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As Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara presides over Africa’s fastest-growing economy and leads a ruling coalition that’s just won a fresh majority in parliament, he still faces a key threat to national stability: the army. A two-day mutiny by soldiers demanding

1 9 5 9 I Behind voice of guns Broken barricade of 1 9 5 9 Paved road for revolution Island locked in stock Against stomach seal with hunger Aristocracy eats on imperialist table Plantation of existence While life tear self bloodily Under with pain toil to death Earls before ‘5 9 And wardens of continent Barricade with philosophy Resources street leap for Like crawling ape for Stolen scrambles locked Holders before ‘5 9 Gangs of ward remnant Barricaded with stock guns But ‘5 9 tremble for fighters Heaven ice hearing voices Revolution in hose of guns Guns in farmers’ fingers Breaking wall of 1 9 5 9 Through arrow’s voice at front Fired at aristocracy before ‘5 9 Landlords, gangs, government And philosophy feeding fattest Earl’s fat getting fatter Than Island encamp for wardens Shipping better life banking While street rolled back suffering Drink saliva to kill thirst Life nail to cloud of death II Lesson must awaken consciousness Ov

About ninety five dock workers from the five different sublet companies (Daisy Chain, Bluche, Biz Biak, Tobef etc) that are eight hundred and eighty six under ENL Consortium Nig. ltd gathered on 25 November, 2016 (Friday) to review the whole seven month old of their struggle, they workers have been demanding through peaceful and protest letters etc the private shipping company pay them their ten years unpaid benefit and arrears they worked for. Being there struggle have jump in-to the lane of legal battle with ENL, the workers agitation over this matter becomes more sharper in knowing what to do next to earn their victory. At the meeting that lasted for nearly two hours, there was a debate whether to procrastinate their weekly meeting till next year before their first court sitting on 22 February, 2017 between them Dock workers and ENL Consortium Nig. Ltd; or continued gathering together just the way it has been done for months now on discussing strategy to sustain their strug

'I am thinking to death In the casket of unforgiveness And can't be soften Be lenient to words When seen life edited Hang like roasted fish'

In the mess of my country Life welds itself to somnambulism

Thursday 13 October, 2016 members of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Ajegunle branch under the aegis of Ajegunle People and Communities (AP & C) attended a Leadership meeting called by the

  At exactly 4:30pm on 22 September, 2016 the okada riders in their numbers gathered at the usual convergence to keep the fire of the struggle burning so it can touch the heaven against police brutality and the government

Colombia has begun grappling with the astonishing rejection by voters of a peace deal to end 52 years of war with Farc guerrillas , after a referendum on Sunday which has thrown the country into a state of confusion and uncertainty. Reeling from the stunning defeat for the deal that took four years of arduous negotiations to conclude, both the government and the Farc have said they will persist in seeking peace for the country after 50.2% of voters rejected the agreement, to 49.7% who approved it. “Peace is here to stay,” Rodrigo Londoño, the Farc commander-in-chief known by the nom de guerre Timochenko, said in a video statement from Havana on Monday, adding that the rebel group’s members would not return to hostilities in a war that has cost more than 220,000 lives and displaced more than 6 million from their homes. His comments echoed a speech after the results were released on Sunday night by Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, who has staked his presiden

Tuesday March 22 nd , 2016 on the very hour of 6:30am, which was generally agreed in the last meeting of 20 th March, 2016 (Sunday) that the people should

I Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold. Whom no compassion fleers Or makes their feet Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers. The front line withers, But they are troops who fade, not flowers For poets’ tearful fooling: Men, gaps for filling: Losses, who might have fought Longer; but no one bothers. II And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling, And Chance’s strange arithmetic