Protesters demand immediate asylum, an end to racism and decent wages With the death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and the ensuing national mourning by the Zionist settler state, tens of thousand s of…
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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.
Fighting continues despite large-scale Western and United Nations presence President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of the Republic of Sudan flew to the capital of the Republic of South Sudan on January 6 in an effort to…
Al-Shabaab repels Navy Seals while Libyan kidnapping sparks protest On October 5 the United States military forces intervened in the African states of Libya and Somalia under the guise of waging its “war on terrorism.”…
Extraordinary summit in Addis Ababa rejects prosecution of heads-of-state An extraordinary summit of the 54-member African Union (AU) took place at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on October 11-12. The purpose of the gathering…
Attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi related to White House funding of Mogadishu occupation Billows of smoke emanated from the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya on the third day of a standoff between Kenyan,…
Electrical outage serves as prelude to privatization of public lighting When the lights went out at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (CAYMAC), the City-County Building, on September 11 it was during one of the…
TomDispatch tracks where the Pentagon is moving in Africa A recent study conducted by Nick Turse of TomDispatch.com on the increasing role of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) illustrates why this issue should become…
South African workers are continuing their struggle against the bosses with strike actions spreading from the mines, automobile plants, air transport technology stations to construction sites. On September 3, thousands of members of the National…
While developments in Egypt in the aftermath of the military coup and a series of military and police massacres against supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood have dominated the western media, a series of strikes inside…
Imperialist states disregard AU, SADC, COMESA who endorsed elections Zimbabwe held national harmonized elections on July 31 returning President Robert Mugabe to office for his seventh term since independence in 1980. The Zimbabwe African National…