A recent communiqué and continent-wide survey released by the Pan-African Progressive Front (PPF) signals a crucial shift in Africa’s reparations movement, moving it from symbolic demands to a coordinated political and institutional agenda.
According to PPF, the findings informed a communiqué that seeks to close what it describes as a long-standing historical and political gap: Africa’s fragmented engagement with global reparations debates.
“Everyone agrees the wound is real,” said Princess Yanney, head of the PPF Public Affairs Directorate, in an interview with Peoples Dispatch. “But Africa has too often entered global conversations about slavery, colonial extraction, debt, and stolen heritage as scattered voices, country by country, ministry by ministry, sometimes NGO by NGO. That fragmentation makes it easy for former colonial powers to reduce reparations to symbolic regret rather than enforceable justice.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/29/70-of-africans-back-reparations-says-pan-african-progressive-front/
According to PPF, the findings informed a communiqué that seeks to close what it describes as a long-standing historical and political gap: Africa’s fragmented engagement with global reparations debates.
“Everyone agrees the wound is real,” said Princess Yanney, head of the PPF Public Affairs Directorate, in an interview with Peoples Dispatch. “But Africa has too often entered global conversations about slavery, colonial extraction, debt, and stolen heritage as scattered voices, country by country, ministry by ministry, sometimes NGO by NGO. That fragmentation makes it easy for former colonial powers to reduce reparations to symbolic regret rather than enforceable justice.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/29/70-of-africans-back-reparations-says-pan-african-progressive-front/
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“70% of Africans back reparations,” says Pan-African Progressive Front
The Pan-African Progressive Front has released a communiqué calling for reparations in Africa following the completion of a continent-wide survey.
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At least three people were killed and dozens injured during protests on Sunday, December 28, over the rising sectarian violence in Syria.
Protests by the Alawite community (a religious minority in the country) erupted in the western governorate of Homs, the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, and other areas after at least eight people were killed and 18 others wounded in a deadly explosion in a mosque in an Alawite-majority neighborhood in Homs.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/29/three-killed-dozens-injured-in-protests-over-sectarian-violence-in-syria/
Protests by the Alawite community (a religious minority in the country) erupted in the western governorate of Homs, the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, and other areas after at least eight people were killed and 18 others wounded in a deadly explosion in a mosque in an Alawite-majority neighborhood in Homs.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/29/three-killed-dozens-injured-in-protests-over-sectarian-violence-in-syria/
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Three killed, dozens injured in protests over sectarian violence in Syria
Protests erupted after a mosque bombing in an Alawite-majority neighborhood killed eight people. An ISIS splinter group claimed responsibility for the bombing only a week after the US launched a military operation purportedly against ISIS in Syria.
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The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, confirmed in a televised speech on Monday, December 29, that five of its military commanders were assassinated by Israel over the past several months in the Gaza Strip.
The movement has appointed a new spokesperson, who has inherited the nom de guerre of the late iconic resistance leader.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/hamas-confirms-the-assassination-of-abu-obaida-and-four-other-al-qassam-commanders/
The movement has appointed a new spokesperson, who has inherited the nom de guerre of the late iconic resistance leader.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/hamas-confirms-the-assassination-of-abu-obaida-and-four-other-al-qassam-commanders/
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Hamas confirms the assassination of Abu Obaida and four other Al-Qassam commanders
The movement has appointed a new spokesperson, who has inherited the nom de guerre of the late iconic resistance leader.
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2025 was not all defeats. Despite relentless attacks led by the far-right administration of US President Donald Trump and his allies on the peoples of the world, the people resisted and fought back. Here are some of the key people's victories from 2025.
Share any that we missed in the comments
Share any that we missed in the comments
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China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions against US weapons manufacturing firms and their high-level officials over Washington’s decision to allow billions of dollars of arms sales to Taiwan.
The sanctions freeze all the movable and unmovable properties in China belonging to these firms and individuals. Under the measures, Chinese individuals and firms are prohibited from engaging or doing business with these companies or individuals.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/china-imposes-sanctions-on-dozens-of-us-weapons-manufactures-over-arms-sales-to-taiwan/
The sanctions freeze all the movable and unmovable properties in China belonging to these firms and individuals. Under the measures, Chinese individuals and firms are prohibited from engaging or doing business with these companies or individuals.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/china-imposes-sanctions-on-dozens-of-us-weapons-manufactures-over-arms-sales-to-taiwan/
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China imposes sanctions on dozens of US weapons manufactures over arms sales to Taiwan
Ignoring repeated Chinese warnings and their own expressed commitments to the one-China policy, successive US administrations have been selling arms to Taiwan and supporting separatist forces there.
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Over 670 farmers gathered in Morogoro, Tanzania, on December 4-5 to chart a course for the future of MVIWATA (National Network of Farmers Groups in Tanzania), one of Africa’s most unique farmers’ organizations. The occasion was MVIWATA’s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM), which serves as the highest democratic platform for members to voice their aspirations for the organization’s future.
📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/29/mviwatas-30th-agm-forging-a-stronger-farmers-movement-in-tanzania/
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/29/mviwatas-30th-agm-forging-a-stronger-farmers-movement-in-tanzania/
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MVIWATA’s 30th AGM: Forging a stronger farmers’ movement in Tanzania
The Annual General Meeting of the organization brought together hundreds of farmers in dialogue about the situation facing farmers in Tanzania and how to continue fighting corporate capture of agriculture.
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As 2025 comes to a close, Vijay Prashad assesses the situation in Gaza where Israel has continually violated every ceasefire it has agreed upon, jeopardizing future efforts and the lives of the people in the Gaza Strip.
📲 Read the full article by Vijay Prashad on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/this-is-not-a-ceasefire-the-israeli-genocide-continues/
📲 Read the full article by Vijay Prashad on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/this-is-not-a-ceasefire-the-israeli-genocide-continues/
Peoples Dispatch
This is not a ceasefire: the Israeli genocide continues
As 2025 comes to a close, Vijay Prashad assesses the situation in Gaza where Israel has continually violated every ceasefire it has agreed upon, jeopardizing future efforts and the lives of the people in the Gaza Strip.
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Almost a month after the elections were held, the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras proclaimed the candidate of the far-right National Party of Honduras (PNH), businessman and former mayor of Tegucigalpa Nasry Asfura, as president-elect.
Despite being declared the winner, the other candidates do not recognize Asfura, the candidate supported by Trump, as the legitimate winner of the elections.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/nasry-asfura-is-proclaimed-president-elect-of-honduras-amid-allegations-of-electoral-fraud/
Despite being declared the winner, the other candidates do not recognize Asfura, the candidate supported by Trump, as the legitimate winner of the elections.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/nasry-asfura-is-proclaimed-president-elect-of-honduras-amid-allegations-of-electoral-fraud/
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Nasry Asfura is proclaimed president-elect of Honduras amid allegations of electoral fraud
Despite being declared the winner, the other candidates do not recognize Asfura, the candidate supported by Trump, as the legitimate winner of the elections.
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✌️2025 is coming to an end. It has been a year of intensified imperialist and right-wing attacks, but more so, it has been a year of unbreakable resistance of the peoples of the world.
At Peoples Dispatch, we work tirelessly to bring you the voices of the people and movements in struggle, as they are the major motors moving us forwards in history.
✨Here are some words to motivate another year in the fight for a better world. We hope you have enjoyed our work this year, and we wish all of our community a strong start to 2026!
At Peoples Dispatch, we work tirelessly to bring you the voices of the people and movements in struggle, as they are the major motors moving us forwards in history.
✨Here are some words to motivate another year in the fight for a better world. We hope you have enjoyed our work this year, and we wish all of our community a strong start to 2026!
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