EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FACES CRITICISM OVER GAZA INACTION

In a passionate speech, Irish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Aodhán Ó Ríordáin condemned EU inaction amidst Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza that had k*lled as many as 186,000 Palestinians by July 2024, according to the British medical journal, The Lancet.

Ríordáin unleashed the fiery presentation during a plenary debate where MEPs debated the future of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. This political and trade accord requires Israel to obey international human-rights laws.

MEPs called for the suspension of the agreement after reports of Israeli troops gunning down and burying 15 Red Crescent aid workers and their vehicles in a collective grave at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital. Reports say they were last seen on 23 March.

Continued…. Meanwhile, Israel has intensified airstrikes, enforced large-scale evacuations and imposed movement restrictions within the West Bank. Despite a 19 January ceasefire, Israel has also denied humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, and more than 1,000 medical personnel have been k*lled since 8 October 2023.

While some MEPs have demanded the EU cut funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that no other organisation has the capacity or mandate to do its life-saving work.

Ríordáin also blasted Germany’s deportation of two Irish nationals, Roberta Murray and Shane O’Brien, for participating in pro-Palestine demonstrations.

Video credit: @Europarl_EN (X)

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https://news.1rj.ru/str/InfosAes/6014

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SUDAN'S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION PART 1: THE STORY BEHIND SUDAN'S PROXY WAR!

Today marks 2 years since the world's worst humanitarian crisis recorded began. The Sudanese proxy war, which started on April 15, 2023, has resulted in a devastating humanitarian crisis, with nearly 14 million people displaced. Over 9.6 million have been displaced within Sudan, and nearly 4 million have sought refuge in neighbouring countries. The conflict has led to a significant increase in deaths, with estimates suggesting a potentially much higher death toll than previously reported. Additionally, the war has caused widespread destruction, severely impacting infrastructure and essential services. 

Continued……Yet the routes of this tragic war go back to the unfinished Sudanese revolution that began in December 2018, a popular uprising in Sudan led by women that made global headlines and inspired activists worldwide. Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir was forced to step down. However, the rest of the Sudanese military refused to relinquish control, causing a power-sharing agreement with a transitional civilian government to collapse. But that wasn't enough for Sudan's army generals and the leaders of the largest paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who once again took control of the Sudanese state in a military coup. However, that was not the end of the torment for the Sudanese people but rather the start of a new, terrifying beginning, as tensions between the Sudanese Army and the RSF began to boil, culminating in a bloody fight for power that broke out on April 15, 2023.

African Stream's CEO and Founder, Ahmed Kaballo, filmed this documentary in 2020 and released it in 2021, years before the conflict broke out. But the documentary touches on the conditions that led to this terrible war that has caused so much misery for the people of Sudan. Please watch and give us your thoughts. (All rights reserved to Aparat Media Productions.)

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MALIANS PROTEST ALGERIAN HOSTILITY

Hundreds of people recently gathered in the streets of Bamako, calling for an official apology from Algeria - for shooting down a Malian drone. Like their government, the protesters say the action was hostile and violated Mali’s sovereignty. Algiers says the drone had strayed 2 km into its territory, but Bamako insists it was patrolling 10 km away from the border, on the Malian side. Both countries have recalled their ambassadors, with Mali’s AES allies Burkina Faso and Niger doing the same in solidarity.

Behind the scenes, this is very good news for France - and, by extension, NATO. The three AES countries have explicitly rejected Western military presence and influence, expelling French troops and accusing France and the US of sponsoring terrorism to maintain chaos and access to natural resources. A divided region plays straight into the West’s playbook.

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Continued…….. Observers say the government’s discomfort was evident, not because the students were wrong, but because they were right. The parallels between the fictional play and real-life protest were undeniable. And in a move reminiscent of both colonial administrators and post-independence strongmen, the state chose censorship.

But the silencing failed. The High Court overruled the ban and reaffirmed the students’ right to perform. Yet when the troupe tried to take the stage, police responded not with applause, but with tear gas - dispersing the audience and disrupting the performance. This isn’t the first time Butere Girls’ High School has faced state repression for using theatre to speak truth to power. In 2012, their play Shackles of Doom was banned for exposing ethnic inequality and corruption.

Kenya remains uncomfortable when the oppressed find their voice, especially when that voice comes from the mouths of youngsters. And yet, in true pan-African spirit, what was meant to suppress has only amplified the students’ message. Their courage has gone viral, igniting nationwide support and reminding the world that Kenya’s youth, like young people across Africa, are refusing to be silenced.

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GABON LANDSLIDE: A WIN FOR FRANCE, U.S.?

According to Gabon’s interior ministry, Brice Oligui Nguema - the country’s transitional leader - won the recent presidential election by a landslide. The vote, held on 12 April 2025, was of intense interest to the now-defunct US Agency for International Development (USAID), which invested $5 million into the process. France too was keeping a close eye, as it has a military base in the country and French firms rely on Gabon’s resources. Paris had much at stake. Nguema is from the long-reigning Bongo dynasty, which has historically maintained tight relations with Paris and Washington. He came to power via a coup d’état on 30 August 2023, overthrowing his cousin Ali Bongo.

Continued…… The family’s long-standing ties to the West raise the question whether this was truly an election for Gabonese democracy or just another power shuffle that suits foreign interests.

Sources

https://www.africanews.com/2025/04/13/brice-oligui-nguema-wins-gabon-presidential-election-with-9035-of-the-vote/

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A Former Labour Party MP pointed out UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs David Lammy’s hypocrisy after he criticised Israel’s attacks on medical facilities in an X post and its repeated bombardment of Al-Ahli Hospital, following another airstrike on the hospital on 13 April. Zarah Sultana pierced at Lammy’s performative sympathy with six simple words: ‘Stop selling arms to Israel then.’

Since Israel’s onslaught on Gaza began on 7 October 2023, Israel has fabricated narratives to justify its systematic targeting of hospitals in Gaza, leaving them in states ‘beyond denoscription,’ according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In November 2023, Israel’s two-week siege of another Gaza hospital, Al-Shifa, under false allegations that it was a H*mas base holding hostages, complete with tunnels and elaborate command centres beneath it, culminated in the destruction of what was once Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital.

Continued……The irony in Lammy’s statements lies in the fact that the UK has licenced at least $660 million worth of military exports to Israel since 2015. 

By July 2024, the Lancet medical journal had estimated that Israel had k*lled more than 186,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Yet, the UK issued 108 new licences between October 2023 and May 2024. The UK also supplies the components for F-35 fighter jets and Israeli drones used in attacks on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Between July and September 2024, the UK approved an additional $14.5 million in military supplies to Israel. Moreover, the Royal Air Force (RAF) has conducted at least 518 surveillance flights around Gaza since December 2023 according to an investigation by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).

In September 2024, Lammy announced the suspension of some of London’s licenses for arms sales to Israel, but these only made up a fraction of total sales: 30 out of a whopping 350. Therefore, the UK remains complicit in what the International Court of Justice provisionally ruled in January 2024 as a ‘plausible’ gen*cide.

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https://caat.org.uk/data/exports-uk/overview?region=Israel&date_from=2024-07

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‘END SUDAN WAR BY BLOCKING EMIRATI WEAPONS!’

Today marks two years of Sudan’s devastating war. In this clip, African Stream’s CEO explains to the TRT news channel how the proxy conflict can be brought to an end. The so-called international community needs to pressure the United Arab Emirates - the main supplier of weapons to the genocidal Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, which has also been receiving funds and logistical support from Abu Dhabi. The biggest hindrance to that is the US, for whom the UAE is a vital ally in the Middle East.

Continued……. Two years of brutal fighting have torn Sudan apart. Half the population is facing acute hunger. Millions are displaced, either internally or in camps across the border. The destruction of hospitals and the wider health system has not only aggravated the humanitarian catastrophe but also made accurate reporting on the number of people killed and injured next to impossible. However, by any reasonable estimate, tens if not hundreds of thousands have died.

Video Credit: TRT World

Sources

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1161611

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crln9lk51dro

ZIONISM’S GRIP ON AFRICAN LIBERATION

On this day in 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded. While it started as a largely student-run organisation in the US Civil Rights movement advocating for voter rights and desegregation, it radicalised over time, favouring Pan-Africanism and coming out against US imperialism and Israel during the Six-Day War. 

SNCC advocated for connecting Black people’s struggles in the US to global movements against colonialism and oppression. The group officially ceased to exist in 1973, but its opposition to Israel in 1967 was the first nail in the coffin, as it lost funding shortly thereafter.

Today, many Black people in the US are shocked by the number of African politicians, celebrities, and friends supporting Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza.

In late 2023, African Stream took a look at the history of Zi*nist manipulation of Black people in the United States.