The Mathaba News Agency was an independent
alternative news agency
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founded in 1999, not to be confused with the World Mathaba organization ( ar, المثابة العالمية ) (al-Mathaba Aalamiya, meaning "The World Center") founded by the Libyan state in 1982 to further world-revolutionary and anti-imperialist goals.
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, attended by leftist or anti-Western leaders including Robert Mugabe
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of Zimbabwe
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's ZANU-PF, Daniel Ortega
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of the FSLN
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in Nicaragua
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, Raul Reyes
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