Continued……. Interestingly, some White South African farmers have gone on record to rubbish the idea that they are being targeted. Indeed, Black farm workers and farmers are also being murd*red in South Africa. The murd*r rate in South Africa is very high, but the share of White farmers is negligible versus the overall picture.

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https://www.dw.com/en/south-african-farmers-refute-trump-no-white-genocide/video-72623251

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-has-undeniable-complicity-gaza-war-killings-say-former-us-officials-2024-07-03/

WHY HAITI’S FLAG IS SACRED

This week, Haiti celebrated its national flag day (18 May). It commemorates the creation of the Haitian flag. This was sewn together by a seamstress called Catherine Flon in 1803 from the remains of a French flag from which revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines had torn out the white strip. Times are tough on the Caribbean island amid instability and continued foreign meddling by forces that never forgave its people for expelling the slave masters. But that didn’t stop islanders marking the 222nd anniversary with vibrant and colourful celebrations. In this video, our sister @mintahtumbao (IG) breaks down the symbolic importance of the day to Haitians and why the Haitian flag has a deep meaning for Black liberation in general: Haiti was the first Black republic to claim independence after a successful slave revolt. For Haitians, the flag isn’t just political - it’s sacred.

Video Credit: mintahtumbao (IG)

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TRAILER: INEQUALITY IN KENYA’S
BIGGEST SLUM

Nairobi is Kenya's wealthiest county, yet this prosperity is inaccessible to the majority of its residents, who reside in slums. The biggest of these is the gigantic, overcrowded, insanitary Kibera slum. Our new in-depth video looks at how it came to be, meets some of the residents and learns about the challenges and hardships they face. The film also looks at why it’s so difficult to change the status quo. Here’s a snippet - you can watch the full documentary on our YouTube page.

DATA DEBUNKS TRUMP'S R*CIST 'WHITE G*NOCIDE' CLAIM

US President Donald Trump erroneously claimed a 2020 protest honoured murdered white farmers in South Africa as evidence of a 'white g*nocide' during his 21 May meeting at the White House with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. 

The video displayed white crosses to symbolise deaths in the farming sector over many years. It was not a burial site, yet Trump created the impression that mass k*llings of white farmers have taken place.

The reality is South Africa's high crime rate affects everyone, not just white farmers, who comprised 0.035 per cent of murder victims between April 2024 and December 2024, with farm attacks which mostly kill Black workers making up a total of 0.2 per cent of murders.

Continued……Trump's focus on white farmers reeks of racial bias, ignoring the disproportionate number of Black South Africans, especially farm workers, who are also victims of violence. The stark contrast between the South African government's crime data and Trump's narrative demonstrates to us that the US president is engaging in a form of white supremacist propaganda, one that parallels that of groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, which made propaganda material to justify their existence as saviours of the 'white race.'

What was the response from Ramaphosa, leader of one of Africa's biggest economies? Watch out for a follow-up on social media, or check out our complete reaction on Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Kaballo's YouTube channel (@ahmedkaballo4170).

Sources
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/22/fact-check-do-trumps-white-genocide-claims-to-ramaphosa-hold-up

EU CHIEF SAYS EUROPE MUST UP
GAME IN AFRICA

Former colonialists and neo-imperialists just can’t leave Africa alone, can they?

In this 2023 video, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen calls for more European involvement in the Sahel and urges for a new strategic partnership with our continent. She predicted more instability in the Sahel as a result of the revolutionary coups, which overthrew Western-aligned rulers. She ignored the fact that the citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger were overwhelmingly in support of the anti-imperialist revolutions in their countries. She would have the world believe that the legacies of French colonialism and US imperialism in Africa are not a factor in the ejection of Western troops and diplomats from the Sahel.

Von der Leyen betrays neo-colonialist European plans for Africa by saying that the European Union will work with ‘legitimate governments and organisations in Africa,’ diplomatic-speak for African leaders in the pocket of imperialists.

Continued……For context, in 2024, the EU and European member states provided $370 million of the total African Union (AU) budget of $605 million. And in 2023, French president Emmanuel Macron lobbied the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene militarily in Niger, which ousted the West’s puppet president Mohamed Bazoum and kicked out French troops and diplomats.

Could von der Leyen’s call for partnerships, which includes the much-touted €150 billion Global Gateway Investment Package for Africa, be a Trojan horse to entrench neo-colonialism in our continent? Given Europe’s history with colonialism and support for puppet African leaders doing its bidding, there is every reason for Pan Africanists to stay vigilant.

Video credit: France 24

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/eu-chief-seeks-new-approach-to-africa-to-counter-russia/

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https://www.oiip.ac.at/en/publications/the-european-union-and-the-sahel-the-day-after/

DEBUNKED! 'BLACKS COMMIT MORE CRIMES'

You've probably heard the statement, 'Blacks are overrepresented in the US prison system,' used to imply Black people's predisposition to crime. 

Charlie Kirk, an influential voice on the US right, repeats the claim here but not on Garrison Hayes' watch (@garrisonh). Kirk asserts that Black people, who makeup about 13 per cent of the population, commit a disproportionate number of crimes, thus constituting half of the prison population. It's a lie, as only 38 per cent of the prison population is Black, while white people make up 57 per cent of it.

The real story is that Black people in the US make up 53 per cent of exonerations, including 55 per cent of m*rder exonerations, meaning the 'justice system' disproportionately convicts Black people of crimes they did not commit. This omission is intentional, as including it would challenge the narrative Kirk seeks to promote.

Video credit: @garrisonh (IG)

Continued……. Sources
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/racial_and_ethnic_disparities/

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp

https://reason.com/2022/09/27/why-are-half-of-all-u-s-exonerations-of-black-prisoners

ELAINE BROWN: FEMINISTS VS. BLACK PANTHERS

When former Black Panther Party Chairwoman Elaine Brown spoke about the Black Panther Party’s food programmes, particularly ‘Free Breakfast for Children,’ which grew to provide more than one meal a day, an interviewer kept interrupting by asking, ‘Who cooked?’ 

Brown snapped back by relaying that bourgeois feminists like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan had pushed the false narrative that the Black Panther Party was a chauvinist movement, reducing the party’s revolutionary work to traditional gender roles. She said these women, entrenched in their class interests and disconnected from the realities of the Black revolutionary struggle, sought to undermine the party’s anti-imperialist politics.

In a party where women comprised an estimated half of the membership, Brown explained that the party assigned roles based on one’s capacity, not on assumed gender roles: ‘If you could cook, you would be cooking. If you could handle a gun, you would be handling a gun.’

Continued......Activist and author Angela Davis estimated women made up as much as 66 per cent of the party. According to the Guardian, Davis wrote the following in the foreward of a 2022 book, 'Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party': ‘Because the media tended to focus on what could be easily sensationalised … There has been a tendency to forget that the organising work that truly made the Black Panther Party relevant to a new era of struggle for liberation was largely carried out by women.’

As Columbia University professor Bernard E. Harcourt writes, ‘Cooperation is what people turn to when there is no state, or when the state is actively repressing them.' The Black Panthers’ programmes addressed the immediate social and economic needs of marginalised communities that the capitalist-imperialist US government had neglected by providing food, clothing, ambulances, drama classes, legal education and prison reform campaigns, among other programmes.

Video credit: @_AfroMarxist

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https://antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/black-panther-party-community-survival

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/black-panther-party-challenging-police-and-promoting-social-change

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/04/sisters-revolution-women-of-black-panther-party

https://the1313.law.columbia.edu/2024/02/12/bernard-e-harcourt-conditions-of-necessity-the-black-panther-party-and-cooperation

WHITE S. AFRICAN PROF DESTROYS TRUMP’S GENOCIDE LIE

In a dramatic meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on 21 May, US President Donald Trump doubled down on the discredited allegation of state-sanctioned 'genocide' against the descendants of Dutch colonial settlers in South Africa.

During the meeting, Trump presented images and videos of what he claimed was evidence of a so-called 'White gen*cide' in the African nation. Most of the 'evidence' has turned out to be false.

However, this has not come as a surprise to many people who already knew that the claims of 'white gen*cide' have always been false. Even the purported victims of the 'genocide' have on numerous occasions come out to state that no such thing is happening in South Africa.

Continued……In this CBS news interview, renowned South African international relations professor Piet Croucamp (@pietcroucamp on X) tells journalist Debora Patta (@Debora_Patta on X) that not only are White South Africans not facing any state-sanctioned plan to wipe them out, but they are also thriving economically.

Croucamp states that the settlers continue to dominate many areas of the country's social and economic arenas, something rarely associated with 'persecuted minorities.'

The academic points out that Trump's continued deliberate peddling of falsehoods against the African country could be a result of his close relations with South African right-wing groups, which for years have been at the forefront of spreading the allegations of gen*cide. He also explains that it could be a way to punish a country for taking policy positions that are in stark contrast to those of the United States.

Credit: CBS new/TikTok

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U.K. TO MAURITIUS: DIEGO OR NO DEAL!

On 22 May, the UK's Prime Minister Keir Stammer announced he’d signed a deal to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. However, there was a caveat. London agreed to grant sovereignty to Port Louis on condition that Britain retained a 99-year lease on Diego Garcia (the archipelago’s largest island) for military purposes. 

In 1965, Britain detached the Chagos Islands from Mauritius during decolonisation. Native Chagossians were forcibly removed to make way for a UK-US military base on Diego Garcia. They have long sought justice, and were reportedly not informed ahead of the signing of the new deal. They had been largely excluded from negotiations and have expressed feelings of betrayal by the agreement. The deal restricts their right to return, particularly to Diego Garcia.

Continued……. Critics say the deal prioritises British and US military interests over the needs of the displaced community. It ensures the Western allies maintain strategic control over the territory. It’s another clear sign that the UK has no genuine appetite for confronting its colonial and neocolonial legacies.

Diego Garcia also hosts a migrant detention camp, which has been embroiled in accusations of human-rights abuses. Moreover, the US uses the base to launch drone strikes and military operations in West Asia, including Yemen. US attacks on Yemeni political and military movement Ansar Allah (commonly known as the Houthis) have caused civilian casualties. The US says its airstrikes on Yemen are a response to the Houthis’ blockade of ships in the Red Sea, which have disrupted shipping. However, many suspect that these strikes are no more than retaliation for the group’s support of Palestinians.

The UK and US military-industrial complexes seem determined to exert their might on the Global South. Diego Garcia is a strategic site they refuse to release from their grip. By dictating terms rather than enabling genuine self-determination or extending reparative justice to Chagossians, the UK displays its imperial arrogance. Its 'goodwill' is merely performative.

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INEQUALITY IN KENYA: VIEW FROM KIBERA

Despite Kenya’s capital Nairobi enjoying a giant share of the nation’s wealth, a lot of it is concentrated in the hands of a small elite. The vast majority of city residents live in poverty.

We visited Nairobi’s biggest slum - Kibera - to shine a light on the stark inequalities that exist in Kenya. Our film looks at the causes, the role of land distribution, government failures, the role NGOs play in perpetuating the crisis and, most importantly, what action Kibera residents are taking.

Let us know your views in the comments.

AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY

In celebration of African Liberation Day today, we honour the unbreakable spirit of the dream of a free and united Africa. It’s an annual call to action, a time to renew our commitments to the struggle for liberation and unity. Some people wrongly think it celebrates the founding of the African Union. It was actually started in support of African national liberation struggles against settler or Portuguese colonialism in the 1960s and 1970s. And it still has huge relevance today. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have formed the Alliance of Sahel States to push back against French neo-colonialism. Resource-rich DRC, Sudan and the diaspora in Haiti are examples of where Africans continue to be oppressed.

Continued……While some refer to it as 'Africa Day,' we'll use the full noscript until the continent has freed itself from imperialism. To learn more about African Liberation Day or to see if there is an event near you, check out africanliberationday.net.

Are you observing African Liberation Day this year? Let us know how in the comments.

CONFRONTING AN IRAQ WAR ARCHITECT!

Here's a flashback to 2019, when African Stream's future founder and editor-in-chief confronted one of the architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Ahmed Kaballo spotted Alistair Campbell on the other side of a London train station - and wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to give him a piece of his mind. Campbell served as UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications chief. He played a key role in drafting intelligence assessments in the build-up to the invasion.

As Washington's sidekick, the UK rolled into Iraq, justifying its involvement using false claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Campbell was instrumental in selling that lie!

The war resulted in the deaths of 654,965 Iraqis, with 601,027 of these being violent deaths, according to the Lancet Medical Journal.

Continued……. Research conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) puts the number even higher at over 1 million. Whatever the figure is, the war was undoubtedly a disaster, causing regional instability and the rise of the ISIS terror group, which now has operations in Africa too and is one of the key insurgent groups destabilising the Sahel.

Far from spreading democracy, the US unleashed an era of terror in the region, with effects felt to this day. The town of Fallujah, for example, has abnormally high rates of cancer and congenital disabilities, as reported by truthout.org. One of the authors is quoted as saying Fallujah had 'the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied.'

Still, folk like Campbell get to retire peacefully and enjoy a pension without facing the consequences of the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Feel free to tell @campbellclaret (X) what you think about that. Let us know if you agree with @AhmedKaballo (X) 's view.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-14159483

https://www.channel4.com/news/iraq-war-alastair-campbell-on-the-dodgy-dossier

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https://unherd.com/newsroom/alastair-campbell-i-wish-iraq-had-never-happened/

https://truthout.org/articles/iraq-wars-legacy-of-cancer/