The African continent is mostly reported as a land of poverty, civil strife and endless lines of begging hands. Problems facing the continent are portrayed and communicated mostly by foreign eyes through the monopoly-controlled news media.
By publishing African Agenda, Third World Network Africa aims to provide a different, more complex and nuanced perspective. Open your eyes and ears to an African perspective on critical issues such as trade, the environment, gender and sustainable development.
Tanzania has attracted huge interest as a destination for large-scale agricultural investment but communities are taking actions to get strong legal protection for their communal land, writes *Kizito Makoye Helena Magafu smiled as she held a piece of paper...
A UN report paints a bleak picture for the Occupied Palestinian Territory and faults Israel for the worsening of socioeconomic conditions as the blockade enters its eleventh year, writes *Jaya Ramachandran A new United Nations report has called for...
Brussels sets up a ‘special purpose vehicle’ to bypass the US dollar and allow financial transactions with Tehran to continue, writes *Pepe Escobar History may one day rule this was the fateful geopolitical moment when the European Union clinched...
Ghana has over the past one year been embroiled in a banking crisis with the closure of seven banks, the assumption of two by GCB Bank Ltd and the consolidation of the others into new one, writes *Etornam Nyalatorgbi....
*The world’s biggest drug companies are putting poor people’s health at risk by depriving governments of billions of dollars in taxes that could be used to invest in health care, and by using their power and influence to torpedo...