Continued……. Puryear also reminded us that 21 February 2025, will mark the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. He noted that on the same date, US military exercises hosted in Kenya with their East African counterparts (code-named ‘Justified Accord’) will be ending, suggesting that revolutionary forces turn the day into one of struggle against US imperialism.
The international nature of the anti-imperialist struggle brings revolutionaries worldwide together for a common cause, as the national congress exemplifies. On 18 February 1957, Dedan Kimathi (1920-57), one of the Mau Mau's most outstanding heroes, paid for Kenya's freedom with his life, hanged by British colonialists. His sacrifice and that of his fellow revolutionaries continue to inspire the working class in many countries today, as Malcolm X testified six decades ago.
Does Malcolm X’s Mau Mau speech also strike a chord with you?
Sources;
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12997138
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/people-global-african-history/dedan-kimathi-1920-1957/
https://www.crsp.pitt.edu/malcom-x
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/21/archives/malcolm-favors-a-maui-mau-in-us-at-harlem-rally-he-urges-negroes-to.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH4F1CdQlF8
https://www.army.mil/article/281252/exercise_justified_accord_2025_expands_size_and_scope_in_kenya
https://www.communistpartyofkenya.org/87-recent-news/354-press-statement-by-the-general-secretary,-booker-omole,-of-the-communist-party-marxist-kenya-cpm-k-,-after-the-successful-day-1-of-the-2nd-national-congress
The international nature of the anti-imperialist struggle brings revolutionaries worldwide together for a common cause, as the national congress exemplifies. On 18 February 1957, Dedan Kimathi (1920-57), one of the Mau Mau's most outstanding heroes, paid for Kenya's freedom with his life, hanged by British colonialists. His sacrifice and that of his fellow revolutionaries continue to inspire the working class in many countries today, as Malcolm X testified six decades ago.
Does Malcolm X’s Mau Mau speech also strike a chord with you?
Sources;
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12997138
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/people-global-african-history/dedan-kimathi-1920-1957/
https://www.crsp.pitt.edu/malcom-x
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/21/archives/malcolm-favors-a-maui-mau-in-us-at-harlem-rally-he-urges-negroes-to.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH4F1CdQlF8
https://www.army.mil/article/281252/exercise_justified_accord_2025_expands_size_and_scope_in_kenya
https://www.communistpartyofkenya.org/87-recent-news/354-press-statement-by-the-general-secretary,-booker-omole,-of-the-communist-party-marxist-kenya-cpm-k-,-after-the-successful-day-1-of-the-2nd-national-congress
BBC News
Mau Mau uprising: Bloody history of Kenya conflict
Four Kenyans allegedly tortured in the Mau-Mau uprising are taking the UK government to court
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Nurses and other professionals are leaving Africa amid worker shortages in their home countries. This is understandable, given they can earn far more abroad and send remittances home. But what is unforgivable is that African governments are not only failing to turn the tide by creating incentives to stay but, in some cases, actively encouraging workers to grab opportunities outside of Africa. Policies need to be rethought fast as the situation is extremely detrimental to Africans generally. We look at three cases: Ghana, Malawi and Kenya.
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Continued……Sources:
Ghana
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65808660
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/exclusive-news/2023/03/30/more-ghanaian-nurses-in-nhs-than-in-ghana/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehignett/2023/06/07/uk-hospitals-are-hiring-nurses-from-countries-that-cant-spare-them/
Malawi
https://www.africanews.com/2023/11/27/malawi-slammed-for-sending-workers-to-israel-amid-gaza-conflict/
https://www.capitalradiomalawi.com/2024/03/07/malawi-nears-completion-of-labour-pact-with-israel/
https://www.un.org/africarenewal/news/malawi-facing-worst-food-crisis-decade-requires-81-million-relief-aid-%E2%80%93-un-agency
https://www.voanews.com/a/tons-of-ukrainian-grain-arrives-in-drought-hit-malawi/7855276.html
Kenya
https://kahawatungu.com/kenya-to-export-one-million-workers-abroad-annually-says-labour-cs-mutua/
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/naivasha-hospital-on-the-spot-over-claims-20-babies-die-every-month-at-the-facility-4311534
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/german-contradicts-ruto-on-job-opportunities-for-250-000-kenyans-4763072
https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/medical-doctors-(per-10-000-population)
Ghana
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65808660
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/exclusive-news/2023/03/30/more-ghanaian-nurses-in-nhs-than-in-ghana/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehignett/2023/06/07/uk-hospitals-are-hiring-nurses-from-countries-that-cant-spare-them/
Malawi
https://www.africanews.com/2023/11/27/malawi-slammed-for-sending-workers-to-israel-amid-gaza-conflict/
https://www.capitalradiomalawi.com/2024/03/07/malawi-nears-completion-of-labour-pact-with-israel/
https://www.un.org/africarenewal/news/malawi-facing-worst-food-crisis-decade-requires-81-million-relief-aid-%E2%80%93-un-agency
https://www.voanews.com/a/tons-of-ukrainian-grain-arrives-in-drought-hit-malawi/7855276.html
Kenya
https://kahawatungu.com/kenya-to-export-one-million-workers-abroad-annually-says-labour-cs-mutua/
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/naivasha-hospital-on-the-spot-over-claims-20-babies-die-every-month-at-the-facility-4311534
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/german-contradicts-ruto-on-job-opportunities-for-250-000-kenyans-4763072
https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/medical-doctors-(per-10-000-population)
Bbc
Ghana patients in danger as nurses head for NHS in UK - medics
The recruitment of nurses by high-income countries is "out of control", a nursing body says.
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U.S. COPS KILL BLACK MAN WHO’D DIALLED 911
Body-cam video has emerged showing a Las Vegas cop shooting dead a Black man - who’d reportedly called police for help after suspecting a break-in. An officer arrived to find Brandon Durham wrestling for a knife with a woman and shot him. After he’d fallen to the floor, the officer shot him another five times. He died on the spot. It’s the eighth fatal police shooting by Las Vegas police this year.
Sources:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/18/us/las-vegas-police-shoot-911-caller/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/11/18/brandon-durham-las-vegas-police/76401735007/
Body-cam video has emerged showing a Las Vegas cop shooting dead a Black man - who’d reportedly called police for help after suspecting a break-in. An officer arrived to find Brandon Durham wrestling for a knife with a woman and shot him. After he’d fallen to the floor, the officer shot him another five times. He died on the spot. It’s the eighth fatal police shooting by Las Vegas police this year.
Sources:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/18/us/las-vegas-police-shoot-911-caller/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/11/18/brandon-durham-las-vegas-police/76401735007/
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It's a curious case when the United States, a country quick to accuse others—particularly Russia—of election interference, wields a heavy hand in Venezuela's electoral process.
In a 19 November post on X (formerly Twitter), outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recognised Edmundo González Urrutia as Venezuela's president-elect. The opposition leader had fled to Spain for exile following the 28 July election.
In a 19 November post on X (formerly Twitter), outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recognised Edmundo González Urrutia as Venezuela's president-elect. The opposition leader had fled to Spain for exile following the 28 July election.
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Continued........This isn't the first time Washington has stoked the flames of regime change in Venezuela. In 2019, Washington recognised Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's interim president following Nicolás Maduro’s 2018 election. And during his first stint as US President, Donald Trump openly considered invading Venezuela. Marco Rubio, a child of Cuban immigrants who arrived in the US two years before the Cuban revolution, is Trump's choice for secretary of state and is expected to continue a hardline stance against Venezuela, which he has referred to as a ‘narco-dictatorship.’
Do Venezuela's estimated 304 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, the largest in the world, have something to do with it?
Be the judge.
Sources:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/961643/crude-oil-reserves-venezuela/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20crude%20oil%20reserves,largest%20crude%20oil%20reserves%20worldwide.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20241120-us-opposition-leader-gonzalez-venezuela-president-elect
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15530/
https://apnews.com/article/a3309c4990ac4581834d4a654f7746ef
https://2017-2021.state.gov/recognition-of-juan-guaido-as-venezuelas-interim-president/
Do Venezuela's estimated 304 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, the largest in the world, have something to do with it?
Be the judge.
Sources:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/961643/crude-oil-reserves-venezuela/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20crude%20oil%20reserves,largest%20crude%20oil%20reserves%20worldwide.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20241120-us-opposition-leader-gonzalez-venezuela-president-elect
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15530/
https://apnews.com/article/a3309c4990ac4581834d4a654f7746ef
https://2017-2021.state.gov/recognition-of-juan-guaido-as-venezuelas-interim-president/
Statista
Venezuela: crude oil reserves 2021| Statista
In 2021, crude oil reserves in Venezuela reached close to 304 billion barrels, more than triple the figure reported at the beginning of the previous decade.
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ALLIANCE OF SAHEL STATES:
A MODEL FOR AFRICA?
The Alliance of Sahel States’ revolutionary posture and its transformative impact on Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has captured the imaginations of Pan-Africanists across the continent. But it’s also clear that the anti-neo-colonial project needs defending, being at risk from the very forces it rejects. To highlight the issue - and take stock of the AES’s achievements so far - a special three-day conference is being held in Niamey, noscriptd “In Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel.”
A MODEL FOR AFRICA?
The Alliance of Sahel States’ revolutionary posture and its transformative impact on Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has captured the imaginations of Pan-Africanists across the continent. But it’s also clear that the anti-neo-colonial project needs defending, being at risk from the very forces it rejects. To highlight the issue - and take stock of the AES’s achievements so far - a special three-day conference is being held in Niamey, noscriptd “In Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel.”
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Continued……Sources;
ources:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/18/niger-hosts-historic-conference-on-the-fight-against-neocolonialism-in-the-sahel/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/africa/niger-ecowas-standby-force-intl/index.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/6/niger-mali-and-burkina-faso-military-leaders-sign-new-pact-rebuff-ecowas
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/mali-signs-agreement-with-russia-build-gold-refinery-2023-11-22/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-adopts-new-mining-code-boost-sectors-contribution-gdp-mines-ministry-2023-08-08/
https://www.mining.com/web/barrick-reaches-deal-with-mali-after-reports-staff-were-detained/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/australian-mine-company-to-pay-mali-junta-160-million-after-its-ceo-and-2-employees-were-detained/ar-AA1ukeRn
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67098444
https://www.freshproducemea.com/bobo-dioulasso-unveils-usd-8-1-million-tomato-processing-unit-construction-project/
https://www.barrons.com/news/construction-of-first-gold-refinery-begins-in-burkina-faso-cd8de771
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/030724-niger-on-verge-of-first-oil-exports-with-110000-bd-benin-pipeline-completed-sources
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kked7ydqyo
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145852
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/18/niger-hosts-historic-conference-on-the-fight-against-neocolonialism-in-the-sahel/
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/6/niger-mali-and-burkina-faso-military-leaders-sign-new-pact-rebuff-ecowas
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/mali-signs-agreement-with-russia-build-gold-refinery-2023-11-22/
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kked7ydqyo
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145852
Peoples Dispatch
Niger hosts historic conference on the fight against neocolonialism in the Sahel
Ahead of the “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel” in Niamey, Peoples Dispatch brings forth stories of resilience and resistance of the people of Niger whose success in forcing their former colonizer France on the retreat has inspired Pan…
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African Stream’s Inemesit Richardson is on the ground in Niamey, Niger, at the Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel taking place 19-21 November.
Government officials and civil society groups met for three days to discuss strengthening the revolution in Africa’s Sahel region. Hundreds of Nigeriens represented women's organisations, student organisations, trade unions and other groups.
International delegates arrived from Kenya, Zambia, Guinea-Bissau, South Africa, Venezuela, Cuba, Ghana, Benin, Ivory Coast, the United States and China, making it perhaps the most international Alliance of Sahel States (AES) conference.
The conference’s organisers—West African People's Organisation and Pan-Africanism Today— gave rousing opening speeches. The Governor of Niamey Region and Niger Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine (@A_Mahamanezeine on X) also spoke.
Government officials and civil society groups met for three days to discuss strengthening the revolution in Africa’s Sahel region. Hundreds of Nigeriens represented women's organisations, student organisations, trade unions and other groups.
International delegates arrived from Kenya, Zambia, Guinea-Bissau, South Africa, Venezuela, Cuba, Ghana, Benin, Ivory Coast, the United States and China, making it perhaps the most international Alliance of Sahel States (AES) conference.
The conference’s organisers—West African People's Organisation and Pan-Africanism Today— gave rousing opening speeches. The Governor of Niamey Region and Niger Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine (@A_Mahamanezeine on X) also spoke.
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Continued……In the first photo, Richardson spoke with Abdourahamane Elhadj Oumarou (@abder2810 on X), Niger section leader of grassroots political group Urgences Panafricanistes (@UrgencesPanaf on X) and the official spokesperson for Nigerien civil society during the opening ceremony. He is one of Niger’s well-respected anti-imperialist voices, with decades of experience organising against French and U.S. neo-colonialism.
A panel on the global fight against imperialism featured speakers, such as Venezuelan Vice-Minister for North America Carlos Ron (@CarlosJRonVE on X) and Socialist Party of Zambia (@SPZambia on X) founder and President Fred M'membe (@drfredmmembe on X). They shared their experiences and that of their respective countries. M'membe emphatically declared that the time has come to dispel all imperialist propaganda regarding military coups d’état and lend support to the AES. Progressive forces worldwide heeded the call by coming together in Niamey.
A panel on the global fight against imperialism featured speakers, such as Venezuelan Vice-Minister for North America Carlos Ron (@CarlosJRonVE on X) and Socialist Party of Zambia (@SPZambia on X) founder and President Fred M'membe (@drfredmmembe on X). They shared their experiences and that of their respective countries. M'membe emphatically declared that the time has come to dispel all imperialist propaganda regarding military coups d’état and lend support to the AES. Progressive forces worldwide heeded the call by coming together in Niamey.
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Continued……We spoke to M'membe after the panel. His clarity about the primacy of the AES countries within the contemporary Pan-African struggle was a breath of fresh air. For decades, regionalist blocs and frameworks have defined Africa, so it was refreshing to see the revolutionaries of Southern Africa and West Africa reuniting like this.
On day 2, a women-led panel discussed their essential role in shaping the Pan-African struggle within the AES, across Africa and worldwide. Niger’s mass women's organisations consist of thousands of members working tirelessly to defend and protect the AES. Following the panel, members of Nigerien grassroots organisations flocked to the podium to express support and appreciation for the role women have played in liberating Niger from French and U.S. neo-colonialism.
On day 2, a women-led panel discussed their essential role in shaping the Pan-African struggle within the AES, across Africa and worldwide. Niger’s mass women's organisations consist of thousands of members working tirelessly to defend and protect the AES. Following the panel, members of Nigerien grassroots organisations flocked to the podium to express support and appreciation for the role women have played in liberating Niger from French and U.S. neo-colonialism.
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Continued….. Following that panel, we met and spoke with two organisers in Niger. Madame Abdou Mariatou is the founder and president of Femmes Engagee pour le Sauvegarde de la Patrie (Women Engaged to Safeguard the Homeland), one of the mass women's organisations shaping the contours of the Nigerien struggle. Ibrahim Hamidou is a prominent socialist trade unionist who also organises in solidarity with Cuba.
Day 2's final panel on youths’ role within the Pan-African struggle featured Booker Ngesa Omole (@bookerbiro on X), the General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K) (@communistske on X). He clarified that it's not just about uplifting youth but also understanding their class reality. For example, Omole pointed out that young people in the family of now-overthrown Nigerien former President Mohamed Bazoum will not have the same class interests as the majority of AES youth.
Day 2's final panel on youths’ role within the Pan-African struggle featured Booker Ngesa Omole (@bookerbiro on X), the General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K) (@communistske on X). He clarified that it's not just about uplifting youth but also understanding their class reality. For example, Omole pointed out that young people in the family of now-overthrown Nigerien former President Mohamed Bazoum will not have the same class interests as the majority of AES youth.
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