CONGO COLONEL DEATH PENALTY OVER MASSACRE

A high-ranking military officer has been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He was accused of massacring 57 civilians during protests against UN peacekeepers this summer.
Three other soldiers were jailed for ten years.

There’s a long history of attacks on civilians by Congo and UN soldiers, although prosecutions are rare.

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WHY THE WEST OVERTHREW HAITI’S ELECTED GOVERNMENT

It’s official. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has greenlighted an armed intervention to be led by Kenya into Haiti under the pretext of dealing with Haiti’s gangs. In actuality, Kenya is just the Black face of Western imperialism on the island. Previous interventions have not solved Haiti’s systemic issues, only worsened matters. That's not to mention the West is responsible for the state of dysfunction witnessed on the country today.

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While 13 UNSC members voted in favor, China and Russia abstained.

African Stream recently sat down in our Nairobi studio with All-African People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee member Sobukwe Shukura. He spelled out the reasons for continued interference in Haiti. From the usual pursuit of Haiti’s mineral resources, subjugation of Haitian labour, to fears of reparations contagion, the West will not let the African Caribbean nation breathe. The pending invasion, despite being premised on Pan-African ideals, is ironically in the interests of the West, of which the United States has emerged as the chief financier, footing up to an initial $100 million payment to Kenya.

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THE FUTURE POWERED BY AFRICA

Africa has huge potential to become a major energy supplier for Europe and the world, thanks to its abundant gas, oil and renewables. Europe needs cleaner and more diverse energy sources to cut emissions and reduce dependence on Russian gas. Africa could export Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) from new projects and green hydrogen, a clean fuel made from renewable electricity. Africa also has vast solar, wind and hydropower potential, which could be exported using new technologies. Africa’s energy boom faces challenges, such as security risks, political instability, corruption and poor governance, as well as centuries of its wealth being stolen, which has prevented sufficient development. All of this could deter investors and delay projects.

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African governments need to invest the energy revenues into infrastructure, education and health for the people’s benefit. Africa has a brief window of opportunity to seize its energy potential and become a key partner for Europe and the world. This century could be and should be our century.

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UGANDA MINISTER TAKES BACK AMBULANCE DONATION

The internet has been abuzz this week after publication Africa Facts Zone tweeted that, in 2021, a Ugandan minister took back an ambulance she had donated to the people of Koboko district after losing that year's parliamentary elections. However, Minister of Finance for Investment and Privatization Anite Evelyn tweeted in reply that she has no regrets, quoting the Bible. ‘Thank you for bringing this up. First, it's true I took back my ambulance and I have no apologies for that. Why did I do it? It’s because they didn’t vote for me. So did you expect me to walk away with nothing? Galatians 6:7, a man reaps what he sows.'

She exemplifies the leadership crisis in Africa today. The people of Koboko might have dodged a bullet.

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The 38-year-old politician is clearly not interested in the well-being of the people. One wonders how she even got to serve in the position of minister. It would be good if she read another part of the same book she quoted. Matthew 6:3: ‘But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.'

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'FRANCE BULLYING ECOWAS MEMBERS'

France is bullying ECOWAS to take military action against Niger. That’s according to Niamey's new military leader who warns only Paris would benefit from any destabilisation.
In a TV interview, General Abdourahamane Tchiani also pledged a new post-French future for Nigeriens. One that will see them finally profit from their country’s vast resources, which Paris has exploited for decades.

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LOOTING BRITS RETURN STOLEN GOODS

Hallelujah! Britain has returned some looted artefacts to Ethiopia. The bad news is they have a lot more to give back after stealing them from all over Africa centuries ago.

African Stream host Ahmed Ghoneim reminds us of the facts in 90 seconds.

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AFWERKI: CHINESE DEBT TRAP A FALLACY

Africa is sagging under the weight of debt. For a long time, Western publications have pinned the blame on China, claiming it issues debts it knows won’t be repaid. In exchange, they claim Beijing takes action like confiscating infrastructure, citing Sri Lanka’s port and Uganda’s airport as an example. Yet, there is no evidence.

China's defense of its loans to Africa often centers on the loans going into tangible projects that will benefit Africans. For example, the Asian nation has financed the construction of roads, railways, ports, power plants and other infrastructure projects in Africa. These include Kenya's Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, a new town in Angola, a bridge in Mozambique and Egypt's new capital. These projects have helped to improve transportation, communication, and energy access, which has in turn boosted economic growth and development in the continent.

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In this clip from an CCTV interview that took place in May, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki argues that ‘debt-trap’ claims are an attempt to drive a wedge between Africa and China. According to him, the only people pushing that narrative are those who want Africa to remain marginalized and underdeveloped.

Let us know in the comments what you think of the Eritrean president's remarks.

A Kenyan senator says the deployment of his country's forces to Haiti will turn the Caribbean nation into "a land of milk and honey." According to Kiprotich Arap Cherargei, a member of President William Ruto's ruling party, Kenyan police officers were the only missing link in turning Haiti into a prosperous nation. It remains to be seen if Haitians will buy into the senator's pie-in-the-sky promise, but many Kenyans wonder how the very government and police officers who have slowly turned the country into a land of tears and misery can deliver the opposite across the Atlantic. And their skepticism is well founded. The Kenyan police service has a dismal record on human rights. They have, for decades, faced allegations of human rights abuses, especially when it comes to policing public demonstrations and protests.

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Continued- They have, for decades, faced allegations of human rights abuses, especially when it comes to policing public demonstrations and protests. Between March and July, more than 30 people died at the hands of police officers during protests over the rising cost of living. Some of its officers have also been implicated in extrajudicial killings and disappearances. These gloomy facts do not make the country's police force sound like the best candidate to bring 'milk and honey' to the Caribbean.

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GHANA PROTESTERS: 'ECONOMY MISGOVERNED!'

Thousands of Ghanaian protesters—wearing the traditional funeral colors of red and black—have demanded the resignation of Bank of Ghana Governor Ernest Addison and his two deputies. The crowd marched on October 3 to the central bank head office, protesting what they say is economic mismanagement during the worst debt crisis in a generation. This follows a series of protests over the high cost of living and unemployment in a country rich with cocoa, gold and oil. In July, Ghana's central bank reported a record loss of 60.8 billion cedi ($5.3 billion) for 2022, primarily due to debt restructuring. In May, Ghana signed onto a three-year, $3 billion loan programme with the International Monetary Fund.

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BEING BLACK IN HITLER'S GERMANY

Seventy-five years ago this month, Afro-German Esther Anumu Fordham landed in the USA after surviving life in Nazi Germany.
However, far from feeling safe in the "Land of Opportunity" she was confronted by the lynchings of Blacks in Post-War America. At times she said she wanted to return to Germany, where she'd lived through Hitler's oppressive rule and the Allied bombing of her home city of Hamburg where she was born.

In a bitter irony for Esther, life under Hitler - where Blacks were segregated - still felt better than what lay ahead in the US.

She tried to settle after marrying an American soldier, but moved back to Germany twenty years later.

In a recorded testimony from the mid-'90s, she gives a snapshot of her incredible life during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century.

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HOW U.S. HIJACKED HAITI'S DEMOCRACY

Kenya is leading a UN-backed security mission to Haiti to ‘restore order’. But, as always, the US is behind the scenes pulling the strings.

We spoke with Haitian-American professor Dr Jemima Pierre to make sense of what’s going on. The mission’s official goal is to combat gang violence ravaging the Caribbean island. But according to Dr Pierre, it’s just more interference by the US that authored the resolution and has sought to control the resource-rich Island for decades.

As an example, she runs through what happened in Haiti’s 2010 elections where the US pushed their man into power.

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AFRICA’S BRILLIANT MATHEMATICIAN

An African professor is bashing down stereotypes in the world of science. Abdon Atangana was voted one of the world’s best mathematicians last year, proving top-level research is not restricted to eggheads in the Global North.

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RUTO MISSION RILES HAITIANS

The UN-backed plan to deploy 1,000 Kenyan police in Haiti to combat gang violence is not going down well in Haiti. Some accuse the Haitian government of arming thugs to win elections, thus creating the gang violence problem in the first place.

Others accuse the US, France and Canada of being behind what they say is a thinly-veiled colonial attempt to remain in control of Haiti by protecting its Western puppet government using forces that look local but act foreign.

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IBRAHIM TRAORÉ AT ONE YEAR

Ibrahim Traoré has now served one year as president of the Transition of Burkina Faso, after he was appointed on 6 October 2022 following a popular coup on 30 September of that year. The 35-year-old has made a name for himself as a Pan-Africanist and as an anti-imperialist, while also serving as the world’s youngest head of state.

Let us know what you think about a few of his achievements we touch upon.

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NEOCOLONIALISM IN AFRICA

Foreign interference in Africa was implemented in phases. It started with slavery. Then the Scramble for Africa established colonisation, and later the struggle for independence. Professor PLO Lumumba, a Pan-Africanist and former director of the Kenya School of Law, stated that even after we gained our independence, we duplicated European governing systems as our own. He said, by doing this, we limit ourselves and our progress. As Ghana's former president and prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah, said in his book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, neocolonialism is the most diabolic stage of imperialism.

Continued…Lumumba's remarks were given in May during "Foreign Interference in Africa: The Enduring Destabilising Factor," a panel discussion at the 10th National Security Symposium jointly organized by the Rwanda Defence Force Command and Staff College as well as the University of Rwanda.

Let us know in the comments what you think of the professor's position.

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