🇧🇫”All those who dream of seeing Burkina Faso on its knees to hope to bring us back into slavery must understand that they have failed.”

Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traore gave an address on the country’s Republic Day and vowed that the country will not bend to foreign meddling and attacks. Burkina Faso is part of the recently formed Alliance of Sahel States (AES) along with Niger and Mali, which seeks to defend the region against French and Western neo-colonialist and imperialist ambitions and promote sovereign development in the region that was pillaged by such powers for decades.

🇰🇷Following the shocking declaration of martial law in South Korea by President Yoon Suk Yeol, opposition lawmakers are alleging that a months-long plot was in the works to trigger a “limited war” with North Korea.

📲 Ju-Hyun Park, organizer with Nodutdol, explains the situation. Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/13/was-south-koreas-coup-an-attempt-to-restart-the-korean-war/

On December 10, International Human Rights Day, women and human rights activists took to the streets in Kenya to protest the alarming rise in femicide cases.

A recent report revealed that in the last three months, a record 97 femicides were recorded in Kenya – a rate of roughly one woman per day.

📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/13/activists-denounce-kenyan-government-for-inaction-on-femicide-crisis/

Activists from the left movement Potere al Popolo are shaping a new bold political and action program, set to build an Italy centered on participation, equity, and care.

📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/13/potere-al-popolo-dares-to-dream-of-a-more-equitable-future-for-italy/

Opposition parties in India led by Congress and the left parties have demanded independent investigations into one of India’s largest corporate groups Adani and its head Gautam Adani over corruption allegations.

They allege that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is shielding and promoting the businessman due to its own links with the corporate giant, at the cost of the interests of the country.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/14/indias-opposition-accuses-government-of-links-with-adani-calls-for-investigation/

Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, claiming dozens of lives and leaving around one hundred others injured or reportedly missing. The majority of the airstrikes targeted the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/15/israel-continues-to-kill-dozens-of-palestinians-amid-uncertainty-regarding-ceasefire-talks/

Israel announced it would close its embassy in Dublin after Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin declared that Ireland would intervene in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Irish authorities have warned against a narrow interpretation of the Genocide Convention, arguing that such an approach creates “a culture of impunity in which the protection of civilians is minimized.” Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 45,000 people in the Gaza Strip, the majority of whom are women, children, and elderly people.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/16/israel-to-shut-dublin-embassy-over-irish-intervention-at-icj/

December 14 marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s-Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP). ALBA-TCP was created in 2004 as a geopolitical alternative to the devastating advance of neoliberalism in the region.

📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/16/20-years-of-alba-tcp/

The election results could mark a shift in Ghana’s politics, which today are shaped by the country’s dire economic situation.

The latest elections saw a significant defeat of the ruling party which was responsible for taking out a 3 billion IMF loan and implementing austerity measures.

📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/17/ghanas-historic-election-a-vote-for-change/

Following the fall of the Assad government, Israel has launched an aerial bombing campaign to demilitarize Syria while expanding into the Golan Heights in the South.

According to Al Mayadeen, the airstrikes resulted in massive explosions that caused an earthquake-like tremor, and left several civilians killed and injured. The aerial attacks on the Syrian coast have been described as “the heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade.

📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/17/israel-continues-expansion-into-syrian-golan-heights/

🇰🇷 Tens of thousands of people mobilized outside the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday, December 14, to support the bid to impeach President Yoon Seok Yeol. The crowd erupted with cheers when lawmakers voted for his impeachment in the afternoon.

Members of the International Strategy Center were on the streets, speaking to trade union activists and citizens about why they were mobilizing and the significance of the moment in the struggle for true democracy.

🎥Check out the collaborative report of ISC and Peoples Dispatch.

🇵🇸 Dispatches from Rafah

Asmaa Ibrahim al-Sultan is currently sheltering in a school in Rafah in Southern Gaza with her children. She shared a testimony about her daily challenges to provide adequate and dignified conditions for her family, including her newborn baby.

Israel continues to deprive the people of Gaza of basic necessities such as food and life saving medicine, and continues to lay siege to different parts of the enclave. Meanwhile the United States has continued to provide military, diplomatic, and political support, ignoring demands for an arms embargo and compliance with the ICC arrest warrant.

Demands for renationalization of water services in England grows as private London water supplier requests bailout.

“This is daylight robbery. There are two people who can stop it, the judge in court today and Steve Reed, the environment secretary. He can protect billpayers from this by withdrawing Thames Water’s license, on the basis of financial insolvency, illegal sewage dumping, or both,” Cat Hobbs, Director of We Own It, told Peoples Dispatch.

📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/17/can-britain-re-nationalize-water-services/