6. Gedaref, Sudan - Supporters of the Sudanese army ride in trucks in the east of the country. The UN warns the war threatens to trigger the ‘world’s largest hunger crisis’.
7. Ouled Essi Masseoud, Morocco - A shepherd sits on cracked earth at al-Massira dam in an isolated village after successive droughts destroyed fertile land.
8. Tunis, Tunisia - The General Workers’ Union stages a demonstration at El-Kasaba Square. There’s anger over perceived constraints on union rights and the rising cost of living in the country.
9. Mindelo, Cape Verde - This photo, taken near the fishing village of Calhau in Sao Vicente, shows a capsized migrants’ boat. According to survivors, it left a village in Mauritania carrying 65 people. The UN says 2023 was the most deadly year for migrants worldwide with at least 8,565 fatalities.
10. Mukono, Uganda - Soft ground wrestling is grabbing global attention as it becomes an internet sensation.
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7. Ouled Essi Masseoud, Morocco - A shepherd sits on cracked earth at al-Massira dam in an isolated village after successive droughts destroyed fertile land.
8. Tunis, Tunisia - The General Workers’ Union stages a demonstration at El-Kasaba Square. There’s anger over perceived constraints on union rights and the rising cost of living in the country.
9. Mindelo, Cape Verde - This photo, taken near the fishing village of Calhau in Sao Vicente, shows a capsized migrants’ boat. According to survivors, it left a village in Mauritania carrying 65 people. The UN says 2023 was the most deadly year for migrants worldwide with at least 8,565 fatalities.
10. Mukono, Uganda - Soft ground wrestling is grabbing global attention as it becomes an internet sensation.
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WAKE UP AFRICA! QUIT ‘STUPID’ IMF, WORLD BANK
The independence we got in the ‘60s was fake. So argues Dr. Arikana Chihombori, the former envoy of the African Union to the US.
The enslavement goes on, she says in this clip, via institutions that were imposed on us - such as the World Bank, the IMF and the Bretton Woods system. Not only are they non-African - imposed on, rather than created by, us - but, she claims, they exist solely to ensure our financial bondage.
She urges Africans around the world to wake up, and to stop being ‘stupid’ by submitting to this subjugation. She’s keen to see the establishment of more Pan-African media to get that message out. And she says elders in the community, like herself, have a special responsibility when it comes to raising awareness.
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The independence we got in the ‘60s was fake. So argues Dr. Arikana Chihombori, the former envoy of the African Union to the US.
The enslavement goes on, she says in this clip, via institutions that were imposed on us - such as the World Bank, the IMF and the Bretton Woods system. Not only are they non-African - imposed on, rather than created by, us - but, she claims, they exist solely to ensure our financial bondage.
She urges Africans around the world to wake up, and to stop being ‘stupid’ by submitting to this subjugation. She’s keen to see the establishment of more Pan-African media to get that message out. And she says elders in the community, like herself, have a special responsibility when it comes to raising awareness.
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SAHEL TRIO TO CREATE JOINT ANTI-JIHADIST FORCE
The head of Niger's armed forces has announced the creation of a joint anti-jihadist force - together with Burkina Faso and Mali.
Moussa Salaou Barmou said in a televised statement that the new force would be "operational as soon as possible to meet security challenges" but did not give details on its size.
Many in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accuse France of fuelling insurgency in the Sahel, while also diminishing their countries' sovereignty.
Thousands of Sahelians have been killed in jihadist attacks since 2011 despite intervention by foreign powers, most notably France and the US. The newly-created Alliance of Sahelian States - founded by Bamako, Ouagadougou and Niamey - has cut ties with former colonial ruler France and pivoted towards Russia for security and economic development.
Do you think being each other’s brother's keeper will make the trio - and the region - more secure?
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The head of Niger's armed forces has announced the creation of a joint anti-jihadist force - together with Burkina Faso and Mali.
Moussa Salaou Barmou said in a televised statement that the new force would be "operational as soon as possible to meet security challenges" but did not give details on its size.
Many in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accuse France of fuelling insurgency in the Sahel, while also diminishing their countries' sovereignty.
Thousands of Sahelians have been killed in jihadist attacks since 2011 despite intervention by foreign powers, most notably France and the US. The newly-created Alliance of Sahelian States - founded by Bamako, Ouagadougou and Niamey - has cut ties with former colonial ruler France and pivoted towards Russia for security and economic development.
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‘GOOGLE POWERING GENOCIDE!’
Hundreds of Google workers pleaded with their bosses to boycott an Israeli tech-industry conference in New York - fearing that the giant’s technologies will be used for the war in Gaza, and for Tel Aviv’s policing and surveillance of Palestinians.
But despite a letter signed by 600 staff, the company’s ‘gold’ sponsorship status was kept - and the managing director for Google Israel went ahead with his speech on May 4th at the ‘Mind the Tech’ gathering.
He soon found himself being passionately heckled by one of Google’s own Cloud engineers - who told the MD that he refused to build technology that ‘powers genocide.’
Amid jeers and shouts from the rest of the audience, the protester was then manhandled out of the hall while chanting, ‘No tech for apartheid!’ and ‘Free Palestine!’
It shows there are many ways Israel’s actions can be resisted. Have a watch, and please share your reactions.
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Hundreds of Google workers pleaded with their bosses to boycott an Israeli tech-industry conference in New York - fearing that the giant’s technologies will be used for the war in Gaza, and for Tel Aviv’s policing and surveillance of Palestinians.
But despite a letter signed by 600 staff, the company’s ‘gold’ sponsorship status was kept - and the managing director for Google Israel went ahead with his speech on May 4th at the ‘Mind the Tech’ gathering.
He soon found himself being passionately heckled by one of Google’s own Cloud engineers - who told the MD that he refused to build technology that ‘powers genocide.’
Amid jeers and shouts from the rest of the audience, the protester was then manhandled out of the hall while chanting, ‘No tech for apartheid!’ and ‘Free Palestine!’
It shows there are many ways Israel’s actions can be resisted. Have a watch, and please share your reactions.
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The M23 (March 23 Movement) is among over 100 armed rebel groups in the mineral-rich eastern DRC. However, the M23 is arguably the most significant threat to Congo’s sovereignty not only due to its ‘alleged’ ties with Rwanda but also because it has the most troops and is heavily armed and funded. This week, we shine the spotlight on facts that highlight Rwanda’s military, political and financial support for M23. Over the years Kigali has repeatedly denied supporting the group which maintains it does not receive Rwandan backing. However, multiple UN reports, including the latest by experts called S/2023/990, tell a different story. Is Rwanda’s involvement in the DRC still alleged? Take a look and let us know your thoughts.
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WE’VE GOT DOLLARS AND NO SENSE!
Brother Nuri Muhammad, a student minister of the Nation of Islam, discusses the need for Black people to improve the manner in which they spend, invest and save their money. He specifically cautions this group in the United States, demographically the eighth richest in the world compared to any other country, against impulsive purchases. Likewise, he encourages them to stop buying so many unnecessary items. Instead, Nuri inspires Black people to invest in land and businesses that can help build wealth and pass it down to future generations.
Part of that knowledge involves understanding the difference between wealth and income. It also means urgently doing something about the fact that Black people in the US gush out 97% of their money on products and services provided by white-owned businesses yet blame the overwhelming majority of their problems on white people. Is it any wonder why Brother Nuri states, “We got dollars, but we need some sense?”
Brother Nuri Muhammad, a student minister of the Nation of Islam, discusses the need for Black people to improve the manner in which they spend, invest and save their money. He specifically cautions this group in the United States, demographically the eighth richest in the world compared to any other country, against impulsive purchases. Likewise, he encourages them to stop buying so many unnecessary items. Instead, Nuri inspires Black people to invest in land and businesses that can help build wealth and pass it down to future generations.
Part of that knowledge involves understanding the difference between wealth and income. It also means urgently doing something about the fact that Black people in the US gush out 97% of their money on products and services provided by white-owned businesses yet blame the overwhelming majority of their problems on white people. Is it any wonder why Brother Nuri states, “We got dollars, but we need some sense?”
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Continued…..White settler colonialism, the bloodsucking capitalist system and the historical exclusion of Black people from the US economy and society at large find themselves as root causes for the atrocious spending habits attributed to Black people nowadays. In general and very distinct cases where the long lost descendants of Africa had no other choice but to pool their resources and do for themselves, those efforts were met by American terrorism, which was best exemplified in the Jim Crow era. These are the legacies of Tulsa, Rosewood and other towns and cities.
For Tulsa, where a thriving Black community was decimated and hundreds killed by a marauding white mob in 1921, even air-bombed by US officials, reparations, as of last year, were denied to three of the remaining victims who are all over one hundred years old. The presiding judge in the case, Caroline Wall, dismissed the lawsuit, which sought recompense for the surviving victims.
“We were taught not to talk about it,” said 109-year-old Viola Ford Fletcher, a survivor of the massacre. “If you talk about it, your family will be killed, I’m proud I’m living to tell about it.”
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For Tulsa, where a thriving Black community was decimated and hundreds killed by a marauding white mob in 1921, even air-bombed by US officials, reparations, as of last year, were denied to three of the remaining victims who are all over one hundred years old. The presiding judge in the case, Caroline Wall, dismissed the lawsuit, which sought recompense for the surviving victims.
“We were taught not to talk about it,” said 109-year-old Viola Ford Fletcher, a survivor of the massacre. “If you talk about it, your family will be killed, I’m proud I’m living to tell about it.”
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U.S. COURT: BIG TECH NOT LIABLE FOR DRC COBALT CHILD LABOUR
Big tech companies are off the hook when it comes to buying cobalt mined by child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). An American appeals court said they could not be held liable for children forced to work in terrible conditions. And that means Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dell and Tesla are free to keep buying the metal with no regard for shocking exploitation. The case had been brought by representatives of children who’d been killed in DRC’s mines.
It’s happening as the country suffers an endless conflict. Since 1994 more than six million people have been killed and seven million displaced in what has been called ‘Africa’s World War’.
Big tech companies are off the hook when it comes to buying cobalt mined by child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). An American appeals court said they could not be held liable for children forced to work in terrible conditions. And that means Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dell and Tesla are free to keep buying the metal with no regard for shocking exploitation. The case had been brought by representatives of children who’d been killed in DRC’s mines.
It’s happening as the country suffers an endless conflict. Since 1994 more than six million people have been killed and seven million displaced in what has been called ‘Africa’s World War’.
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Continued…. Today, 120 armed groups operate in the country, driven by a desire to control resources worth $24-trillion. It’s argued Western firms’ thirst for DRC’s resources indirectly funds rebels who in turn use child labour to mine in-demand metals like cobalt. Congolese in the east of the country are locked in a vicious cycle of poverty and violence while big tech survive and thrive.
It’s also worth remembering it’s US interference that’s responsible for the state of affairs. Coming off a brutal decades-long colonial occupation from Belgium, and eager to utilise the vast resources to develop Africa, DRC was shot in the knee with the assassination of visionary Pan-African leader Patrice Lumumba, but that wasn’t enough. The US installed a puppet that bled the country for the next three decades. The West served as a loot stash and while millions lived in poverty, President Mobutu Sese Seko held millions in foreign banks, with properties spread across Europe.
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It’s also worth remembering it’s US interference that’s responsible for the state of affairs. Coming off a brutal decades-long colonial occupation from Belgium, and eager to utilise the vast resources to develop Africa, DRC was shot in the knee with the assassination of visionary Pan-African leader Patrice Lumumba, but that wasn’t enough. The US installed a puppet that bled the country for the next three decades. The West served as a loot stash and while millions lived in poverty, President Mobutu Sese Seko held millions in foreign banks, with properties spread across Europe.
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PLO LUMUMBA BLASTS THE ICC
In this episode of ‘Going Underground,’ host Afshin Rattansi interviewed Professor PLO Lumumba, Pan-Africanist scholar and former director of the Kenya School of Law. They discussed the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its bias against African leaders while ignoring the crimes of Western leaders. Lumumba argues the ICC is a tool of neo-colonialism and that it no longer has legitimacy or credibility in Africa. The ICC has mainly targeted African leaders, such as Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, and Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by Western leaders, such as US President George W. Bush, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama. He calls for the disbandment of the International Criminal Court.
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In this episode of ‘Going Underground,’ host Afshin Rattansi interviewed Professor PLO Lumumba, Pan-Africanist scholar and former director of the Kenya School of Law. They discussed the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its bias against African leaders while ignoring the crimes of Western leaders. Lumumba argues the ICC is a tool of neo-colonialism and that it no longer has legitimacy or credibility in Africa. The ICC has mainly targeted African leaders, such as Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, and Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by Western leaders, such as US President George W. Bush, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama. He calls for the disbandment of the International Criminal Court.
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VIRAL A.I. FASHION SHOW
A Nigerian artist has harnessed the power of AI to create a fashion show that celebrates the elderly people of the African continent.
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A Nigerian artist has harnessed the power of AI to create a fashion show that celebrates the elderly people of the African continent.
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VIJAY PRASHAD: THE PROBLEM IS NOW!
Historian Vijay Prashad blasted the climate justice movement for disregarding the immediate challenges people in regions like Africa, Asia, and Latin America must face because they have inherited colonial economic systems.
At COP26, the UN’s climate-change conference in 2021, he questioned the relevance of the movement’s commonly used phrase, ‘We’re worried about the future.’
However, food insecurity affects 2.7 billion people globally. Prashad said this reality challenges the movement’s call for individuals to reduce consumption.
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Historian Vijay Prashad blasted the climate justice movement for disregarding the immediate challenges people in regions like Africa, Asia, and Latin America must face because they have inherited colonial economic systems.
At COP26, the UN’s climate-change conference in 2021, he questioned the relevance of the movement’s commonly used phrase, ‘We’re worried about the future.’
However, food insecurity affects 2.7 billion people globally. Prashad said this reality challenges the movement’s call for individuals to reduce consumption.
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Over 250 children were kidnapped from a school in Kaduna State, northwestern Nigeria, on Thursday, March 7th. Pupils were about to settle in their classrooms at Kuriga School when gunmen on motorcycles burst onto the premises, firing into the air. They blocked exits before rounding up more than 200 students - 100 of them aged 12 and under - and then marching them off into a forest.
In recent years, Nigeria has seen a surge in kidnappings in schools and colleges across the country as gunmen, known locally as ‘bandits,’ abduct victims whom they use to demand ransom. A local risk analyst firm, SBM Intelligence, has recorded 4,777 kidnappings since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took over in May 2022.
The latest school kidnapping comes nearly 10 years after the abduction by terror group Boko Haram of 276 school girls in Chibok, Borno State, in April 2014.
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In recent years, Nigeria has seen a surge in kidnappings in schools and colleges across the country as gunmen, known locally as ‘bandits,’ abduct victims whom they use to demand ransom. A local risk analyst firm, SBM Intelligence, has recorded 4,777 kidnappings since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took over in May 2022.
The latest school kidnapping comes nearly 10 years after the abduction by terror group Boko Haram of 276 school girls in Chibok, Borno State, in April 2014.
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PALESTINIAN WORSHIPPERS ASSAULTED ON RAMADAN
This video’s gone viral showing Israeli police using batons on Palestinians trying to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque for Ramadan prayers. Worshippers were forced to pray in alleys after being denied access to the holy site in East Jerusalem.
It’s feared Israeli authorities and far-right settlers may step up their targeting of Palestinians during the holy month.
Tel Aviv’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has so far killed 31,000 with no ceasefire in sight.
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This video’s gone viral showing Israeli police using batons on Palestinians trying to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque for Ramadan prayers. Worshippers were forced to pray in alleys after being denied access to the holy site in East Jerusalem.
It’s feared Israeli authorities and far-right settlers may step up their targeting of Palestinians during the holy month.
Tel Aviv’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has so far killed 31,000 with no ceasefire in sight.
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