Africa

Israel Is Terrified the World Court Will Decide It’s Committing Genocide

January 9, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, South Africa

by Marjorie Cohn, published on Truthout.org, January 6, 2023 For nearly three months, Israel has enjoyed virtual impunity for its atrocious crimes against the Palestinian people. That changed on December 29 when South Africa, a state party to the Genocide Convention, filed an 84-page application in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) alleging that Israel is committing[…]

Climate Profiteers Exploit Somali Suffering

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Ethiopia, Somalia

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, December 19, 2023 NGOs and other climate profiteers treat Somalia as a poster child for global warming. Somalia has suffered catastrophic floods displacing between one and two million people and killing more than 100. In a recent video , Somalis wade through flooded streets, sleep, and sell produce on the banks of[…]

US Imperialism Inflicts Untold Horrors On Niger, Among the World’s Poorest Nations

December 16, 2023 UNAC Editor International Aid and Debt, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Niger, Paths to Emancipation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by John Pottinger, published on Socialist Action, December 11, 2023 Even before the popular July 26, 2022 coup d’état that removed the US-backed and pro-French government, Niger was the seventh poorest country in the world. With a 37 percent literacy rate, only 20 percent of the population has access to electricity in a country with some of the largest uranium[…]

Struggling to Break the Gaza Blockade

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Citizen Diplomacy, Collapsed States, Colonialism, Egypt, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 Miles of semi-trailer trucks are lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing, waiting to deliver water, food, medicine and other essentials to Gaza. Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let[…]

Black Agenda Report Joins in Gaza Relief Effort

November 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Egypt, Humanitarian Aid, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 15, 2023 Corporate media excel at misdirection and telling outright lies. Independent media must have a seat at the table when opportunities arise to cover events such as relief efforts for the people of Gaza. “We’ve come to Egypt to speak to the world directly from the border of Gaza, which we were not[…]

International Delegation in Cairo Demands Opening of Rafah Border Crossing

November 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Egypt, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Resistance

Press Release, published on Workers World, November 12, 2023 Susan Abulhawa: +1.267.391.5386, Suzanne Adely: +1.773.510.7446. UNAC AC member Sara Flounders is in Egypt with this group, working to get aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Hopefully we will have a report-back from the scene very soon. We are an international delegation of writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, students and organizers[…]

Menendez Indictment Exposes the US-Egypt Weapons to Ukraine Dispute

September 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Egypt, Resistance, Soft Power Imperialism, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, Weapons Sales

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, September 25, 2023 Yes, more on the Menendez ‘scandal’. There are a lot of angles here. It’s rather entertaining. [jb] US Senator Robert Menendez, (D. NJ.) temporarily stepped down from his powerful role as chairman of the Senate Relations Committee, according to Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer, following accusations of political corruption[…]

Menendez Bribery Scandal: Egypt vs. Ethiopia

September 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Conflict Over Water, Egypt, Ethiopia, Human Rights, Legislation, US Politics

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 27, 2023 Why did Menendez ignore Egypt’s human rights record and attack Ethiopia’s? Federal investigators caught New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine with $180,000 worth of gold bars, $550,000 in cash, plus furniture and a $60,000 Mercedes Benz that they didn’t pay for. The US Attorney for the[…]

Niger in Imperialist Crosshairs

September 26, 2023 UNAC Editor coup, France, Global South, Niger, US Foreign Bases

by John Pottinger, published on Socialist Action, September 23, 2023 Since the July 28 coup in the West African country of Niger much more attention has been paid to it than the average coup, where both the winners or losers are often in the pay of the imperialist powers. With a population of 25 million (Nigeria has more than 230[…]

Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong

September 24, 2023 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Civil War, Counter Revolution, Ethiopia, Review, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 20, 2023 Rasmus Sonderriis’s book is a thorough exposé of the West’s destructively deceitful narrative about Ethiopia’s two-year Tigray War. Danish journalist Rasmus Sonderriis has spent seven of the last nineteen years living in Ethiopia, beginning in 2004. He just published “Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong ,” a free Substack e-book, in which[…]