Continued…….. However, probably the most famous examples include those of the Alliance of Sahel States, comprising Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. These three countries ousted Western-aligned leaders in recent years and have embarked on a decolonisation process that includes reclaiming natural resources from foreign hands.
Returning to Zimbabwe, the country boasts Africa's largest lithium reserves and is among the world's top lithium producers.
Back in 2023, Zimbabwean Mines Minister Winston Chitando said that Zimbabwe needed to ‘move up the value chain.’ The government had required producers to submit plans by March 2024 for local processing.
Quartz reports, ‘Battery makers anticipate that lithium-ion batteries will keep dominating the industry as they are now 30 times cheaper than when they first came to the market in the early 1990s.’
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Returning to Zimbabwe, the country boasts Africa's largest lithium reserves and is among the world's top lithium producers.
Back in 2023, Zimbabwean Mines Minister Winston Chitando said that Zimbabwe needed to ‘move up the value chain.’ The government had required producers to submit plans by March 2024 for local processing.
Quartz reports, ‘Battery makers anticipate that lithium-ion batteries will keep dominating the industry as they are now 30 times cheaper than when they first came to the market in the early 1990s.’
Sources
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https://www.esi-africa.com/business-and-markets/zimbabwe-lithium-exports-soar-as-chinese-projects-take-off/#:~:text=Chinese%20firms%2C%20including%20Zhejiang%20Huayou,to%20China%20for%20further%20processing.
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Reuters
Zimbabwe to ban export of lithium concentrates from 2027
Zimbabwe will ban the export of lithium concentrates from 2027 as it extends its push for more local processing, mines minister Winston Chitando said on Tuesday.
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WORLD REFUGEE DAY
A staggering 123-million people around the world are recognised by the UN as forcibly displaced - by war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses. Today is World Refugee Day 2025.
According to the 2024 UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends Report, 37% of the forcibly displaced people in the world are in Africa. In 2024, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) warned that refugees in Africa remain the most neglected by the international community. According to the NRC, 9 out of the 10 most neglected displacement crises are in Africa.
In this video, we look at why millions of Africans have been forced to seek refuge, both within their own countries and abroad.
A staggering 123-million people around the world are recognised by the UN as forcibly displaced - by war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses. Today is World Refugee Day 2025.
According to the 2024 UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends Report, 37% of the forcibly displaced people in the world are in Africa. In 2024, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) warned that refugees in Africa remain the most neglected by the international community. According to the NRC, 9 out of the 10 most neglected displacement crises are in Africa.
In this video, we look at why millions of Africans have been forced to seek refuge, both within their own countries and abroad.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/3/more-than-four-million-people-have-fled-sudan-amid-war-un-says
World Health Organization
World Refugee Day 2025
On World Refugee Day 2025, WHO stands in solidarity with over 123 million forcibly displaced people, calling for urgent action to build inclusive, resilient health systems, and highlighting key recent progress in refugee health promotion. With a focus on…
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Togo has become the latest African country to suspend French state-owned media outlets - a move that seems to contradict the country’s cozy relationship with Paris until now. While the suspension of France 24 and RFI mirrors the wave of African states pushing back against the ‘Françafrique’ propaganda machine, what do the bans mean within the context of head-of-state Faure Gnassingbé's longstanding relationship with France, his recent power grab and the widespread protests that ensued earlier this month?
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SPANISH JOURNO BLASTS ISRAEL'S G*NOCIDAL CYNICISM
Spanish journalist Cristina Saavedra (@csaavedra_on X) highlighted Israel's cynical manipulation of humanitarian issues by criticising Iran's retaliatory attacks on Israeli military and defence sites, while Tel Aviv has nearly flattened Gaza in its military assault on the besieged enclave since 7 October 2023.
According to Israeli media outlet Haaretz, Tel Aviv embeds its military facilities in civilian areas, a tactic it accuses H*mas of doing. For instance, an Iranian attack on 19 June damaged the Soroka Medical Centre in southern Israel when it targeted an adjacent command and intelligence headquarters.
Spanish journalist Cristina Saavedra (@csaavedra_on X) highlighted Israel's cynical manipulation of humanitarian issues by criticising Iran's retaliatory attacks on Israeli military and defence sites, while Tel Aviv has nearly flattened Gaza in its military assault on the besieged enclave since 7 October 2023.
According to Israeli media outlet Haaretz, Tel Aviv embeds its military facilities in civilian areas, a tactic it accuses H*mas of doing. For instance, an Iranian attack on 19 June damaged the Soroka Medical Centre in southern Israel when it targeted an adjacent command and intelligence headquarters.
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Continued………. Israel's military onslaught in Gaza has damaged or destroyed at least 94 per cent of all hospitals, according to the UN. During just one week in May, the World Health Organization (WHO) recorded 28 attacks on health care in Gaza and 697 attacks since October 2023. Only 19 out of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are still operational.
On 13 March, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel concluded that Israel's attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza amounted to ‘g*nocidal acts.' It said Israel systematically destroyed facilities and blocked essential aid, measures ‘calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians’ and ‘to prevent births.’
Israel's military onslaught on Gaza Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 55,600 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, while displacing almost the entire population of more than 2 million and causing a worsening hunger crisis. A July 2024 report by the British medical journal The Lancet put the total death toll over 186,000.
Video credit: La Sexta Noticias
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On 13 March, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel concluded that Israel's attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza amounted to ‘g*nocidal acts.' It said Israel systematically destroyed facilities and blocked essential aid, measures ‘calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians’ and ‘to prevent births.’
Israel's military onslaught on Gaza Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 55,600 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, while displacing almost the entire population of more than 2 million and causing a worsening hunger crisis. A July 2024 report by the British medical journal The Lancet put the total death toll over 186,000.
Video credit: La Sexta Noticias
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CBS News
Israel vows to hold Iran's leader accountable for "war crimes" after Iranian missile slams into hospital
An Iranian missile slammed into a hospital in Israel, causing no serious injuries but drawing a quick vow of retaliation against Iran's supreme leader for "war crimes."
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COLONIAL SYMPATHIES: REAGAN'S GRENADA APOLOGY
In 1983, US President Ronald Reagan apologised to then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for the US invasion of Grenada, which was carried out without informing her. The apology came during a phone call as the invasion was underway, with Reagan expressing regret for any 'embarrassment' caused to Thatcher, given Grenada's status as a Commonwealth nation.
This apology is quite telling of how invaders regard each other versus the people they invade. While they dehumanise and show no regard for those subjected to their oppression and brutality, they courteously extend recognition to one another. Reagan's apology to Thatcher can be viewed quite simply as a form of recognition among the thieves.
Here, we break down the colonial apology for what it is.
In 1983, US President Ronald Reagan apologised to then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for the US invasion of Grenada, which was carried out without informing her. The apology came during a phone call as the invasion was underway, with Reagan expressing regret for any 'embarrassment' caused to Thatcher, given Grenada's status as a Commonwealth nation.
This apology is quite telling of how invaders regard each other versus the people they invade. While they dehumanise and show no regard for those subjected to their oppression and brutality, they courteously extend recognition to one another. Reagan's apology to Thatcher can be viewed quite simply as a form of recognition among the thieves.
Here, we break down the colonial apology for what it is.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29986729
TIME
Reagan Apologized to Thatcher for Grenada Invasion
According to newly released tapes of phone calls between the leaders
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JOURNO SCHOOLED ON GAZA AID DECEPTION
TalkTV host Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1 on X) could not name a single organisation or entity to support her statement that H*m*s has been stealing food aid when her guest, Dr Ashok Kumar (@broseph_stalin on X), asked her for proof.
Many have long accused Hartley-Brewer of employing an abrasive and confrontational interview style. Some noticed Hartley-Brewer spoke over Dr Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, in an interview that went viral. She notably accused Barghouti of misogyny by saying, ‘Maybe you're not used to women talking. I don't know!’
TalkTV host Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1 on X) could not name a single organisation or entity to support her statement that H*m*s has been stealing food aid when her guest, Dr Ashok Kumar (@broseph_stalin on X), asked her for proof.
Many have long accused Hartley-Brewer of employing an abrasive and confrontational interview style. Some noticed Hartley-Brewer spoke over Dr Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, in an interview that went viral. She notably accused Barghouti of misogyny by saying, ‘Maybe you're not used to women talking. I don't know!’
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Continued……However, such tactics would not intimidate Kumar, who insisted Hartley-Brewer uphold a basic journalistic standard: Presenting evidence to support a statement or opinion. Beginning on 2 March, Israel stopped all supplies, such as food, water and medicine, from reaching Gaza to force H*mas to renegotiate the 19 January ceasefire. Then, on 18 March, it broke the truce by launching airstrikes.
The UN and other international organisations are warning that the entire population of more than 2 million people faces prolonged food shortages, with nearly a half-million grappling with catastrophic levels of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death.
International experts and organisations have issued repeated warnings of widespread famine unless Israel lifts its blockade of Gaza and allows easier aid access.
In May, the UN reported that 57 children died from malnutrition since Israel began the aid blockade on 2 March, with nearly 71,000 children under the age of five expected to be ‘acutely malnourished’ over the next 10 months.
As of press time, Israel's onslaught on Gaza and the Palestinian people has k*lled 55,362 and injured more than 127,000 since 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Since breaking the ceasefire on 18 March, Israel has k*lled 4,821 people, including hundreds of children, and injured at least 15,353 people, as of a UN article on 13 May.
Video credit: TalkTV
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https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163166
The UN and other international organisations are warning that the entire population of more than 2 million people faces prolonged food shortages, with nearly a half-million grappling with catastrophic levels of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death.
International experts and organisations have issued repeated warnings of widespread famine unless Israel lifts its blockade of Gaza and allows easier aid access.
In May, the UN reported that 57 children died from malnutrition since Israel began the aid blockade on 2 March, with nearly 71,000 children under the age of five expected to be ‘acutely malnourished’ over the next 10 months.
As of press time, Israel's onslaught on Gaza and the Palestinian people has k*lled 55,362 and injured more than 127,000 since 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Since breaking the ceasefire on 18 March, Israel has k*lled 4,821 people, including hundreds of children, and injured at least 15,353 people, as of a UN article on 13 May.
Video credit: TalkTV
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France 24
‘No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza,’ Israel defence minister says
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that Israel will keep blocking aid to Gaza to pressure Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages, even as the UN warned of the enclave’s worst crisis…
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HEMEDTI, THE MOSSAD AND TRUMP
What does Sudan’s Hemedti have in common with a former Mossad agent and US President Donald Trump?
A shocking web of money and lobbying in the quest for global recognition.
In the shadows of Sudan’s brutal foreign-backed proxy war, Hemedti, officially known as Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, leads the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a group accused of gross human rights abuses and gen*cide in the Darfur region of Sudan. He reportedly uses his vast gold wealth and foreign allies to buy legitimacy on the world stage.
From Ari Ben-Menashe, an Israeli-Canadian formerly with Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, to the corridors of Washington, this is the story of how authoritarian power, public relations firms and foreign interests collide. The UAE backs the proxy war, and Tel Aviv praises Sudan’s normalisation (which both warring generals supported in 2020), so we ask: What does this mean for the people of Sudan if Hemedti meets US President Donald Trump?
What does Sudan’s Hemedti have in common with a former Mossad agent and US President Donald Trump?
A shocking web of money and lobbying in the quest for global recognition.
In the shadows of Sudan’s brutal foreign-backed proxy war, Hemedti, officially known as Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, leads the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a group accused of gross human rights abuses and gen*cide in the Darfur region of Sudan. He reportedly uses his vast gold wealth and foreign allies to buy legitimacy on the world stage.
From Ari Ben-Menashe, an Israeli-Canadian formerly with Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, to the corridors of Washington, this is the story of how authoritarian power, public relations firms and foreign interests collide. The UAE backs the proxy war, and Tel Aviv praises Sudan’s normalisation (which both warring generals supported in 2020), so we ask: What does this mean for the people of Sudan if Hemedti meets US President Donald Trump?
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2. https://worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/the-rsf-and-genocide-in-sudan-guilty-as-charged/
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4. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/07/myanmar-hires-pr-agent-to-explain-real-situation-to-western-leaders
5. https://www.ft.com/content/816fb488-99a7-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36
6. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/uae-sudan-war-peace-emirates-uk-us-officials
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8. https://www.timesofisrael.com/sudan-and-israel-say-talks-underway-for-deal-to-normalize-ties/
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Seeking to Secure Power, Sudan’s Military Ruler Hires Lobbying Help
Top general brokers a multimillion dollar deal with a Canadian firm and hosts a former U.S. congressman.
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A recent SwissAid report exposes Kenya as a key transit hub for illicit gold smuggled from conflict zones in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and possibly Sudan. It claims that over two tonnes of undeclared gold flow into the country annually, primarily to Dubai. The report reveals a gap in Kenya’s gold exports, highlighting a shadowy network of smuggling and corruption that fuels violence in war-torn regions. This trade, rooted in high-level complicity, thrives under the shadow of imperialist exploitation and profiting from Africa’s looted resources.
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https://africangoldreport.org/kenya
https://swissaid.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/swissaid-on-the-trail-of-african-gold-web-ok.pdf
https://archive.ph/OOvYr#selection-1477.27-1481.114
https://archive.ph/OOvYr
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https://africangoldreport.org/kenya
https://swissaid.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/swissaid-on-the-trail-of-african-gold-web-ok.pdf
https://archive.ph/OOvYr#selection-1477.27-1481.114
https://archive.ph/OOvYr
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The United States remains deeply entangled in unresolved contradictions - a nation still haunted by its own racial and economic injustices. Yet, rather than confronting them, its eye turns outward in the form of an aggressive foreign policy, while positioning itself as a supposed exemplar of 'human rights' and 'democracy' that other countries must emulate. It selectively preaches freedom abroad, while denying it even within.
African Stream journalist Sannario (@sannario_) dismantles the cognitive dissonance between the ideals of the so-called ‘Land of the Free’ and its reality in Episode 5 of the 'Let's Talk About' series.
The United States remains deeply entangled in unresolved contradictions - a nation still haunted by its own racial and economic injustices. Yet, rather than confronting them, its eye turns outward in the form of an aggressive foreign policy, while positioning itself as a supposed exemplar of 'human rights' and 'democracy' that other countries must emulate. It selectively preaches freedom abroad, while denying it even within.
African Stream journalist Sannario (@sannario_) dismantles the cognitive dissonance between the ideals of the so-called ‘Land of the Free’ and its reality in Episode 5 of the 'Let's Talk About' series.
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