SOUTH SUDAN ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR VP RIEK MACHAR

On 26 March, a convoy of 20 heavily armed vehicles forced their way into South Sudan First Vice President Riek Machar’s residence in the capital city, Juba. 

The country’s Defence Minister and the Chief of National Security personally delivered an arrest warrant to Machar, who also serves as the leader of the opposition party, the Sudan’s People Liberation Movement/Army - In Opposition (SPLM/A-IO). According to a Facebook post by Reath Muoch Tang, acting chairperson for the party’s National Committee on Foreign Relations, the convoy disarmed Machar’s bodyguards. The party split in 2013 from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement that governs the country.

Tang noted the warrant contained ‘unclear charges.’ However, reports indicate Machar is under house arrest for alleged complicity in the conflict between the army and the White Army militia in the Upper Nile State in the country’s northeast.

Continued….. Many have expressed concern in recent weeks that South Sudan is descending into yet another civil war that involves the support of Uganda. So far, reports say bombardments using chemical weapons have k*lled civilians. The fighting has forced 50,000 people to flee, according to the UN.

Rights groups have condemned the k*llings, and the UN has warned that arresting Machar, who many consider as wielding influence over the White Army because it fought alongside him in the 2013 civil war, threatens an already fragile peace agreement signed in 2018. The failure to implement the deal is regarded as the instability’s leading cause.

The civil war in South Sudan started in December 2013, lasted 5 years and k*lled over 400,000 people. That war and subsequent clashes have internally and externally displaced over 4 million South Sudanese. Moreover, the UN estimated in November 2024 that 57 per cent of South Sudanese will suffer acute hunger through its ‘lean season’ starting in April.

Some foreign embassies have scaled down or even closed operations amidst the recent fighting.

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ACTIONAID: IT’S RICH NATIONS THAT OWE AFRICA!

A new report by ActionAid - noscriptd ‘Who Owes Who?’ - challenges the assumption that it’s Africa that’s a net debtor to the world. It argues that rich nations owe a ‘climate debt’ worth $107 trillion to developing ones, which feel the brunt of the West’s industrialised polluting of the planet. Moreover, debt-burdened African nations in particular have to resort to adopting policies that worsen the climate crisis in order to service IMF and other loans - and much of this debt wouldn’t have been necessary if the colonial era (together with ongoing exploitation) hadn’t bled Africa dry. We spoke to ActionAid’s head of programmes. He told us a simple solution would be to forgive Africa’s debt. Have a watch and let us know what you think of his arguments.

Sources

https://actionaid.org/publications/2025/who-owes-who

Continued…. Many see Trump's choice of Bozell as a dig at the South African government, a long-time supporter of the Palestinian liberation struggle. In the last two years, the country has been a leading voice in condemning the Israeli onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza, even launching a landmark g*nocide case in late December 2023 against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Trump's latest move will likely further strain the already frosty ties between Washington and Pretoria. Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has taken several hostile steps against South Africa, including suspending aid to the country over discredited allegations that South Africa discriminates against and mistreats white South Africans. He also offered white settlers refuge in the US. On 14 March, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Ebrahim Rasool (@AmbassadoRasool on X), South Africa's ambassador to Washington, a ‘race-baiting politician’ and ‘persona non grata’ for criticising Trump's politics.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmj8ky3rvno

DRC GOV’T BLOCKS KÉMI SÉBA’S HONORARY DEGREE

What a snub! 

Kémi Séba (@KemiSeba1 on X), founder of the Pan-African organisation @UrgencesPanaf (on X), flew into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 24 March for a ceremony to be granted an honorary doctorate degree at the Bel Campus University in Kinshasa. 

He said it would have been one of the greatest accolades of his life. 

However, upon his arrival, the university’s founder explained that the DRC Ministry of Higher and University Education had postponed the ceremony. Séba said he understood it was not merely postponed but cancelled due to interference from France.

Continued….. According to Maud-Salomé Ekila Bofunda (@Ekilaaa on X), spokesperson of Urgences Panafricanistes, ‘The reasons given by the Ministry of Higher Education are clear: Diplomatic pressure from France, which does not approve of the DRC, which it considers a friendly country, allowing a Congolese university to award this type of noscript to a person who ‘acts’ against France and makes anti-French comments.’

In 2024, France revoked Séba’s citizenship for allegedly working against French interests. However, it came after he burned his French passport.

What do you make of this situation? Let us know in the comments.

Video credit: @Ekilaaa on X

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https://x.com/Ekilaaa/status/1904141354659139711

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Continued……In October 2024, the group reported continuous aerial bombardment by the SAF in RSF-occupied areas in El Gezira, Sennar, White Nile state, North Kordofan, and West and North Darfur, had k*lled an estimated 500 civilians in just one week.

Meanwhile, the armed forces have said the allegations are ‘incorrect,’ arguing it has only exercised its ‘constitutional and legal right to deal with hostile targets.’ Their statements contradict the reports on the ground, where some of the identified victims were unarmed civilians, including children, women and the elderly.

Sources

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NAMIBIA’S NEW BOSS SEEKS MORE REPARATIONS

Namibia’s new president means business when it comes to reparations from Germany for the genocide it perpetrated against her people at the start of the 20th century. In an interview with the BBC, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said that the just-over-a-billion euros already paid out would not suffice - and that she’s confident Berlin won’t drag its feet to reach a more just settlement. Between 1904 and 1908, colonial forces exterminated three-quarters of Herero and half of Nama people in what was then German South West Africa.

Video credit: BBC Africa and Al Jazeera

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‘KHARTOUM IS FREE!’ - ARMY CHIEF

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced on 26th March that Khartoum had been liberated from the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary, shortly after touching down at the capital’s international airport for the first time in two years.

The announcement marks a symbolically important victory for the national army, which has made notable gains recently, first reclaiming territory in central Sudan before turning its attention to Khartoum. In January, they broke the RSF’s nearly two-year siege of the General Command headquarters. By mid-March, the army reported that its forces had converged from both the north and south of Khartoum, effectively encircling the RSF. It’s since retaken the Presidential Palace and the airport, in addition to other government facilities.

Continued….. With the retreating RSF solidifying its control in the west, more defined battle lines are emerging, raising concerns about a potential division of the country.

This violent conflict has resulted in the displacement of 12.9-million people and left nearly 25 million facing severe hunger, according to the UN. In May 2024, US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello reported that up to 150,000 people may have been killed after the first year of fighting, with the actual death toll likely higher due to the destruction of the healthcare system, which has hindered accurate reporting.

Video credits: @RT_com,
Sudanese Armed Forces,
@C_NyaKundiH

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BRIT LOBBIES U.S. TO BACK SPLITTING SOUTH AFRICA!

Phil Craig left the UK in 2004 to start a new life in South Africa. He is now at the centre of a secessionist movement seeking to establish a new country - in which Black people are not the majority - at the southern tip of the African continent.

Craig is a leader and member of several organisations advocating for the ‘independence’ of South Africa’s Western Cape province, the country’s most White region. He claims that his movement is not racist but only wants to create a country of people who believe in ‘Western values.’

Many South Africans are now demanding that their government send Craig back to the UK - so that he can go and freely enjoy his beloved Western values.

Continued….. Sources

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Throughout Black people’s history in the United States, opposing trends of thought about the best way to address oppression have competed. Here, @HamptonThink reposted @19keys_ on X by commenting on the divergence between greater assimilation into the US empire and fighting for true emancipation and self-determination.

Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) and an organisation he once chaired, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), popularised the term, Black Power, a call for Black people to struggle toward freedom and self-reliance. It identified the ‘white power structure’ as part and parcel of the capitalist system.

Continued….. The Black Power Movement adopted socialist and internationalist politics, connecting with national liberation struggles globally and identifying Black people as an ‘internal colony’ of the United States. Ture also famously stated, ‘The highest political expression of Black Power is Pan-Africanism.’ From then on, many who continued the revolutionary tradition saw themselves as Africans fighting a Pan-African struggle against imperialism.

Meanwhile, ‘Black Excellence’ relies on the misunderstanding that one needs only to pull oneself up by one’s ‘bootstraps’ within a white-supremacist society. Many have used the label to celebrate politicians like former US President Barack Obama, who invaded Libya, and wealthy celebrities like Beyoncé, who largely encourages materialism and celebrity obsession.

Former US President Richard Nixon promoted ‘Black capitalism’ in response to the socialist politics that gained popularity among Black people during the late 1960s and early 1970s. That came after the FBI launched COINTELPRO (standing for ‘Counterintelligence Program’) to infiltrate, surveil and dismantle revolutionary organisations. Both of these phenomena helped shift Black people in the US toward seeking individual success via capitalism.

Post credit: @hamptonthink / @19keys_ (X)

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