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Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad cover anti-French developments in the Sahel. By Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad Peoples Dispatch In Bamako, Mali, on Sept. 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On X, the social media platform formerly

Natalia Marques responds to a property developer's recent call for more "pain" in the U.S. economy by highlighting what happened after pandemic-era aid ended. By Natalia Marques Peoples Dispatch Millionaire real estate company head Tim Gurner went viral  (not for the first time) for his ba

This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on Sept 20, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly began on Tuesday, September 19. On the opening day, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who is also the Chairman of the G77+China bloc, delivered a powerful speech critiquing the current global order and listing out the structural changes needed to address pressing challenges such as

Speaking at the UN General Assembly session, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel stressed the need a more just "international economic order."

On September 11, hundreds of women took to the streets of Ecuador’s capital Quito in rejection of gender-based violence one year after the femicide of lawyer María Belén Bernal by her cop husband Germán Fernando Cáceres. Photo: Arahi/X By Peoples Dispatch On September 11, hundreds of women as well as members of various feminist movements and human rights organizations took to the streets of Ecuador’s capital Quito in rejection of gender-based violence. The mobilization took place one yea...

Zoe Alexandra reports on the commemorations in Chile of the 1973 coup, including a centerpiece candle light vigil at the National Stadium in Santiago, one of the largest centers of torture and detention during the Pinochet dictatorship. By Zoe Alexandra Peoples Dispatch Tens of thousands o

Congolese forces killed 56 people in the city of Goma during a protest against the presence of UN and EAC armed forces in the region.

This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on Sept. 06, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. Several roads in Goma in the DRC’s eastern province of North Kivu were barricaded and commercial establishments shut down as part of a “dead city” protest organized by civil society movements on Monday, September 4. The action was called in response to the killing of at least 56 people by the Congolese army (FARDC) in the city on Au...

France refuses to withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger, and reiterates its threat of supporting military invasion by ECOWAS.

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