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The U.S. Role in the Wars in Congo and Somalia

By | 16/12/2008 | 0
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Imperialist's drive for economic domination fuels continental instability

by Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor
Pan-African News Wire
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Note: The following article is taken from a talk delivered at a Workers World public meeting on African affairs in Detroit on December 13, 2008.

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Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By | 24/11/2008 | 0
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As of the 1990s, women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) had not attained a position of full equality with men. Although the Mobutu regime has paid lip service to the important role of women in society and although women enjoy some legal rights (e.g., the right to own property and the right to participate in the economic and political sectors), custom and legal constraints still limit their opportunities.

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1975 OTRAG

By | 21/10/2008 | 0
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OTRAG (German: Orbital Transport und Raketen AG, or Orbital Transport and Rockets, Inc.), was a German company which planned in the late 1970s and early 1980s to develop an alternative propulsion system for rockets. OTRAG was the first commercial developer and producer of space launch vehicles. The OTRAG Rocket represents an inexpensive alternative to existing launch systems through mass-production of innovative Common Rocket Propulsion Units (CRPU).

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African colonization helped spread HIV and AIDS more than a century ago, study says (SCientific American)

By | 02/10/2008 | 0
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Although acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) didn't hit mainstream collective consciousness until the early 1980s, new research out of the University of Arizona in Tucson indicates that the most pervasive global strain of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, a finding that suggests growing urbanization in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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