kindergarten-killing-dozens-of-children/#respond Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292195 Sudanese paramilitary forces bombed a kindergarten and the hospital where victims were brought for treatment in southern Sudan on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, including 33 children. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out three drone strikes in the town of Kalogi, in South Kordofan, officials say. The paramilitary reportedly struck the school twice, the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sudanese-paramilitary-drone-strikes-kindergarten-killing-dozens-of-children/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guineas-bet-on-iron-ore/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guineas-bet-on-iron-ore/#respond Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:10:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292145 In November, Ibrahima Sory embarked on a trip to southeastern Guinea—a two-day, 800km road journey from the country’s capital, Conakry, to the rugged mountains of Simandou. It was his third and final trip of the year, and as head of operations of the community-impact NGO, Action Mine Guinée, he’d come to collect information on how [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guineas-bet-on-iron-ore/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sudan-how-imperialism-fuels-war-and-mass-violence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sudan-how-imperialism-fuels-war-and-mass-violence/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:44:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292114 The civil war today tearing apart Sudan is not just a conflict between rival generals. Rather, it is the direct and tragic consequence of the plundering of the resources under the country’s soil for the benefit of foreign powers. Only an end to outside interference and the mobilisation of the Sudanese people to force the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sudan-how-imperialism-fuels-war-and-mass-violence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:37:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292104 South Africa says it will step back from next year’s G20 meetings after the U.S. indicated it won’t extend an invitation, citing concerns over alleged discrimination against the white Afrikaner minority. In this episode, Innocent Semosa speaks to Political Analyst Patrick Bond to unpack the politics behind the fallout, and later connects with DIRCO spokesperson [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/khartoum-the-most-selfish-city-if-we-let-it-be/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/khartoum-the-most-selfish-city-if-we-let-it-be/#respond Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:50:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292069 While many celebrated the “liberation” of Khartoum from the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in March 2025, the 18-month siege of El-Fasher, Darfur, which started in May 2024 and continued until the city’s fall to the RSF in October 2025, was largely ignored. Today, factories in Khartoum have gone [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/khartoum-the-most-selfish-city-if-we-let-it-be/feed/ 0