June 24
Sudan: Sudanese Communist Party Leader Arrested By Military Intelligence
Amal El Zein, a member of the political bureau of the Sudanese Communist Party, was arrested by military intelligence Read more »
June 19
Kenya: Amid Economic Hardship and Repression, Kenyans Reject the Finance Bill 2024
Hundreds were arrested and brutalized in Nairobi by police forces during protests against the government's finance bill Read more »
June 12
Somalia: At Least 180 Migrants Feared Dead in Accident Off Yemen's Coast
Every year thousands of migrants fleeing poverty, conflict zones or harsh climate conditions and in search of jobs and decent life face death and inhumane conditions in their… Read more »
March 13
Kenya: Kenyan Health Workers Prepare for a New Round of Industrial Action
The workers' demands include stable working conditions and aligning incomes with living expenses. They are mobilizing at a time when the government is preparing to implement a… Read more »
March 12
Sudan: Farmers Killed Across Sudan's Agricultural Heartland While Hunger Engulfs the War-Torn County
While more than half the war-torn country's population is suffering hunger, the marauding troops of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are killing farmers in their hundreds and… Read more »
March 05
Kenya: Kenyan Health Workers Protest Repression, Govt Failure to Meet Demands
Kenyan health workers' union, KMPDU, is preparing for new round of actions in response to police brutality against trade union officials during a demonstration Read more »
February 26
Sudan: Starvation and Disease Threaten Millions in Sudan As Civil War Rages On
With over half the population hungry and starvation deaths increasing by the hour, Sudanese brace for worse as the country enters the lean season on the heels of a harvest season… Read more »
February 12
Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed Faces a Divided Ethiopia and Growing Pressure
Significant miscalculations by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government have pushed the once hopeful Ethiopia to worrying instability, says former diplomat Mohamed Hassan Read more »
January 30
Africa: What's Behind Ethiopia's Overtures Toward Recognition of Somaliland?
At a time when Israel's shipping through Red Sea has been blocked by Ansarallah in Yemen, control over the coast of Somaliland to its south across the Gulf of Aden, has become… Read more »
January 01
Sudan: War in Sudan Engulfs Agricultural Heartland Amid Record Levels of Hunger
After capturing Gezira, a State in central Sudan that was producing half of its wheat and providing refuge to hundreds of thousands of IDPs, the RSF is set to battle the Sudanese… Read more »
December 19, 2023
Tanzania: Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary, Mviwata Vows to Strengthen Peasant Solidarity in Tanzania
Peoples Dispatch spoke to two leaders of Tanzania's peasant movement about the importance of peasant unity and the struggle against neoliberalism Read more »
October 16, 2023
Tanzania: Tanzanian Farmers Are Paying for 'Conservation' With Their Land and Lives
For over 15 years, small farmers and pastoralists in Tanzania's Mbarali have been facing threats of eviction, criminalization and violent attacks by the state to expand the Ruaha… Read more »