Africa

• No More "Green Capitalism"

  by Josep Maria Antentas, Esther Vivas

  10 January 2012

  We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summarize the outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) which took place in Durban, South Africa between 28 November and 10 December 2011. There is a striking contrast between the rapid response by governments and international institutions at the onset of the economic and financial crisis of 2007-08 in bailing out private banks with public money and the complete (...)

• Attac Togo press release on the last joint Assembly ACP-EU

  
  by Attac-Togo

  7 December 2011

  Attac Togo paid particular attention to the debates held during the last joint meeting ACP-EU, notably about the external debt of the ACP countries. Attac Togo is thrilled at the importance given by the representatives of the ACP countries and the EU to the major theme and welcomes the parliamentarians’ consideration for some of the suggestions of the civil society committed in this theme. Years after the beginning of the debt in the South, we have reached a new debt crisis which throws the (...)

• Africa gathers against G20 in Niono ( Mali) from October 31st till November 3rd, 2011

  1 November 2011

  The increase of the crises into which are plunged the world these last years has respite to call to the peoples whose voices are never understood. Of meetings in meetings, the proposed solutions and the effects of announcement of the end of crisis, economic recovery appear more and more as deceits repeated to vote-catching purposes. It makes no more doubt that the system is bankrupt. The rescue renewed the European private banks and the recapitalization of the IMF (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY (...)

• The whys of famine

  by Esther Vivas

  22 August 2011

  We live in a world of plenty. Today food is produced for 12,000 million people, according to the Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO), when the planet is inhabited by 7,000 people. There is food. So why is one of every seven people in the world going hungry? The food emergency that affects over 10 million people in the Horn of Africa brings to light a disaster that has nothing natural about it. Droughts, floods, wars … serve to exacerbate a situation of extreme food (...)

• Africa and the climate finance controversy

  by Patrick Bond

  21 October 2010

  Will Africa end up paying for technologies that commodify life, or demand reparations for ecological damage done by the North, asks Patrick Bond. Let us accept Pat Mooney’s six theses about damaging new world trends: Loss of diversity; the threat of shock-therapy bio-engineering; the profusion of state-subsidised technological fixes (mainly unworkable); the disempowerment of those promoting ecologically- and socially-preferable alternatives; amplified state-corporate control over body (...)

• Is Africa still being looted? A debate dodging World Bank schizophrenia

  by Patrick Bond

  27 August 2010

  The continent’s own elites, the West and now China are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials. Reinvestment is negligible and the prices, royalties and taxes paid are inadequate to compensate the wasting away of Africa’s natural wealth. Anti-extraction campaigns by civil society are the only hope for a reversal of these neocolonial relations. Though it’s easy to prove, using even the World Bank’s main study of natural resource economics, (...)

• Presse release of the african Attac network on Copenhaguen Council

  Emergency. Let us save the planet, let us save Africa

  13 December 2009

  No to the commodification of the climate Another world, social, united and ecological, is possible Africans still bear in mind the recent floods that have led to the death and displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in several countries of the continent this year. This kind of natural disaster is becoming more and more frequent in Africa which was not the case in the past. Forecasts are not reassuring: climatologists predict virtual climatic catastrophes due to global warming. It (...)

• Barack Obama’s three misdeeds in Africa

  
  by CADTM

  21 July 2009

  The authors are: Emilie Tamadaho Atchaca (Benin), Solange Koné (Ivory Coast), Jean Victor Lemvo (Congo Brazzaville), Damien Millet (France), Luc Mukendi and Victor Nzuzi (Congo Kinshasa), Sophie Perchellet (France), Aminata Barry Touré (Mali), Eric Toussaint (Belgium), Ibrahim Yacouba (Niger), all members of CADTM www.cadtm.org After the G8 summit in Italy, US President Barack Obama flew off to Africa with a so-called gift: an envelope of 20 billion dollars to distribute over 3 years, so (...)

• WOMEN’S CALL FOR PEACE

  by World March of Women

  27 November 2008

  PEACE and DEMILITARISATION COLLECTIVE in the GREAT LAKES REGION of AFRICA This organisation brings together women from groups in Rwanda, Burundi, and North/South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. WOMEN’S CALL FOR PEACE We, the women of the Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo groups, in alliance with the World March of Women, are issuing a call for peace in the African Great Lakes Region and around the world; Deeply concerned by the renewed outbreaks of wars (...)

• Natural Resources are the Common Goods of Humanity

  
  by CADTM

  20 July 2008

  Controlling the use of natural resources is one of the major concerns of all governments. However, large quantities of these natural resources are found in countries of the South (oil, metals, diamond, timber, etc.) and thus attract the great powers, such as the US, the EU or China, who have an imperative need for them to feed their economies. The consequences are often tragic for people in the Global South, who cannot benefit from their own resources. For instance the Democratic Republic (...)

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