Continued……Elon Musk himself has done little to assuage doubt. The billionaire endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have lower IQs and shouldn’t become pilots. He adopted a similar stance during an interview with Don Lemon, attributing hypothetical adverse medical outcomes to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programmes despite evidence to the contrary. When swastikas and nooses were found at Tesla, not only did the company (whose largest shareholder is Musk) refuse to investigate complaints or take steps to end abuse, it retaliated against Black employees who complained or opposed the abuse.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. When explaining why he imported emeralds from an unregistered mine in Zambia, Errol Musk said, “[otherwise] you would wind up with nothing, because the Blacks would take everything from you.” He also fondly remembers apartheid South Africa, describing it as a “well-run, law-abiding country with virtually no crime at all.” Failing to recognise the apartheid regime itself as a crime - against humanity, no less.
Sources
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-dad-friends-black-servants-b2719651.html
https://futurism.com/civil-rights-groups-horrified-elon-musk-racist
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/elon-musk-racist-tweets-science-video/
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. When explaining why he imported emeralds from an unregistered mine in Zambia, Errol Musk said, “[otherwise] you would wind up with nothing, because the Blacks would take everything from you.” He also fondly remembers apartheid South Africa, describing it as a “well-run, law-abiding country with virtually no crime at all.” Failing to recognise the apartheid regime itself as a crime - against humanity, no less.
Sources
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-dad-friends-black-servants-b2719651.html
https://futurism.com/civil-rights-groups-horrified-elon-musk-racist
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/elon-musk-racist-tweets-science-video/
The Independent
Elon Musk’s dad touts billionaire’s friendships with his ‘Black servants’ as a kid
Errol Musk, Elon’s father, previously told a biographer he imported his emeralds from an unregistered mine because otherwise the “Blacks would take everything from you”
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On 25 March 1931, nine Black boys in Alabama, USA were wrongly charged with rap*ng White woman. They were initially sentenced to death, but this was overturned and retrials were ordered - sparking a mass (nationwide and global) campaign under the banner ‘They Must Not Die!’ aimed at preventing a legal lynching of the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
The case also reminds us of George Stinney Jr, executed in 1944, accused of killing two White girls, and Emmet Till, lynched in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a White woman, who later admitted the accusation was a lie.
It was a pivotal moment in Black history in the United States that would impact generations to come. The international struggle to free the Scottsboro Boys led to the largest resistance movement against racism in the US justice system in history.
The case also reminds us of George Stinney Jr, executed in 1944, accused of killing two White girls, and Emmet Till, lynched in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a White woman, who later admitted the accusation was a lie.
It was a pivotal moment in Black history in the United States that would impact generations to come. The international struggle to free the Scottsboro Boys led to the largest resistance movement against racism in the US justice system in history.
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Continued….. The global reach of the case was so far that a Sedition Bill was passed in Ghana (then the British colony of the Gold Coast) to prevent Africans from agitating in support of the Scottsboro Boys.
While the case did officially bring about certain legal reforms to the carceral system, such as mandating the presence of Black jurors in cases with Black defendants, this would often go unenforced throughout the 20th century and into the present.
In one example, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur was sentenced to life in prison by an all-White jury. In 1986, a court ruled that race could not be used as a factor in the initial establishment of a jury pool. In 2021, there were two high-profile cases in which nearly all-White juries acquitted White men for shooting and killing Black men - the murders of Jake Blake and Ahmaud Arbery.
Africans in the United States and throughout the diaspora continue to struggle against a racist criminal justice system in which they are disproportionally incarcerated.
While the case did officially bring about certain legal reforms to the carceral system, such as mandating the presence of Black jurors in cases with Black defendants, this would often go unenforced throughout the 20th century and into the present.
In one example, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur was sentenced to life in prison by an all-White jury. In 1986, a court ruled that race could not be used as a factor in the initial establishment of a jury pool. In 2021, there were two high-profile cases in which nearly all-White juries acquitted White men for shooting and killing Black men - the murders of Jake Blake and Ahmaud Arbery.
Africans in the United States and throughout the diaspora continue to struggle against a racist criminal justice system in which they are disproportionally incarcerated.
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REMEMBERING VICTIMS OF SLAVERY
On every 25 March since 2007, the United Nations has observed the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
We must first note that African Stream refers to this event as the European slave trade, as we put the responsibility on the people who forced slavery upon our ancestors rather than blaming the body of water through which the ships sailed.
Europeans kidnapped and forcibly transported between 10 million and 12 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas to be sold into slavery beginning in the late 15th century.
The Portuguese started trading Africans, but the Spanish, Dutch, English and French soon joined. The trade reached its peak in the 18th century.
On every 25 March since 2007, the United Nations has observed the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
We must first note that African Stream refers to this event as the European slave trade, as we put the responsibility on the people who forced slavery upon our ancestors rather than blaming the body of water through which the ships sailed.
Europeans kidnapped and forcibly transported between 10 million and 12 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas to be sold into slavery beginning in the late 15th century.
The Portuguese started trading Africans, but the Spanish, Dutch, English and French soon joined. The trade reached its peak in the 18th century.
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Continued……Slavery allowed European settler-colonists to till occupied land in the Americas for the raw materials needed to make products to sell worldwide, allowing the burgeoning economic system called capitalism to evolve from mercantilism to industrialism to the finance capitalism we see today. Meanwhile, the trade depopulated parts of Africa while creating a comprador class of African leaders who sold out their people.
As the trade came to a close, European powers carved up Africa during the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, providing certain European states with control over different parts of Africa to loot the continent’s resources. The racial hierarchy that slavery imposed exists today, with Western financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, imposing austerity, labour deregulation and currency devaluations that loot wealth and lower living standards.
CARICOM, a Caribbean regional body, now claims $33 trillion from Europe. Meanwhile, a US consulting firm, Brattle Group, calculated in 2024 that all enslaving countries owed between $100 trillion to $131 trillion to 31 countries.
As we remember the victims of the horrific European slave trade, we should not forget that imperialist shackles remain in Africa and the Americas.
Sources
https://bvinews.com/caribbean-asks-europe-for-33-trillion-in-reparations
https://www.britannica.com/topic/transatlantic-slave-trade
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1837/slavery-in-plantation-agriculture/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxt3gk7/revision/1
https://actionaid.org/publications/2023/fifty-years-failure-imf-debt-and-austerity-africa
https://www.un.org/en/observances/transatlantic-slave-trade
https://caricomreparations.org
https://www.brattle.com/insights-events/publications/brattle-consultants-quantify-reparations-for-transatlantic-chattel-slavery-in-pro-bono-paper
As the trade came to a close, European powers carved up Africa during the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, providing certain European states with control over different parts of Africa to loot the continent’s resources. The racial hierarchy that slavery imposed exists today, with Western financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, imposing austerity, labour deregulation and currency devaluations that loot wealth and lower living standards.
CARICOM, a Caribbean regional body, now claims $33 trillion from Europe. Meanwhile, a US consulting firm, Brattle Group, calculated in 2024 that all enslaving countries owed between $100 trillion to $131 trillion to 31 countries.
As we remember the victims of the horrific European slave trade, we should not forget that imperialist shackles remain in Africa and the Americas.
Sources
https://bvinews.com/caribbean-asks-europe-for-33-trillion-in-reparations
https://www.britannica.com/topic/transatlantic-slave-trade
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1837/slavery-in-plantation-agriculture/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxt3gk7/revision/1
https://actionaid.org/publications/2023/fifty-years-failure-imf-debt-and-austerity-africa
https://www.un.org/en/observances/transatlantic-slave-trade
https://caricomreparations.org
https://www.brattle.com/insights-events/publications/brattle-consultants-quantify-reparations-for-transatlantic-chattel-slavery-in-pro-bono-paper
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Caribbean asks Europe for $33 trillion in reparations
It might seem like a futile effort to many, but Caribbean nations are again making another push for reparations from European nations that enslaved millions of Africans in the region for more than …
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‘SOUTH AFRICA BORDERS ARE OPEN, RACISTS CAN GO TO U.S.’
White settlers in South Africa are free to leave.
That’s according to Julius Malema (@julius_s_malema on X, @julius.malema.sello on IG), founder and president of South Africa’s Pan-Africanist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, who made these remarks at the annual Sharpeville Massacre Rally on 21 March.
The settlers, who have amassed over 70 per cent of South Africa’s privately owned farmland while only making up a little over 7 per cent of the population, have refused to take US President Donald Trump’s offer to re-settle as refugees in the US despite alleging a ‘white g*nocide’ is waged against them. Instead, they encouraged Trump to punish South Africa’s attempts at rectifying wealth inequality through a new land reform law.
White settlers in South Africa are free to leave.
That’s according to Julius Malema (@julius_s_malema on X, @julius.malema.sello on IG), founder and president of South Africa’s Pan-Africanist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, who made these remarks at the annual Sharpeville Massacre Rally on 21 March.
The settlers, who have amassed over 70 per cent of South Africa’s privately owned farmland while only making up a little over 7 per cent of the population, have refused to take US President Donald Trump’s offer to re-settle as refugees in the US despite alleging a ‘white g*nocide’ is waged against them. Instead, they encouraged Trump to punish South Africa’s attempts at rectifying wealth inequality through a new land reform law.
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Continued……Despite apartheid officially ending in 1994, the regime, which was supported by the US through economic, military and diplomatic means, created stark inequalities that remain today. As a result, Black South Africans, who comprise over 80 per cent of the population, own only 4 per cent of private farmland.
The 1960 Sharpeville Massacre that Malema remarked on represents one of the darkest days during apartheid. On 21 March that year, the regime shot live bullets into a crowd of unarmed protesters who called for abolishing South Africa’s discriminatory pass laws. Apartheid authorities k*lled 69 Black South Africans and wounded nearly 200, including 50 women and children.
Video credit: @effsouthafrica
Sources
https://actsa.org/the-facts-land-reform-in-south-africa/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187823
https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2025-03-22-in-pics-malema-eff-commemorate-human-rights-day-in-sharpeville
https://www.iol.co.za/sport/opinion/human-rights-day-sharpeville-massacre-united-the-world-against-apartheid-but-sa-sporting-isolation-took-too-long-ask-the-all-blacks-44c37c6a-2d5e-4b40-a889-caa53077c5bc
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-10-09-declassified-apartheid-profits-american-guns
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/no-thanks-white-south-africans-turn-down-trumps-us-immigration-offer
https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201802/landauditreport13feb2018.pdf
The 1960 Sharpeville Massacre that Malema remarked on represents one of the darkest days during apartheid. On 21 March that year, the regime shot live bullets into a crowd of unarmed protesters who called for abolishing South Africa’s discriminatory pass laws. Apartheid authorities k*lled 69 Black South Africans and wounded nearly 200, including 50 women and children.
Video credit: @effsouthafrica
Sources
https://actsa.org/the-facts-land-reform-in-south-africa/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187823
https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2025-03-22-in-pics-malema-eff-commemorate-human-rights-day-in-sharpeville
https://www.iol.co.za/sport/opinion/human-rights-day-sharpeville-massacre-united-the-world-against-apartheid-but-sa-sporting-isolation-took-too-long-ask-the-all-blacks-44c37c6a-2d5e-4b40-a889-caa53077c5bc
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-10-09-declassified-apartheid-profits-american-guns
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/no-thanks-white-south-africans-turn-down-trumps-us-immigration-offer
https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201802/landauditreport13feb2018.pdf
ACTSA
The facts: land reform in South Africa
The disinformation spread about South African land reforms by Elon Musk is designed to provoke divisions. What are the facts?
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WATCH OUT FOR FAKE NEWS ON BURKINA FASO!
Burkina Faso may be the ‘land of the upright people,’ but some popular posts and reports online might not live up to its integrity.
In this video, we talk about the proliferation of ‘fake news’ regarding Burkina Faso, which mostly seems positive, but may detract from the actual gains of the revolution occurring in Africa’s Sahel region. However, at African Stream, we do our due diligence to verify claims and check in with Burkina Faso sources to get our information in order.
Have you recently raised your eyebrows at suspicious-sounding information about the Sahel? Let us know if you’ve noticed the sensationalism and, if so, what types of seemingly fake news stories you’ve peeped.
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Burkina Faso may be the ‘land of the upright people,’ but some popular posts and reports online might not live up to its integrity.
In this video, we talk about the proliferation of ‘fake news’ regarding Burkina Faso, which mostly seems positive, but may detract from the actual gains of the revolution occurring in Africa’s Sahel region. However, at African Stream, we do our due diligence to verify claims and check in with Burkina Faso sources to get our information in order.
Have you recently raised your eyebrows at suspicious-sounding information about the Sahel? Let us know if you’ve noticed the sensationalism and, if so, what types of seemingly fake news stories you’ve peeped.
Hear Us Roar: https://news.1rj.ru/str/AfricanStream
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US Secretary of State Marc Rubio has reiterated Washington’s offer of ‘asylum’ to White South Africans - whom leading Trump-administration officials, including the president himself, falsely say are being persecuted in their home country.
In the same tweet, Rubio also shared another trope in right-wing circles - namely, that the South African liberation song ‘Kill the Boer’ is an incitement to violence, even to genocide. Stemming from the apartheid era, it’s regularly chanted by South African opposition figure Julius Malema and his supporters.
But far from being a call for the targeted murder of White farmers (the eponymous Boer), it’s a call for completing the project of overcoming apartheid, whose systemic influence (even though the regime itself has fallen) is still felt in rampant inequalities across the country. Indeed, in 2022, South Africa’s High Court ruled that Malema was not guilty of hate speech when performing it publicly.
In the same tweet, Rubio also shared another trope in right-wing circles - namely, that the South African liberation song ‘Kill the Boer’ is an incitement to violence, even to genocide. Stemming from the apartheid era, it’s regularly chanted by South African opposition figure Julius Malema and his supporters.
But far from being a call for the targeted murder of White farmers (the eponymous Boer), it’s a call for completing the project of overcoming apartheid, whose systemic influence (even though the regime itself has fallen) is still felt in rampant inequalities across the country. Indeed, in 2022, South Africa’s High Court ruled that Malema was not guilty of hate speech when performing it publicly.
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All forms of belief stem from narratives, and no one has mastered the propaganda war more than imperialists, who use false dissemination of information to control public perception, keeping the masses oblivious to the realities of their oppression.
The rulers used the media during the US Civil Rights Movement to minimise the suffering of Black people, painting resistance movements and their influential figures in a negative light.
On the continent, our revolutionary leaders, such as Winnie Mandela (1936-2018) and Dedan Kimathi (1920-57), were also labelled t*rrorists.
Back then, sources of information were limited to traditional media: Radio, newspapers and TV.
The digital landscape today has transformed how people receive information.
The rulers used the media during the US Civil Rights Movement to minimise the suffering of Black people, painting resistance movements and their influential figures in a negative light.
On the continent, our revolutionary leaders, such as Winnie Mandela (1936-2018) and Dedan Kimathi (1920-57), were also labelled t*rrorists.
Back then, sources of information were limited to traditional media: Radio, newspapers and TV.
The digital landscape today has transformed how people receive information.
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Continued……However, we should not mistake decentralisation for the global elite’s influence waning. For example, former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s false statement that African Stream is ‘secretly funded’ by Russia led to the suspension and ban of African Stream on major platforms.
Thus, even now—when rulers can manipulate algorithms that dictate what we see on our timelines—we must remain vigilant, question narratives and not fall victim to tales that have us loving the oppressors and hating the oppressed, as Pan-Africanist revolutionary Malcolm X (1925-65) famously said.
Sources
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1836781485191217614?s=46
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/amp/article/2000085217/politics-of-death-how-dedan-kimathi-was-captured
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/21/malcolm-x-quotes
Thus, even now—when rulers can manipulate algorithms that dictate what we see on our timelines—we must remain vigilant, question narratives and not fall victim to tales that have us loving the oppressors and hating the oppressed, as Pan-Africanist revolutionary Malcolm X (1925-65) famously said.
Sources
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1836781485191217614?s=46
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/amp/article/2000085217/politics-of-death-how-dedan-kimathi-was-captured
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/21/malcolm-x-quotes
The Standard
Politics of death: How Dedan Kimathi was captured
As we celebrate 50 years of self internal rule this week, let us remember the veterans who sacrificed their lives for this cause. One of the most notable freedom fighters was Dedan Kimathi.
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REMEMBERING SÉKOU TOURÉ
With our continent experiencing a renaissance in pan-African, anti-imperialist sentiment - as embodied in revolutions and new alliances in the Sahel - it’s an apt time to remember Guinea’s founding father, Ahmed Sékou Touré, who joined the ancestors on this day in 1984.
As a child, he attended a Koranic school - before proceeding to a French technical institution in the capital, Conakry, in his teens. However, his stay there was short-lived, as he was expelled less than a year after admission for leading a student protest.
This led him to join the labour market at an early age. His first job was as a clerk at a French-owned company in 1940. He then joined the country’s postal and telecommunications services provider the following year.
In 1953, he helped coordinate a major labour strike, which lasted 76 days and resulted in a significant victory for the country’s workers, who secured a 20% pay rise and a 40-hour working week.
With our continent experiencing a renaissance in pan-African, anti-imperialist sentiment - as embodied in revolutions and new alliances in the Sahel - it’s an apt time to remember Guinea’s founding father, Ahmed Sékou Touré, who joined the ancestors on this day in 1984.
As a child, he attended a Koranic school - before proceeding to a French technical institution in the capital, Conakry, in his teens. However, his stay there was short-lived, as he was expelled less than a year after admission for leading a student protest.
This led him to join the labour market at an early age. His first job was as a clerk at a French-owned company in 1940. He then joined the country’s postal and telecommunications services provider the following year.
In 1953, he helped coordinate a major labour strike, which lasted 76 days and resulted in a significant victory for the country’s workers, who secured a 20% pay rise and a 40-hour working week.
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Continued……His track record in the labour sector helped cement his role as an emerging anti-colonial leader. In the 1950s, he won several political offices before becoming mayor of Conakry in 1955 and a member of the French National Assembly in 1956.
He used those positions to mobilise his fellow citizens towards the goal of national emancipation, rejecting attempts by Paris to have the West African nation remain part of the so-called French Community.
In 1958, Guineans voted overwhelmingly to sever ties with France, despite Paris’ threats to end all forms of economic and technical support for Guinea.
Upon becoming president, Touré embarked on a massive economic and social reform programme to wean the country off dependency on the former colonial power.
But his revolutionary exploits went beyond the borders of his homeland. On his death anniversary, we look at his achievements and why he was admired by pan-Africans worldwide.
Sources
https://www.liberationnews.org/07-04-01-uprising-in-guinea-problems-faci-html/
https://aaprp-intl.org/ahmed-sekou-toure-at-100/
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/toure-ahmed-sekou-1922-1984/
He used those positions to mobilise his fellow citizens towards the goal of national emancipation, rejecting attempts by Paris to have the West African nation remain part of the so-called French Community.
In 1958, Guineans voted overwhelmingly to sever ties with France, despite Paris’ threats to end all forms of economic and technical support for Guinea.
Upon becoming president, Touré embarked on a massive economic and social reform programme to wean the country off dependency on the former colonial power.
But his revolutionary exploits went beyond the borders of his homeland. On his death anniversary, we look at his achievements and why he was admired by pan-Africans worldwide.
Sources
https://www.liberationnews.org/07-04-01-uprising-in-guinea-problems-faci-html/
https://aaprp-intl.org/ahmed-sekou-toure-at-100/
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/toure-ahmed-sekou-1922-1984/
Liberation News
Uprising in Guinea and problems facing African liberation
On Feb. 27, Guinean workers agreed to end a massive political strike that brought the government to its knees. More than 120 people were killed and hundreds injured by the Guinean security... #africa
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SUDAN WARRING PARTIES DENYING AID ACCESS TO MILLIONS
With half of war-torn Sudan’s citizens suffering from acute hunger, both sides have been weaponising humanitarian aid - by denying access.
According to the UN, the proxy war has displaced a population that’s ‘greater than the entire population of Switzerland,’ uprooting 12.5-million people. In December 2024, the International Rescue Committee reported that the war had created ‘the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded.’
The power struggle between allies-turned-foes started on 15 April 2023. Experts say the exact death toll is hard to determine but is largely underestimated. In May 2024, US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello said that, after a year of fighting, as many as 150,000 had been k*lled.
With half of war-torn Sudan’s citizens suffering from acute hunger, both sides have been weaponising humanitarian aid - by denying access.
According to the UN, the proxy war has displaced a population that’s ‘greater than the entire population of Switzerland,’ uprooting 12.5-million people. In December 2024, the International Rescue Committee reported that the war had created ‘the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded.’
The power struggle between allies-turned-foes started on 15 April 2023. Experts say the exact death toll is hard to determine but is largely underestimated. In May 2024, US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello said that, after a year of fighting, as many as 150,000 had been k*lled.
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Continued……. According to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Sudan Research Group, by November 2024, over 61,000 people had been k*lled in the capital Khartoum alone. With the battle for the city intensifying (the army recently recaptured the presidential palace and has reportedly just taken back the airport), that number is likely to have jumped significantly.
Sources
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudans-rsf-squeezing-relief-supplies-famine-spreads-aid-workers-say-2025-03-25
https://mcusercontent.com/a52f171f5b264d075dd231cfb/files/3f904c96-e3df-0b47-e4c4-d5c49e4b581f/Famine_Denial_in_Sudan_Not_Only_Irrational_but_Also_Irresponsible.pdf
https://www.clingendael.org/publication/catastrophe-famine-immediate-action-needed-sudan-contain-mass-starvation
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/5/sudanese-starve-as-soup-kitchens-close-down-and-warring-parties-block-aid
https://www.wfp.org/countries/sudan
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/sudan-war-death-toll-much-higher-than-previously-recorded-new-study-finds
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160161
https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-emergency-watchlist-2025-world-out-balance-sudan-occupied-palestinian-territory
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https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudans-rsf-squeezing-relief-supplies-famine-spreads-aid-workers-say-2025-03-25
https://mcusercontent.com/a52f171f5b264d075dd231cfb/files/3f904c96-e3df-0b47-e4c4-d5c49e4b581f/Famine_Denial_in_Sudan_Not_Only_Irrational_but_Also_Irresponsible.pdf
https://www.clingendael.org/publication/catastrophe-famine-immediate-action-needed-sudan-contain-mass-starvation
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/5/sudanese-starve-as-soup-kitchens-close-down-and-warring-parties-block-aid
https://www.wfp.org/countries/sudan
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/sudan-war-death-toll-much-higher-than-previously-recorded-new-study-finds
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160161
https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-emergency-watchlist-2025-world-out-balance-sudan-occupied-palestinian-territory
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Starting on 1 April, citizens of the United States and more than 30 other countries planning to visit Namibia must obtain a visa at an airport or border crossing.
The move is widely seen as a response to Western countries' continued refusal to reciprocate Namibia's visa-free entry policy for their citizens.
For instance, the US government locked out all African countries from the 2025 US visa-waiver programme despite many countries on their continent allowing US citizens to enter their territories without visas.
The move is widely seen as a response to Western countries' continued refusal to reciprocate Namibia's visa-free entry policy for their citizens.
For instance, the US government locked out all African countries from the 2025 US visa-waiver programme despite many countries on their continent allowing US citizens to enter their territories without visas.
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Continued……Further, a proposed US travel ban leaked to the media in recent weeks categorises many countries, including African ones, on a three-tier basis to denote the level of restrictions. More than 20 African countries appear in the second and third categories, where travel would be allowed, but under severe scrutiny and restrictions. However, Libya, Sudan and Somalia are in tier 1, facing a complete ban on travel to the US.
The US has historically discriminated against visa applicants from Africa. In 2017, the Trump administration banned Libya, Somalia and Sudan. According to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, the US denied 57 per cent of African student visa applications in 2023 compared to 38 per cent for Asians and 8 per cent for Europeans.
The US has historically discriminated against visa applicants from Africa. In 2017, the Trump administration banned Libya, Somalia and Sudan. According to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, the US denied 57 per cent of African student visa applications in 2023 compared to 38 per cent for Asians and 8 per cent for Europeans.
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