Africa

Escaping Debt Slavery: Ethiopia, Africa, And The IMF

May 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Eritrea, Ethiopia, International Aid and Debt, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Ann Garrison and Robert J. Prince, published on Popular Resistance, May 18, 2023 In 1987, at the Organization for African Unity, Thomas Sankara said, “Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.” Restructuring associated with WB and IMF loans becomes a millstone around the neck of drowning economies. [jb] The US is holding up Ethiopia’s request for a $2[…]

Sudan/Popular Movement Responds to Generals’ War

May 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Civil War, Sudan, U.S. Aggression

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, May 2, 2023 April 30 − Reports from Sudan’s largest seaport, Port Sudan, located on the Red Sea, describe a chaotic scene of thousands of migrant workers and their families attempting to leave the country in order to escape a conflict between two military factions fighting for control of the government. The corporate[…]

Sudan: Alignment of Forces, Players

May 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Civil War, Horn of Africa, Sudan

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, April 23, 2023 The worst-case scenario is coming to pass, apparently, in Sudan. That is, at any rate, the apocalyptic message streaming out of Khartoum in the western media. President Biden lent credence to the alarmist perception by confirming that on his orders, the US military conducted an operation “to extract government[…]

US Still Imposing Illegal, Unilateral Sanctions on Eritrea

April 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Eritrea, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 12 2023 Yemane Ghebreab, advisor to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, explains how US economic sanctions impact the Eritrean people. The Ethiopian army decisively defeated the US-backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in November 2022, after a two-year war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced over five million people.[…]

The War in Ukraine and How Africa Surprised the West

April 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Colonialism, Political Analysis, South Africa

by Ted Snyder, published on Antiwar.com, April 3, 2023 On March 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow. The meeting, at which the two leaders “reaffirm[ed] the special nature of the Russia-China partnership” may be a crucial moment in the emergence of the new multipolar world that is challenging US hegemony. But while the[…]

Uganda LGBTQ Obscures Crimes Committed on Behalf of the U.S.

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Congo, Rawanda, Uganda

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 29, 2023 Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ legislation has elicited worldwide condemnation. But that nation’s history of invading, pillaging, and killing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with U.S. blessings, is rarely discussed. The parliament of the Republic of Uganda recently passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 , which makes it a crime to identify as[…]

The Fabulist Arrogance of US Power

March 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, U.S. Aggression

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 22, 2023 The U.S. reserves for itself the right to commit crimes all over the world. Yet it also refuses to participate in any war crimes prosecution and even passed a law giving itself the right to invade the International Criminal Court at the Hague should an American or an ally[…]

U.S. Shoots Itself in the Foot in Africa

March 9, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, China, Ethiopia, Global Trade, International Aid and Debt, South Africa, United Nations

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 8, 2023 In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. The US can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around. African nations’ refusal[…]

Glaring Western Hypocrisy on Human Rights in Africa

November 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 2, 2022 The US and EU are complicit in the continued Rwandan and Ugandan incursions into the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as in their support of their TPLF proxies against Ethiopia. On October 31st, thousands of Congolese in Goma, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu[…]

Hashtag Activism and US Imperialism

October 23, 2022 UNAC Editor Action!!, Africa, Censorship and Propaganda, Resistance

by Erica Caines, published on Hood Communist, October 13, 2022 The abundance of “hashtag activism” has created a false sense of importance for the everyday individual being driven by weaponized empathy to speak out about a cause or injustice happening internationally. This false sense of importance, brought on by the use of hashtags as awareness, is ignited by already held[…]