SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
The waters are running red in Africa’s Great Lakes region
A war is raging that we can’t ignore any longer, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
IN EARLY November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, and Rwanda, Vincent Biruta, met in Luanda, Angola, to find a political solution to a conflict that has been ongoing in eastern DRC for decades.
The foreign ministers agreed that the “peace roadmap” agreed to in a July meeting had to be implemented.
Angola’s President Joao Lourenco shuttled between Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and the DRC’s President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi in his role as the African Union’s “mediator in the crisis” between Rwanda and the DRC.
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