Patrice Lumumba

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[…]

The Democratic Republic of Congo Has Effectively Been Recolonized by Western Capital

August 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Canada, Colonialism, Congo

by Owen Schalk, published on CovertAction Magazine, August 3, 2022 The United States does the heavy lifting, but Canada provides consistent behind-the-scenes support to enable the plunder of Congo and other nations in the Global South. On October 14, 2004, a group of ten armed men took control of the city of Kilwa in the eastern Katanga province of the[…]

Stealing Mineral Wealth for Corporate Interests

December 6, 2020 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Imperial greed

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action Magazine, December 2, 2020 A new book reveals how U.S. Presidents of both parties unleashed the CIA in the Congo to do the dirty work of greedy corporations, causing misery, mutilations and massacres of such magnitude they dwarfed even the wildest accounts depicted in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. ~Covert Action Magazine On[…]

Was Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination the Most Important of the Last Century?

August 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo

by Maurice Carney, first published on TRTWorld, August 6, 2018 The assassination was a disaster not only for the Democratic Republic of Congo, but for the entire African continent. More than half a century later, its shockwaves still reverberate. The assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Emery Lumumba on January 17, 1961 has been famously termed “the[…]