Tag Archives: Colonialism

Theresa May in Africa: cynical post-Brexit development agenda smacks of desperation

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s much hyped recent visit to Africa sought to create a solution to Britain’s likely post-Brexit economic woes rather than promote a development agenda benefiting Africans.

Media calls white men’s sexual violence against Black African women and girls “transactional sex”

By reporting allegations of sexual assault committed by predatory white UN peacekeepers against Black African women and girls as “consensual sex”, the media presents Black bodies as “sites for white expressions of sadism and sexual perversion”, and reproduces stereotypes informed by white supremacy.

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Tag Archives: Colonialism

Theresa May in Africa: cynical post-Brexit development agenda smacks of desperation

Editor's Blog

Trump’s letter to the House and Senate on renewal of Zimbabwe sanctions

Mnangagwa regime’s ongoing brutalities “betray promises to create a new Zimbabwe,” says U.S.

Mnangagwa regime blocks Internet access to conceal Zimbabwe security forces’ extrajudicial killings, “systematic torture”

President ED Mnangagwa’s post-Mugabe Zimbabwe continues to persecute the opposition

Zimbabwe police charge Twitter user for retweeting tweet parodying ZEC chairperson Priscilla Chigumba

Africa

Theresa May in Africa: cynical post-Brexit development agenda smacks of desperation

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf no champion of gender equity in politics

Mugabe surrendered Zimbabweans’ US$2.76 billion to multinational corporations through “illicit financial flows”

Revealed: Margaret Thatcher’s “Marshall Plan for southern Africa”

Media calls white men’s sexual violence against Black African women and girls “transactional sex”

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe’s dangerous Mugabe-era cybersecurity bill becomes omnibus, more lethal

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe-era omnibus cyber security bill threatens fundamental rights

In Zimbabwe, A New Cyber Security Ministry To Strengthen Mugabe’s Digital Authoritarianism

Zimbabwe’s digital activists “can easily be identified” by Mugabe’s all-seeing surveillance state

Mugabe’s proposed cybersecurity law targets Zimbabwean diaspora

Zimbabwe

Trump’s letter to the House and Senate on renewal of Zimbabwe sanctions

Zimbabwe: three reasons why it’s all going so wrong for Mnangagwa

Mnangagwa regime’s ongoing brutalities “betray promises to create a new Zimbabwe,” says U.S.

Fantasy that Mnangagwa would fix Zimbabwe now fully exposed

Mnangagwa regime blocks Internet access to conceal Zimbabwe security forces’ extrajudicial killings, “systematic torture”