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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[…]

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[…]

First Somali Congressperson Legitimizes AFRICOM and US Drone War

May 20, 2020 UNAC Editor Africa, Colonialism, Political Corruption, Somalia

by Netfa Freeman and Tunde Osazua, published on Black Agenda Report, May 13, 2020 Rep. Omar recently commended the US war machine for increasing the “transparency” and “accountability” of its bombing of her native country. “Instead of this being an asset to expose AFRICOM and to the decolonization Africa, Rep. Omar validates the role of AFRICOM.” United States representatives, no[…]