Continued……M23, which has a long history of false-flag operations, is pinning the blame on the Congolese government, while Kinshasa says 'foreign forces' were involved.
But it’s really a question of who controls Bukavu. M23 boasted about the Congolese army 'fleeing' the city, making it de facto responsible for security. Let us know your thoughts.
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https://www.msn.com/en-xl/crime/general/dr-congo-crisis-death-toll-from-bukavu-terror-attack-rises-to-13-says-m23/ar-AA1zXSqk
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/27/blasts-gunfire-kill-several-at-m23-rally-in-eastern-dr-congo
https://apnews.com/article/congo-m23-rebels-bukavu-southkivu-14527185304baa9a5e40eff4cfccba85
https://www.irinsider.org/sub-saharan-africa-/3w322tz4r44s8zp-ezmt5-7223k-zrbkr-2d9wr-ww4nr-r277f-enm3r-43728-64z8y-8p2jd
https://www.fides.org/en/news/76086-AFRICA_DR_CONGO_There_are_three_versions_of_today_s_attack_in_Bukavu
But it’s really a question of who controls Bukavu. M23 boasted about the Congolese army 'fleeing' the city, making it de facto responsible for security. Let us know your thoughts.
Sources
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/crime/general/dr-congo-crisis-death-toll-from-bukavu-terror-attack-rises-to-13-says-m23/ar-AA1zXSqk
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/27/blasts-gunfire-kill-several-at-m23-rally-in-eastern-dr-congo
https://apnews.com/article/congo-m23-rebels-bukavu-southkivu-14527185304baa9a5e40eff4cfccba85
https://www.irinsider.org/sub-saharan-africa-/3w322tz4r44s8zp-ezmt5-7223k-zrbkr-2d9wr-ww4nr-r277f-enm3r-43728-64z8y-8p2jd
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DR Congo crisis: Death toll from Bukavu terror attack rises to 13, says M23
According to hospital sources, the death toll from “the terrorist attack” at a rebel rally in eastern DR Congo’s city of Bukavu, on Thursday, February 27, has risen to 13 dead and 72 injured, including women and children, according to a top AFC/M23 leader.…
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This week marks 140 years since European colonial powers divided Africa. For three months, starting on 15 November 1884, colonialists from almost every European country, the Ottoman Empire, and the United States negotiated in Berlin, Germany, over who would control our home continent, with no African voices present to challenge the butchery.
This notorious event, which finalised on 26 February 1885, carved up 80 per cent of our continent. However, by 1914, only Ethiopia and Liberia remained untouched. The Berlin conference took place after the ‘scramble for Africa’ began and shaped how people today view Africa: As a reservoir of natural resources and our people as sources of labour. Slavery, anyone?
This notorious event, which finalised on 26 February 1885, carved up 80 per cent of our continent. However, by 1914, only Ethiopia and Liberia remained untouched. The Berlin conference took place after the ‘scramble for Africa’ began and shaped how people today view Africa: As a reservoir of natural resources and our people as sources of labour. Slavery, anyone?
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Continued……Britain, amongst the principal colonisers of Africa, claimed an almost continuous stretch of land from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, controlling what is now South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, ‘British East Africa’ (now Kenya, Uganda, and Zanzibar [now part of Tanzania]), Sudan, South Sudan, and Egypt. Britain also controlled areas now known as Nigeria and Ghana (then dubbed the ‘Gold Coast’), Sierra Leone and the Gambia.
France claimed vast territories stretching from Mauritania to the Central African Republic (then called ‘French West Africa’), along with Gabon and the Republic of Congo (‘French Equatorial Africa’). It also controlled the Indian Ocean archipelagos of Madagascar and Comoros.
Under King Leopold II, Belgium ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (‘Belgian Congo’), while Portugal established its presence in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau.
Italy’s territories included Somalia (‘Italian Somaliland’), while Germany controlled Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania), Namibia (‘German Southwest Africa’) and Tanzania (‘German East Africa’). Spain, with the smallest claim, took Equatorial Guinea (‘Rio Muni’), plus what is now Western Sahara and a sliver of Morocco.
Perhaps it is time for a Pan-African conference to eliminate colonial borders, paving the way for a future in which we can reclaim our identity, agency, and land.
Sources
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/partition-africa/
https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/HTML-Articles/Origins/Unit7/The-Berlin-Conference/950L
https://archiv.diplo.de/arc-en/the-political-archive/general-act-2684414
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/11/15/berlin-1884-remembering-the-conference-that-divided-africa
https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/slavery-and-colonialism
https://www.britannica.com/place/British-East-Africa
France claimed vast territories stretching from Mauritania to the Central African Republic (then called ‘French West Africa’), along with Gabon and the Republic of Congo (‘French Equatorial Africa’). It also controlled the Indian Ocean archipelagos of Madagascar and Comoros.
Under King Leopold II, Belgium ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (‘Belgian Congo’), while Portugal established its presence in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau.
Italy’s territories included Somalia (‘Italian Somaliland’), while Germany controlled Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania), Namibia (‘German Southwest Africa’) and Tanzania (‘German East Africa’). Spain, with the smallest claim, took Equatorial Guinea (‘Rio Muni’), plus what is now Western Sahara and a sliver of Morocco.
Perhaps it is time for a Pan-African conference to eliminate colonial borders, paving the way for a future in which we can reclaim our identity, agency, and land.
Sources
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/partition-africa/
https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/HTML-Articles/Origins/Unit7/The-Berlin-Conference/950L
https://archiv.diplo.de/arc-en/the-political-archive/general-act-2684414
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/11/15/berlin-1884-remembering-the-conference-that-divided-africa
https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/slavery-and-colonialism
https://www.britannica.com/place/British-East-Africa
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The Partition of Africa
The Partition of Africa began in earnest with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, and was the cause of most of Africa’s borders today. This conference was called by German Chancellor Bismarck to settle how European countries would claim colonial land in…
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AFRICANS BID FAREWELL TO LAST INDEPENDENCE GIANT
A sombre mood engulfed the Namibian capital, Windhoek, on Friday, 28 February, 2025, as thousands gathered to give a final salute to the nation’s founding father and liberation hero, Sam Nujoma, who died earlier this month. Namibians, African heads of state and political organisations came to Windhoek’s Independence Stadium to bid farewell to Nujoma, whose death marks the end of a generation of African leaders who led their nations to freedom from colonial settler regimes.
Born in 1929, Nujoma emerged as a prominent labour activist in the 1950s in the territory then known as South West Africa, ruled by apartheid South Africa.
In 1959, Nujoma and Andimba Herman Toivo ya Toivo, a policeman with the South African Railways, co-founded the Ovamboland People’s Congress (OPC) to fight for the rights of African workers who faced abuse at the hands of the White colonial settlers.
A sombre mood engulfed the Namibian capital, Windhoek, on Friday, 28 February, 2025, as thousands gathered to give a final salute to the nation’s founding father and liberation hero, Sam Nujoma, who died earlier this month. Namibians, African heads of state and political organisations came to Windhoek’s Independence Stadium to bid farewell to Nujoma, whose death marks the end of a generation of African leaders who led their nations to freedom from colonial settler regimes.
Born in 1929, Nujoma emerged as a prominent labour activist in the 1950s in the territory then known as South West Africa, ruled by apartheid South Africa.
In 1959, Nujoma and Andimba Herman Toivo ya Toivo, a policeman with the South African Railways, co-founded the Ovamboland People’s Congress (OPC) to fight for the rights of African workers who faced abuse at the hands of the White colonial settlers.
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Continued……The following year, the OPC was renamed as the South West People’s Organisation (SWAPO). Nujoma immediately took the reins of the organisation and would spend the majority of the next three decades in exile, mostly in Zambia, where SWAPO’s headquarters were.
He also spent a considerable amount of time in Angola, where the organisation’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army (PLAN), established bases in 1966 when it launched an armed struggle against the apartheid regime. At least 20,000 Africans were killed in the war of independence between the beginning of the struggle in 1966 and the late 1980s when negotiations led by the United Nations and other regional organisations led to a ceasefire between SWAPO and the apartheid regime.
In 1989, after nearly 30 years away, Nujoma returned to Namibia. Months later, he won the country’s first democratic elections and was sworn in as Namibia’s first post-independence leader in March 1990. He remained in office until 2005, when he stepped down. He has been credited with maintaining the country’s economic and political stability.
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https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/southern-africa/namibia-founding-president-nujoma-dies-at-95-4919380
He also spent a considerable amount of time in Angola, where the organisation’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army (PLAN), established bases in 1966 when it launched an armed struggle against the apartheid regime. At least 20,000 Africans were killed in the war of independence between the beginning of the struggle in 1966 and the late 1980s when negotiations led by the United Nations and other regional organisations led to a ceasefire between SWAPO and the apartheid regime.
In 1989, after nearly 30 years away, Nujoma returned to Namibia. Months later, he won the country’s first democratic elections and was sworn in as Namibia’s first post-independence leader in March 1990. He remained in office until 2005, when he stepped down. He has been credited with maintaining the country’s economic and political stability.
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https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/southern-africa/namibia-founding-president-nujoma-dies-at-95-4919380
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Namibia founding president Nujoma dies at 95
The presidency said Nujoma had been hospitalised for medical treatment over the past three weeks.
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WESTERN MEDIA COMPLICIT IN GAZA GENOCIDE
In this 14 February interview with Netherlands-based NGO The Rights Forum, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, explained why Western corporate media is complicit in Israel’s war crimes and should be held accountable.
Mainstream Western media has proven to be biased in its coverage of issues and events worldwide, such as in how it has claimed H*mas committed mass r*pe on 7 October 2023 despite no evidence. Independent outlets like the Grayzone (@thegrayzonenews) exposed these claims as false.
Israel’s onslaught of Palestinians in Gaza had k*lled an estimated 186,000 people as of July 2024, according to the Lancet medical journal. Moreover, 44 per cent of fatalities were children, as per an Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) November 2024 report.
In this 14 February interview with Netherlands-based NGO The Rights Forum, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, explained why Western corporate media is complicit in Israel’s war crimes and should be held accountable.
Mainstream Western media has proven to be biased in its coverage of issues and events worldwide, such as in how it has claimed H*mas committed mass r*pe on 7 October 2023 despite no evidence. Independent outlets like the Grayzone (@thegrayzonenews) exposed these claims as false.
Israel’s onslaught of Palestinians in Gaza had k*lled an estimated 186,000 people as of July 2024, according to the Lancet medical journal. Moreover, 44 per cent of fatalities were children, as per an Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) November 2024 report.
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Continued……Despite the world watching what many describe as a gen*cide unfold in real time, Western media-perpetuated Israeli propaganda attempts to present Israel as anything other than a settler-colonial power fighting an unjust war with the backing of the US, UK and other Western powers.
Video credit: @TheRightsForum (X) / @the_rights_forum (IG)
Sources:
https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/tags/western-media-bias
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/5/failing-gaza-pro-israel-bias-uncovered-behind-the-lens-of-western-media
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/column/2024/02/12/decolonise-how-biased-gaza-coverage-tip-of-media-iceberg
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/8/nearly-70-percent-of-deaths-in-gaza-are-women-and-children-un
Video credit: @TheRightsForum (X) / @the_rights_forum (IG)
Sources:
https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/tags/western-media-bias
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/5/failing-gaza-pro-israel-bias-uncovered-behind-the-lens-of-western-media
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/column/2024/02/12/decolonise-how-biased-gaza-coverage-tip-of-media-iceberg
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/8/nearly-70-percent-of-deaths-in-gaza-are-women-and-children-un
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‘CNN has given cover to the Israeli operation’
Journalists at CNN and the BBC expose the inner workings of their newsrooms, a year into Israel's war on Gaza.
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BATTLE OF ADWA ANNIVERSARY
Following the 1884 Berlin Conference, European powers went on a brutal rampage, claiming African territories for themselves. Part of Italy’s piece of the pie was modern-day Ethiopia. However, their colonial onslaught was stopped dead in its tracks after a well-equipped and trained Ethiopian army defeated them on 1 March 1896. Today, we mark the 129th anniversary of the historic Battle of Adwa.
While the battle started on 29 February, tensions between the Ethiopians and Italians had simmered for years. Since the mid-1880s, the budding European colonial power had established a presence in the then-seaside village of Massawa, in modern-day Eritrea. Once consolidated along the coast, the Italians began occupying inland territories. By 1890, they had declared Eritrea their own.
With nothing to halt their insatiable desire for more African land, repeated violent incursions took the Italians all the way to Ethiopia.
Following the 1884 Berlin Conference, European powers went on a brutal rampage, claiming African territories for themselves. Part of Italy’s piece of the pie was modern-day Ethiopia. However, their colonial onslaught was stopped dead in its tracks after a well-equipped and trained Ethiopian army defeated them on 1 March 1896. Today, we mark the 129th anniversary of the historic Battle of Adwa.
While the battle started on 29 February, tensions between the Ethiopians and Italians had simmered for years. Since the mid-1880s, the budding European colonial power had established a presence in the then-seaside village of Massawa, in modern-day Eritrea. Once consolidated along the coast, the Italians began occupying inland territories. By 1890, they had declared Eritrea their own.
With nothing to halt their insatiable desire for more African land, repeated violent incursions took the Italians all the way to Ethiopia.
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Continued……In 1894, Ras Mangasha, the ruler of the Tigray region, mobilised his people against the invaders. Unfortunately, Italy’s army subdued his efforts. The rapid colonial expansion prompted Menilek II, who had been crowned Ethiopian Emperor in 1889, to start mobilising the nation for resistance.
By September 1895, a formidable force of up to 100,000 troops had been assembled. Marching with purpose and determination, the soldiers began retaking territory - but avoided major confrontations with the invading army.
That changed on 29 February 1896 when General Oreste Baraterie, commander of the occupation force and acting on the orders of Rome, attacked the Ethiopians.
By the afternoon of 1 March, Menelik’s forces had routed Italy’s army. It was a decisive blow, one that sent Rome’s ambitions retreating back to Eritrea.
Ever since, Ethiopia’s resolute victory has served as a beacon of African resistance to European colonialism.
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By September 1895, a formidable force of up to 100,000 troops had been assembled. Marching with purpose and determination, the soldiers began retaking territory - but avoided major confrontations with the invading army.
That changed on 29 February 1896 when General Oreste Baraterie, commander of the occupation force and acting on the orders of Rome, attacked the Ethiopians.
By the afternoon of 1 March, Menelik’s forces had routed Italy’s army. It was a decisive blow, one that sent Rome’s ambitions retreating back to Eritrea.
Ever since, Ethiopia’s resolute victory has served as a beacon of African resistance to European colonialism.
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BURKINA FASO RAMPS UP FOOD PRODUCTION
Following a people-backed 2022 military coup d’état that ousted a Western-aligned leader, Burkina Faso ramped industrialisation to put food sovereignty at the forefront of its development goals. This includes launching multiple food-processing factories to transform locally grown tomatoes into tomato paste, wheat into flour, and nuts and seeds into oil.
In this video, President Ibrahim Traoré (@capitaineib226 on X) inaugurates the International Deli Agence Production Industries (ADIPROD Industries) industrial complex in 2024. The complex produces refined cooking oils from peanuts, sesame seeds, and soybeans. The state encouraged the private company to establish a factory to help the country reduce its dependence on imports, export its products and strengthen its economic sovereignty.
Following a people-backed 2022 military coup d’état that ousted a Western-aligned leader, Burkina Faso ramped industrialisation to put food sovereignty at the forefront of its development goals. This includes launching multiple food-processing factories to transform locally grown tomatoes into tomato paste, wheat into flour, and nuts and seeds into oil.
In this video, President Ibrahim Traoré (@capitaineib226 on X) inaugurates the International Deli Agence Production Industries (ADIPROD Industries) industrial complex in 2024. The complex produces refined cooking oils from peanuts, sesame seeds, and soybeans. The state encouraged the private company to establish a factory to help the country reduce its dependence on imports, export its products and strengthen its economic sovereignty.
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Continued…….. For decades, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank pushed structural adjustment programmes that kept Burkina Faso in a state of dependency, exporting raw materials while importing finished products at inflated prices.
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, Burkina Faso was the world’s ninth-largest producer of sesame seeds, with 247,156 tonnes in 2023. Yet, it generated no sesame seed oil.
According to the US Drug Administration, Burkina Faso has produced 575,000 tonnes of peanuts in recent years but no peanut products like oil or butter.
Burkina Faso produced 212,294 tonnes of rice in 2023.
It also grew 122,794 tonnes of soybeans that year, but no records show soybean oil production.
Once Burkina Faso transforms nuts and seeds into cooking oils, it will be able to energise its agricultural sector and growing industries to support decolonisation and grow its exports.
Burkina Faso is not ‘poor.’ Rather, it had been deliberately pillaged. Now, it is taking back control of its destiny.
Video credits: @sigbf (IG + X) / @fabso7_bf (IG + X)
Sources
https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL
https://www.atlasbig.com/en-us/countries-peanut-production
https://pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles/BFA
https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/countrysummary/Default.aspx?id=UV&crop=Peanut
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/burkinafaso/overview
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, Burkina Faso was the world’s ninth-largest producer of sesame seeds, with 247,156 tonnes in 2023. Yet, it generated no sesame seed oil.
According to the US Drug Administration, Burkina Faso has produced 575,000 tonnes of peanuts in recent years but no peanut products like oil or butter.
Burkina Faso produced 212,294 tonnes of rice in 2023.
It also grew 122,794 tonnes of soybeans that year, but no records show soybean oil production.
Once Burkina Faso transforms nuts and seeds into cooking oils, it will be able to energise its agricultural sector and growing industries to support decolonisation and grow its exports.
Burkina Faso is not ‘poor.’ Rather, it had been deliberately pillaged. Now, it is taking back control of its destiny.
Video credits: @sigbf (IG + X) / @fabso7_bf (IG + X)
Sources
https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL
https://www.atlasbig.com/en-us/countries-peanut-production
https://pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles/BFA
https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/countrysummary/Default.aspx?id=UV&crop=Peanut
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/burkinafaso/overview
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CONGO WAR BIRTHED RWANDA’S MINERAL INDUSTRY
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has long claimed that his country’s military forays into the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are necessitated by security concerns. Kagame asserts that he wants to neutralise threats to Rwanda posed by the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) - perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide, who fled into Congo.
Claude Gatebuke, a Rwanda Genocide survivor, argues that Kigali’s excuse for involvement in DR Congo is a mask for a chance to plunder the country’s vast mineral wealth - valued at an astonishing $24 trillion. A significant share of Congolese minerals is funnelled into profitable global markets via neighbouring Rwanda, whose mining sector picked up speed around 1996, when the First Congo War broke out.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has long claimed that his country’s military forays into the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are necessitated by security concerns. Kagame asserts that he wants to neutralise threats to Rwanda posed by the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) - perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide, who fled into Congo.
Claude Gatebuke, a Rwanda Genocide survivor, argues that Kigali’s excuse for involvement in DR Congo is a mask for a chance to plunder the country’s vast mineral wealth - valued at an astonishing $24 trillion. A significant share of Congolese minerals is funnelled into profitable global markets via neighbouring Rwanda, whose mining sector picked up speed around 1996, when the First Congo War broke out.
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Continued……Although Rwanda possesses a relatively modest mineral portfolio compared with the DRC, it reported mining revenues exceeding $1.1 billion in 2023, marking a 43% year-on-year increase. Particularly striking is the data concerning 3T minerals: tin (cassiterite), tungsten (wolframite), and tantalum (coltan). A 2021 report from the US Geological Survey revealed that the United States sourced 36% of its tantalum imports from Rwanda, the highest share among global suppliers, while only 7% came from the DRC.
UN reports highlight Rwanda’s role as a conduit for illicitly and violently obtained Congolese mineral resources, a fact that Kagame has openly admitted. A December 2024 UN experts’ report noted that after the Kigali-sponsored M23 rebel group seized Rubaya in east DRC, home to the region’s largest coltan mine, it imposed substantial taxes on the extracted minerals and ensured their transfer to Rwanda.
During a ministerial swearing-in ceremony in November 2022, Kagame remarked, “Some people come from Congo, whether they smuggle or go through the right channel, they bring minerals, but most of it goes through here but does not stay here. It goes to Dubai, to Brussels, Tel Aviv…”
Sources
https://www.mining.com/web/congo-rebel-gains-to-boost-illicit-mineral-trade-through-rwanda-analysts-say/
https://docs.un.org/en/s/2024/969
https://amsterdamandpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024.04.25-AP-DRC-Blood-Minerals.pdf
https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021.pdf
https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/rwanda-mining-and-minerals
https://youtu.be/Opf0b_svQl8?t=3444
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/2/blood-minerals-what-are-the-hidden-costs-of-the-eu-rwanda-supply-deal
https://www.forbesafrica.com/opinion/op-ed/2023/03/29/rwandas-mining-sector-is-poised-for-even-more-growth-as-commodity-prices-continue-to-rise/
UN reports highlight Rwanda’s role as a conduit for illicitly and violently obtained Congolese mineral resources, a fact that Kagame has openly admitted. A December 2024 UN experts’ report noted that after the Kigali-sponsored M23 rebel group seized Rubaya in east DRC, home to the region’s largest coltan mine, it imposed substantial taxes on the extracted minerals and ensured their transfer to Rwanda.
During a ministerial swearing-in ceremony in November 2022, Kagame remarked, “Some people come from Congo, whether they smuggle or go through the right channel, they bring minerals, but most of it goes through here but does not stay here. It goes to Dubai, to Brussels, Tel Aviv…”
Sources
https://www.mining.com/web/congo-rebel-gains-to-boost-illicit-mineral-trade-through-rwanda-analysts-say/
https://docs.un.org/en/s/2024/969
https://amsterdamandpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024.04.25-AP-DRC-Blood-Minerals.pdf
https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021.pdf
https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/rwanda-mining-and-minerals
https://youtu.be/Opf0b_svQl8?t=3444
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/2/blood-minerals-what-are-the-hidden-costs-of-the-eu-rwanda-supply-deal
https://www.forbesafrica.com/opinion/op-ed/2023/03/29/rwandas-mining-sector-is-poised-for-even-more-growth-as-commodity-prices-continue-to-rise/
MINING.COM
Congo rebel gains to boost illicit mineral trade through Rwanda, analysts say
M23 insurgent group entered eastern Congo's largest city this week.
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U.S. FUNDED SOMALIA’S AL-SHABAAB TERRORISTS
Talk of US involvement in Somalia, and the first images that come to mind are drones, firefights, bombs, death and destruction. ‘Black Hawk Down,’ anyone?
Yet, recent reports suggest that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been channelling millions of dollars to the Somali extremist group, Al-Shabaab.
During a US House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee hearing on 26 February, Gregg Roman, executive director of Middle East Forum, disclosed that Al-Shabaab is one of many terrorist groups benefiting from US foreign aid.
The US has a long history with Somalia that dates back to funding the government of President Mohammed Siad Barre, who ruled the country between 1969 and 1991.
The US began bombing Somalia in the early 1990s following a Somali coalition ousting Barre. Since 2001, every US administration—Democrat and Republican—has continued that bombing campaign.
Talk of US involvement in Somalia, and the first images that come to mind are drones, firefights, bombs, death and destruction. ‘Black Hawk Down,’ anyone?
Yet, recent reports suggest that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been channelling millions of dollars to the Somali extremist group, Al-Shabaab.
During a US House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee hearing on 26 February, Gregg Roman, executive director of Middle East Forum, disclosed that Al-Shabaab is one of many terrorist groups benefiting from US foreign aid.
The US has a long history with Somalia that dates back to funding the government of President Mohammed Siad Barre, who ruled the country between 1969 and 1991.
The US began bombing Somalia in the early 1990s following a Somali coalition ousting Barre. Since 2001, every US administration—Democrat and Republican—has continued that bombing campaign.
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Continued……. The US has justified military interventions for counterterrorism, anti-piracy efforts and humanitarian aid, yet they mask a cynical interest in the region’s strategic value. Somalia boasts Africa’s longest coastline—3,025 kilometres—and lies at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, where many countries have based their military operations to protect trade.
During the Biden administration, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) collaborated with elements of the US-backed government in Mogadishu to carry out airstrikes on suspected Al-Shabaab positions, often resulting in civilian casualties.
In 2023 alone, the US k*lled 120 Somali civilians during 18 airstrikes and one ground operation.
Video credit: @GOPoversight (X)
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https://so.usembassy.gov/usaids-new-40-million-people-centered-governance-activity/
https://www.newamerica.org/future-security/blog/how-many-people-does-the-us-assess-it-killed-in-somalia-in-2023
During the Biden administration, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) collaborated with elements of the US-backed government in Mogadishu to carry out airstrikes on suspected Al-Shabaab positions, often resulting in civilian casualties.
In 2023 alone, the US k*lled 120 Somali civilians during 18 airstrikes and one ground operation.
Video credit: @GOPoversight (X)
Sources
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-america-first-foreign-aid-protects-u-s-interests-at-home-and-abroad/
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/08/13/in-somalia-the-us-is-bombing-the-very-terrorists-it-created/
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https://so.usembassy.gov/usaids-new-40-million-people-centered-governance-activity/
https://www.newamerica.org/future-security/blog/how-many-people-does-the-us-assess-it-killed-in-somalia-in-2023
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Hearing Wrap Up: America-First Foreign Aid Protects U.S. Interests at Home and Abroad - United States House Committee on Oversight…
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The UN has issued a warning about the worsening famine conditions in Sudan as the country’s war - fuelled by foreign intervention - rages on. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk says there is a growing risk of deaths due to starvation, which will only aggravate Sudan’s already dire humanitarian crisis.
Two major aid organisations recently halted operations in North Darfur’s massive ZamZam refugee camp - reportedly home to half a million people - amid intense fighting in the region, including attacks on the camp itself by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary. The World Food Programme temporarily halted the distribution of food, while Doctors Without Borders says humanitarian efforts have become too difficult for the medical charity.
Famine conditions have already been reported in at least five locations across Sudan, including other displacement camps. Currently, more than 24.6-million people are facing acute hunger.
Two major aid organisations recently halted operations in North Darfur’s massive ZamZam refugee camp - reportedly home to half a million people - amid intense fighting in the region, including attacks on the camp itself by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary. The World Food Programme temporarily halted the distribution of food, while Doctors Without Borders says humanitarian efforts have become too difficult for the medical charity.
Famine conditions have already been reported in at least five locations across Sudan, including other displacement camps. Currently, more than 24.6-million people are facing acute hunger.
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Continued……Since April 2023, the Sudanese army and the UAE-backed RSF have been engaged in a proxy war that has caused tens of thousands of deaths - with some fearing the death toll has long exceeded 150,000.
More than 11-million people have been displaced, both internally and abroad, according to the UN and local authorities.
Sources
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250226-un-official-warns-of-worsening-famine-in-sudan-as-violence-escalates/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-rights-chief-warns-mass-deaths-famine-sudan-2025-02-27/?taid=67c0850bf404f800018fbcb4&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-halts-food-help-sudan-camp-warns-thousands-could-starve-2025-02-26/
More than 11-million people have been displaced, both internally and abroad, according to the UN and local authorities.
Sources
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250226-un-official-warns-of-worsening-famine-in-sudan-as-violence-escalates/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-rights-chief-warns-mass-deaths-famine-sudan-2025-02-27/?taid=67c0850bf404f800018fbcb4&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-halts-food-help-sudan-camp-warns-thousands-could-starve-2025-02-26/
Middle East Monitor
UN official warns of worsening famine in Sudan as violence escalates
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THE U.S. ALWAYS SUPPORTED APARTHEID
US support for apartheid and settler-colonialism in South Africa goes as far back as its ‘constructive engagement’ policy that aimed to break South Africa’s international isolation and use the apartheid regime as a proxy against socialist independence movements in Africa.
Plus, African Stream’s Wambura Mwai (@wamburabrenda on IG) tells us that US corporations invested in upholding the apartheid regime with as much as $14.6 billion by the early 1980s, despite international boycotts, according to the US Out of Southern Africa Network. The US strategy bolstered the apartheid regime’s ability to suppress domestic and regional liberation movements. US President Donald Trump’s support for white landowners in South Africa continues this longstanding US legacy of backing apartheid-era policies.
Let us know in the comments what you think about this phenomenon.
US support for apartheid and settler-colonialism in South Africa goes as far back as its ‘constructive engagement’ policy that aimed to break South Africa’s international isolation and use the apartheid regime as a proxy against socialist independence movements in Africa.
Plus, African Stream’s Wambura Mwai (@wamburabrenda on IG) tells us that US corporations invested in upholding the apartheid regime with as much as $14.6 billion by the early 1980s, despite international boycotts, according to the US Out of Southern Africa Network. The US strategy bolstered the apartheid regime’s ability to suppress domestic and regional liberation movements. US President Donald Trump’s support for white landowners in South Africa continues this longstanding US legacy of backing apartheid-era policies.
Let us know in the comments what you think about this phenomenon.
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Continued……Sources
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https://jacobin.com/2024/12/israel-south-africa-apartheid-weapons
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https://jacobin.com/2024/12/israel-south-africa-apartheid-weapons
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https://africanactivist.msu.edu/recordFiles/210-849-20409/DGUSOSANUSCorps.pdf
Salon
Reagan's embrace of apartheid South Africa
His foreign policy legacy includes an alliance with a racist government
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UK PARLIAMENT HOSTS GENOCIDAL MILITIA
The UK has been accused of legitimising perpetrators of genocide - by allowing its parliament to host an event attended by people reportedly linked to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Sudanese paramilitary has been sanctioned by the US for a string of atrocities.
As our video explores, it’s not the first time London’s faced such accusations - and Britain is implicated further by its efforts to diplomatically shield the RSF’s main arms supplier: the United Arab Emirates.
Sources
https://x.com/TurtleYusuf/status/1894795384255348999
https://ceftus.org/pathways-to-peace-ending-conflicts-in-sudan/
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2772
The UK has been accused of legitimising perpetrators of genocide - by allowing its parliament to host an event attended by people reportedly linked to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Sudanese paramilitary has been sanctioned by the US for a string of atrocities.
As our video explores, it’s not the first time London’s faced such accusations - and Britain is implicated further by its efforts to diplomatically shield the RSF’s main arms supplier: the United Arab Emirates.
Sources
https://x.com/TurtleYusuf/status/1894795384255348999
https://ceftus.org/pathways-to-peace-ending-conflicts-in-sudan/
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2772
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Continued……https://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-guardian-australia/20240416/281827173807060
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-accused-suppress-criticism-uae-role-sudan-war
https://sudantribune.com/article285064/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/15/military-massacres-in-sudans-breadbasket-are-fueling-an-unprecedented-famine/
https://dtm.iom.int/reports/dtm-sudan-mobility-update-14
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-accused-suppress-criticism-uae-role-sudan-war
https://sudantribune.com/article285064/
https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/us-senate-foreign-relations-committee-hearing-on-sudan-may-2024
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/15/military-massacres-in-sudans-breadbasket-are-fueling-an-unprecedented-famine/
https://dtm.iom.int/reports/dtm-sudan-mobility-update-14
UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group | The Guardian Australia
Foreign Office officials are holding secret talks with the paramilitary group that has been waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Sudan for the past year.
News that the British government and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are engaged...
News that the British government and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are engaged...
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