CAIRO -- Invoking the determination of his father, President Bashar Assad blamed foreign conspiracies for Syria's in highly awaited Wednesday that sought to brace his 40-year dynasty against similar to those that have left governments reeling across Middle East and Northern Africa.. ..…

In South Africa, the embrace of neoliberalism by the African National Congress-led government has left one of its partners and original backers, the trade union movement, demoralized. ..…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa left, shakes hands with Senegalese President Macky Sall, right, with Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, during Beijing China- Africa Cooperation Forum at Great Hall of the People, Sept 4. ..…

Shortly the newlyweds left for South Africa where they built their ranch named Seaforth near Norvalspont. ..…

“Over the past two years, hundreds of witnesses told us of brazen war crimes committed by Seleka and anti-balaka fighters across the center and eastern part of the Central African Republic,” said Lewis Mudge, Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The lack of justice for these crimes has..…

And Washington was unable to do much to slow the emerging 'Pink Tide' of left-wing governments in Latin America. . When the 'Arab Spring' revolutions of 2011 started breaking out across North Africa and the Middle East, the U.S. was in its weakest position to intervene since the end of the..…

Forty-three of the 52 remaining Commonwealth countries (not counting Britain) have long since left this hang-over from British colonialism. . These countries include Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. . ..…

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It was one thing to point to the ideal of a separate Black homeland in the U.S. or in Africa in the mid-1950s--a time when the left had been decimated by McCarthyism, organized labor was moving to the right, and the Southern civil rights movement was scattered in various locales. ..…