The fourth instalment on lessons for the left shows how the Colombian left built a successful electoral project in face of brutal opposition from entrenched elites backed by US imperialism
In South Africa, environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase and police detective Leroy Bruwer were killed
Michela Wrong debunks the myth of Rwanda as a model developmental state and a poster child for Western aid, the theme of her latest book
Governments across sub-Saharan Africa violently pursue exiles abroad. Democracies must push back
Violence flared on Saturday afternoon in Amhara, one of nine autonomous regions, when a ‘hit squad’ attacked a meeting of top officials
Morsi was often kept in solitary confinement, while struggling with both diabetes and high blood pressure
A former colleague has been charged with the murder of an arts dean after threatening him
Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’
Janusz Walus is expected to return to the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday morning to once again apply for parole
A report released this week exposed a growing crisis of contract killings in the country, and in the taxi industry in particular
A look into the web of killings in KwaZulu-Natal reveals hitmen, security firms and political players
Leaders were assassinated in a takeover plot, the SACP has told the KwaZulu-Natal inquiry
Violence in the country is a product of people’s circumstances, so many say. But is it really?
While the death toll for politicians is increasing ahead of the local government elections, Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko pledges to intervene.
Political assassinations in South Africa have become a feature sustained by corruption, infighting and the "ruling party’s hegemony".
Theories about the death of John F Kennedy are in overdrive as the 50th ?anniversary of his death approaches — even John Kerry is weighing in.
Israel said on Wednesday the use foreign-born Israeli identities by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamas militant did not prove Mossad did it.
The head of the Iraqi Parliament’s biggest Sunni Muslim bloc was killed at a mosque on Friday, officials said.
Gunmen on Friday killed a government minister who was to be a candidate in Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election.
The blood-soaked kitchen where Guinea-Bissau’s president was brutally murdered is littered with broken glass, bullet casings and a rusted machete.
Nino Vieira, the president of Guinea-Bissau who was shot dead aged 69 in the capital on Monday, was one of the most plotted against of African leaders
Guinea-Bissau’s main opposition party has warned of unrest as it criticised the "haste" in which the Parliament speaker was named interim leader.
Guinea-Bissau’s National Assembly speaker Raimundo Pereira will take oath as interim head of state on Tuesday afternoon.
African and Portuguese-speaking envoys flew to Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday to head off a possible coup after the president and army chief were killed.
The African Union and former colonial power Portugal on Monday led calls condemning the assassination of Guinea-Bissau’s leader Joao Bernardo Vieira.
Guinea-Bissau soldiers gunned down veteran President Joao Bernardo Vieira as he fled his home early on Monday, a military spokesperson said.
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A top official has been transferred to France in connection with the death of Rwanda’s former president
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Israel moved the assassin of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on Friday to a higher security prison to punish him for giving TV interviews.
The mysterious assassination of a top Syrian army officer and right-hand man to President Bashar al-Assad has triggered intense speculation.