BURKINA FASO-VENEZUELA MEETUP IN RUSSIA

This year’s Victory Day celebrations in Moscow looked less like a standard show of military might and more like a summit of the unbowed, bringing together leaders from Africa, Asia and the Americas, signalling that the age of a one‑pole world is fading.

This clip captured a moment between Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré (@capitaineIb226 on X) and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, (@nicolasmaduro on IG) who expressed admiration for the Pan-Africanist revolution taking place in Burkina Faso, whose name means ‘the land of upright [people].’

Both men recognised the role of the West in subjugating the Global South. Maduro has faced several regime change attempts, such as through the West backing US-linked Venezuelan right-wing interventionist Juan Guaidó. 

Continued………On the other hand, Burkina Faso’s government has confirmed seven coup attempts since Traoré took power following a successful people-backed coup d’état. Both Maduro and Traoré have pursued pro-people policies. For instance, Maduro has championed social spending and initiatives like constructing homes for low-income families. In Burkina Faso, Traoré is building factories and gold processing facilities and modernising agriculture. Plus, Burkina Faso is building the all-too-important anti-imperialist confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) alongside Mali and Niger, a step toward continental unity.

Have a watch, and let us know what you make of the meeting.

Video credit to Faso 7 (@faso7tv on YouTube, @Faso7_BF on IG + X)

Sources
https://www.thehabarinetwork.com/burkina-faso-coup-anniversary-key-achievements-of-captain-ibrahim-traore

https://mltoday.com/ten-victories-of-president-maduro-in-2016

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJb5YDBCHwd/?img_index=5

FLOOD TRAGEDY ADDS TO DRC’S SUFFERING

The majority of the 119 people confirmed dead after the recent flooding in eastern DR Congo were reportedly children and the elderly.

On Thursday night (8 May 2025), torrential rains going into the following day in South Kivu broke the banks of the Kasaba River, sweeping away homes in a nearby village. Dozens were also injured. Rescue operations have been hampered by the destruction of telephone lines. The tragedy adds to the misery that decades of foreign-backed resource war and ensuing internal displacement have inflicted on the region.

Continued……. It’s also a stark reminder of the climate injustice our continent is subjected to. The West industrialised on the back of dirty technologies whose climate consequences Africans are feeling acutely. The DRC reportedly contributes less than 0.01% of global fossil CO2 emissions, and Africa as a whole around 4%.

Since January 2025, eastern DRC has experienced escalated violence from the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group. Although the country’s vast rainforests and peatlands serve as significant carbon sinks, they are increasingly threatened by environmental degradation due to the struggle for its resources involving foreign players.

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LET'S TALK ABOUT IBRAHIM TRAORÉ

In Episode 4 of her 'Let's Talk About' series, African Stream's @sannario_ presents the case for why Africans worldwide are rallying behind Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Ibrahim Traoré (@CapitaineIb226 on X). This moment, greater that one man, echoes the legacy of iconic revolutionary figures such as Thomas Sankara (1949-87), Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72), Malcolm X (1925-65) and Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), whose struggles and visions, once confined to the history books, continue to inspire and resonate deeply with pan-Africans worldwide.

Unlike past generations who fought primarily for survival against the brutalities of colonialism, this new wave is actively living through a revolution aimed at breaking neocolonial shackles and reclaiming African sovereignty from Western hands, which have long exploited not just the continent, but people of African descent across the world.

Shot at: @nomadcorner.africa (Instagram)
Music: @yabaangelosi (Instagram)

FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA LAMBASTED OVER GAZA

South Africans are not welcoming g*nocidaires and their accomplices. In this video, Stellenbosch University Professor Emeritus Usuf Chikte (@usufchikte on IG) took to task the French ambassador to South Africa, David Martinon, over his country’s involvement in Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.

French officials claim no new weapons have left Paris for Israel since the onslaught escalated in Gaza in October 2023, but that pause can't whitewash its record: Paris sold nearly $210 million in arms or arms licences to Israel between 2013 and 2022. These included spare parts for machine guns, weapon sights, bombardment calculators, and infrared or thermal imaging equipment, placing it squarely in the same Western supply chain as Germany, the UK, and the United States. Paris additionally banned pro-Palestine protests in late 2023.

Continued……. Contrary to Martinon's claims that former French President François Mitterand (1916-96) was the first head of state to call for a Palestinian state, other leaders, such as Libya's Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011) and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70), had been doing so for years before Mitterand's speech to the Knesset in 1982.

While Martinon argued here that South Africa had done nothing, South Africa dragged Israel before the International Court of Justice to force Israel to halt what has been provisionally ruled by the ICJ as a ‘plausible’ g*nocide. The Lancet medical journal estimated Israel had k*lled at least 186,000 people between October 2023 and July 2024. France’s Gaza complicity mirrors its African playbook: Arm the oppressor, criminalise the oppressed, then claim the moral high ground. However, South Africans—shaped by the Sharpeville massacre, the Soweto uprising and apartheid's fall—see through the ruse.

Video credit: @psc_capetown (IG)

Sources
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67922346

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227078791/icj-israel-genocide-gaza-palestinians-south-africa

https://www.politico.eu/article/11-ngos-take-france-to-court-over-arms-sales-to-israel

https://enaat.org/eu-export-browser/overview?origin=france&destination=israel&year_from=2013

https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/nasser-and-the-palestinians

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-31427-8_15

https://www.jta.org/archive/mitterrand-tells-knesset-that-israel-has-a-right-to-live-but-this-right-cannot-be-denied-to-the-pal

IMPERIALISTS ARE FUNDING T*RRORISTS

‘It’s not t*rrorism, it’s imperialism. All the imperialist countries finance these fighters.’ These were the words of Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré (@CapitaineIb226 on X) during an interview with RT en Français (@rtenfrancais on X) that aired on 10 May.

This is not the first time that an official from Africa’s Sahel region has accused Western or Western-allied countries of aiding t*rrorists. In 2022, Mali’s Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga (@Col_Maiga on X) said France had provided arms, ammunition and intelligence to t*rrorist organisations that it claimed to be fighting during its now-dissolved Operation Barkhane, essentially a French military occupation of Mali.

Continued……. Shortly thereafter, Mali’s Minister of Foreign Affair Abdoulaye Diop (@AbdoulayeDiop8 on X) submitted a letter to the United Nations stating that France illegally violated Mali’s airspace to gather information for t*rrorist groups in addition to supplying them with weapons.

Then, in 2024, after t*rrorist rebels k*lled Malian soldiers, Andriy Yusov, a press representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, stated on television, ‘The rebels received necessary information, which enabled a successful military operation against Russian war criminals.’ Days later, Ukraine’s ambassador to Senegal, Yurii Pyvovarov, publicly celebrated the t*rrorist assault on Malian soldiers on the Ukrainian embassy’s Facebook page, leading Senegal’s foreign ministry to summon him.

On 19 August 2024, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger submitted a joint letter to the president of the United Nations Security Council, denouncing Ukraine’s support of t*rrorism in the Sahel.

More recently, on 24 February 2025, Mali called on the United States to take legal measures against those using foreign aid for subversive activities following the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). US Congressman Scott Perry alleged in February that USAID had funded B*ko H*ram, Al-Q*eda and other t*rrorist organisations.

Video credit: @RTenfrancais (X)

Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHjVl6dZx8o&t=3s

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/17/mali-accuses-france-of-arming-non-state-actors

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36557

https://wadr.org/senegal-summons-ukrainian-ambassador-over-malian-conflict-comments/

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-african-juntas-write-un-over-ukraines-alleged-rebel-support-2024-08-21/

https://www.lesahel.org/communique-conjoint-mali-burkina-faso-niger-les-pays-de-la-confederation-des-etats-du-sahel-denonce-devant-le-conseil-de-securite-de-lonu-le-soutien-ouvert-et-assume-de-luk

https://www.maliweb.net/org-non-gouvernementales/accusation-de-financement-du-terrorisme-a-lusaid-le-mali-demande-des-poursuites-judiciaires-3097136.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKefOY_3IQ0

The price of playing imperialist stooge is apparently too steep for Kenya. Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi has called for more funds to shore up the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti - led by Nairobi at the behest of Washington. He says that the deployed forces are struggling to tackle escalating gang violence because of a lack of money and logistical help.

His call was supported by the Dominican Republic. The country, neighbouring Haiti, but not officially part of the MSS mission, has been helping Kenya by evacuating and treating wounded officers, as well as by sharing intelligence. Its foreign minister, Roberto Alvarez, and Mudavadi signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning this assistance on 13 May.

Things are tough for Kenyan police officers in Haiti, despite being largely exempted from US aid cuts. Two Kenyan officers have reportedly been k*lled in clashes with gangs.

Continued………Nairobi sent around 1,000 police officers to the Caribbean island nation in defiance of Kenya’s High Court, which ruled that the deployment was unconstitutional. When President William Ruto addressed the UN General Assembly in September 2023, he presented the imminent Haiti intervention as a 'pan-African humanitarian gesture' - despite concerns about the dismal human-rights record of Kenyan police.

The UN reports that more than 5,600 people were killed in gang-related violence in Haiti in 2024 - an increase of over 1,000 versus 2023. During the first three months of 2025 alone, the UN estimates that over 1,600 were murdered. More than 1 million are displaced.

But will pouring in more money solve Haiti's systemic problems, which stem from decades of foreign meddling, mainly by the US and France? So-called UN peacekeeping missions have resulted in cholera outbreaks, child abuse and civilian casualties, while Washington uses dirty tricks to ensure Haitians don't pick their own leaders.

Sources

https://archive.ph/kV6hL

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/dominican-republic-kenya-sign-agreement-supporting-haiti-security-mission/3565545

https://www.citizen.digital/news/kenya-mission-in-haiti-unaffected-by-us-funding-freeze-mudavadi-n357133

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/01/13/haiti-depth-why-kenya-led-security-mission-floundering

https://icj-kenya.org/news/respect-court-decision-on-deployment-of-police-to-haiti/#:~:text=The%20deployment%20of%20the%20Kenyan,officers%20were%20to%20be%20deployed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68090488

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158781

https://www.voanews.com/a/kenyan-president-reiterates-his-country-s-commitment-to-support-haiti-/7279301.html

https://www.citizen.digital/news/ruto-stands-firm-on-haiti-mission-amidst-north-rift-banditry-crisis-n342729

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0ql5yq167o

https://press.un.org/en/2025/db250204.doc.htm

https://press.un.org/en/2016/sgsm18323.doc.htm

Continued……The tension between South Africa and the US escalated after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a land expropriation law in January, which permits the government to take privately owned land in certain situations deemed ‘just and equitable and in the public interest.’

Swipe through to uncover the facts. Let us know if the baseless claims made by white nationalists and their supporters in Washington measure up.

Sources

https://archive.ph/lGd00

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45282088

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyj1198wy3o

https://archive.ph/dVv4T#selection-1985.451-1985.501

https://bbc.com/news/articles/crljn5046epo

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/10/white-victimhood-to-g20-whats-behind-trumps-attacks-on-south-africa

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886321811937189902

https://www.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/legacy-pdf/4ec262df9.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9w4n6gp5o

https://archive.ph/Ve1ow

https://medium.com/@hrnews1/white-south-africans-are-only-7-of-the-total-population-yet-own-72-of-the-farmland-13b9266c56ae

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https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-apartheid-south-africa

AFRIKANER ‘REFUGEES’ REACH U.S.

So, the first White South African ‘refugees’ have escaped a country where they belong to a minority that (*checks notes*) owns nearly all the land and sits on nearly all the wealth!? Yes, these are strange times indeed.

Allegedly ‘persecuted’ White South Africans arrived in the U.S. on 12 May 2025, landing at Dulles International Airport. They’d been invited by Donald Trump, and their travel expenses were taken care of by his government. They will be settled in various US states, receive aid, can expect entry-level jobs, and are now on a path to US citizenship.

Trump made the asylum offer in reaction to South Africa’s new Land Expropriation Law. This allows seizures in very limited circumstances as part of efforts to address historical colonial injustices.

Continued……. President Cyril Ramaphosa rejects the idea that White South Africans are persecuted. They reportedly make up 7% of the country’s population, but own over 70% of all commercial land. Another example of their privileged status in South Africa is the fact that, on average, they earn 18 times as much as Black people in the country.

Sources
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395067/first-group-afrikaner-refugees-arrive

https://travelpander.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-white-privilege-in-south-africa/