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IS RWANDA BECOMING AN INTEL HUB?

Behind the glitter of tech innovation and continental ambition, a deeper question must be asked: Is Rwanda positioning itself to become Africa's intelligence hub under the influence of imperialist powers?

This question is raised by President Paul Kagame's role in Smart Africa, an initiative aimed to boost the continent's tech scene and achieve a Single Digital Market by 2030.

As the chair of Smart Africa, based in Kigali, Kagame is pushing for quicker adoption of new technologies like AI across Africa. However, analyst Kambale Musavuli from the Centre for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa believes this isn't the kind of Pan-African initiative that truly benefits us. He warns there's a hidden agenda to centralise intelligence-gathering under the control of imperialist forces looking to exploit our continent further.
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Continued…….. Smart Africa’s funding is telling. The Gates Foundation, with deep ties to Microsoft, contributed $7.5 million to launch Rwanda’s AI Scaling Hub in 2022. Yet Microsoft has faced multiple lawsuits for benefiting from child labor in cobalt mines in the DRC, meaning that Gates may not just benefit from data but also from the very instability that enables cheap access to African minerals. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has partnered with Smart Africa to influence Africa's digital transformation.

Rwanda’s proximity to Israel’s intelligence networks adds another layer. With many African countries receiving special military-intelligence training from Israel, could establishing a base in Western-supported Rwanda be a more cost-effective option? For instance, in a surprising move in 2022, Benin sought Rwanda's expertise in counter-insurgency, leading to the deployment of 350 Rwandan troops. Kigali's 2024 troop deployment in Mozambique was also backed by a €20 million grant from the EU. 

All this echoes a disturbing historical pattern: Western powers delegate control to local allies, creating Black faces of imperialism while maintaining actual control from afar.

Video credit: AfroDominion Media

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https://www.iiss.org/ar-BH/publications/strategic-comments/2022/rwandas-ambitions-as-a-security-provider-in-sub-saharan-africa/

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/07/rwanda-is-tackling-digital-development-challenges-and-succeeding/

https://smartafrica.org/the-board-2/

https://aefgroup.org/blog-read.php?post=meet-rwanda-africas-singapore

https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20250404/au-commission-chairperson-and-president-kagame-discuss-africas-digital-future

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/02/2025/africas-ai-ambitions-take-the-spotlight-in-rwanda


https://c4ir.rw/global-ai-summit-on-africa

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/04/how-young-people-are-shaping-africas-ai-future/

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/netanyahu-s-regional-visit-seals-military-deals-and-un-council-support--1352366

https://www.devex.com/news/gates-foundation-to-fund-ai-scaling-hubs-in-africa-109805

https://trendsresearch.org/insight/the-scourge-of-terrorism-in-benin-and-rwandas-counter-insurgency-role/?srsltid=AfmBOop2ZONRtq5DLfkMkO7tiYen3xiMUcvgzAihOd9Af__2zJaz7q4J

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2025/03/inv-088245
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THE TRUTH EUROPE WON'T ADMIT

Europe’s post-World War II recovery and prosperity is often credited to the Marshall Plan. But that’s only half the story. Former African Union envoy to the US Arikana Chihombori-Quao explains why in this video.

For centuries, Europe’s economy has developed at the expense of Africa and its people. Think colonial occupation, resource wars and currency manipulation.

The West depends on African raw materials, such as cobalt, coltan, gold, oil, uranium and rare-earth minerals, which power Western industries and technologies. It gets these for cheap thanks to exploitative, neocolonial contracts.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, for example, possesses over 70% of the world’s reserves of coltan. The mineral is critical in the production of electric-car batteries, mobile phones and other electronic devices. Zimbabwe is the fourth-largest producer of lithium in the world. The EU’s push for renewable energy is based on electric cars built with lithium.
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Continued…….. Africa's agricultural exports, such as cocoa, coffee and tea, fill European supermarkets. But African farmers are trapped in debt and poverty, effectively subsidising Europe's food security.

Africa also receives the West’s electronic, plastic and hazardous waste, silently bearing the environmental cost of Western lifestyles. For example, Kenya alone is the dumpsite for 37-million plastic clothing items from Europe per year.

Meanwhile, African migrants power the European care sector and informal economy, often in conditions of precarious, underpaid and undocumented labour.

Western multinationals and sovereign wealth funds hold vast interests in African land, banks and infrastructure. Via unequal trade agreements, debt servicing and IMF prenoscriptions, Europe extracts billions from Africa annually.

European development is also based on slavery. For example, the development of James Watt’s revolutionary steam engine was financed by profits from the slave trade.

Take away African labour, minerals, markets and migration, and the European economy stalls. It’s time we were treated not as neocolonial subjects but as partners.

Video credits: @aljazeera

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https://ecfr.eu/publication/material-world-how-europe-can-compete-with-china-in-the-race-for-africas-critical-minerals/

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-05/agrifood-africa-all-countries_en.pdf


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68090482

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/16/eu-dumps-37-million-items-of-plastic-clothing-in-kenya-a-year-which-country-is-the-worst-o

https://www.developmentaid.org/news-stream/post/170661/five-major-lithium-producing-countries#:~:text=1.,in%20the%20world%3A%2088%2C000%20MT

https://www.philanthropistsinafrica.com/multinational-corporations-bring-multiple-benefits-developing-countries/#:~:text=Multinational%20Corporations%20do%20bring%20a%20lot%20of,Multinational%20Corporations%20to%20invest%20in%20their%20countries.

https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/Europe-Beyond-Aid-Illicit-Financial-Flows-background-paper.pdf
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On January 15, 1970, the Nigerian civil war came to an end, leaving behind a trail of destruction in the southeastern self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra.

More than a million people lay dead, mostly children, whose haunting pictures of emaciated bodies shocked the world.

55 years later, Nigeria is still grappling with the scars of that trauma.

Swipe for a deeper look at the Biafra War and its lasting effects.
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Israel's military campaign on refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, dubbed 'Operation Iron Wall', is applying tactics similar to those used to devastate Gaza, according to a 25 April report by University of London-based research group Forensic Architecture (@ForensicArchi on X) .

The operation launched on 21 January, and the UN has described it as the ‘most destructive’ in the West Bank since the Second Intifada, a 2000-05 Palestinian uprising against Israel’s occupation since 1948. By 10 February, the operation had displaced approximately 40,000 refugees out of a total of 75,000, according to the UN. Israeli forces have targeted refugee camps in Jenin, Far'a, Nur Shams and Tulkarem, using evacuation orders, attacks on medical infrastructure, systematic demolitions and other infrastructure destruction to establish a ‘network of military routes’ wide enough to allow unrestricted movement of armoured vehicles.
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Continued…….. This ‘spatial control’ approach resembles the military strategy employed in Gaza, where Israel’s bombardments and escalated siege had destroyed urban centres and k*lled at least 186,000 people by July 2024, according to the Lancet medical journal. Israeli ministers have stated that they plan to use the strategy that destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure to destroy the West Bank, forcing the further displacement of Palestinians.

Many refugees are descendants of Palestinians forced from their homes during the 1948 Nakba that established the state of Israel with the support of Western powers. Forensic Architecture argues that Israel uses military orders as tools of coercion, as once residents leave an area, the Israeli military reshapes it into a ‘kill zone,’ preventing people from returning.

The report says Israel has also surrounded hospitals in Jenin, blocking ambulance access and converting a health centre into a detention site. More than 200 documented cases show Israel’s military destroying civilian property, including olive trees, greenhouses and food carts. The report adds these acts represent a coordinated effort to dismantle the ‘urban fabric’ of West Bank refugee camps.

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https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

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

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159971

https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/west-bank-israeli-security-forces-use-unrwa-health-centre-temporary-detention-site-southern-West-Bank

https://content.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025.04.25_FA_West-Bank_report.pdf
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TRUMP HAS ALWAYS BEEN R*CIST

The disastrous meeting at the White House between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump exposed Trump’s longstanding r*cism.

On 21 May, he used claims about a ‘white g*nocide’ despite no evidence and a South African court recently dismissing it as ‘not real’ and ‘clearly imagined.’ 

Here's a look at several more r*cist moments, from being sued by the US government for refusing to rent to Black people to numerous disparaging remarks about Black and Native American communities.

Have a watch, and let us know what you think.

Video credit: @arshareef (IG)

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https://apnews.com/events-united-states-presidential-election-6349efef6986435b95411dc2e8f8f2c4

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-casinos-hid-black-011809739.html
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: 'K*LL THE BOER' IS A STRUGGLE SONG!

In this 27 May video clip from the sidelines of the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium South Africa (SIDSSA) conference in Cape Town, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the United States cannot dictate to South Africa to arrest opposition leader Julius Malema for singing 'K*ll the Boer' because it is a struggle song. 

His remarks came just days after returning from the White House, where US President Donald Trump accused South Africa's government of allowing 'white g*nocide.'
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Continued……. White supremacist organisations like AfriForum have denounced the anti-apartheid song, 'K*ll the Boer,' alleging that it incites racial violence against white settlers, especially Boers, descendants of Dutch colonisers.

In March 2025, South Africa's Constitutional Court upheld the Equality Court's 2022 decision that the song did not constitute hate speech. Addressing the court during the 2022 case AfriForum had lodged against Malema and his party, the opposition politician stated that African culture includes singing songs that people understand not to take literally.

However, Ramaphosa's firm stance in this clip contradicts his more timid and jovial demeanour during his meeting with Trump on 21 May. Many South Africans believed that the president had failed to defend national policy adequately during that exchange.

Days after the White House meeting, Malema said that Trump insisting South Africa arrest him implies Trump wants Malema dead. 

'K*ll the Boer' originated during South Africa's liberation struggle, sung in the streets to rally the people during the 1980s and 1990s. While apartheid ended in the early 1990s, its legacy lingers, with South Africa being the most unequal country, according to the World Bank.

Earlier this year, Trump ended aid to South Africa, citing its supposedly 'discriminatory' land expropriation law that seeks to address the racial disparities in land ownership.

Video credit: @newzroom405 (X)

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https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-05-27-ramaphosa-stands-firm-no-arrest-of-malema-over-kill-the-boer-despite-trump-pressure

https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-african-president-dont-instruct-us-to-arrest-those-chanting-death-threats-to-whites

https://youtu.be/z2NRx0jNCYk?si=aFrVju0ZBu1YH-72

https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/05/27/ramaphosa-says-no-one-will-be-arrested-for-singing-kill-the-boer-song

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9vvljen0xo

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/08/04/what-to-know-about-south-africas-kill-the-boer-chant-as-elon-musk-sounds-alarm/

https://youtu.be/z2NRx0jNCYk?si=yAEAvycLmJKiLeEZ

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099125003072240961/pdf/P1649270b73f1f0b5093fb0e644d33bc6f1.pdf

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKM8OAoCNuO
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