Continued….. At the end of the visit, the Sudanese government granted Mandela a diplomatic passport, which, in essence, gave him citizenship. This gesture was more than a symbol of Pan-African solidarity; it significantly eased the liberation leader’s travel, hampered by his lack of a South African passport, which he could not get due to apartheid laws and his activism.
On Nelson Mandela International Day, which falls on the 18th of July, we look back on that trip, which, some six decades later, serves as a shining example of the spirit of Pan-Africanism.
On Nelson Mandela International Day, which falls on the 18th of July, we look back on that trip, which, some six decades later, serves as a shining example of the spirit of Pan-Africanism.
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DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS’ S.O.S. CALL FOR SUDAN
The war between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—has been raging for over 15 months now.
With each passing day, civilians are paying the price. Through lack of food, healthcare and armed violence, the Sudanese population appears to have seen it all at the hands of the two warring sides.
The conflict has also forced many humanitarian agencies to suspend or scale down their operations, leaving the approximately 10 million internally displaced people with nowhere to turn to for food, healthcare and other services. An additional 2 million people have fled the country.
United Nations (UN) estimates indicate that over 25 million people, more than half of the country’s population, desperately need humanitarian aid.
The situation has led aid organisations, such as Doctors Without Borders (MSF), to urgently call on the world to respond to this humanitarian catastrophe.
The war between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—has been raging for over 15 months now.
With each passing day, civilians are paying the price. Through lack of food, healthcare and armed violence, the Sudanese population appears to have seen it all at the hands of the two warring sides.
The conflict has also forced many humanitarian agencies to suspend or scale down their operations, leaving the approximately 10 million internally displaced people with nowhere to turn to for food, healthcare and other services. An additional 2 million people have fled the country.
United Nations (UN) estimates indicate that over 25 million people, more than half of the country’s population, desperately need humanitarian aid.
The situation has led aid organisations, such as Doctors Without Borders (MSF), to urgently call on the world to respond to this humanitarian catastrophe.
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MESSI’S ARGENTINA: GOATS OF RACISM
Another racism row has hit Argentina’s footballers. After beating Colombia to lift the Copa America trophy, they sang racist songs about Black French players. It was live-streamed by Argentine star Enzo Fernandez (@ezojfernandez) who’s now facing an investigation by French football authorities and his English club Chelsea.
Similar racist songs were sung by Argentina fans at the Qatar World Cup less than two years ago. Despite condemnation, we now have the Argentina players joining in. Players who star in a side that doesn’t have a single Black player.
Ahmed Ghoneim tackles the long history behind the racist dressing room that blights world football.
Another racism row has hit Argentina’s footballers. After beating Colombia to lift the Copa America trophy, they sang racist songs about Black French players. It was live-streamed by Argentine star Enzo Fernandez (@ezojfernandez) who’s now facing an investigation by French football authorities and his English club Chelsea.
Similar racist songs were sung by Argentina fans at the Qatar World Cup less than two years ago. Despite condemnation, we now have the Argentina players joining in. Players who star in a side that doesn’t have a single Black player.
Ahmed Ghoneim tackles the long history behind the racist dressing room that blights world football.
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Global Forest Watch, a Washington-based initiative that uses satellites to track deforestation, reports that the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is experiencing a catastrophic loss of forests in the country’s North Kivu province in the east.
The group says illegal loggers cut down 7,255 hectares of forest in 2022. A long-running resource conflict fuelled by foreign interests is driving displaced Congolese into unlawful logging to make charcoal for their daily needs and to sell. Numerous armed groups, including the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, are involved in selling timber.
The group says illegal loggers cut down 7,255 hectares of forest in 2022. A long-running resource conflict fuelled by foreign interests is driving displaced Congolese into unlawful logging to make charcoal for their daily needs and to sell. Numerous armed groups, including the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, are involved in selling timber.
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Continued……Virunga National Park, a sanctuary for many of the world’s last mountain gorillas as well many other species unique to Africa, has borne the brunt of a decades-long insurgency that has displaced more than 7 million Congolese internally and k*lled at least 6 million people since the late 1990s.
Because of insecurity, rangers cannot effectively patrol and protect the once-densely forested park, leading to a shocking loss of biodiversity and natural beauty.
The DRC’s conflict is not just k*lling people. It is destroying the country’s ecosystem as well.
Because of insecurity, rangers cannot effectively patrol and protect the once-densely forested park, leading to a shocking loss of biodiversity and natural beauty.
The DRC’s conflict is not just k*lling people. It is destroying the country’s ecosystem as well.
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MUGABE: MANDELA PLEASED WHITE PEOPLE AT HIS PEOPLE’S EXPENSE
Nelson Mandela Day, which falls on July 18, was set aside by the United Nations to commemorate the legacy of the late South African statesman and anti-apartheid icon. However, despite his global acclaim, his legacy has also faced scrutiny.
Some say he gave too many concessions to those who benefited from apartheid. For instance, he allowed White South Africans to maintain their dominance over the country’s economy and left the country’s racially imbalanced land ownership structure almost untouched.
In this 2013 interview, former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe says Mandela went ‘a bit too far’. He was speaking with South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Dali Tambo.
Credit: SABC
Nelson Mandela Day, which falls on July 18, was set aside by the United Nations to commemorate the legacy of the late South African statesman and anti-apartheid icon. However, despite his global acclaim, his legacy has also faced scrutiny.
Some say he gave too many concessions to those who benefited from apartheid. For instance, he allowed White South Africans to maintain their dominance over the country’s economy and left the country’s racially imbalanced land ownership structure almost untouched.
In this 2013 interview, former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe says Mandela went ‘a bit too far’. He was speaking with South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Dali Tambo.
Credit: SABC
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WE ARE THE GLOBAL MAJORITY’
Are you ready for a serious conversation about being a Black person American? Deante, host of the ‘Grits and Eggs’ podcast, urges people to quit perceiving themselves as a ‘minority’ group within the United States. Instead, they should identify with the Black community globally and embrace the power that would come from that. It should work the other way too, with Africans outside the United States dropping their own biases regarding Black people in the US.
Deante’s clip is a modern-day version of what pan-Africanists Kwame Ture and Marcus Garvey long advocated for. Malcolm X also believed such a move could help establish international alliances to combat systemic white supremacy. It’s an important message, and @deante_kyle does a good job re-stating its relevance. According to him, if we don’t do this, we’re just ‘self-ostracising’ and falling into the colonisers ‘playbook.’
Video credit:@deante_kyle
Are you ready for a serious conversation about being a Black person American? Deante, host of the ‘Grits and Eggs’ podcast, urges people to quit perceiving themselves as a ‘minority’ group within the United States. Instead, they should identify with the Black community globally and embrace the power that would come from that. It should work the other way too, with Africans outside the United States dropping their own biases regarding Black people in the US.
Deante’s clip is a modern-day version of what pan-Africanists Kwame Ture and Marcus Garvey long advocated for. Malcolm X also believed such a move could help establish international alliances to combat systemic white supremacy. It’s an important message, and @deante_kyle does a good job re-stating its relevance. According to him, if we don’t do this, we’re just ‘self-ostracising’ and falling into the colonisers ‘playbook.’
Video credit:@deante_kyle
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KENYANS RAGE AT RUTO
These Kenyan protesters vent the anger being felt across the country, as calls grow louder for President Ruto’s resignation. He recently U-turned on a controversial IMF-backed finance bill after weeks of protests against it, but many remain unconvinced. As a result, demonstrations continue and have morphed into wider demands for systemic change.
Discontent's reached boiling point with President Ruto failing to deliver on election promises to improve the lives of the country’s citizens. Once in power, he scrapped fuel subsidies and the subsequent finance bills heaped extra tax burdens on the poor. All this while corruption, taking a third of the country’s budget, remains unaddressed.
Police, meanwhile, continue to brutally crack down on protests. Over the last four weeks there have been arrests, abductions and killings of at least 50 at the hands of security agencies, who appear to act with impunity.
These Kenyan protesters vent the anger being felt across the country, as calls grow louder for President Ruto’s resignation. He recently U-turned on a controversial IMF-backed finance bill after weeks of protests against it, but many remain unconvinced. As a result, demonstrations continue and have morphed into wider demands for systemic change.
Discontent's reached boiling point with President Ruto failing to deliver on election promises to improve the lives of the country’s citizens. Once in power, he scrapped fuel subsidies and the subsequent finance bills heaped extra tax burdens on the poor. All this while corruption, taking a third of the country’s budget, remains unaddressed.
Police, meanwhile, continue to brutally crack down on protests. Over the last four weeks there have been arrests, abductions and killings of at least 50 at the hands of security agencies, who appear to act with impunity.
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‘KENYA SOLD TO HIGHEST BIDDER’ - ACTIVIST
Resource-rich African states depending on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for economic survival are trapped in a cycle of crippling debt, as the IMF’s austerity programs do not aim to liberate them from modern-day exploitation.
Mathare Social Justice Centre co-founder and Communist Party of Kenya (@communistske) member Wanjira Wanjiru (@wanjiru_wanjira on IG and @wanjirunjira on X) recently spoke to African Stream on its ‘Pan-African Attitude’ podcast. She said Kenyan President William Ruto’s embrace of the IMF has taken Kenya back to the dark days of economic stagnation.
In the 1990s, Kenya implemented the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), a set of economic policies designed to cut government spending and open markets to foreign venture capitalists. However, SAPs negatively impacted child and maternal health and education.
Resource-rich African states depending on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for economic survival are trapped in a cycle of crippling debt, as the IMF’s austerity programs do not aim to liberate them from modern-day exploitation.
Mathare Social Justice Centre co-founder and Communist Party of Kenya (@communistske) member Wanjira Wanjiru (@wanjiru_wanjira on IG and @wanjirunjira on X) recently spoke to African Stream on its ‘Pan-African Attitude’ podcast. She said Kenyan President William Ruto’s embrace of the IMF has taken Kenya back to the dark days of economic stagnation.
In the 1990s, Kenya implemented the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), a set of economic policies designed to cut government spending and open markets to foreign venture capitalists. However, SAPs negatively impacted child and maternal health and education.
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Continued……Pushing for higher taxes to cover debt payments and extravagant spending, such as hiring a $1.5 million private jet for Ruto’s recent state visit to the US, has enslaved Kenyan taxpayers to foreign lenders. Cutting out funding for maternal healthcare, free sanitary pads, and meals for schoolchildren triggered nationwide anti-government demonstrations in June. Meanwhile, as Wanjiru pointed out, Ruto deployed 1,000 police officers to Haiti, effectively selling Kenya to Western powers.
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LAWYER: SELLOUTS RUNNING SOUTH AFRICA
In the last few decades, accusations of being a 'sell-out' have been part of the South African political landscape.
Politicians, especially in the liberation movement-turned-ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), have often accused each other of having been apartheid spies or collaborators during the liberation struggle that lasted until the end of apartheid in the early 1990s.
In the last few decades, accusations of being a 'sell-out' have been part of the South African political landscape.
Politicians, especially in the liberation movement-turned-ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), have often accused each other of having been apartheid spies or collaborators during the liberation struggle that lasted until the end of apartheid in the early 1990s.
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The accusations have again come to the fore following a decision by the Cyril Ramaphosa-led ANC to form a Government of National Unity (GNU) that includes political parties, such as the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), white-led organisations with a history of opposing policies that seek to reverse the negative effects of decades of apartheid legislation that excluded non-white people from participating and benefiting from the white-controlled economy.
In this clip from a recent episode of a podcast hosted by South African media personality and academician Sizwe Mpofu Walsh, South African lawyer Muzi Sikhakhane claimed a 'sell-out' faction controlling the ANC led to the GNU's creation.
Video credit: @_smwx on YouTube,
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The accusations have again come to the fore following a decision by the Cyril Ramaphosa-led ANC to form a Government of National Unity (GNU) that includes political parties, such as the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), white-led organisations with a history of opposing policies that seek to reverse the negative effects of decades of apartheid legislation that excluded non-white people from participating and benefiting from the white-controlled economy.
In this clip from a recent episode of a podcast hosted by South African media personality and academician Sizwe Mpofu Walsh, South African lawyer Muzi Sikhakhane claimed a 'sell-out' faction controlling the ANC led to the GNU's creation.
Video credit: @_smwx on YouTube,
@SizweMpofuWalsh
on X and IG, @sizwempofuwalshofficial on FB
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‘Just because he’s Black, doesn’t mean he’s a criminal’. These are the words of heartbroken Denise Roza, who’s 14-year-old nephew was fatally shot by police while he played computer games at her flat in Rio de Janeiro. Three officers have just been absolved of João Pedro’s death by a judge who ruled they’d acted in self-defence.
On May 18, 2020, police stormed the residential building in pursuit of armed criminals and killed 13 ‘suspects’. In a judicial hearing with no public jury, Judge Juliana Bessa Ferraz Krykhtine concluded the officers had acted in ‘self-defence’.
On May 18, 2020, police stormed the residential building in pursuit of armed criminals and killed 13 ‘suspects’. In a judicial hearing with no public jury, Judge Juliana Bessa Ferraz Krykhtine concluded the officers had acted in ‘self-defence’.
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Continued……The policemen unleashed a barrage of at least 70 shots and a 5.56mm calibre round pierced João in his back. A police helicopter airlifted him from the scene and 17 hours later his body appeared in a morgue.
After the decision, Joao’s father, Neilton da Costa Pinto, said: ‘ I disagree with the judge’s ruling. It’s abnormal to fire inside a family’s home, a family of good people, and after four years the justice system finds this to be normal’.
After the decision, Joao’s father, Neilton da Costa Pinto, said: ‘ I disagree with the judge’s ruling. It’s abnormal to fire inside a family’s home, a family of good people, and after four years the justice system finds this to be normal’.
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RSF LOOTING WORSENS SUDAN FOOD CRISIS
This video claims to show Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan looting crops at a storage facility in Senna State.
This 15-month war between the RSF and the Sudanese Army has left 5 million people facing starvation, 3.5 million children suffering severe malnutrition, and 18 million people struggling to meet basic nutritional needs.
Widespread pillaging has destroyed markets and food stocks, disrupted trade routes, and made seeds and fertilisers scarce. This is a catastrophic situation in a country where 60-80 percent of the population relies on agriculture for income.
This video claims to show Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan looting crops at a storage facility in Senna State.
This 15-month war between the RSF and the Sudanese Army has left 5 million people facing starvation, 3.5 million children suffering severe malnutrition, and 18 million people struggling to meet basic nutritional needs.
Widespread pillaging has destroyed markets and food stocks, disrupted trade routes, and made seeds and fertilisers scarce. This is a catastrophic situation in a country where 60-80 percent of the population relies on agriculture for income.
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Continued….. Production hotspots such as Al Jazira State have been hit hard. Producing half of Sudan’s wheat and 10% of its sorghum, the arrival of conflict in the capital, Wad Medani, saw farmers flee the land they’d cultivated for generations.
Across Sudan, cereal production was 46% lower in 2023 than in 2022, and there is little hope for 2024. According to a report by ReliefWeb last year, food insecurity is 70 per cent higher than pre-conflict levels.
Video credit: @afrincansinnews
Across Sudan, cereal production was 46% lower in 2023 than in 2022, and there is little hope for 2024. According to a report by ReliefWeb last year, food insecurity is 70 per cent higher than pre-conflict levels.
Video credit: @afrincansinnews
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The government of Argentina says it stands in solidarity with its racist-tainted football team. The national side sparked outrage after celebrating their recent Copa America noscript by singing racist songs about Black French players. In a viral clip live-streamed by Argentina and Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez, they chanted: ‘They play for France, but their parents are from Angola. Their mother is from Cameroon, while their father is from Nigeria, but their passport says French.’
In response, the French Football Federation has filed a complaint with FIFA, the sport’s world governing body. Enzo Fernadez has also been forced to apologise to his Black teammates at Chelsea.
In response, the French Football Federation has filed a complaint with FIFA, the sport’s world governing body. Enzo Fernadez has also been forced to apologise to his Black teammates at Chelsea.
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Continued……However, there’s no hint of sorrow from Argentina’s Vice President Victoria Villarruel. She’s hit back with an instagram post saying ‘No colonial country will intimidate us.’ President Javier Milei has also come out fighting. He’s sacked his deputy sports minister, Julio Garro, for asking team captain Lionel Messi to apologise for what happened.
Looks like demanding an apology for a racist incident is where Argentina draws the line, not racism itself.
Looks like demanding an apology for a racist incident is where Argentina draws the line, not racism itself.
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