We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
The waters are running red in Africa’s Great Lakes region
A war is raging that we can’t ignore any longer, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
DESPERATE: People fleeing the fighting between government forces and M-23 rebels make their way towards Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
In a revealing speech, Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy behind the tariff policy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony, reports MARC VANDEPITTE
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Natalia Marques looks at last week's ruling that Khalil can be deported and its implications
We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
As Labour mimics Tory welfare cuts while ignoring crumbling schools, educators must collectively resist the government's priorities and fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children, writes NEU president SARAH KILPATRICK
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
IN EARLY November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, and Rwanda, Vincent Biruta, met in Luanda, Angola, to find a political solution to a conflict that has been ongoing in eastern DRC for decades.
The foreign ministers agreed that the “peace roadmap” agreed to in a July meeting had to be implemented.
Angola’s President Joao Lourenco shuttled between Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and the DRC’s President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi in his role as the African Union’s “mediator in the crisis” between Rwanda and the DRC.
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