Continued......This mobilisation came amidst the International Month of Action Against AFRICOM, which the Black Alliance for Peace has organised every October since 2020 to shut down the US Africa Command (AFRICOM). AFRICOM has military-to-military relationships with 52 out of 54 African countries, with Egypt counted as under the purview of the US Central Command that occupies West Asia.

Niger is the first African country to expel AFRICOM forces and the three AES states have ended military collaboration with France, booting out French troops. They have also been taking back their resources. Burkina Faso has nationalised its gold mines. Niger revoked a uranium mining licence from the French company, Orano, and Mali accused Canadian mining company Barrick Gold of owing taxes and not complying with environmental and other commitments.

The three countries seek to form a Pan-African federal state out of the confederation to eliminate colonial borders imposed on the region.

SOURCES;

https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/alliance-of-sahel-states-and-a-new-era-for-west-africa

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBRDG-vPyU7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.ifri.org/fr/presse-contenus-repris-sur-le-site/les-soldats-francais-de-loperation-barkhane-partis-du-mali-que

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-marks-official-end-french-military-operations-its-soil-2023-02-19/

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/last-french-troops-leave-niger-military-cooperation-officially-ends-2023-12-22

https://www.africanews.com/2024/08/28/burkina-faso-nationalises-two-gold-mines-ending-legal-dispute-between-rival-companies

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/in-west-africa-canadian-mining-firms-come-up-against-bloc-of-independent-states

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/in-west-africa-canadian-mining-firms-come-up-against-bloc-of-independent-states

https://www.africom.mil/pressrelease/35590/us-withdrawal-from-niger-completed

https://www.africom.mil/about-the-command

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbO7JyTaRRqANqhLgsUqd7XkFRfstY8KuzXSWNNrztqq1sEg/viewform

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3904143/africom-commander-stresses-cooperation-consultation-with-african-nations

MALCOLM X: I'M NOT AMERICAN

Many of our followers ask why we refer to our kin in the U.S as Africans in America instead of African-Americans. Malcolm X can shed some light here.

SOURCES:

Africans in America among poorest demographics
https://www.statista.com/statistics/200476/us-poverty-rate-by-ethnic-group/

Racism in US policing
https://theconversation.com/the-racist-roots-of-american-policing-from-slave-patrols-to-traffic-stops-112816

Racism and the prison industrial complex
https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/systemic-racism-and-the-prison-industrial-complex-in-the-land-of-the-free

Africans have not been given reparations
https://www.history.com/news/40-acres-mule-promise

Quote
https://malcolmxfiles.com/collection/the-ballot-or-the-bullet-april-12-1964/

Continued......Sources
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cm20l14g87jo

https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/history-of-slavery/scotland-and-slavery/

https://www.freedomunited.org/news/inside-the-human-trafficking-scandal-rocking-scotlands-fishing-industry/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj0ln81yyjo

Continued......China’s UN representative argued the US-backed international security mission needs more time to establish itself, as a peacekeeping operation is not a magic pill. Previous UN interventions have wreaked havoc for Haitians, involving s*xual abuse, civilian executions, and at least 10,000 deaths as a result of peacekeepers contaminating Haiti’s water with sewerage. Additionally, the US and French history of destabilising Haiti have contributed to the dysfunction in the Caribbean country that shares an island with the Dominican Republic.

SOURCES:

Ruto calls for help
https://x.com/WilliamsRuto/status/1854603091368161659

Imperialism in Blackface
https://africasacountry.com/2024/03/imperialism-in-black-face

Mission inadequately equipped
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30lmpgvvvqo

Russia, China against turning it into UN peacekeeping mission
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/un-authorizes-haiti-security-force-another-year-2024-09-30/

AFRICAN REMAINS DISRESPECTED IN U.S.

Prestigious Ivy League universities, such as Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania, and the most prominent US museum, the Smithsonian, look in cahoots with gravediggers. These institutions of higher learning have warehoused the human remains, skeletons, and skulls of Indigenous and African people without obtaining the consent of formerly living or surviving family members.

For example, when the Philadelphia police air-bombed the MOVE organisation's home in 1985—destroying over 60 rowhomes as the ensuing fire spread—the burnt human remains of two of the 11 victims—14-year-old Tree Africa and 12-year-old Delisha Africa—wound up at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Continued......Their surviving parents and relatives did not consent to the university showcasing their remains in a course. In 2021, public outcry forced the institution to suspend the course, terminate museum curator Janet Monge and return the girls' remains to their relatives.

'This is how they see Africa,' Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré recently said about Western colonisers' relationship with Africans. 'For them, Africans belong to them.' If you examine this story, it is hard to disagree with his statement.