Pentagon’s Obangame Express 2014 brings in more navies while military build-up continues Reports indicate that the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) is expanding its operations on the continent. A series of naval maneuvers and exercises are…
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Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Pan-African News Wire. The Pan-African News Wire is an international electronic press service designed to foster intelligent discussion on the affairs of African people throughout the continent and the world. The press agency was founded in January of 1998 and has published thousands of articles and dispatches in newspapers, magazines, journals, research reports, blogs and websites throughout the world. The PANW represents the only daily international news source on pan-african and global affairs.
12,000 others have been authorized by the United Nations Security Council Additional foreign troops are arriving in the troubled Central African Republic (CAR) where 2,000 French soldiers have failed to halt the forced removal and…
Two decades later Paris refuses to attend ceremony in Kigali Rwandan President Paul Kagame has once again escalated conflict with the government of France by accusing the European country of playing a critical role in…
South Africa and Zimbabwe leaders say they will not attend until the continent’s peoples are treated equally A planned summit between the European Union (EU) and the African nation-states has been met with controversy and…
Libya facing greater intervention by imperialist states Three years after the massive eight-month bombing campaign against Libya was carried out by the Pentagon and NATO, divisions within the rebel forces that served as ground troops…
Saadi Gaddafi extradited from Niger cannot get fair trial three years after Pentagon-NATO bombings On March 19, 2011, the United States and allied NATO war planes began a massive bombing campaign against the North African…
Lessons for the ongoing struggle in the United States and South Africa Note: The following address was delivered on Saturday Feb. 15, 2014 at the Annual African American History Month forum sponsored by Workers World…
Growing instability in East and Central Africa will be the focus of Washington’s intervention Over the last two months developments in Central and East Africa has dominated the news coverage of the continent. The split…
For nearly seven months in 2011, NATO planes — particularly from the U.S., France, Britain and Canada — carried out a massive bombing campaign in Libya intended to overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi. After…
Fannie Lou Hamer remains a symbol for her role in the Freedom Movement African American History Month Series During the summer of 1964 over 1,000 student volunteers along with rank-and-file workers and professionals from the…