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THE BOOK THAT GOT NKRUMAH DEPOSED?
Today marks 59 years since pan-African icon and Ghana’s founding leader Kwame Nkrumah was removed from office in a military coup engineered by the CIA.
After leading Ghana to independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah embarked on a mission to unite the African people on the continent and in the diaspora. It was his firm belief that Africans share not only a common history, but a common destiny.
He was one of the founding leaders of the African Union’s predecessor, the Organization of African Unity, in 1963. In a key speech at the opening summit, he eloquently made the case for African unity. He explained that true independence and prosperity could only be attained if African nations united on both the economic and political front.
Today marks 59 years since pan-African icon and Ghana’s founding leader Kwame Nkrumah was removed from office in a military coup engineered by the CIA.
After leading Ghana to independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah embarked on a mission to unite the African people on the continent and in the diaspora. It was his firm belief that Africans share not only a common history, but a common destiny.
He was one of the founding leaders of the African Union’s predecessor, the Organization of African Unity, in 1963. In a key speech at the opening summit, he eloquently made the case for African unity. He explained that true independence and prosperity could only be attained if African nations united on both the economic and political front.
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Continued….. He said this was the only way they could defeat the menace posed by the neo-colonial system, which was hell-bent on maintaining its control over the continent, even as most countries attained ‘flag independence.’
To the CIA, revolutionary pan-African leaders like Nkrumah were a danger that needed to be ‘neutralised.’ Their words were seen as threats by the US establishment. It is perhaps telling that it was only after Nkrumah’s overthrow that the IMF engaged in debt restructuring with Ghana.
In this clip, Nkrumah’s editorial assistant, June Milne, relates how his book - Neo-Colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism - was the last straw for the US. In it, he detailed how Western countries were looting Africa’s resources. Milne claims the book spurred Washington into sponsoring the coup that removed him.
Credit: One on One with June Milne, FineLine Production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUc_9Nmr_M&t=0s
To the CIA, revolutionary pan-African leaders like Nkrumah were a danger that needed to be ‘neutralised.’ Their words were seen as threats by the US establishment. It is perhaps telling that it was only after Nkrumah’s overthrow that the IMF engaged in debt restructuring with Ghana.
In this clip, Nkrumah’s editorial assistant, June Milne, relates how his book - Neo-Colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism - was the last straw for the US. In it, he detailed how Western countries were looting Africa’s resources. Milne claims the book spurred Washington into sponsoring the coup that removed him.
Credit: One on One with June Milne, FineLine Production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUc_9Nmr_M&t=0s
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June Milne - Kwame Nkrumah’s Editorial Assistant
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Rwanda has expressed strong discontent over recent US sanctions imposed on State Minister James Kabarebe. The US accuses him of contributing to the Western-backed, three-decade-long war over resources in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Rwandan government contends that such sanctions are ineffective, asserting that peace would have come long ago if they were a viable solution.
The DRC welcomed the US Treasury’s decision to sanction Kabarebe and M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston, and advocated for more stringent sanctions to compel Rwanda to withdraw from eastern DRC. Following the Rwanda- and Uganda-backed M23 militia’s capture of the capitals of DRC’s North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, the government has been urging the international community to take firmer action against Rwanda.
The DRC welcomed the US Treasury’s decision to sanction Kabarebe and M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston, and advocated for more stringent sanctions to compel Rwanda to withdraw from eastern DRC. Following the Rwanda- and Uganda-backed M23 militia’s capture of the capitals of DRC’s North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, the government has been urging the international community to take firmer action against Rwanda.
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Continued……Critics argue that sanctions, when not directed at high-ranking officials, serve merely as symbolic measures that allow influential figures like Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni to pursue their Western-aligned agendas in the Great Lakes region without facing the consequences.
The US employs sanctions as a means to punish individuals or organisations involved in alleged human-rights abuses and destabilising actions. By this standard, one could argue that Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-97), the DRC dictator supported by Washington after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-61), should have faced sanctions for gross human-rights violations. Instead, Mobutu’s reign of terror enabled Western corporations to exploit the DRC’s resources, and he was only deposed when the US found him of no use. Notably, Africa is the most affected by sanctions, yet conflicts and human-rights abuses continue, mainly because the US plays a significant role in destabilising the continent.
By 2010, approximately 6 million Congolese had lost their lives due to the ongoing resource conflict, with about 7 million more internally displaced as of last year, and 700,000 displaced since January alone.
Sources
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0022
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1869
https://www.usip.org/publications/2016/06/us-sanctions-policy-sub-saharan-africa
https://www.dw.com/en/us-sanctions-on-africa-need-an-overhaul-say-experts/a-55361234
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0dg11y6xko
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/04/29/victims-describe-mobutus-long-reign-of-torture
https://www.minaffet.gov.rw/updates/news-details/statement-on-us-designation
https://ofac.treasury.gov
https://x.com/PatrickMuyaya/status/1892642834307785186
https://www.caritas.org/2010/02/six-million-dead-in-congos-war
The US employs sanctions as a means to punish individuals or organisations involved in alleged human-rights abuses and destabilising actions. By this standard, one could argue that Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-97), the DRC dictator supported by Washington after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-61), should have faced sanctions for gross human-rights violations. Instead, Mobutu’s reign of terror enabled Western corporations to exploit the DRC’s resources, and he was only deposed when the US found him of no use. Notably, Africa is the most affected by sanctions, yet conflicts and human-rights abuses continue, mainly because the US plays a significant role in destabilising the continent.
By 2010, approximately 6 million Congolese had lost their lives due to the ongoing resource conflict, with about 7 million more internally displaced as of last year, and 700,000 displaced since January alone.
Sources
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0022
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1869
https://www.usip.org/publications/2016/06/us-sanctions-policy-sub-saharan-africa
https://www.dw.com/en/us-sanctions-on-africa-need-an-overhaul-say-experts/a-55361234
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0dg11y6xko
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/04/29/victims-describe-mobutus-long-reign-of-torture
https://www.minaffet.gov.rw/updates/news-details/statement-on-us-designation
https://ofac.treasury.gov
https://x.com/PatrickMuyaya/status/1892642834307785186
https://www.caritas.org/2010/02/six-million-dead-in-congos-war
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Treasury Sanctions Rwandan Minister and Senior Militant for Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on James Kabarebe (Kabarebe), Rwanda’s Minister of State for Regional Integration. Kabarebe is central to Rwanda’s support for the March 23…
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NKRUMAH’S AMAZING DEEDS
While on a peacemaking mission to what was then North Vietnam on 24 February 1966, Ghana’s first post-independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, received disturbing news. A group of army and police officers calling themselves the National Liberation Council (NLC) had carried out a military coup, overthrowing his government.
The NLC immediately set to work erasing Nkurumah’s legacy and accomplishments. One of the power grab’s leaders, Lieutenant General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, infamously ended his coup announcement on state radio by saying, ‘The myth surrounding Nkrumah has been broken.’
However, Kotoka couldn’t have been more wrong. Nkurumah’s legacy outlived the NLC and those who were behind it. Nearly six decades after the coup, that legacy continues to be revered and celebrated by many at home and beyond Ghana’s shores.
While on a peacemaking mission to what was then North Vietnam on 24 February 1966, Ghana’s first post-independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, received disturbing news. A group of army and police officers calling themselves the National Liberation Council (NLC) had carried out a military coup, overthrowing his government.
The NLC immediately set to work erasing Nkurumah’s legacy and accomplishments. One of the power grab’s leaders, Lieutenant General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, infamously ended his coup announcement on state radio by saying, ‘The myth surrounding Nkrumah has been broken.’
However, Kotoka couldn’t have been more wrong. Nkurumah’s legacy outlived the NLC and those who were behind it. Nearly six decades after the coup, that legacy continues to be revered and celebrated by many at home and beyond Ghana’s shores.
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Continued……Nkrumah’s contribution to the African liberation cause earned him respect and admiration across the continent. He also contributed to pan-African thought by authoring several revolutionary books, including the widely read ‘Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism.’
In this video, our sister Inemesit Richardson highlights some of Nkurumah’s many accomplishments.
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WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE YOURSELF?
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X (1925-65), a pivotal figure in the Pan-African revolutionary movement, who was assassinated on 21 February 1965 in New York City.
Malcolm X’s profound impact on Black empowerment and consciousness came from his efforts to help people of African descent rediscover and embrace our true heritage and disregard colonial institutions, fostering a sense of self-worth within the community.
On 5 May 1962, he delivered a powerful address at a memorial service for Ronald Stokes, a secretary of a Los Angeles mosque whom police k*lled while assisting fellow Nation of Islam members whom police had stopped for questioning.
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X (1925-65), a pivotal figure in the Pan-African revolutionary movement, who was assassinated on 21 February 1965 in New York City.
Malcolm X’s profound impact on Black empowerment and consciousness came from his efforts to help people of African descent rediscover and embrace our true heritage and disregard colonial institutions, fostering a sense of self-worth within the community.
On 5 May 1962, he delivered a powerful address at a memorial service for Ronald Stokes, a secretary of a Los Angeles mosque whom police k*lled while assisting fellow Nation of Islam members whom police had stopped for questioning.
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Continued……Malcolm’s message is that discrimination instilled a deep-seated self-loathing among many Black people in the US. He asserted, ‘The worst crime the white man has committed has been to teach us to hate ourselves.’ This self-hatred resulted in a loss of identity, prompting Black people to alter our natural hair, disconnect from our communities, and leading many to engage in criminal activities and substance abuse.
The strategy of divide and conquer remains a potent tool employed by imperialists to oppress Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora. In this clip, Malcolm X passionately emphasised the need to take pride in our identity and recognise our distinctiveness, which is essential for our growth as individuals and as a global nation, wherever we may be on Earth.
Video credit: The Melanin Project (TheMelaninPRJCT on X)
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz3xtNixcgo&t=40s
https://genius.com/Malcolm-x-who-taught-you-to-hate-yourself-annotated
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/09/i-hate-being-a-black-man
https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15093963/the-culture-of-self-hatred-still-present-among-some-black-folk
https://library.csun.edu/sca/peek-stacks/ronald-stokes
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archive-blog/2021/05/04/malcolm-x-press-conference
The strategy of divide and conquer remains a potent tool employed by imperialists to oppress Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora. In this clip, Malcolm X passionately emphasised the need to take pride in our identity and recognise our distinctiveness, which is essential for our growth as individuals and as a global nation, wherever we may be on Earth.
Video credit: The Melanin Project (TheMelaninPRJCT on X)
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz3xtNixcgo&t=40s
https://genius.com/Malcolm-x-who-taught-you-to-hate-yourself-annotated
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/09/i-hate-being-a-black-man
https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15093963/the-culture-of-self-hatred-still-present-among-some-black-folk
https://library.csun.edu/sca/peek-stacks/ronald-stokes
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archive-blog/2021/05/04/malcolm-x-press-conference
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MALCOLM X's MAY 20, 1962 Speech on Police Brutality, Los Angeles California
On April 27th in Los Angeles California, two Muslim brothers are questioned by Los Angeles police while unloading suits from a car in front of their mosque. A scuffle breaks out as members of the Nation of Islam leave the mosque to aid their brothers and…
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RSF ATTACKS SUDAN’S BIGGEST REFUGEE CAMP
Video has emerged of the recent attack by the Rapid Support Forces on Sudan’s largest camp for internal refugees, which hosts some half a million people (according to Middle East Eye). The UAE-backed paramilitary targeted members of the Zaghawa community. It’s been laying siege to the ZamZam site in North Darfur since April last year - blocking access of vital supplies, which has led to a humanitarian crisis. The latest violent raid saw RSF fighters torch sections of the camp and kill over 30, before being repelled by forces loyal to Khartoum.
Sources:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rsf-attack-zamzam-camp-leaves-food-and-supplies-verge-running-out
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/about-us/media-and-news/2024-press-releases/sudan-families-resorting-to-desperate-measures-famine-conditions
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160161
Video has emerged of the recent attack by the Rapid Support Forces on Sudan’s largest camp for internal refugees, which hosts some half a million people (according to Middle East Eye). The UAE-backed paramilitary targeted members of the Zaghawa community. It’s been laying siege to the ZamZam site in North Darfur since April last year - blocking access of vital supplies, which has led to a humanitarian crisis. The latest violent raid saw RSF fighters torch sections of the camp and kill over 30, before being repelled by forces loyal to Khartoum.
Sources:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rsf-attack-zamzam-camp-leaves-food-and-supplies-verge-running-out
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/about-us/media-and-news/2024-press-releases/sudan-families-resorting-to-desperate-measures-famine-conditions
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160161
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THE HUMAN COST OF THE DRC CONFLICT
The ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) isn’t an abstract event but an assault on the land’s custodians, who have paid the highest price for the wealth under their feet for the past three decades.
Take Goma city, rich in minerals crucial for global markets, such as cobalt. The Rwanda- and Uganda-backed M23 militia has in the latest escalation assaulted the people in the capital city of North Kivu province forcing hundreds of thousands to flee starting in January. Attacks on civilians have displaced and even k*lled people, allowing militias to acquire land.
To highlight the cyclical nature of the violence, Orion (@pappyorion on IG and X) shared his personal experience of losing relatives and his encounter in a displacement camp with a 4-year-old child orphan, Baraka, who once lived in Rubaya, a mining region under M23 control since 2024.
The ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) isn’t an abstract event but an assault on the land’s custodians, who have paid the highest price for the wealth under their feet for the past three decades.
Take Goma city, rich in minerals crucial for global markets, such as cobalt. The Rwanda- and Uganda-backed M23 militia has in the latest escalation assaulted the people in the capital city of North Kivu province forcing hundreds of thousands to flee starting in January. Attacks on civilians have displaced and even k*lled people, allowing militias to acquire land.
To highlight the cyclical nature of the violence, Orion (@pappyorion on IG and X) shared his personal experience of losing relatives and his encounter in a displacement camp with a 4-year-old child orphan, Baraka, who once lived in Rubaya, a mining region under M23 control since 2024.
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Continued…….. The child now lives with Focus Congo (@focuscongo on IG and @focuscongo_drc on X), an NGO Orion founded.
The M23 has reportedly generated $800,000 per month in Rubaya from taxing mined coltan, crucial for powering devices like smartphones. Plus, DRC’s finance minister, Nicolas Kazadi, accused Rwanda of making $1 billion a year through minerals theft. The United Arab Emirates government is the biggest buyer of smuggled African gold, and Western tech firms like Apple and Tesla rely on minerals such as cobalt.
The conflict required to guarantee these profits has k*lled at least 6 million Congolese as of 2010 and internally displaced over 7 million as of last year. In addition, M23’s recent campaign across eastern DRC has displaced 700,000 people since January, according to the UN.
You can watch the complete Episode 18 on our X or Rumble accounts or on YouTube (search for @ahmedkaballo4170).
Sources
M23 minting Rubaya
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/opinion/congo-rwanda-rebels-war.html
UAE routing Africa’s gold
https://apnews.com/article/gold-smuggling-africa-uae-switzerland-e1a614c465766f1c3e90fb9e5a5167a2
Kigali making $1 billion a year from mineral theft
https://www.ft.com/content/ecf89818-949b-4de7-9e8a-89f119c23a69
Western firms complicity
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50812616
Congo displaced
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/25/at-least-12-peacekeepers-killed-in-eastern-dr-congo-fighting
4-year-old orphan Baraka
https://x.com/FocusCongo_DRC/status/1893923637599646105
The M23 has reportedly generated $800,000 per month in Rubaya from taxing mined coltan, crucial for powering devices like smartphones. Plus, DRC’s finance minister, Nicolas Kazadi, accused Rwanda of making $1 billion a year through minerals theft. The United Arab Emirates government is the biggest buyer of smuggled African gold, and Western tech firms like Apple and Tesla rely on minerals such as cobalt.
The conflict required to guarantee these profits has k*lled at least 6 million Congolese as of 2010 and internally displaced over 7 million as of last year. In addition, M23’s recent campaign across eastern DRC has displaced 700,000 people since January, according to the UN.
You can watch the complete Episode 18 on our X or Rumble accounts or on YouTube (search for @ahmedkaballo4170).
Sources
M23 minting Rubaya
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/opinion/congo-rwanda-rebels-war.html
UAE routing Africa’s gold
https://apnews.com/article/gold-smuggling-africa-uae-switzerland-e1a614c465766f1c3e90fb9e5a5167a2
Kigali making $1 billion a year from mineral theft
https://www.ft.com/content/ecf89818-949b-4de7-9e8a-89f119c23a69
Western firms complicity
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50812616
Congo displaced
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/25/at-least-12-peacekeepers-killed-in-eastern-dr-congo-fighting
4-year-old orphan Baraka
https://x.com/FocusCongo_DRC/status/1893923637599646105
NY Times
Opinion | Congo Is Bleeding. Where Is the Outrage?
This is not the first time the world has overlooked violence in the country.
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HOW A MILITIA COLLAPSED SUDAN
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) emerged from the Janjaweed militia, a brutal force originally mobilised by Sudan’s government to suppress ethnic rebellions in Darfur. Over time, the RSF evolved from a state-sponsored militia into an independent military and political powerhouse, accumulating wealth through illicit gold mining and expanding its influence across Sudan. Its history of violence, from genocide in Darfur to the massacre of protesters in 2019, set the stage for its open conflict with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in April 2023. This power struggle has plunged Sudan into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 150,000 dead and millions displaced.
The RSF’s reach extends beyond Sudan, having played key roles in conflicts across Africa and West Asia.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) emerged from the Janjaweed militia, a brutal force originally mobilised by Sudan’s government to suppress ethnic rebellions in Darfur. Over time, the RSF evolved from a state-sponsored militia into an independent military and political powerhouse, accumulating wealth through illicit gold mining and expanding its influence across Sudan. Its history of violence, from genocide in Darfur to the massacre of protesters in 2019, set the stage for its open conflict with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in April 2023. This power struggle has plunged Sudan into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 150,000 dead and millions displaced.
The RSF’s reach extends beyond Sudan, having played key roles in conflicts across Africa and West Asia.
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Continued……It has fuelled war in the Central African Republic, backed Chadian rebels, fought as mercenaries for Saudi and UAE interests in Yemen and Libya, and even cooperated with the European Union in controversial migration-control efforts. Understanding this history is crucial to grasping the RSF’s position today - no longer just a Sudanese paramilitary, but a regional actor shaping conflicts through force, resources and foreign backing.
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PINTO AND X: OVERLAPPING VISIONS AND FATES
Six decades ago, the African world was robbed of two revolutionary giants. Kenya’s freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto and pan-African revolutionary Malcolm X were assassinated within the space of just three days in February 1965.
In 2024, political activist Sefu Sanni visited Pinto’s grave in Nairobi and participated in a memorial gathering to mark the 59th anniversary of the freedom fighter’s assassination. In this report, she gives us a rundown of Pinto’s revolutionary exploits and the connections he shared with Malcolm X.
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Six decades ago, the African world was robbed of two revolutionary giants. Kenya’s freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto and pan-African revolutionary Malcolm X were assassinated within the space of just three days in February 1965.
In 2024, political activist Sefu Sanni visited Pinto’s grave in Nairobi and participated in a memorial gathering to mark the 59th anniversary of the freedom fighter’s assassination. In this report, she gives us a rundown of Pinto’s revolutionary exploits and the connections he shared with Malcolm X.
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DID RUTO RUIN KENYA’S BID FOR AU‘S TOP JOB?
In a twist worthy of a political drama, Kenya’s aspirations for the African Union chairmanship have once again come unstuck. Nairobi’s candidate - former prime minister Raila Odinga - was left high and dry as Djibouti’s foreign minister, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, won the most votes and bagged the coveted role.
Odinga had strong backing from William Ruto - and many think that’s why, despite being a favourite, he ultimately lost. The Kenyan president‘s policies on the continent have long been rubbing fellow African nations up the wrong way. Odinga’s defeat is possibly a relief to Kenya’s opposition, though - as they’d rather have him at home leading them and keeping government accountable.
In a twist worthy of a political drama, Kenya’s aspirations for the African Union chairmanship have once again come unstuck. Nairobi’s candidate - former prime minister Raila Odinga - was left high and dry as Djibouti’s foreign minister, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, won the most votes and bagged the coveted role.
Odinga had strong backing from William Ruto - and many think that’s why, despite being a favourite, he ultimately lost. The Kenyan president‘s policies on the continent have long been rubbing fellow African nations up the wrong way. Odinga’s defeat is possibly a relief to Kenya’s opposition, though - as they’d rather have him at home leading them and keeping government accountable.
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Continued……Sources:
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/president-ruto-holds-talks-with-rsf-leader-hemedti-in-nairobi-4481676 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-recalls-envoys-kenya-tanzania-over-alliance-launch-nairobi-2023-12-16/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67758635
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/sahrawi-gaffe-hands-kenya-ruto-first-diplomatic-dilemma-3950592
https://kenyanforeignpolicy.com/nairobi-tight-lipped-on-railas-auc-campaign-budget/
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2023-10-08-kenya-stands-with-israel-ruto-says-amidst-war-with-palestine
https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20250216/he-mahmoud-ali-youssouf-he-ambassador-selma-malika-haddadi-and-4
https://en.sputniknews.africa/20240225/what-is-frances-role-in-eastern-drc-conflict--tensions-with-rwanda-1065237633.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3LeNdDm_E
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/president-ruto-holds-talks-with-rsf-leader-hemedti-in-nairobi-4481676 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-recalls-envoys-kenya-tanzania-over-alliance-launch-nairobi-2023-12-16/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67758635
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/sahrawi-gaffe-hands-kenya-ruto-first-diplomatic-dilemma-3950592
https://kenyanforeignpolicy.com/nairobi-tight-lipped-on-railas-auc-campaign-budget/
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2023-10-08-kenya-stands-with-israel-ruto-says-amidst-war-with-palestine
https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20250216/he-mahmoud-ali-youssouf-he-ambassador-selma-malika-haddadi-and-4
https://en.sputniknews.africa/20240225/what-is-frances-role-in-eastern-drc-conflict--tensions-with-rwanda-1065237633.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3LeNdDm_E
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President Ruto holds talks with RSF leader Hemedti in Nairobi
Kenya is the latest leg of Hemedti's first trip abroad since fierce fighting erupted in Sudan in mid-April.
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IS KENYA TRULY NEUTRAL IN SUDAN WAR?
Kenya just pulled off a diplomatic ‘masterstroke’ - hosting Sudan’s genocidal paramilitary, the Rapid Support Forces in Nairobi. While most of the world recognises the RSF as a gang of war criminals responsible for mass atrocities, Kenya apparently saw an opportunity for… er, ‘networking.’ After all, why worry about pesky things like genocide when the RSF’s number-one sponsor - the United Arab Emirates - is about to give you a $1.5 billion loan.
There’s more. Kenyan President William Ruto is also in talks to ink a deal with Abu Dhabi - to extend Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway to Uganda and South Sudan. What’s a little bloodshed when there’s ‘infrastructure’ money to be pocketed?
Kenya just pulled off a diplomatic ‘masterstroke’ - hosting Sudan’s genocidal paramilitary, the Rapid Support Forces in Nairobi. While most of the world recognises the RSF as a gang of war criminals responsible for mass atrocities, Kenya apparently saw an opportunity for… er, ‘networking.’ After all, why worry about pesky things like genocide when the RSF’s number-one sponsor - the United Arab Emirates - is about to give you a $1.5 billion loan.
There’s more. Kenyan President William Ruto is also in talks to ink a deal with Abu Dhabi - to extend Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway to Uganda and South Sudan. What’s a little bloodshed when there’s ‘infrastructure’ money to be pocketed?
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Continued……. Mounting evidence shows that the UAE is the economic force behind the RSF. A September 2024 investigative report published by the New York Times, for example, used satellite imaging to show how the UAE covertly arms the RSF by disguising weapons as aid - using the famous Red Crescent logo. The weapons are funnelled into Sudan via the Chadian border - and increase the RSF’s capacity to commit atrocities against the Sudanese people.
In January, the US - hardly a champion of justice - concluded that the RSF was committing genocide in Sudan and sanctioned its leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
Kenya’s foreign ministry tried hard to justify hosting the RSF with its own reasons in a statement published amid the backlash to its hosting of the group - an event at which the paramilitary revealed plans to dismember Sudan. But as our video explains, Nairobi’s excuses are far from convincing.
Sources
https://citizen.digital/news/kenya-defends-hosting-rsf-in-nairobi-amid-sudan-govt-backlash-n357919
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-sudan-war-rsf-nairobi-hemedti-2bc5122812ad58d4a6cac8be2e371513
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/politics/government/sudan-rebukes-william-ruto-for-hosting-dreaded-rfs-rebel-group-threatens-action/ar-AA1zkXrp
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001512182/how-william-rutos-dalliance-with-rsf-risks-isolating-kenya#google_vignette
https://eastleighvoice.co.ke/sudan/116745/sudan-says-ruto-broke-promises-by-allowing-rsf-meeting-in-nairobi
https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/109099-sudan-slams-ruto-govt-after-hosting-rebel-group-nairobi
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/10/sudan-rsf-tried-to-polish-its-image-but-its-crimes-are-being-recognised
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/africa/uae-sudan-civil-war.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j9j72lvdvo
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-21/kenya-said-to-receive-uae-loan-of-1-5-billion-next-week
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/kenya-turns-to-the-uae-for-sgr-funds-after-china-cut-financing-4890158
In January, the US - hardly a champion of justice - concluded that the RSF was committing genocide in Sudan and sanctioned its leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
Kenya’s foreign ministry tried hard to justify hosting the RSF with its own reasons in a statement published amid the backlash to its hosting of the group - an event at which the paramilitary revealed plans to dismember Sudan. But as our video explains, Nairobi’s excuses are far from convincing.
Sources
https://citizen.digital/news/kenya-defends-hosting-rsf-in-nairobi-amid-sudan-govt-backlash-n357919
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-sudan-war-rsf-nairobi-hemedti-2bc5122812ad58d4a6cac8be2e371513
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/politics/government/sudan-rebukes-william-ruto-for-hosting-dreaded-rfs-rebel-group-threatens-action/ar-AA1zkXrp
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001512182/how-william-rutos-dalliance-with-rsf-risks-isolating-kenya#google_vignette
https://eastleighvoice.co.ke/sudan/116745/sudan-says-ruto-broke-promises-by-allowing-rsf-meeting-in-nairobi
https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/109099-sudan-slams-ruto-govt-after-hosting-rebel-group-nairobi
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/10/sudan-rsf-tried-to-polish-its-image-but-its-crimes-are-being-recognised
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/africa/uae-sudan-civil-war.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j9j72lvdvo
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-21/kenya-said-to-receive-uae-loan-of-1-5-billion-next-week
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/kenya-turns-to-the-uae-for-sgr-funds-after-china-cut-financing-4890158
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Kenya defends hosting RSF in Nairobi amid Sudan gov't backlash
Kenya has defended its recent decision to host Sudan’s paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Nairobi despite backlash from the Sudan government.
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GAZA GEN*CIDE: ICC CALLED TO INVESTIGATE U.S. OFFICIALS
For decades, US leaders have armed and shielded Israel while it carries out atrocities against Palestinians, always escaping accountability. But that may be changing. On 19 January, US-based NGO Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) submitted a 169-page communication to International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan, calling on it to launch investigations into former US officials, such as President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.
The document accuses the three of playing a direct role in the provision of nearly $18 billion worth of military support that boosted Israel’s capacity for its onslaught against Palestinians since 8 October 2023. The filing also calls for investigations into other key former Biden administration officials.
For decades, US leaders have armed and shielded Israel while it carries out atrocities against Palestinians, always escaping accountability. But that may be changing. On 19 January, US-based NGO Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) submitted a 169-page communication to International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan, calling on it to launch investigations into former US officials, such as President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.
The document accuses the three of playing a direct role in the provision of nearly $18 billion worth of military support that boosted Israel’s capacity for its onslaught against Palestinians since 8 October 2023. The filing also calls for investigations into other key former Biden administration officials.
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Continued……. DAWN noted that although the United States is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, the ICC has ‘subject matter, territorial, and geographic jurisdiction over US officials in its ongoing investigation into violations’ of the statute in Palestine. ‘We have tried every available avenue within the US to stop our government’s complicity,’ said Raed Jarrar, DAWN’s advocacy director.
Middle East Eye reports that DAWN submitted the document on 19 January, during the Biden administration’s final days, ‘but didn’t make it public, hoping to avoid the US government’s initial period of transition from the Biden administration to Donald Trump’s administration.’
On 6 February, Trump issued an executive order for sanctions against ICC officials to punish them for their investigation of Israeli officials, on which the US Treasury Department followed through. However, the order could subject Trump to individual criminal liability for obstruction of justice under Article 70 of the Rome Statute, DAWN said. Trump has also proposed a plan to forcibly displace all Palestinians from Gaza and take it over.
Sources:
https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DAWN-ICC-Jan-2025-final.pdf
https://dawnmena.org/former-state-department-senior-official-josh-paul-joins-dawn-as-non-resident-fellow
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45812399
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-group-takes-legal-action-ICC-to-probe-biden-for-complicity-israeli-war-crimes
Middle East Eye reports that DAWN submitted the document on 19 January, during the Biden administration’s final days, ‘but didn’t make it public, hoping to avoid the US government’s initial period of transition from the Biden administration to Donald Trump’s administration.’
On 6 February, Trump issued an executive order for sanctions against ICC officials to punish them for their investigation of Israeli officials, on which the US Treasury Department followed through. However, the order could subject Trump to individual criminal liability for obstruction of justice under Article 70 of the Rome Statute, DAWN said. Trump has also proposed a plan to forcibly displace all Palestinians from Gaza and take it over.
Sources:
https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DAWN-ICC-Jan-2025-final.pdf
https://dawnmena.org/former-state-department-senior-official-josh-paul-joins-dawn-as-non-resident-fellow
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45812399
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-group-takes-legal-action-ICC-to-probe-biden-for-complicity-israeli-war-crimes
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MARKED MEN: MALCOLM X AND PINTO
Kenyan freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto was assassinated 60 years ago. He was one of Kenya’s leading socialist voices and, in the spirit of internationalism, developed a brotherly relationship with the revolutionary activist Malcom X. In this clip, Dick Gregory, a Black writer, activist and social critic, explains their close bond that was first formed during Malcolm X’s 1959 visit to Kenya.
Pio Gama Pinto, a Kenyan revolutionary of Asian origin, was deeply involved in Kenya’s struggle for independence. Both he and X were fighting similar fights against oppression but on different sides of the Atlantic. Together, they planned a joint strategy to combat injustices. Notably, Pinto advocated taking the US to the UN for its treatment of Black people. Both voices posed a danger to the status quo and were tragically killed within three days of each other. Pinto’s killing, on 24 February 1965, was Kenya’s first political assassination.
Kenyan freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto was assassinated 60 years ago. He was one of Kenya’s leading socialist voices and, in the spirit of internationalism, developed a brotherly relationship with the revolutionary activist Malcom X. In this clip, Dick Gregory, a Black writer, activist and social critic, explains their close bond that was first formed during Malcolm X’s 1959 visit to Kenya.
Pio Gama Pinto, a Kenyan revolutionary of Asian origin, was deeply involved in Kenya’s struggle for independence. Both he and X were fighting similar fights against oppression but on different sides of the Atlantic. Together, they planned a joint strategy to combat injustices. Notably, Pinto advocated taking the US to the UN for its treatment of Black people. Both voices posed a danger to the status quo and were tragically killed within three days of each other. Pinto’s killing, on 24 February 1965, was Kenya’s first political assassination.
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