Dennis Laumann

LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Laumann

• World

  

  Southern Sudan begins vote on separation

  January 6, 2011 By Dennis Laumann

  Voters in southern Sudan, over a one-week period beginning this Sunday as scheduled, will be choosing between unity and separation.

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• World

  

  Gbagbo refuses to cede power after elections in Cote d’Ivoire

  December 8, 2010 By Dennis Laumann

  A look at the current political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

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• World

  

  Basil Davidson, path-breaking historian of Africa, dies at 95

  July 16, 2010 By Dennis Laumann

  Basil Davidson, the great radical journalist whose books introduced a mass audience to Africa's history, died on July 9 at the age of 95.

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• Opinion

  

  José Saramago, Nobel author, Communist, mourned in Portugal

  June 21, 2010 By Dennis Laumann

  An estimated 20,000 mourners, including Portugal's Socialist prime minister and the leader of the Portuguese Communist Party, attended Saramago's funeral in Lisbon on Monday.

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• World

  

  Rwanda releases U.S. lawyer Erlinder

  June 18, 2010 By Dennis Laumann

  Progressive U.S. lawyer Peter Erlinder has been freed from jail in Rwanda and may be returning to the United States within the next few days.

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• World

  

  Seeing Sudan elections through the lens of history

  April 2, 2010 By Dennis Laumann

  The elections in Sudan have meaning not only for its people but neighboring countries, multinational corporations and imperialist powers, as well. It's through the larger historic, regional, and global contexts that recent events in Sudan can...

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• World

  

  Fidel & Che: An interview with the author

  November 2, 2009 By Dennis Laumann

  It lasted a mere 12 years, but the relationship between Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara changed the course of Cuba's history and continues to intrigue us today.

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• World

  

  Military legacy at root of recent violence in Guinea

  October 5, 2009 By Dennis Laumann

  The people of Guinea are looking to institutions like the UN and the African Union to help  after the country was seized by recent military-instigated violence.

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