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  • Long struggle of south Sudan gains strength

    Since early January, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA), in a joint offensive with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) — an coalition of northern political groups opposed to the military dictatorship — has captured a

  • Interview with Zairean opposition leader &&

    JEAN-BAPTISTE MULEMBA MAKUBI, spokesperson of the Coalition of Democratic Organisations of the Zairean Diaspora (CODEZAD), was interviewed by ALAIN MATHIEU in the December 19 issue of the French left weekly Rouge. In France, CODEZAD represents the

  • Bakun Dam threatens Sarawak people, rainforest &&

    Last October, the Bakun Dam project contracts were signed in Malaysia between the Swedish-Swiss Asia Brown Boveri (ABB) consortium and Ekran Berhad. The US$5.5 billion Bakun Dam, masterminded by the timber tycoon and executive

  • Russia's 'big cop'

    MOSCOW — While Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais jostle for power under Yeltsin, interior minister General Anatoly Kulikov is systematically occupying key positions. The

  • Chemical blamed in dolphin deaths &&

    Chemical blamed in dolphin deaths Researchers have found butyltin compounds, including tributyltin (TBT), in the liver, kidney and muscle of bottlenose dolphins that were stranded along the south-east US Atlantic and Gulf coasts between 1989 and

  • Germany's new iron curtain

    Germany's new iron curtain A particularly severe winter, with temperatures as low as -22° C, has had a heavy toll among refugees attempting to cross Germany's eastern border with Poland and the Czech Republic. On December 7, a 35-year-old

  • Report reveals de Klerk covered up 'Third Force'

    South Africa's last apartheid-era state president, F.W. de Klerk, was handed a report almost 18 months before the historic April 1994 election that spelled out the apartheid military's role in the so-called "Third Force", a shadowy

  • Monsanto agrees to change Roundup ads &&

    Monsanto agrees to change Roundup ads Monsanto Corporation has agreed to change its advertising for glyphosate-based products, including Roundup, in response to complaints by the New York attorney general's office that the ads were misleading. The

  • Workers' ultimatum for Kim Young-sam

    After nearly four weeks of general strikes which involved around 260,000 South Korean workers in daily walk-outs, strike leaders announced on January 18 that the walk-outs would be replaced by strikes on Wednesdays and rallies on

  • Tension in East Timor continues

    Over the past few weeks Indonesian military, security agents and pro-integration youth thugs from GARDIPAKSI have terrorised East Timorese youth in Dili and other regional centres. Scores of young Timorese have been rounded up, detained

  • Stalin's hand in the French CP

    Stalin's hand in the French CPDocuments recently released by the Russian presidential archives demonstrate to what extent former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin controlled the policies of the French Communist Party. In June

  • Indonesian show trial reveals more than planned

    Indonesian show trial reveals more than plannedThe Suharto regime's attempt to blame members of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) for the July 27 riots in Jakarta floundered after its own National Human Rights Commission