Jadiya Alí Mohamed was born in 1993 and grew up in one of the five refugee camps located in southwestern Algeria, where the first Sahrawis were expelled following the illegal occupation of their territories by Morocco and Mauritania in 1975, and the subsequent war with the Polisario Front, forcing them into exile. With Morocco’s construction of successive walls separating the…
Hundreds of grassroots African, Afro-descendant, Black and Indigenous feminists, including those from the Americas, are gathering from 11 to 15 September in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organising School (IFOS). This will be the first edition of the School, known as IFOS, to be held in Africa. “It will be an opportunity to learn from grassroots feminist…
Five members of the Black Fraternal Organisation of Honduras (OFRANEH) were arrested during a violent eviction in the Garífuna community of San Juan, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, in early July. The five people were subsequently released but are facing criminal charges for “aggravated usurpation” of their own territory. This criminalisation is taking place in a context of growing…
A new report on corporate concentration in food and farming confirms that the global food chain is controlled by a handful of transnational corporations. A few weeks ago, the ETC Group and Grain published the 2026 edition of Top 10 Agribusiness Giants, a study they have been developing and updating for decades, which takes on particular significance against a backdrop…
