Anti-government rebels in eastern Zaire have taken control of large areas of the provinces of South Kivu and North Kivu. Contrary to the mainstream media's simplistic description of the revolt as a "tribal conflict", it is becoming
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The South African parliament has overwhelmingly passed a new law that entrenches the right of women to free, safe abortion. The Termination of Pregnancy Bill has been hailed as one of the best reproductive rights laws in the world.
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The refugee crisis in eastern Zaire follows months of brutal oppression — largely unreported in the mainstream media — against the Banyarwanda and Banyamulenge ethnic groups by the Zaire dictatorship, in league with those
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"I have no confidence there can be justice in South Africa", Mbusi Ntuli said bitterly following the October 11 acquittal of former apartheid regime defence minister Magnus Malan and other senior police and security force officers
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Witnesses have linked the murderer of Bougainville Transitional Government Premier Theodore Miriung to the pro-PNG "Resistance" groups. Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) commander Sam Kauona has also named the person he believes
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The pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government has denied involvement in the murder of the Port Moresby-appointed premier of Bougainville, Theodore Miriung. BIG spokespeople believe that, in the light of tensions between Miriung
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Papua New Guinea's leading radical group, Melanesian Solidarity (Melsol), is under increasing pressure from its supporters to form a party committed to the country's poor, the group's national general secretary, Peti Lafanama, told
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Tonga's absolute monarch, King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, suddenly dissolved parliament after it voted on October 1 to impeach the minister of justice for corruption. The move coincided with mounting local and international protests about
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The visit of Tibet's exiled ruler Tenzin Gyatso, better known as the 14th Dalai Lama, has focused attention on the Chinese government's continued denial of the Tibetan people's right to national self-determination, the absence of
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The hypocrisy of the US government's claim that its cruise missile barrage on Iraq was to protect the rights of the Kurdish people in the US-proclaimed "safe haven" in northern Iraq is more obvious than ever following Washington's
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As Green Left Weekly goes to press, the United States is preparing further bombing and missile attacks on Iraq. This has done little, however, to stop the establishment media in Australia parroting US President Bill Clinton's claim