Africa

Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region.

The traditional community Gacaca courts –set up to prosecute the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide– will be closing this month. But how will they be remembered by Rwandans?

Whatever hidden hands that continue to exploit Sudan’s woes now need to be exposed and isolated.

Announcing the 60th anniversary lecture of Toward Freedom in Chicago at Northwestern University on May 2nd by Professor Horace Campbell with introductory remarks by Greg Guma, former Toward Freedom editor.

Since the fall of northern Mali to the forces of the Tuareg at the end of March 2012, the situation has grown in complexity.

Mali was the first major victim of Nato's Libyan intervention. It is now a staple in world news and headlines such as "The mess in Mali" serve as a mere reminder of a bigger "African mess."