Rwanda

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,[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Bill Clinton and the Dictator’s Club

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Africa, Corruption, Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Rwanda, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 6, 2024 In Bill Clinton’s infamously unhinged speech last week in Michigan, he said that Jews had been living in Judea and Samaria before Islam existed, that anyone upset by the Gaza genocide should understand how Israelis feel, and that Kamala Harris’s promise to work for a ceasefire should be enough[…]

The Victims’ Pact: Rawanda and Israel

August 12, 2024 UNAC Editor Civil War, Colonialism, Congo, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, Rwanda, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 31, 2024 Rwanda weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just as Israel weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Rwanda is the Israel of Africa. The two nations reinforce one another in a longstanding victims’[…]

Racist Riot in Britain

August 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Racism, Rwanda, United Kingdom

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 7, 2024 The United Kingdom’s ugly history of subjugating people in the global south has created a deeply racist country. The criminal ruling class exploits, but white racism blames the desperate newcomer. The United Kingdom has recently experienced a wave of rioting and blame is placed upon people referred to as[…]

The U.S. Did Not Fail To Intervene in Rwanda

May 5, 2024 UNAC Editor Africa, Book Review, Neocolonialism, Propaganda, Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 17, 2024 The U.S. kept the U.N. Security Council from sending in troops to stop the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in[…]