Africa

Podcasting Star Mario Nawfal Talks to Rawandan President Paul Kagame

March 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Civil War, Colonialism, Congo, DRC, Political Analysis, Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 12, 2025 High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal recently produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. His team repeatedly asked me to record a six-minute response but then neither played it nor explained why. Mario Nawfal recently traveled to Rwanda to interview Rwandan President Paul Kagame,[…]

Marco Rubio’s Diplomatic Attack on South Africa is Punishment for Standing Up to Israel

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, International Institutions, International Law, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Ziad Motala, published on Mondoweiss, Marh 15, 2025 The Trump administration’s extraordinary and unprecedented move to effectively expel South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was done for one reason: South Africa had the audacity to hold Israel accountable for the Gaza genocide. In an extraordinary and unprecedented move, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared South African Ambassador[…]

Plundering Africa – Income Deflation and Unequal Ecological Exchange Under Structural Adjustment Programmes

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Colonialism, Commodity Markets, Economics, International Aid and Debt, Neocolonial Economic Dominance

by Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel, published on Black Agenda Report, March 12, 2025 Originally published in ROAPE . During the 1980s and 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank forced governments across Africa to implement neoliberal structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). SAPs compelled post-colonial governments to cut public services and public-sector production, remove labour market regulations and wage[…]

HTS Offensive in Syria: A Proxy for Imperialist Domination

March 14, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Imperial Wars, Middle East Wars, Neocolonialism, Statement, Syria

Statement from Black Alliance for Peace, March 12, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns the recent announcement by Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani, spokesman for the HTS-led Syrian Ministry of Defense, regarding the “second phase“ of military operations against so-called “remnants” of the former Assad government. This escalation of violence is not merely a local or regional conflict[…]

Congo Activists to NBA: Black Lives Matter in DRC, Cut Ties With Rwanda

February 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Congo, DRC, Genocide, Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, February 19, 2025 As Rwandan troops tightened their grip on the capitals of DRC’s Kivu Provinces, activists protested the National Basketball Association’s close collaboration with the Rwandan regime. Activists protested the National Basketball Association’s close relationship with Rwanda outside the NBA All Star Game at San Francisco’s Chase Center on Sunday, February[…]

From Colonial Theft to Aarian Justice: South Africa’s Long Road to Land Reform

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Reparations, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, South Africa

by Jonis Ghedi Alasow. published on Peoples Dispatch, February 10, 2025 South Africa’s Expropriation Act has provoked debate within the country over the enduring racist land tenure model in the country, and has also sparked a diplomatic row with the United States. On January 23, 2025, South Africa enacted an Expropriation Act, updating the methods for land expropriation for the[…]

Somaliland Pins Hopes of Recognition on Trump

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Africa, Genocide, Horn of Africa, Interview, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Somalia, The Sahel, U.S. Hegemony, United Nations, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, February 12, 2025 Somaliland is pinning its hopes of recognition as an independent state on Donald Trump, and Trump has suggested that the breakaway state accept Palestinians exiled from Gaza. Somaliland declared its independence from Somalia in May 1991, and has unsuccessfully battled for recognition ever since. Now, almost 34 years later,[…]

Why Hasn’t the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC

January 30, 2025 UNAC Editor DRC, Imperial Wars, Legal Struggles, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Political Analysis, Rwanda, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 29, 2024 The UN Security Council (UNSC) has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court (ICC), despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On December 27, Rwanda’s M23 militia claimed to have seized Goma, the capital[…]

War in Sudan Engulfs Agricultural Heartland Amid Record Levels of Hunger

January 15, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil War, Sudan

by Pavan Kulkarni, published on People’s Dispatch, January 1, 2025 After capturing Gezira, a State in central Sudan that was producing half of its wheat and providing refuge to hundreds of thousands of IDPs, the RSF is set to battle the Sudanese Armed Forces for the neighboring states to consolidate control over the country’s agricultural heartland Agricultural production has come[…]

The War in Sudan From a Left Perspective

January 15, 2025 UNAC Editor Africa, Civil War, Sudan

by Aseel Saleh, published on People’s Dispatch, August 26, 2024 I have a current article which I will publish soon, but this article provides the context necessary to make sense of what is going on in Sudan. [jb] Sudanese activists from the front lines of the struggle for democracy participated in an online press conference organized by the International Peoples’[…]