The Congo

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,[…]

Understanding the Connections Between the Congo and Palestine Genocides

August 11, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Capitalism, Colonialism, Congo, Racism, Rawanda, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Wall Street, Zionism

by Nylah Iqbal Muhammad, published on Mondoweiss, August 3, 2024 Friends of the Congo Executive Director Maurice Carney and Professor Eman Abdelhadi discuss the intersections between the genocides in the Congo and Palestine. Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo is an old friend of UNAC, helping to keep us in touch with an African perspective. To understand this is[…]

Uganda LGBTQ Obscures Crimes Committed on Behalf of the U.S.

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Congo, Rawanda, Uganda

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 29, 2023 Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ legislation has elicited worldwide condemnation. But that nation’s history of invading, pillaging, and killing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with U.S. blessings, is rarely discussed. The parliament of the Republic of Uganda recently passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 , which makes it a crime to identify as[…]

Rwanda and Uganda’s M23 Militia Reappears to Slaughter and Plunder in DRC; US Backs Rwanda and Uganda

September 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Rawanda, Uganda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 7, 2022 Rwanda and Uganda’s M23 militia have returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), once again slaughtering Congolese people to plunder their resources. To understand this, we have to return to March 2013, after M23 had been terrorizing DRC’s North Kivu Province for a year. The UN Group of[…]

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[…]