Monthly Archives: January 2018

Gunmen kill 12 soldiers in eastern DR Congo

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http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/19/549486/Congo-soldiers-

Fri Jan 19, 2018 06:01PM
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) fire a mobile artillery piece in Matombo, January 13, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) fire a mobile artillery piece in Matombo, January 13, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

At least 12 Congolese soldiers have

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UN says number of extra-judicial killings in DR Congo has tripled

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http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/24/550066/UN-DR-Congo-executions

Wed Jan 24, 2018 06:28PM
Ghanaian soldiers affiliated to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) arrive on October 24, 2017 in a village in the district of Kamonia, one of the areas that saw the heaviest fighting during the conflicts in restive Kasai region, the central Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AFP photo)
Ghanaian soldiers affiliated to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) arrive on October 24, 2017 in a village in the district
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Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa

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https://larouchepac.com/20180119/extending-new-silk-road-west-asia-and-africa

Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa

Hussein Askary and Jason Ross join LaRouchePAC’s Matthew Ogden for a discussion the vision for an economic renaissance in West Asia and Africa contained in a groundbreaking Schiller Institute report, which will challenge everything you … Read the rest

Post-Election South Africa: Close Combat Over the New Economic Paradigm

re posted from                           EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW

https://www.larouchepub.com/other/2018/4502_saf_elex.html

This article appears in the January 12, 2018 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

STRATEGIC BACKGROUND

Post-Election South Africa:
Close Combat Over the
New Economic Paradigm

by David Cherry, R.P. Tsokolibane, and M.M. Maxongo

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President Trump’s Fundamentally Flawed Africa Policy

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President Trump’s Fundamentally Flawed Africa Policy

President Trump’s Fundamentally Flawed Africa Policy

By Lawrence Freeman,

January 4, 2018

After nearly a year in office, the outline of President Donald Trump’s policy for Africa has emerged as fundamentally and seriously flawed. In a similar … Read the rest

US Ally Uganda Attacks Congo’s Beni Territory

re posted from                                  Black Star News

http://www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/africa/us-ally-uganda-attacks-congos-beni-territory.html

US Ally Uganda Attacks Congo’s Beni Territory

Ann GarrisonDecember 27,2017

An interview with Boniface Musavuli

The Congo crisis is now one of the greatest humanitarian emergencies in the world and the most underreported. An average of 5,500 people a day flee violence
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From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Fake Economics’: Nobel Prize Committee Rewards a Faker

re posted from                                 The Schiller Institute

http://r.schillerinstitute.org/economy/2017/1017-nudge-nooge/nn.html

From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Fake Economics’: Nobel Prize Committee Rewards a Faker

by Harley Schlanger

October 12—In the last year, since the Brexit vote in the U.K. and the election of Donald Trump in the U.S., there has been a growing awareness

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