Mozambique’s Opposition Extends Truce As Step To End War

Mozambique’s opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama on Thursday extended indefinitely a unilateral truce he first announced in December, calling it the “beginning of the end” of the war between his rebels and the government. “Today I announce an indefinite truce. It is not the end of the war, but it is the beginning of the end,” … Read more

Neo-Colonialism, Economic Sovereignty and the Imperatives of Socialist Development

Over the last several years along the Indian Ocean coast in East Africa substantial finds of oil and natural gas resources have been under development. A British exploration corporation, Tullow Oil and its Canadian partner, Africa Oil, acknowledges that it has discovered in excess of 600 million barrels of oil in Kenya. At least eight … Read more