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)
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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
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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/
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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)
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/
https://theconversation.com/in-afghanistan-families-are-forced-to-sell-children-to-survive-trumps-usaid-cuts-will-be-devastating-249713
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/usaid-sending-40-million-per-week-to-taliban-witness-drops-bombshell-at-congress-hearing/videoshow/118607686.cms?from=mdr
https://www.voanews.com/a/how-pause-in-us-foreign-aid-is-impacting-south-central-asia/7971248.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/united-nations-cash-afghanistan-following-taliban-takeover
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/
https://theconversation.com/in-afghanistan-families-are-forced-to-sell-children-to-survive-trumps-usaid-cuts-will-be-devastating-249713
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/usaid-sending-40-million-per-week-to-taliban-witness-drops-bombshell-at-congress-hearing/videoshow/118607686.cms?from=mdr
https://www.voanews.com/a/how-pause-in-us-foreign-aid-is-impacting-south-central-asia/7971248.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/united-nations-cash-afghanistan-following-taliban-takeover
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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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/
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
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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WEST NOT BYSTANDERS IN DRC
Recent protests in Kinshasa have targeted Western embassies, including those of France and the US, as demonstrators accuse these foreign powers of complicity in the three-decade-long minerals conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that counts as the deadliest since World War II, according to many sources including US-based and UN-associated NGO World Without Genocide.
While Western governments have issued mild condemnations of Rwanda’s involvement, including token sanctions that leave senior Rwandan leadership untouched, their corporations continue to benefit from the DRC’s mineral wealth.
As NGO Focus Congo’s Pappy Orion (@pappyorion of @focuscongo/@focuscongo_drc) puts it, the European Union’s financial support for Rwanda, extending as far as funding Rwandan troops in Mozambique, where French oil giant TotalEnergies has a $20 billion investment, suggests deeper strategic motives.
Recent protests in Kinshasa have targeted Western embassies, including those of France and the US, as demonstrators accuse these foreign powers of complicity in the three-decade-long minerals conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that counts as the deadliest since World War II, according to many sources including US-based and UN-associated NGO World Without Genocide.
While Western governments have issued mild condemnations of Rwanda’s involvement, including token sanctions that leave senior Rwandan leadership untouched, their corporations continue to benefit from the DRC’s mineral wealth.
As NGO Focus Congo’s Pappy Orion (@pappyorion of @focuscongo/@focuscongo_drc) puts it, the European Union’s financial support for Rwanda, extending as far as funding Rwandan troops in Mozambique, where French oil giant TotalEnergies has a $20 billion investment, suggests deeper strategic motives.
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Continued……He also argued that with China and Russia increasing their presence in Africa, Western powers are prolonging the conflict under the guise of later stepping in as peacemakers.
The DRC has seen little peace since Europeans carved up Africa and handed it to Belgian King Leopold II, who killed as many as 15 million people and enslaved our people to produce rubber. A glimmer of hope at independence was whiffed out with the assassination of Pan-African icon Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) at the hands of Belgian-, UK- and US-backed Congolese forces. The fall of the dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-97), provided no reprieve, as the minerals conflict k*lled more than 6 million people by 2010 and internally displaced over 7 million.
Sources
https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1884219097887695006
Leopold in Congo
https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1884219097887695006
Western firms profiting off blood minerals
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-dismisses-child-labor-case-against-tech-companies-2024-03-05/
Total Rwanda deal
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/07/11/after-the-success-of-its-army-in-mozambique-rwanda-expects-economic-rewards_6049404_4.html
CIA Lumumba
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/17/patrice-lumumba-congo-washington-00121755
DRC killed and displaced since Rwanda genocide
https://africacenter.org/spotlight/drc-conflict-new-phase
Deadliest conflict
https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/congo
6 million dead as of 2010
https://www.caritas.org/2010/02/six-million-dead-in-congos-war
700,000 flee since January 2025
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160486
Rwanda in Mozambique
https://ieefa.org/resources/list-reasons-not-finance-totalenergies-mozambique-lng-project-grows
Displacements
https://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/iom-democratic-republic-congo-internal-displacement-overview-september-2024 (click on PDF)
US on Rwanda
https://www.state.gov/sanctioning-drivers-of-violence-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo
EU Parliament on Rwanda
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20250206IPR26752/meps-want-to-suspend-eu-rwanda-deal-on-critical-raw-materials
UK on Rwanda
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/uk-suspends-aid-to-rwanda-over-alleged-support-for-drc-rebels
King Leopold's murder rate
https://congoinconversation.fondationcarmignac.com/en/reportages/protesting-belgium-s-colonial-legacy-in-congo-pamela-tulizo
The DRC has seen little peace since Europeans carved up Africa and handed it to Belgian King Leopold II, who killed as many as 15 million people and enslaved our people to produce rubber. A glimmer of hope at independence was whiffed out with the assassination of Pan-African icon Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) at the hands of Belgian-, UK- and US-backed Congolese forces. The fall of the dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-97), provided no reprieve, as the minerals conflict k*lled more than 6 million people by 2010 and internally displaced over 7 million.
Sources
https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1884219097887695006
Leopold in Congo
https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1884219097887695006
Western firms profiting off blood minerals
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-dismisses-child-labor-case-against-tech-companies-2024-03-05/
Total Rwanda deal
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/07/11/after-the-success-of-its-army-in-mozambique-rwanda-expects-economic-rewards_6049404_4.html
CIA Lumumba
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/17/patrice-lumumba-congo-washington-00121755
DRC killed and displaced since Rwanda genocide
https://africacenter.org/spotlight/drc-conflict-new-phase
Deadliest conflict
https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/congo
6 million dead as of 2010
https://www.caritas.org/2010/02/six-million-dead-in-congos-war
700,000 flee since January 2025
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160486
Rwanda in Mozambique
https://ieefa.org/resources/list-reasons-not-finance-totalenergies-mozambique-lng-project-grows
Displacements
https://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/iom-democratic-republic-congo-internal-displacement-overview-september-2024 (click on PDF)
US on Rwanda
https://www.state.gov/sanctioning-drivers-of-violence-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo
EU Parliament on Rwanda
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20250206IPR26752/meps-want-to-suspend-eu-rwanda-deal-on-critical-raw-materials
UK on Rwanda
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/uk-suspends-aid-to-rwanda-over-alleged-support-for-drc-rebels
King Leopold's murder rate
https://congoinconversation.fondationcarmignac.com/en/reportages/protesting-belgium-s-colonial-legacy-in-congo-pamela-tulizo
Reuters
US court sides with Apple, Tesla, other tech companies over child labor in Africa
A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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WHY MUSK IS WRONG TO EQUATE DEI WITH LOWER STANDARDS
Elon Musk thinks diversity in medicine is dangerous. Science says otherwise. In an interview with Don Lemon last year, the tech billionaire claimed that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts risk “lowering standards” - with potentially fatal consequences.
In this clip, an American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology-certified surgeon begs to differ, explaining why Musk’s argument is flawed. Dr Ruthie (i.am.dr.ruthie) points out that DEI efforts focus on recruiting and retaining diverse physicians because research has shown this directly improves outcomes for patients.
Her argument aligns with findings from a major 2023 US-wide study published in JAMA Network Open (part of The Journal of the American Medical Association).
Elon Musk thinks diversity in medicine is dangerous. Science says otherwise. In an interview with Don Lemon last year, the tech billionaire claimed that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts risk “lowering standards” - with potentially fatal consequences.
In this clip, an American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology-certified surgeon begs to differ, explaining why Musk’s argument is flawed. Dr Ruthie (i.am.dr.ruthie) points out that DEI efforts focus on recruiting and retaining diverse physicians because research has shown this directly improves outcomes for patients.
Her argument aligns with findings from a major 2023 US-wide study published in JAMA Network Open (part of The Journal of the American Medical Association).
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Continued…….. This examined the impact of physician diversity on public health. The study found that Black communities with a higher share of Black primary care physicians experience increased life expectancy and reduced racial disparities in mortality rates. Interestingly, these benefits extend even to Black patients who never directly visit a Black doctor, suggesting broader systemic advantages. While the study’s authors note that further research is needed to establish any kind of causation (rather than mere correlation), the evidence strongly points to the conclusion that diversity in medicine benefits everyone.
So if diversity demonstrably improves patient outcomes, how exactly does that “lower standards,” @elonmusk?
video credit: Don Lemon https://youtu.be/hhsfjBpKiTw?si=RhWKPvsOZQGLYVd4
and Dr. Ruthie https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFGMfsdvTyq/?igsh=MTljbjZoem1leWhoYw==
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https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/14/black-doctors-primary-care-life-expectancy-mortality/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/study-finds-black-people-live-longer-in-places-with-more-black-doctors
So if diversity demonstrably improves patient outcomes, how exactly does that “lower standards,” @elonmusk?
video credit: Don Lemon https://youtu.be/hhsfjBpKiTw?si=RhWKPvsOZQGLYVd4
and Dr. Ruthie https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFGMfsdvTyq/?igsh=MTljbjZoem1leWhoYw==
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Sources
https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/14/black-doctors-primary-care-life-expectancy-mortality/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/study-finds-black-people-live-longer-in-places-with-more-black-doctors
YouTube
Elon Musk on Racism, Bailing Out Trump, Hate Speech, and More - The Don Lemon Show (Full Interview)
It’s the interview everyone is talking about. Don Lemon sits down with Elon Musk to discuss matters ranging from hate speech to DEI to the great replacement theory.
This is just the first of many interviews to come on The Don Lemon Show. Don will welcome…
This is just the first of many interviews to come on The Don Lemon Show. Don will welcome…
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Like other Western powers, the UK has been deeply involved in destabilising the DRC. Our latest Facts of the Week unpack how British governments, corporations and intelligence agencies have consistently undermined Congolese sovereignty for profit and geopolitical interests - be it through colonial-era scheming or modern economic exploitation.
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