Africa

NATO and Africa: A Relationship of Colonial Violence and Structural White Supremacy

July 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Colonialism, Imperialism, NATO

by Djibo Sobukwe, published on Black Agenda Report, February 27, 2022 Considering the public media attention and concern about possible expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is worth reminding people about NATO’s bloody history in Africa. NATO was founded in 1949 after WWII at a time when African countries were still under the yoke of colonialism. In[…]

African Famine: the Role of Sanctions

June 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Austerity, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, June 8, 2022 Chad, in the middle of Africa, is a landlocked country with 16 million people. It is one of the three poorest countries in the world according to the U.N., with the lowest life expectancy (54 years). With nearly half a million refugees living within its borders, Chad passed a 2021[…]

U.S. Effort To Hurt Russia Undermines Itself and The World

June 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Political Analysis, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 8, 2022 The U.S. drive to dominate creates self-inflicted wounds and self-imposed crises. It also creates suffering around the world with only the most servile vassal states willing to do what Washington wants. The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot in its futile effort to damage the Russian economy.[…]

US Threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”

June 7, 2022 UNAC Editor Eritrea, Ethiopia, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Lies and Liars, Lawfare, Political Analysis, Shortages of Supplies, Soft Power Imperialism

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 25, 2022 The US is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own. Ann Garrison continues reporting from the region. [BAR Ed] During[…]

The Rise of NATO in Africa

June 3, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, NATO

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter., May 27, 2022 Anxiety about the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward the Russian border is one of the causes of the current war in Ukraine. But this is not the only attempt at expansion by NATO, a treaty organization created in 1949 by the United States to project its military[…]

Biden Redeploys Troops To Somalia While Humanitarian Crisis Looms

May 28, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Africa, Somalia

by Abyome Azikiwe, published on Popular Resistance, May 20, 2022 Military options by Washington are primary in the Horn of Africa and Eastern Europe. President Joe Biden of the United States has announced through the Department of Defense the redeployment of Pentagon troops to the Horn of Africa state of Somalia. This is not the first time that U.S. troops[…]

Why Nonalignment Is an Urgent Imperative for the Global South

May 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Asia, Economics, Global Economics, Latin America, Multipolar World, Paths to Emancipation

by Nontobeko Hlela, distributed by Globetrotter, May 2, 2022 South Africa and other countries that have abstained from voting against Russia at the United Nations General Assembly in response to the war in Ukraine face intense international criticism. In South Africa, the domestic criticism has been extraordinarily shrill, and often clearly racialized. It is frequently assumed that abstention means that[…]

Notes From Wartorn Ethiopia: Crimes of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front

April 30, 2022 UNAC Editor Ethiopia, Hybrid Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 27, 2022 The discovery of mass graves and underground prisons in Ethiopia has exposed the crimes of the Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front or TPLF, the U.S. puppets who tyrannized Ethiopia for 27 years with divide-and-conquer ethnic politics from 1991 to 2018, when a popular uprising forced them from power. The TPLF[…]

Notes From Wartorn Ethiopia

April 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Citizen Diplomacy, Ethiopia, US Foreign Policy, World News Update

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 13, 2022 Ann is writing from Ethiopia where she is investigating the ongoing war between the US backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) against the elected government of Ethiopia. [jb] I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the[…]

Eleven Years Ago: US-NATO Invasion of Libya and Its Consequences

March 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Imperial Wars, Libya, NATO, Neocolonialism, U.S. Aggression

by Shane Quinn, published on Global Research, March 19, 2022 Eleven years ago, on 19 March 2011, the United States and its military arm NATO unleashed a sustained bombardment against Libya, where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had been in charge for over four decades. Gaddafi would be killed in brutal fashion seven months later, while Libya descended into chaos as warring[…]