Djibouti

Somaliland Pins Hopes of Recognition on Trump

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Africa, Genocide, Horn of Africa, Interview, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Somalia, The Sahel, U.S. Hegemony, United Nations, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, February 12, 2025 Somaliland is pinning its hopes of recognition as an independent state on Donald Trump, and Trump has suggested that the breakaway state accept Palestinians exiled from Gaza. Somaliland declared its independence from Somalia in May 1991, and has unsuccessfully battled for recognition ever since. Now, almost 34 years later,[…]

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[…]

Drones over Djibouti

July 9, 2019 UNAC Editor Africa, Drone Warfare

Featured Image: Haven’t heard about any recent drone strikes? US Drone Strikes are up 432% under Donald Trump and Military infrastructure for Drones is growing like crazy in Africa. by Lion Summerbell , Published on Democratic Socialists of America, June 26, 2019 With 34 military bases, the U.S. is scrambling for influence in Africa On August 7, 1998, simultaneous explosions[…]

Cowardly, Deadly US Drone Wars in Africa

October 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Drone Warfare

The anticipated reduction of US troops in Africa will be matched by an increase in killer drones. by Mark P. Fancher, originally published in Black Agenda Report, October 17, 2018 “The U.S. is completing construction of a $100 million drone base in Agadez, Niger.” War is romantic only when it is limited to the confines of a sanitized imagination. Movies[…]