Somalia

Red Sea Politics: Ethiopia, Somalia & US/EU/NATO

January 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Africa, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Somalia

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 17, 2024 An MOU pairing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland’s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa. The world’s eyes are now on the geostrategic Red Sea waterways where Yemen’s Ansar Allah fighters have stopped Israeli and Israel-bound ships from passing. Other regional tensions have come into play[…]

South Africa’s Case at the ICJ Exposes the U.S. and the West

January 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, South Africa, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January17, 2023 South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel proves that this very serious word should be used more often instead of being treated as a rarity. The U.S. and the nations of the west have committed countless genocides and their actions must be labeled as such. On January 11, 2024, the[…]

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[…]

Somalia: The Lawless Frontier

July 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Interview, Somalia

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 5, 2023 A UN “peacekeeping” mission continues operations in Somalia. Last week the UN Security Council adopted a resolution to extend the UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia until the end of December 2023, but the troops are supposed to withdraw entirely by the end of December 2024. The mission’s name is[…]

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[…]

Imperialism and the Horn of Africa

October 7, 2021 UNAC Editor Africa, Horn of Africa, Propaganda, U.S. Aggression

by Salome Ayuak, published on Black Agenda Report, October 6, 2021 This is a condensed speech by Salome Ayuak given at the International Month of Action Against AFRICOM launch event – “AFRICOM at 13: Building the popular movement towards demilitarization and anti-imperialism in Africa.” Horn of Africa Pan Africans for Liberation and Solidary (HOA PALS) understands the Horn as Ethiopia, Sudan,[…]

Civilian Testimony: US Drones Continue to Slaughter Civilians

May 12, 2020 UNAC Editor Drones, War and Weapons, War on the Earth, War on the Poor

CJ Werleman, published on ByLineTimes, May 6, 2020 Background In what’s been described as a “rare admission” of culpability, the United States military acknowledged on Monday it had killed two civilians and injured three more when it carried out a drone strike in Somalia more than a year ago. “Regrettably two civilians were killed and three others injured in a[…]

The US Has Been Destroying Ilhan Omar’s ‘Home’ Country for Decades

July 20, 2019 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Refugees

by Ed Sykes, from Information Clearing House, originally published on The Canary, July 10, 2019 Donald Trump has been attacking progressive congresswoman Ilhan Omar for months. But his rhetoric stepped up this week when he told her – a refugee and the first Somali-American member of congress – to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested”[…]

Drones Fly, Children Die

July 2, 2019 UNAC Editor Drone Warfare, Protest

by Judith Bello, Published on Reports from Hancock and Beyond, July 1, 2019 Hancock Air National Guard Base was one of the first domestic drone bases to come on line. The base is located in a pleasant suburb of Syracuse New York, along side the International Airport. The 174th Attack Wing at Hancock is tasked with flying Reaper Drone missions[…]

Todays Wars Have Roots in Tragic 1993 US Intervention in Somalia

October 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Militarism, Somalia

By Ann Wright, previously published on CodePink.org and WorldBeyondWar.org Several days ago, a journalist contacted me about a memorandum titled “Legal and human rights aspects of UNOSOM military operations” I had written in 1993, twenty-five years ago. At the time, I was the chief of the Justice Division of the United Nations Operations in Somalia (UNOSOM). I had been seconded[…]