By Bill Fletcher, Jr.

As the plane dropped through the clouds making its final approach to Nouakchott airport, I looked out the window to my right. All I saw was a vast, beautiful, yet desolate terrain. As we landed, I asked myself a simple question, How did I get to Mauritania?

Where is Mauritania?

By Samia Kouider

By Samia Kouider

A Call for Social Solidarity in South Africa

We, as civic organizations, trade unions, organizations of informal workers, faith-based organizations and community structures in South Africa, call on all people, every stakeholder and sector, to contain the infection, reduce transmission and mitigate the social and political impacts of the COVID-19 virus.

According to the African Space Industry Report– 2019 Edition, the industry has launched more than 30 satellites into space and has over $7 billion in annual revenues which are projected to exceed $10 billion by 2024. The report from Space in Africa covers the continent’s journey into space from 1998 through May 2019.

Following is an excerpt from an article on the report.

By Elizabeth Burden

I started working in the HIV prevention field in 1988 when my daughters Clariece and Charisse were three-years-old and 21-months respectively; they are now 35 and 32. This was seven years into the U.S. epidemic (Global HIV/AIDS Timeline 2018), and three years before Magic Johnson announced that he was HIV-positive. 

Starting Points for a Paradigm Shift from Foreign Policy to Global Policy*

By William Minter and Imani Countess

A Necessary, Timely Reckoning

By Raquel McGee

By Deborah Morris-Harris, M.D

In 1981, there were several cases of atypical pneumonia and diarrhea in Boston area hospitals that caused severe wasting and resulted in death. The cases clustered demographically in young Haitian immigrants. At the same time, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported cases of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Caucasian homosexual men, mean age of 39, in New York City and San Francisco.

A Poems by Nnimmo Bassey

How can this remain the lot of our peoples? 
From the south and from the north
From the east and from the west 
When our stomachs rumble 
We sing the same song

And dance to the same beat 

Mountains of food
Oceans of hunger

Proud people from fertile soils
We stamped the earth with bouncing steps 
Once the rulers of the world