welcome and thanks for excellent idea manderson

After canceling Russia and Belarus, and refusing to throw out the genocidaire zionists, FIFA now attempts a shameless underhanded cancelation of Niger! All these west-controlled international organizations dig their own graves deeper. Unbelievable. Consider the puerile behavior!!

NB – for those who do not know – FIFA is the governing body of international football, the largest most popular sporting event worldwide right now. There is tremendous prestige and soft-power tied to these events, culminating in a tournament cup every four years like the Olympics.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇳🇪 🇨🇩 “Niger has no responsibility in this affair“: A vice president of the Niger Football Federation on the withdrawal of the DR Congo from the match against his country
👉🏾 On Thursday, June 6, Congo was scheduled to host Niger on the third day of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. However, shortly before the match, the Congolese decided to withdraw from the game.  Their sports minister explained this move by the Nigeriens’ unfulfilled commitment to play in Brazzaville.
🔸️However, Issaka Adamou pointed out in an interview with Sputnik Africa that “it wasn’t really Niger that had to move the match; it was FIFA.”
🔸️”It is FIFA that schedules the FIFA match. The proof is that on June 1 alone, there was a change in FIFA officials. We wrote to all the parties to give the new composition of the match officials, specifying that the match is on June 6 at 5 pm in Kinshasa,” he explained.
🔸️In fact, it is the federation that has taken the decision not to change the venue of the match, pointed out the 3rd vice president of FENIFOOT ⚽️”As proof, the commissioner and the referees are in Kinshasa,” the official insisted.

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕  🇷🇺🇬🇶 After his stay in Mali, the Russian Deputy Defense Minister visited Equatorial Guinea.
[The Global-SMO’s “military-technical” footprint spreads within West Africa…. 😎]

💠 @Arab_Africa:  
⭕ 🇷🇺🇸🇩 Russian Ambassador to Sudan Andrei Chernovol said in his article “On the fight against Western neo-colonialism” that what is happening now in Sudan is the result of the actions of pro-Western political forces in the country, and “it was they who fanned and are fanning the flames of the conflict.”
🔸️ “Western countries will strive to bring mercenaries to power in the country… Their security cover and political partner in achieving their goals in accordance with the Addis Ababa Agreement is the Rapid Reaction Force, which includes 80% mercenaries and foreigners,” the ambassador noted.
🔸️According to him, the RRF committed a number of atrocities and crimes that were condemned by their Western allies, “and this will make it easy to get rid of them (the RRF) in the near future.”
🔸️ “Unscrupulous methods were used, such as falsifying statistics, distorting statements by Sudanese officials, creating artificial obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian aid and other unconvincing arguments. These circles are seeking to announce famine in Sudan, forced population transfers and open borders. This facilitates the process of supplies to areas under the control of the RRF, as is observed in Syria.”

[Russia is more and more assertive on the global stage, especially in defense of those under the satanic western assault. And Sudan, the eastern end of the Sahel with a Red Sea coast, is a vital nation, part of the regional defense against Pax Judaica, precisely why it has been torched by the West. Since Gaza & 404, this is part of realignment of Russia-Islam against Anglo-Zionists]

⭕ 🇺🇳🇸🇩🇷🇺 [June 13], the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling on the Sudanese Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) to lift the siege of the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, immediately cease hostilities in the city and its surroundings, withdraw all forces and ensure the protection of civilians population.

The resolution submitted by the UK was supported by 14 countries, Russia abstained as it believed the draft resolution was an exaggerated response to the situation in El Fasher and Sudan in general, and proposed issuing a press release instead. Russia, China and other countries, including African countries, also opposed the first version of the draft resolution during initial consultations. Russia and some other countries have demanded that the call for the United Nations or any other neutral body to monitor and coordinate the safe passage of civilians and the withdrawal of fighters be removed. Russia also opposed treating the Sudanese government on an equal basis with any other Sudanese entity in resolving humanitarian issues. China and Russia proposed replacing the term “Sudanese authorities” with the term “Government of Sudan,” but this proposal was not included in the final text of the resolution.
⭕ 🇸🇩🇷🇺🇺🇸 The Sudanese Army was pushed to an agreement with Russia by the US position, loyal to the Rapid Reaction Forces (RRF). This interesting opinion was expressed by a Sudanese expert who previously served as press secretary of the ousted President Omar al-Bashir, Abi Izz al-Din.

“Several signs point to the US position. Firstly, the negotiation process in Jeddah. It led to several agreements that the RRF refused to implement. At the same time, the United States remained silent and did not try to exert any obvious pressure on the RRF. However, if the army did not comply with these agreements, the United States immediately presented all its yellow and red cards.

Second, even during the era of its ally [deposed Prime Minister Abdullah] Hamdok, the United States did not cooperate with Sudan. All they did was increase Sudan’s external debt by issuing bridge loans with higher interest rates to pay off existing loans. That’s all that America has done,” the expert said.
⭕ 🇸🇩🇷🇺 Sudan has no objections to providing Russia with a base on the Red Sea

This was stated by Sudanese Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim.

Ibrahim added that the proposed idea of ​​a Russian presence on the coast of Sudan does not mean the presence of military specialists or a base, noting that it is a “service point where Russian warships can stop for the necessary time, access any supplies and carry out maintenance.”

The minister noted that Sudan “does not object to the Russian presence, but objections come from the West, the United States and its allies”
⭕ 🇸🇩 Russia is one of the countries that is most likely to take part in the reconstruction of Sudan after the war and will provide it with every opportunity for this, said Sudanese Foreign Minister Hussein Awad Ali.

He expressed hope that Russian companies will play an important role in this process. Regarding the conflict in Sudan, the minister expressed confidence that “this war will not last more than 4 to 6 months,” during which the Rapid Reaction Force (RRF), which he called “a cancer,” “will be eliminated.”

“There is an official approach to rebuilding [post-war] Sudan’s [infrastructure] and dealing with the consequences of the war. There is a condition that the door in this matter will be open for the participation of countries that have taken a position of supporting the army and the survival of Sudan,” Awad added.
⭕ 🇸🇩🇺🇸 The US Treasury announced new sanctions against Sudan. This happened just a few days later, as it became known about the renewal of the agreement between Sudan and Russia on the creation of a logistics base for the Russian Navy on the Sudanese coast of the Red Sea

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇸🇩 The conflict in Sudan has displaced over 10 million people, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
🔸️This displacement crisis, deemed the world’s worst by the UN, includes 7.26 million newly displaced and 2.83 million previously displaced since the start of the conflict in April 2023.
🔸️The IOM added that over 2 million refugees have fled to neighboring countries.
🔸️The fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, with estimates reaching as high as 150,000, and a dire humanitarian situation. Khartoum, the capital, is devastated and largely deserted.
🔸️This war-driven displacement has created a catastrophic humanitarian emergency in Sudan, with widespread hunger, malnutrition, and limited access to aid. The UN reported “systematic obstructions” hindering aid delivery. [The same playbook by the same demons! Generational siege, chaos and war on civilians, then starve and disease them to extermination and extinction. The Karma on the way….]
⭕ 🇷🇺 🇸🇩 Russia’s UN mission on the Security Council resolution on Sudan: the document is detached from reality, ignores “principled comments” of the Sudanese
🔸️It was “simply impossible” to reach a consensus in the vote on the proposed document, according to Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Anna Evstigneeva.
🔸️”The current resolution also contains no substantive proposals to address the complex situation in Sudan. The document clearly does not take into account the opinion of the Sudanese side and is not based on any agreements reached,” she said at the UNSC meeting.
🔸️On Thursday, the UNSC adopted a resolution introduced by the UK, which, inter alia, calls on the Rapid Support Force (RSF) to end the siege of the city of El Fasher in western Sudan, calls for an end to fighting in the city. Fourteen countries voted in favor of the resolution, while Russia abstained.
🔸️Russia also called on “individual members” of the Security Council “to stop hiding behind good intentions to ensure humanitarian access to Sudan,” Evstigneeva added.

RRF = RSF. It used to be known as the RSF, but since the civil war they style themselves as RRF to denote they are no mere adjuncts to the state army but their own institution, vying to control the entire country. Nothing to do officially with the AU or Ethiopia, although all neighbors are impacted and involve themselves to a degree. This also appears the typical periodic Anglo rebranding of terrorist organizations to confuse people worldwide.

Both sides had connections to Wagner and Russia in past. Russia supported most anti-imperialists; however the RRF went criminal, largely influenced by GCC and Brits — paid in Sudanese gold from their mine holdings in Darfur and southern Sudan, and used as Saudi mercenaries in Yemen where thousands had died before they quit. The Russian connection ended on RRF side (remaining Anglo psyop to slander Russia), and rebuilt with Russian Armed Forces on Sudanese army side.

Neither Sudanese side of their Junta has much wisdom and sense, but at least the main army was less criminal and more pro-people. Sudan is a case study why an army is unfit to lead a nation — power is not enough.

Sudan had strong Muslim Brotherhood influence for generations, corrupting all, providing access to controlling British intelligence which helped create the ongoing catastrophe.

Russia, Iran, Egypt, west sahelian Juntas — indeed all who sincerely care for peace and want to end Genocide, are on Sudanese army side now. The West, GCC, Zionists, and Western vassals are on side of the RRF/RSF to entrench extermination of Sudan and its disintegration into 100 pieces. This still may happen due to the lack of wisdom, tribalism, corruption, adherence to the satanic Muslim Brotherhood ideology of the main Sudanese army elite. It is beyond sad.

Sudan today is where Europe would be in ten years if the EU liberal technocrats keep power — a headless hellscape playground of devils with absolutely no future.

On western media terrorism against Global South, seeking to spread Chaos through division, slander, economic siege, and isolation of the target, focusing here on tourism in BRICS Ethiopia and the newly sovereign Russia-ally Mali.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕🇲🇱 Mali’s Transitional President Assimi Goïta accuses France of printing counterfeit CFA franc notes to damage the Malian economy

The same tactic was used against Guinea in 1960, the Malian leader noted in a speech in the Malian city of Sikasso.

This approach is part of “three types of terrorism” facing Mali, he continued.

These are:
✔️ armed terrorism:
✔️ media terrorism (lies and fake news “to turn us against each other”);
✔️ economic terrorism.

As an example of the latter, Goïta recalled the situation when Bamako turned to Guinea for its trade following the imposition of sanctions by ECOWAS in 2022. In fact, port fees for Malians in this country were three times higher.

Finally, the Malian leader called for the abandonment of the CFA franc, a colonial currency, in favor of a local currency.
⭕ ❗️❗️❗️ “Tourism is a vehicle for peace all over the world,” Ethiopian tourism minister tells Sputnik Africa

Nasise Challi commented on the concerns that the mainstream media often creates a very distorted image by reporting false and biased information about situations in some countries, including the BRICS nations.

“Ethiopia has been a victim of that for a very long time. So we really appreciate, having allies [BRICS] that can advocate for each other,” she said.

She highlighted that “it is important to advocate the truth and the accurate information about each other and also for others in the world to do the same because all human beings share the same aspirations.”

🗣 The minister underlined that collaboration in promoting and in educating the people of BRICS countries about each other “would help in bridging the cultural differences and the stereotypes that come with those differences.”

💠 @kuluary_zaliva:
⭕ The UAE’s growing presence in Africa and who does not benefit from it

One of the world’s largest port operators, Dubai-based DP World, plans to invest $3 billion in new port infrastructure in Africa by 2029. DP World is expanding operations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and is evaluating port operations in South Africa and Kenya for potential investment in development of cobalt and lithium deposits .

Since 2020, the UAE has strategically expanded its presence in Africa and become an influential player on the continent . The monarchy has focused particularly on the energy sector, as well as investments in logistics networks.

Thus, the Emirati company Masdar has built five wind farms in South Africa , battery energy storage systems in Senegal and solar energy facilities in Mauritania. Abu Dhabi logistics company AD Ports is also strengthening its presence in Africa . Last year AD Ports won a 30-year concession to operate the port of Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo, and in April received a 20-year concession to operate the Angolan terminal in Luanda.

Africa with a consumer market of 1 billion people, infrastructure development needs and rich natural resources is of great interest to the Emirates. However, the activity of the Arab monarchy on the African continent is not beneficial to many . First of all, Europe , which is not happy to see competitors in the highly profitable green sector, as well as China , previously the largest investor in Africa.

[US General “Mad Dog” Mathis termed the UAE his little Sparta. This was spot on. They serve Zio-USUK, delegated to build more bases and lily pads worldwide, and to spread Chaos… Sudan has outed them as Gaza outed the West. To the same bitter consequences for both]

Kenya’s a corrupt Anglophile like Nigeria or GCC or Singapore. Its elites are gleeful Uncle Toms. It is out of tune with Global South. It is becoming weaponized by Empire, being not too far from Yemen (so bases against West Asia Resistance) and a key hub on the ancient maritime Silk Road of the Indian Ocean (a front against China). Its elite are taking their state to hell in a handbasket — sending police to man Haiti for Empire (!), at the Swiss “piss summit” badmouthing Russia, and enforcing IMF austerity leading to civil war. The predictable reaction has begun on their streets…

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1805558664394068240

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕️ [June 20] 🇰🇪 Police fire tear gas, water cannon at anti-tax protesters in Nairobi

Riot police in Nairobi fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of demonstrators on Thursday as coordinated marches took place across Kenya against government plans to raise $2.7 billion in additional taxes.

Late into the protest on Thursday, officers fired tear gas to disperse protesters who were marching on a road near State House, President William Ruto’s office and official residence.

Earlier, police had sprayed people with purple-coloured water from water cannon, as they sought to clear protesters in Nairobi’s central business district and blocked their path to parliament. The demonstration had appeared peaceful.

The Kenya Red Cross said on X it had attended to 39 injured people from the protests, of whom eight were in a critical condition.

Protesters say the tax rises, aimed at reducing the budget deficit, will hurt the economy and raise the cost of living for Kenyans who are already struggling to make ends meet.
⭕️ [June 25] 🇰🇪 Well, well, well. The mass protests in Kenya don’t seem to be ending.  |media|
⭕ 💥 🇰🇪 Kenyan protesters have invaded their Senate chambers
🔶️ Kenyans are protesting over finance bills and the high cost of living
🔶️ The uproar in Kenya has turned into a full-scale riot. |media|
⭕ 🇰🇪🇭🇹🇺🇸Kenyan police to arrive in Haiti this week, US State Department says

The first Kenyan police officers assigned to tackle rampant gang violence in Haiti are leaving Kenya on Tuesday and are set to arrive this week, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.

The deployment has been repeatedly delayed by court challenges and a deterioration of security in Haiti, which in March forced former Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign.

Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday held a departure ceremony for 400 officers who will be the first contingent to deploy to Haiti. Another group of around 600 officers will join the first contingent later.
🔎 Source
#Haiti #Kenya #US
[The fool would have been better to keep the hired imperial goons for his own capital!]
⭕ Damn, guys. Looks like you have better things to do.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ [May 24] 🇺🇸🇰🇪 Biden announces intent to designate Kenya as a “Major Non-NATO ally,” joint statement says
“Underscoring the elevation of our strategic relationship, President Biden announced his intent to designate Kenya as a Major Non-NATO Ally – the first such designation for a sub-Saharan African country,” the joint statement said.
🔸️Moreover, US President Joe Biden said that he is working with Congress to make Kenya the first African country to receive funding under the CHIPS and Science Act.
🔸️”Today, I am proud to announce that I’m working with Congress to make Kenya the first country in Africa to receive funding under the CHIPS and Science Act,” Biden said during a press conference with visiting Kenyan President William Ruto.
🔸️The CHIPS and Science Act is a 2022 law that aims to reinvigorate the US computer chip sector through billions of dollars in targeted government support.
🔸️Biden said the announcement is intended to boost investment opportunities between the two countries and the Kenyan diaspora in the United States.
⭕ [June 24] 🇰🇪 Kenyan leader William Ruto says he is ready for “a conversation” with citizens protesting against tax increases
🔸️Since Tuesday, Kenya has been witnessing thousands of mostly young people protesting against the government’s new tax proposals for the country’s 2024 Finance Bill.
🔸️The legislation includes a 2.75% levy on income for the national medical insurance plan as well as increased taxes on vegetable oil and fuel.
🔸️However, after consultations with Ruto, the authorities removed on Tuesday a 16% value-added tax on bread and a new annual tax on motor vehicles from the bill.
🔸️On Sunday, Ruto announced that there are initiatives to address youth unemployment and enhance accessibility to higher education in the annual budget.
⭕ ❗️Protesters in Kenya break into parliament in Nairobi, fire reportedly starts in building

Last week, a protest against tax hikes was organized in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, which prompted police to use tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
⭕ ❗️What is known so far about the protests in Kenya, where the mob stormed the parliament building:

➖ Protesters broke into the parliament building after the lower chamber passed the draft budget bill, and a fire broke out in the building;

➖ At least eight people were killed and 50 others injured during protests on Tuesday, according to media reports;

➖ According to Western media, the half-sister of former US President Barack Obama, Auma Obama, was injured when the police used tear gas;

➖ People demanding the resignation of President Ruto have reportedly gathered at the Nairobi business center, which has been cordoned off by the police;

➖ Gunshots and explosions have been heard in the center of the capital. According to local media, police used tear gas and rubber bullets.
⭕ ❗️📹Videos allegedly showing the military making their way to Nairobi’s Central Business District, where protests are taking place, emerge online
🔸️Moreover, Tuesday saw a “major disruption” to Kenya’s internet service in the country’s capital, Nairobi, according to international web monitor NetBlocks.
⭕ 🇰🇪🇭🇹Kenyan 400 peacekeepers arrive in Haiti to battle rampant crime
🔸️Kenya Airways plane landed at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital on Tuesday with police officers onboard.
🔸️”Honoured to see off the first batch of the contingent of the National Police Service officers who are part of the historic United Nations Mission to Haiti. Grateful to Kenya Airways for facilitating the transportation of our officers,” announced Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the Interior & National Administration Kithure Kindiki on Monday on his page in Facebook*.
🔸️Earlier, President William Ruto led the departing police officers in a prayer ceremony.
“God, you have chosen our country Kenya to lead the [peace] mission in Haiti,” he said during the ceremony.
🔸️The government of the nation had previously postponed the deployment of the force to Haiti, initially planned for May 21, for undisclosed reasons. At that time, 200 police officers had been mentioned.
⭕ ❗️State of emergency declared in Kenya amid protests
⭕ ❗️Kenya mobilizes army to quell protests that have turned violent
🔸️Meanwhile, Kenyan President Ruto said he was open for talks with the opposition.
⭕ ❗️President Ruto of Kenya called the protests a threat to the country’s security and an attack on the constitutional order

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇰🇪US President Joe Biden has declared Kenya a major American ally outside NATO .
🔸️“I hereby declare Kenya to be a principal non-NATO ally of the United States for purposes of this (Foreign Assistance) Act and the Arms Export Control Act,” the presidential memorandum states.
🔸️Under the Biden administration, three countries – Kenya, Colombia and Qatar – have already received this status. In total, about 20 countries in the world currently have this status.

💠 @TheRevolutionReport:
🚫🇫🇷NIGER KICKS THE FRENCH OUT OF ITS URANIUM MINES🇳🇪
🔸️Niger has removed the French company, Orano’s permit to mine uranium in their country. A company that has been working in Niger since 1971.
🔸️It is estimated that there are 200,000 tons of uranium at this Imouraren mine in the north of the country.

Has a qualitative plateau of rage been reached in Kenya? Kenya is a strategic land — a vital part of the Old World and Indian Ocean maritime silk road for countless millennia.. the same world struggling to be reborn as multipolar.

I don’t have a feel. Anglophones are weird, like the Five Eyes nations. Among most mindwashed and docile on earth, firmly under the imperial thumb. Thus these nations will be the last to exit the Matrix and regain sovereignty.. Yet all of Africa is aflame and on the march. The Kenyan elites, as abject as any everywhere else, may have miscalculated. We shall see

💠@TheRevolutionReport:
⭕ ⚡️ HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS, PARLIAMENT STORMED: WHAT’S HAPPENING IN KENYA? 🇰🇪

Mass protests have erupted in Kenya after the government voted to raise taxes at the behest of the IMF and World Bank. The people, already angry because of a difficult economic life, are now even angrier.

See what’s happening on the ground now in our video update! |media|

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ The first elements of the Kenyan police force tasked with combating widespread gang violence in Haiti are leaving Kenya on Tuesday and are expected to arrive this week, the US State Department has announced.

The deployment has been repeatedly delayed by legal challenges and the continuing deterioration of security in Haiti, which forced former Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign in March.

On Monday, Kenyan President William Ruto organized a departure ceremony for 400 officers who will make up the first contingent deployed to Haiti. Another group of around 600 officers will join the first contingent later.

It won’t be a walk in the park, nor will it be tourism, and it’s a safe bet that there will be a lot of action.

Yes, Columbian mercs are still active in the Ukraine. I saw the remains of one on a TG channel just a few days ago. They also died in industrial quantities in Yemen during the hot phase of another lost cause, paid for by KSA and UAE, and often under command of Blackwater spin-offs.

Thanks for map of UAE “ports.” These are all near or on the key oil, mineral or strategic lands! And they work for and are ideologically with the Anglo-Zionists. Note the latest port in Berbera is just off the Bab El Mandeb and across from Yemen. One of most important ports worldwide, used in past by British Empire then USSR. Somalia was destroyed in part to dismantle it and then obtain this key port to control the Red Sea SLOC.

But welcome to our Brave New World of dronification and hypersonics! All these bases are now Big Fat Targets, holdover of a dead Old Order. All they contain are hostages and sources of humiliation — not lilly pads to aggress other civilizations.

Kenyan elite beat a temporary retreat

I was too nauseated to share this when I first heard it. But it puts in context the character of the man.. note the introductory salutations, “…and Vice President of the United States…” (!!) That says it all right there. In a conference in Suisse, ostensibly about the Ukraine and peace. He is a really useful man, like Borrell.

Then for deeper context, this is the head of state of a nation that Russia gifted a lot of free fertilizer! But there’s a silver lining – the two delightfully understated yet expressive faces behind him (one black, one white).. the one-eyed handlers of blind frontmen all around the table!

Kenyan elite need to be institutionalized, like Joseph Biden. They are in shoes way too big for them. They play at imperial cop, as their own house burns

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇰🇪Anti-government protests are raging in Kenya, not only in the capital Nairobi where police are trying to disperse protesters and keep them away from the presidential palace, but also in other cities like Mombasa and Migori where, as the reports the Kenyans website, officers began firing live ammunition into the crowd.

There are several victims, according to the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (Knhrc). According to the NGO, the official victims of Tuesday’s demonstrations to date number 23, and 165 people were admitted in a condition described as serious at Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi.

Kenyan President William Ruto has given in to mass protests and withdrawn controversial new taxes. It must now find how to achieve the budgetary objectives set by the IMF. The demonstrations continue all the same

South Africa – I came across this old documentary by John Pilger (rip).  Note the date 1998  – four years after the freedom election.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVwEHdDHs78

He compares a very rich enclave (Sandton I think) with a very poor almost squatter black community.  This is a bit rich as this is common in Africa and just think of favelas in Brazil, think of India.  Our world is not fair and not even the New South Africa could get free of poverty in their 30 years of rule.  But hear what Nelson Mandela said himself – they made ‘accommodations’ with the west (that would be with the mine owners and filthy rich business owners).  I’ve always known this.  But to today, they blame the ordinary white South African walking the same streets for ‘owning all the wealth’.

Just as the Americans will never be forgiven for the slaughter of the American Indians and the zionist israelis will never be forgiven for the slaughter of the Palestinians, so the white South African will never be forgiven for the more or less 50 years of apartheid.   The ANC government (now a GNU) is race-mad.   The current GNU (government of national unity) is one hell of an experiment and they’ve already started beating one another up in parliamentary circles. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-06-28-effs-marshall-dlamini-sentenced-for-assaulting-constable-in-parliament-he-remains-an-mp/  (paper more to the right side but those descriptors do not make sense these days).

The expectation is that they may be able to seat a parliament after this weekend.  The proportional representation of the two biggest parties has somehow disappeared and now what is left of the ANC wants to give the DA (second in the elections) fewer government seats and if that does not work, they will try to invite the very small parties to have a seat each.

In the meantime, “New faces, old scandals: The familiar staleness of South Africa’s 2024 National Assembly” https://mg.co.za/editorial/2024-06-28-new-faces-old-scandals-the-familiar-staleness-of-south-africas-2024-national-assembly/       (paper more to the left).

Race Madness … there are reasons why the ANC lost their majority badly during the elections.  One can be thankful for small mercies and say it looks a lot worse in Kenya.   Why does the Kenyan violence persist?   That is a new essay.

Pilger has some pieces about the mines which are not in white South African hands but in white British and US hands.  The ordinary white South African these days would be a poorer person, struggling to make a living, like the rest of the country.  The difference is that they are legislated out of the workplace (300 race-based laws).  They cannot even have a small business because they have to have a black partner.

As Pilger says, nothing much has changed apartheid-wise.  What he does not say is that it was only flipped from one color to another.  The black folks still sing .. Kill the Farmer, Kill the Boer.   https://x.com/ConCaracal/status/1806627046233166046

I do not know what the state was of white farm murders at the time the documentary was made.  Currently, it is out of control.

Two more issues not in the documentary, kinda updated:

– the impoverished white population living in shanty towns or squatter camps is approaching 700,000 by some of the highest counts I saw.  Of course, that number is highly contested.  Others say there are only a few thousand.  With my eyes there are many more than a few thousand as I traveled from the North to the South, showing my children the country, just before the turn of the century.  There are 4 to 5 million whites still left in South Africa and they are not leaving.  There is no European right of return and most do not even know where in Europe they came from except perhaps by last name traced back throughout marriages.  They are Africans – they integrated.  The jews have long since left and so have most of the Brits.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7503941/Inside-South-Africas-post-Apartheid-white-squatter-camps.html

– the Marikana murders, where the police opened fire directly into protesting mine workers – Cyril Rampahosa was a director at this mine.  This was in 2012 – 18 years after apartheid was abolished.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/marikana-massacre-16-august-2012

I enjoyed the Pilger documentary although there is a lot that I can take issue with.  Let’s see if these folks can come up with a functioning state apparatus where they don’t beat one another up.

Ramaphosa announces Cabinet with ministers from ANC, DA, IFP, PA, PAC, and FF+ –

There is some humor here. Where there was a ministerial post that went to another party than the ANC, the deputy appointed is ANC. If the deputy position was already filled, another deputy post was created for the ANC. Amazing what people will come up with.

The post that we are interested in, International Relations and Cooperation, now belongs to a fellow called Ronald Lamola. He was previously the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services. I know nothing about him.

Nalendi Pandor is nowhere.

The era of wars on the cheap is ending. Rumsfeld-Cebrowski of generating Chaos and Forever Wars in the lands of Others is coming to a close. Even their own boots will not compensate.

Drones and missiles and potent air defense denying entire regions, and the massive industrial warfare capabilities required to overwhelm and sustain them, are here to stay. Using primitive terrorists or even most trained humans, has become impossible! War is revolutionized.

The SMO in 404 was a successful live experiment that taught the civilizational-states the finishing touches to not only defeat the crazed West, but for good.

We now see imperial proxies in rapid retreat in any region the Heartland chooses to retake. They can be attrited en masse remotely. The West, lacking the moral ground and reliant on criminals everywhere, and now stripped of military dominance, cannot save its pet vipers. Even major allies like the shocked Turks retreat against what comes in Syria!

Printing toilet paper is no solution. They are generations behind the tech, and will be soon counter-sanctioned to death, like a boa constrictor squeezing a meal’s oxygen supply entirely off! They will be unable to access sufficient rare earths and special metals and minerals and noble or ordinary gases and rebuild the war forges — for generations!

They will be kept poor and with primitive tools for generations, none ever trusting the satanists to behave again. It will be Morgenthau Plan for the entire West, and on steroids!

And the criminals see these moves happening in broad daylight. This is why they are going nuclear. But it not only hastens their Fall, it makes it permanent… what idiocy, rolling in terminal despair

💠 @Arab_Africa:  
⭕ 🇩🇿 Today Algeria celebrates its national Independence Day from France.

#День_в_истории
Exactly 62 years ago, on July 5, 1962, after eight years of a bloody war for freedom from colonial oppression, Algeria was declared an independent state.

Colonial Algeria has a history of more than 130 years of resistance and struggle. The long-awaited sovereignty, acquired in 1962, came at great cost to the country – according to Algerian official data, up to 1.5 million Algerians died in the war against France (1954 – 1962), that is, about a sixth of the total population at that time in history. To suppress anti-French sentiment, the colonial authorities used the most inhumane methods of intimidation and violence, recorded in numerous sources and documents. According to the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH), “The Algerian people will never be able to forget the crimes of France, which have killed more than 10 million Algerians since 1830.”

The Paris Museum of Man still houses 18 thousand skulls from dependent countries, including the remains of several dozen Algerian resistance fighters. France’s colonial crimes affected not only human lives, but also the country’s cultural and historical heritage. During the entire period of occupation, the French transported hundreds of thousands of documents to Paris, including those relating to the Ottoman era (1518-1830). The return of skulls, the archive, an official apology and many other issues still hinder the full development of Franco-Algerian relations, forming a so-called “memory dossier” between the two countries.
⭕ 🇫🇷🇲🇱 Fun fact: France has the fourth largest gold reserve at 2436 tons, yet there is not a single gold mine in France.

Mali, formerly occupied by France, has no gold reserves in its banks, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons per year.  |media|

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇰🇪Kenyan Police patrol Haitian Capital

The streets of Port-au-Prince were patrolled by Kenyan police officers on Wednesday, equipped with body armour and automatic weapons.

This group, the initial U.N.-supported foreign police unit in Haiti, arrived in the country in June, responding to a plea for assistance to combat escalating gang violence.

Currently, criminal gangs dominate approximately 80% of the capital, leading to over 580,000 individuals being displaced in recent months.

The officers, stationed near the international airport, drew the attention of onlookers but encountered no confrontations with gangs.
#Kenya #UN

We have an Alliance of Sahel States (AES)

BREAKING! The presidents of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso signed a charter on the creation of a confederation.

The primary objective of the 1st Summit of the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS, AES in French), involving the leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, was to adopt a draft document for the creation of an AGS confederation, according to the Nigerian Press Agency (NAP).

The summit, held in Niamey, is chaired by Niger’s leader, Abdurahmane Tchiani. Presidents Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso and Assimi Goita of Mali are also in attendance.

On Saturday, General Abdourahamane Tiani, the military leader of Niger, stated that the people of his country, along with those of Mali and Burkina Faso, have “irrevocably turned their backs” on the West African bloc, ECOWAS

The last colonists are now being pushed out …

The German armed forces will give up its airbase in Niger, which was used as a military transport hub, by August 31, as the sides failed to extend the agreement concerning the base, German media reported, citing the German Defense Ministry.

The talks broke down after the new Nigerien authorities had refused to grant German soldiers with immunity from prosecution, the NTV news outlet reported, citing a document the ministry had presented to the parliament.

Germany expects to withdraw its troops from the country by the end of August.

The German military has used the base in Niger’s capital, Niamey, since 2013 as a supply center for its armed forces in neighboring Mali, which were stationed there as part of a UN peacekeeping mission.

Nigerien authorities have also terminated military agreements with France and the United States, which led to the French and US forces’ withdrawal from the country.

🚨MALI🇲🇱, BURKINA FASO🇧🇫, AND NIGER🇳🇪 ESTABLISH CONFEDERATION

The three Sahel states which have seen popular anti-colonial revolutions against French neocolonialism have signed an agreement to form a confederation

The Confederation of Sahel States (AES) will unite 72 million… pic.twitter.com/oqnzr6gqfV

— Going Underground (@GUnderground_TV) July 6, 2024

What is occurring in the consolidation of the AES is a return to the old successful defensive blocs of their pre-colonial past.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso announce their union within the framework of a confederation.

This is a logical move, as the whole of West Africa has always formed a single homogenous geopolitical entity, which should never have been divided into states (a legacy of European colonialism).

The three countries face numerous military, security, economic, socio-cultural and existential challenges.

Let me leave this here.  This is an interesting story from the South African white community.  With the last election, there is some hope for this community and they all feel it.

The community is working together and their slogan is:  ‘We will do it ourselves’.  They fix their own roads, the one town now has their own fire station, they are building last I heard some small power stations and they do a lot of community outreach and specifically safety outreach.  Remember, you may not donate to anything that is white.  You may only donate to black causes.  I have told about the approximately 300 pieces of racial legislation on the books, mostly new and designed to display some very weird restorative justice to people who were not even born during the apartheid years.  People are legislated out of the workplace and the crime rate on white is much higher than the crime rate overall, which is horrendous already.   This is after these white Africans in a referendum voted for change in the country many years ago and there was a Truth and Reconciliation process to work for better relations.  There is always the story that capital is still in white hands and if you are white, you get accused of having ‘capital’ lol.  After 30 years of freedom?

When I was there last, a good 12 years ago, my mom regularly donated to a seed bank.  I wanted to take some seeds and go and make vegetable gardens at a nearby very poor squatter camp.  I was told under no circumstances, as I would be killed wanting to do anything ‘while white’.   It is a forgotten community and the podcast will tell you why.

The podcast makes a short but good overview.

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪According to the Malian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the states of the AES, Alliance of Sahel States, have agreed to “remove the borders” of the three countries as well as an increase in investments in various infrastructures such as rail and air. .

[such good news!!! Harbinger of similar good news in Greater Syria, the Russian Mir, and worldwide where satanic “British borders” divide peoples into traumatized and weak bantustans]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇳🇪🇺🇸 U.S. troops left Air Base 101 near Niamey, Niger. |media|
[In the traditional imperial style — skulking out at night. Well. On US college campuses with boarding rooms, they had what is known as “the walk of shame,” usually staggered through quite early on a Saturday or Sunday morning. From Empire’s PoV, this equivalent used to result in the annihilation of entire countries, a la Gaza, to “maintain deterrence” elsewhere… but the times are a changin’, like a rolling stone…]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️❗️❗️Footage of the withdrawal of the US military forces from the base in Niamey, filmed by a Sputnik correspondent

The handover ceremony for Air Base 101 took place on Sunday evening. The transfer of the site to the Nigerien authorities was signed by Niger’s Chief of Staff Mamane Sani Kiaou and US General Kenneth Ekman.

US Ambassador Kathleen FitzGibbon was also present, as were a number of Nigerien military officials.

It is expected that the American side will organize the withdrawal of Agadez Air Base 201 by September 15.  |media|

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕️ 🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪 West African bloc says it risks disintegration if junta-led states leave

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Sunday the region risked disintegration and worsening insecurity after junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger made clear their intentions to leave the bloc by signing a confederation treaty.

The Alliance of Sahel States treaty, signed on Saturday, underscored the three countries’ determination to turn their backs on the 15-member ECOWAS, which has been urging them to return to democratic rule.

ECOWAS commission president Omar Touray said freedom of movement and a common market of 400 million people were some of the major benefits of the near 50-year-old bloc, but that these were under threat if the three countries left.

Funding of economic projects worth over $500 million in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger could also be stopped or suspended, Touray told an ECOWAS summit in Nigerian capital Abuja.

The three countries’ withdrawal will be a major blow to security cooperation particularly in terms of intelligence sharing and participation in the fight against terrorism, he added.

ECOWAS leaders gathered at the summit to discuss the implications of the treaty by the Alliance of Sahel States seizing control in a series of coups in the three states in 2020-2023 and severing military and diplomatic ties with regional allies and Western powers.
#Mali #Niger #BurkinaFaso #ECOWAS

[Good riddance to this criminal compradore construct of the Anglo-French]

… have agreed to remove the borders (British) …

in the words of Martha Stewart, ‘is a Good Thing’

AHH, much appreciation for all your hard work …

and devotion to this forum.

☝️this is well done PR, how it should be done. Did u catch how he didn’t say a single negative word about the US? Even though they’re as reviled and in same boat as our Frenchie?? In fact, the one time mentioned, the US praises the “sophisticated” Juntas! Nevertheless a good highlight reel, and of the abject predicament of ECOWAS…

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇲🇱 🇧🇫 🇳🇪 “A great turning point in the life of our three nations”: a senior Malian official on the creation of the Confederation of Sahel States

Since the creation of the Liptako-Gourma Authority (an organization uniting the three countries, created in 1970), “this was something that was foreseeable,” the vice president of the Malian Transitional Council’s Defense and Security Commission told Sputnik Africa.

“But unfortunately, the previous leaders did not have enough authority, enough decision-making at their level to get rid of certain pressures and to go for this union,” Fousseynou Ouattara stressed.

Today, we can say that the three AES countries “have completely left the orbit of the former metropolis” and are independent “thanks to the support of true friends,” including Russia, China, Turkey and Iran.

🇷🇺 Ouattara believes that Russia “will be able to make a great gesture” and “set up a Marshall Plan” for the AES.

“I am sure that this space will be a very, very profitable market for Russian industries (…). I believe that the role that Russia can play will be decisive for our future,” he stressed.

Kenya’s elites are behind the times.. these compradores wish to run the country as a private plantation. Tribulations ahead, as throughout Zone A…

The Berlin Conference oh boy.  The biggest problem was to define What is Effective Colonization.  One has to be somewhat calm, as it is a wholesale mess now.  One has to accept that colonization was the order of the day and one cannot throw that period away from your history.

It is a hard issue – does one start with the situation on the ground, or does one say, throw it away and start new?  Starting with the situation on the ground and working through the problems of borders designed by hyper colonialists (don’t forget slavery at the time), seems to me a better way forward.  But the Africans are also nowadays a little big for their breeches and want things given to them, as a result of a horrible colonial episode.  Like others, they are going to have to sit down and sort out the hard way.  Religion is also an issue.

I would consider the East West road as perhaps not critical, but an opportunity that may solve other issues in the process of doing business.

A little news from South Africa about the previous president Jacob Zuma, where he has just been expelled from the ANC.

https://www.rt.com/africa/601799-south-africa-anc-sacks-jacob-zuma/

A little later, when I lift my head, I will give more information as it is so typical of old-style Kingdom African leaders.  But for now, a joke.  I’ll translate – everyone knows that the crime rate is sky high, and one of the issues is stealing copper cables.  So this came in from the thieves:

So, the translation .. humorously set up as a customer testimonial :

“We were arrested and the shit beat out of us by K9 guys when we dug up city power cables.  When we got to the scrap yard (of course to sell the cable) they shot our car fucked up and burning, 10 yards? away.  10 out of 10 they are better than the police, they did not even count the bribe money. ”

That is the crime rate.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The Wagner Group does not represent Russian interests and is a private military company that does exactly what it is told to do by the countries that pay it to do so. At present, Wagner’s biggest client is the United Arab Emirates for Sudan and Mali.
Wagner tried to rebel against the Russian state and its leaders were eliminated for this offense.
[What took place in Mali-Algerian front is not a bad thing, long term. It helps wipe out PMCs, to the distaste of the civilizational-states, and local state allies such as Algeria. It denies these potential amoral proxies to nazi states. It will drive survivors back into the Russian Armed Forces, realizing they’re exposed without state ISR facing nazi hordes under western command & control]

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇲🇦🇫🇷🇩🇿 France backs Moroccan autonomy plan for the Western Sahara

France recognises a plan for autonomy for the Western Sahara region under Moroccan sovereignty as the only way of resolving a long-running dispute over the territory, President Emmanuel Macron said in a letter on Tuesday.

The dispute, dating back to 1975, pits Morocco, which says the Western Sahara is its territory, against the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, which says it is an independent state.

France, as the former colonial power in the region, has walked a diplomatic tightrope between Rabat and Algiers on the issue. Most of France’s Western allies already back Morocco’s plan.
#Morocco #France #Algeria
[The West works feverishly to detonate north Africa, even if the non-elite are anti-zionist and do not hate each other. Morocco is their horse. General Armageddon sits in Algeria and must be neutralized when the entire world is detonated..]
⭕ 🇪🇬 IMF approves release of $820 million for Egypt, calls for more reforms

The International Monetary Fund said on Monday it had completed a review allowing Egypt to draw $820 million, saying efforts to restore macroeconomic stability had started to yield results but urging more progress on reining in state-owned enterprises.

The review is the third under Egypt’s latest 46-month IMF loan programme, which was approved in 2022 and expanded to $8 billion this year following an economic crisis marked by high inflation and severe foreign currency shortages.

Egypt says it has shifted to a flexible exchange rate regime, a policy the IMF said on Monday remains “a cornerstone of the authorities’ program.”

“While there has been progress on some critical structural reforms, greater efforts are needed to implement the State Ownership Policy (SOP),” it added.
#Egypt
[A two-dollar whore given its monthly stipend, like 404 or Zion]

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Algeria 🇩🇿withdraws its ambassador to France 🇫🇷 after the publication of Emmanuel Macron’s letter to King Mohamed VI of Morocco 🇲🇦 in which he supports the Moroccan position in the Western Sahara conflict 🇪🇭.

this video is not merely bitter truth, it is the highly sanitized version…. in many regards, the plunder of cheap African resources and labor continue to fuel the West, along with petrodollar recycling from the Gulf PetroShiekhs. Take those two away, which is the current objective and moves of the civilizational-states, and you understand why the desperate are detonating the world

They say that the IMF loans always come with  agreements to privatise state assets.

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇺🇳 How Africa’s ‘ticket’ to prosperity fueled a debt bomb

Credit ratings were meant to help sub-Saharan countries tap global investors to fund much-needed development. But low scores, heavy borrowing and bad luck have left many struggling with crushing bond debt.

In 2002, Africa seemed poised to rise. Wealthy creditor nations were wiping billions of dollars of unsustainable debt off the books of sub-Saharan countries, and global demand was surging for the commodities the region exports, supercharging hopes of a sustained economic boom.

The United Nations, backed by the United States, had a plan to fuel the expansion: sovereign credit ratings. These metrics — essentially an informed guess of a nation’s ability to repay lenders — would for the first time allow a wide swath of the poorest region on Earth to tap yield-hungry investors in the global bond market.

And the cash borrowed wouldn’t come with strict controls on how it would be spent, as is the case with financing from multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund. The U.N. heralded the initiative as “an assault on poverty in Sub-Saharan African countries.”

Today, the optimism has faded, washed away by a deluge of debt.

Essential to the plan were the “Big Three” U.S.-based credit rating agencies — S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s Ratings and Fitch Ratings, which together account for more than 90% of global ratings. The rating agencies collected fees for their services and began applying their complex analyses to the region.

Given the troubled economic history and conditions of sub-Saharan Africa, it came as little surprise that the Big Three gave most countries below-investment-grade, or “junk,” ratings. Those low scores meant the countries had to pay higher interest rates on their bonds to attract investors who might otherwise balk at the risk. The thinking at the time was that African countries’ ratings would improve, and their cost of borrowing decline, as their growing economies allowed them both to repay their debts and invest in development.

Instead, the push for credit ratings set these nations on a path to debt many could not afford. Over the past two decades, more than a dozen sub-Saharan countries borrowed nearly $200 billion from overseas bond investors, according to World Bank figures.

As their nations’ finances faltered, African leaders lashed out at the rating agencies with allegations that the firms were biased in their assessments.

The result: Billions of dollars meant to pay for badly needed improvements to infrastructure, education and healthcare are now going toward interest payments. Sub-Saharan Africa’s average debt ratio has almost doubled in the past decade — from 30% of gross domestic product at the end of 2013 to nearly 60% in 2022. The region today has the highest rate of extreme poverty in the world.

The financial burden carries deadly potential. In June, anti-government riots exploded across Kenya in protest against proposed tax increases, including levies on bread, cooking oil and other staples, to help fund payments on the roughly $80 billion Kenya owes creditors. The rioting, which continued after the proposal was withdrawn, left dozens dead and many more injured.
#IMF #UNO
⭕ 🇸🇩 Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council and Army Chief (SAF) Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said he will not attend talks with the rebel Rapid Reaction Force (RSF) in Switzerland following a drone attack on him.

“We will not retreat, we will not surrender and we will not negotiate,” the head of state told troops immediately after the attack. His words are quoted by Al-Jazeera.

Unknown UAVs attacked a military base in Gibeit on July 31, when a graduation ceremony was taking place there. The Sudanese leader survived an assassination attempt, but at least five people were killed.
#Sudan

[Well done. He passed a major test. Attending this “peace summit” on lands of those genociding his people was equivalent to Russia attending the Zelensky “piss summit.”]

💠 @Arab_Africa:  
⭕ 🇩🇿🇫🇷 The recall of the Algerian ambassador from France is the first step, which will be followed by others, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said, commenting on his country’s response to Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region.

Attaf called Paris’s actions “dangerous” for the region, adding:

“This is not just calling the ambassador for consultations. This is a decrease in the level of diplomatic representation. This is an important step to express our condemnation of Paris’s position.”

The minister said that French President Emmanuel Macron informed his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune on the sidelines of the G7 summit in June in Italy about the decision that Paris intends to make. At the same time, the Algerian authorities warned Paris against any such measures.

Mali Cuts Ties with Ukraine After Ambush on Wagner Troops and Malian Soldiers pic.twitter.com/IXtMd1eGHz

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) August 7, 2024

https://x.com/i/status/1821318358647689252

Nigeria is being taken down.. Africa’s most populous and largest economy and huge driver of culture worldwide (it has cinema equivalent of Bollywood and Hollywood). This is more than punishment for failing to take down Niger and instrumentalize ECOWAS.. see Kenya, South Africa, Bangladesh, etc — Empire is pulling the plug on the formerly stable Anglophones. Ordo ab Chao

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕🇳🇬 The curfew in Nigeria imposes new strains for the country’s economy

The curfew imposed in some Nigerian states amid anti-government protests has become a new test for the country’s economy.

Police and authorities say vandalism and theft have increased in Kaduna, Plateau and Bauchi states amid protests. Borno, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa and Zamfara have imposed 24-hour curfews in affected areas to restore order to the streets.
#Nigeria
⭕ 🇳🇬 Nigerian MoD rejects protesters’ demands for a change of government

The Nigerian Defense Ministry has rejected protesters’ demands for a change of government, put forward during nationwide demonstrations.

“We have recognized the right of Nigerians to protest and we remember that we are paid by Nigerians. We are ready to protect all Nigerians but we will not allow people to change the democratic government. Such calls and actions will be considered as treason and a criminal offence,” the army said at a press conference.
⭕ 🇳🇬🇷🇺 Nigeria detains tailors who made Russian flags for anti-government protests

Nigeria has detained some tailors for making Russian flags that were waved during anti-government protests this week in northern states, the state secret police said.

The Department of State Services (DSS) also said in a post on X that it had detained some of the tailors’ “sponsors”, without elaborating. It said an investigation was ongoing. It did not say how many tailors or “sponsors” had been detained.

Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, described the brandishing of a foreign flag during anti-government protests as a “treasonable offence” after he held security talks with President Bola Tinubu on Monday.
#Nigeria #Russia
⭕ 🇳🇬 Nigeria: #EndBadGovernance – Nigerian Govt Places Sponsors On Watchlist, Freezes Accounts

The Nigerian government said it has identified Nigerians in the diaspora who are sponsoring the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest. The government said it has placed such individuals on a watch list and also frozen their Nigerian accounts.

The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, said the sponsors are on a watch list and will be arrested when entering the country.

Ms Nandap made this known on Tuesday in Abuja during a combined news conference by the heads of security agencies and Service Chiefs convened by the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa at the Defence Headquarters.
#Nigeria

AHH, perhaps this is a crisis but also an opportunity.  The younger Africans are never going to accept the leaders who are still in the pockets of the hegemon and stuff their own pockets .  I don’t like to see this crisis (in any of the countries) develop in the terrible violence that we’ve seen.  But there is in general now more education which leads to pushback against hegemonic tactics.

However, this is not the way to win friends and influence people, and multipolarity is a far way off.

U.S. SENATOR'S FREUDIAN SLIP ON AFRICAN MINERALS?

Looks like a US senator had a Freudian slip, a psychological term for an unintentional error that reveals subconscious thoughts.

During a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on ‘strategic competition’ with China on 30… pic.twitter.com/E9H9dFyvSw

— African Stream (@african_stream) August 7, 2024

British-owned Lonmin mine in the platinum belt of South Africa and a massacre.

34 South African mineworkers were massacred by police, on this day in 2012. It was the worst massacre since the apartheid regime’s repression of the 1976 Soweto uprising.

The killings were also a political turning point as many workers started to lose faith in the increasingly neoliberal African National Congress (ANC). As a result, the Economic Freedom Fighters, led by Julius Malema, burst onto the scene and is still contending with the ANC.

The strike began in August 2012 demanding a pay raise. The government-allied union, the National Union of Mineworkers, did not approve the walkout but workers still went ahead with a wildcat strike.

Government repression resulted in the killing of 34 miners whose families are still seeking justice. This is the worst massacre to have been carried out by an ANC government.

The current President was deeply involved.  Here is the statement of the mineworker’s union.

Four reasons why NUMSA rejects Cyril Ramaphosa’s un-apology for Marikana
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, (NUMSA) rejects the un-apology made by the Deputy President of the country and the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa, regarding his role in the Marikana Massacre. Ramaphosa was the chairperson of Lonmin mines, at the time of the massacre and Deputy president of the country.
In the email which he sent to Lonmin’s chief commercial officer, Albert Jamieson the day before the fateful killing of workers on August 16, 2012, Ramaphosa described the strike action taken by the miners as ‘dastardly criminal acts’ which required ‘concomitant action’ to address the situation. Ramaphosa’s apology nearly five years later are just empty words. There is no substance to his expression of regret and below are five reasons why:
1. At the time that the miners of Marikana were shot down by South African police Ramaphosa was Deputy president of the country, as well as chairman of Lonmin mines. The labour dispute which sparked the violent strike at Marikana was precipitated by poor wages, and poor working conditions of miners in the area. Ramaphosa’s past experience as a trade unionist and founder of NUM did nothing to improve the conditions of miners in Marikana.
Under his watch as a Lonmin executive the majority of miners lived, and continue to live in the same hovels which existed under Apartheid. It was the dehumanizing experience of living in squalor, in shacks with no water, no electricity or basic sanitation services, that the demand for a living wage of R12500 was made. Ramaphosa  had the power as an executive to make decisions which could have vastly improved the lives of the miners, but he chose not to.
Instead, when the interests of White monopoly capital were threatened and workers were forced to go on an illegal strike, because their trade union of choice, the National Union of Mineworkers (which he helped establish), had abandoned them, instead of using his skills as a negotiator in the union, he called for and colluded with the minister of police to end the strike, by any means necessary. During the Farlam Commission hearings it was found that the state planned for the massacre by ordering several mortuary vans in advance, therefore any claims by officials that the killings were unintentional are hollow.
2. The National Minimum Wage is further evidence that Ramaphosa is lying when he claims that he cares about workers. He has been spearheading a campaign, on behalf of big business to legalize R20 per hour as a minimum wage so that workers in South Africa can be exploited far more than they are already. There can be no radical economic transformation when workers are earning less than R3500 per month, and yet that is precisely what Ramaphosa is advocating for.
We live in a country of extreme inequality, rampant poverty, and an unemployment rate of at least 25%. The miners of Marikana were shot and killed, for daring to demand a living wage of R12500 as a living wage, and the deputy president responds by implementing a minimum wage which will have no impact on alleviating poverty and inequality.
3. Ramaphosa, and the ANC which he leads have spent the last 23 years defending and protecting White monopoly Capital, and they will continue to do so. On the one hand Ramaphosa claims that radical economic transformation is an imperative, but at the same time, he keeps celebrating the NDP (National Development Plan) as the vehicle through which this transformation will be achieved. The NDP, and its predecessor GEAR are neo-liberal economic policies which have been harmful to workers and their families for the last 23 years.
The ANC as the governing party, has refused to use its majority in parliament to implement policies of nationalization which would radically transform the lives of the African majority immediately. They have refused to nationalize the land; the banks as well as the commanding heights of the economy. Instead they continue to pursue neo liberal capitalist economic policies which are responsible for the suffering of workers and their families.
The ANC is fighting to ensure that this oppressive economic system which is characterized by low pay, and poor working conditions continues, because they want to please ratings agencies and foreign investors – they don’t care about African majority which elected them into power.
4. Ramaphosa and the ANC have launched a shameless attack on the working class. The Deputy President is driving legislation to limit the right to strike. This former trade unionist is fighting to undo all the work that workers in South Africa fought and died for under Apartheid.
Whilst the lives of millions of South Africans haven’t changed much since the days of Apartheid, Ramaphosa has undergone a personal radical economic transformation of epic proportions. He has gone from trade union leader, to big business billionaire and union basher. That is his legacy, 23 years after the end of Apartheid.
He is promoting the kind of radical economic transformation which empowers a small elite at the expense of the African working class majority.
As NUMSA we cannot take the utterances of the Deputy President seriously.   Ramaphosa and the ANC that he leads do not have any solutions for the working class. For the last 23 years the ANC has bent over backwards in an attempt to please big business, for example, by commercializing the roads through e-tolls and allowing labour brokers to flourish.
They even went as far as implementing a Youth Wage subsidy, where they basically pay employers for hiring young people and exploiting them with poor wages! It was the ANC’s senseless pursuit of rampant capitalism which eventually forced NUMSA to reject President Jacob Zuma and the ANC.
When we criticize Ramaphosa, we are not narrow in our analysis. We cannot support anyone from the ANC because we know that the ANC does not have any solutions for the challenges facing the poor and the working class of South Africa. It is bizarre therefore, that given extensive evidence to the latter, that any credible labour or leftist movement would still remain in the alliance when the governing party, has done nothing but show workers the middle finger!
NUMSA does not suffer from this kind of ideological confusion. We are proud of our reputation in the labour movement as a truly militant, worker driven formation. After 30 years in the battle for workers, we remain the largest worker led formation in the country and our revolutionary principles back this up.

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇧🇪🇱🇾 Around 3 billion euros in interest from Libyan funds frozen in local banks were lost in Belgium.

This was reported by the Chargé d’Affaires of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Polyansky, at a briefing of the UN Security Council on Libya. According to him, Libyan assets, which are currently “frozen” under the sanctions regime by unscrupulous Western banks and financial institutions, must be preserved so that they can be used in the future for the benefit of the Libyan people, as was set out in the relevant UN Security Council documents.

“As is well known, in 2011 the Libyan state was destroyed and the Security Council imposed sanctions against the country. However, the Belgian fund Euroclear still holds about €15 billion belonging to the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA). As recently revealed by a journalistic investigation, for 6 years, allegedly “by mistake”, Belgian bankers pretended not to know about the need to “freeze” the interest income received from this capital. Moreover, this income was quietly “written off” from the accounts and disappeared. As far as we know, we are talking about a sum of about €2.8 billion. This money was simply stolen from the Libyan people. The management of LIU intends to seek justice in the courts, and we sincerely hope that they will succeed, despite the fact that recently the theft of other people’s assets has become a common practice for Western countries.”

It is noteworthy that the so-called “European Legion,” being created in western Libya with the assistance of the United States, France, Italy and other partners, is being financed from Libyan funds frozen abroad in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1973 of 2011. The main goal of this unit is to counter the growing influence of the Russian Federation in African countries.

[You have to hand it to the combined West. Steal Russian sovereign forex to fund war against Russia. Libya, and countless besides in the past, set the trend. Where’s Venezuela’s gold stolen in UK or its assets in USA? Funding the current regime change operation? And Iraq’s gold taken in 2003, Afghan’s………………. beginning in 1500s with Spanish galleon loot funding Anglo war on the Spaniards!]

US Senator slips and tells the truth about how the people like him see Africa;

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕🇩🇰 🇧🇫 🇲🇱 Denmark will close its embassies in Burkina Faso and Mali due to the military coups that have taken place in these countries

💬 “As a consequence of a series of military coups that have created very limited space for trade [i.e. Plunder] in the Sahel region, the embassies in Burkina Faso and Mali will be closed,” the Danish Foreign Ministry’s statement said.

As part of a new foreign policy strategy to expand cooperation with African countries, Denmark will open embassies in Senegal, Tunisia and Rwanda, the ministry added.

In addition, Copenhagen will strengthen its diplomatic “power” through diplomatic missions in Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana.
[I put here as of a trend observed with other westerners in similar retreat. Note, except for vassal Rwanda, all are on the coasts; almost all Anglophones too. As their power projection atrophies, they return to the 19th century and avoiding the interior “Heart of Darkness.” But these beachheads will be duly stripped too]
⭕ 🇪🇺 🌍 EU influence in North Africa is visibly weakening, with its place being taken by Russia, Turkey and others, says EU top diplomat

🗣 “We should be worried about what’s happening in Africa. When I first came to Brussels, the French and Italians were in Libya. They weren’t always in harmony, but they were present. Today, there are no Europeans left in Libya – only Turks and Russians,” EUobserver quoted EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell as saying.

Borrell criticized the decline of the EU’s influence in Africa, noting that there is no longer “the order” on the African coast of the Mediterranean that the Europeans tried to establish.

The portal noted that Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, as well as Russia have “stepped up” their work in the economic and political sphere with North African countries and other states of the continent. According to the top diplomat, the EU should counter their influence.

👉 Recently, the head of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, proposed the creation of the post of a Commissioner for the Mediterranean, thus pointing to the priority of developing EU relations with North African countries. Cyprus has already expressed interest in having its representative in the EC receive the new post.
[LOL. This is whining after the horse bolted the barn ten moons ago!]

South Africa’s Johan Rupert overtakes Dangote as Africa’s richest man

South African luxury goods magnate Johann Rupert has become Africa’s wealthiest person, overtaking Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote, who previously held the top position.

Rupert, 74, controls the world’s largest luxury watchmaker, Cie Financiere Richemont, through a family trust. This Switzerland-based company owns prestigious brands like Jaeger-LeCoultre and Cartier.

Manderson started this thread with Dangote.

According to the latest figures from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Rupert’s net worth has climbed to $14.3 billion, pushing him ahead of Dangote, whose fortune has dropped to $13.4 billion.

Dangote, who heads the Dangote Group, has seen his wealth shrink by about $1.69 billion this year. The decline is largely attributed to the difficult economic conditions in Nigeria, which have significantly affected his business empire.

In the rankings, South African billionaire Nicky Oppenheimer comes in third with a net worth of $11.3 billion. He is followed by Egyptian businessman Nassef Sawiris with $9.37 billion, while South African investor Natie Kirsh is fifth with $9.14 billion.

Meanwhile…

💠 @Arab_Africa:  
⭕ 🇲🇱🇨🇳 Mali and China sign military equipment purchase agreement

On September 2, on the eve of the 9th Africa-China Cooperation Forum, Mali’s interim president, Colonel Assimi Goita, signed an agreement with the Chinese company NORINCO to purchase modern military equipment.

According to local sources, Assimi Goita also visited the company’s plant together with Mali’s Defense Minister Sadio Camara and closely examined the latest weapons models.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇨🇳 Chinese President Xi Jinping met with African heads of state

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the presidents of South Africa, Mali, Djibouti, Togo, Comoros and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Beijing.

African heads of state have arrived for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. During the meetings, the Chinese leader stressed China’s willingness to strengthen political ties, support the economic development of African countries and expand cooperation in areas such as agriculture, energy, infrastructure and marine fisheries.

Xi Jinping said China will continue to support African countries, helping them exploit their resources and geographical advantages for economic development.
[Far fewer Heads of State came this time.. less than 1/6 or 1/7 prior to corona and SMO.. the West’s usually full court press is on. A major signal to China..]

a new slick PC template has been rolled out for the restive youth.. prototypes packaged for the populace are seen here in Kenya and Senegal. But it ain’t gonna wash for long. Neocolonialism needs to produce, and quickly, and that is by definition a contradiction; one cannot expect a Vampire to become a considerate and humanitarian vegetarian. So it is foreseeable, as with our Sahelian Juntas — that a strongman will come to the fore and ditch western-style “democracy”. That appears the viable alternative so far in Africa, if the society is to move forward and free itself of Empire and its shenanigans

The Story of Two Neighbors — one received love from China and the other from USUK.

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇳🇬 Products Containing Harmful Chemical Recalled in Nigeria

The Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued public warnings, cautioning Nigerians against using a popular bar soap and certain drug products. The alerts were prompted by warnings from the countries where these products are manufactured.

NAFDAC said that the soap contains harmful chemicals that may affect reproductive organs, harm unborn children, and cause skin irritation. The products in question include Dove Beauty Cream Bar Soap, produced in Germany, and several unregistered drug products from the Philippines.

Meanwhile, the drug regulator has issued a warning against purchasing so-called “miracle” products created by a church led by renowned Nigerian Christian televangelist Jeremiah Fufeyin, saying these products make false claims of healing powers, including curing infertility in women.
[Deglobalization and the end of Western transnational corporation monopolies will be a boon to the health and very survival of mankind. These eugenicist criminals have worked to depopulate for at least three centuries now. Their vaccines, processed foods, chemicals, beauty products, consumables, even clothing and hardware needs to be boycotted, as all and any have to be considered seeded, stitched or created using carcinogens or infertility products. Their satanic totalen krieg has no limits!

As CAF stated during peak covid madness, when the agenda dropped the mask  — if they are willing to do this, why are you still allowing them to inject ANYTHING into your body or buying products of questionable provenance by the amoral who see us all as enemies to be liquidated?? Go local, buy from trusted local farms/producers and trust to your powerful innate immunity]

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Overall useful, even if an unfriendly channel likely run by Five Eyes spooks to subtly slander Iran.

Iran, like Russia, both foolishly overcommitted to the West during the Unipolar moment, and sorely neglected former African ties.

They’re now furiously, almost manically, diversifying into this always friendly continent.

At the same time, they also wage asymmetrical socioeconomic war in response to the Drangs waged against them, through helping evict neocolonialism, denying the West easy Plunder of earth’s greatest store of natural resources, and vast markets which are projected to feature 7 of top 10 fastest growing economies.

In helping develop 1/4 of humanity they strengthen the entire Global Majority and build another bulwark against permanently raving imperialism

mali & ukraine continue to intrigue.

west uses ukraine to achieve geopolitical goals in africa–mali’s foreign minister

https://sputnikglobe.com/20241113/west-uses-ukraine-to-achieve-goals-in-africa–malis-foreign-minister-1120870172.html

(🕊️ sigh 🕊️)

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇳🇪 French Secret Agent Arrested in Niger

Niger authorities have arrested a man believed to be an agent of the French Defense Ministry’s Directorate General of External Security (DGSE) operating under a false name.

The Niger government has long claimed that France is trying to sow instability in the country and the region. Despite official denials from Paris, there is growing evidence that covert operations and information manipulation campaigns may be carried out to weaken Niger.
[This is sad. Western spooks ain’t what they used to be in the good old days! Or was the nazi reputation always oversold?]

The 2020s will be even more transformative for Africa than 1960s wave of overt decolonization. The last occult trappings  — neocolonial indirect control via the UN blue helmets and bureaucrats, TNCs, NGOs, IMF/WB, western Embassies, and western-trained technocrat compradore elites — are being unwound.

Very heady days indeed to match Russian Victory in 404 or the Resistance Axis in West Asia. And you won’t hear it on western MSM either

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇲🇱 The withdrawal of the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA in Mali has been completed

The UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) withdrew its entire contingent from the country on November 15.

MINUSMA had more than 15,000 military and civilian personnel in the country. The organization in charge of the mission’s exit said several dozen international staff were still in Mali and would gradually leave by the December 31 deadline.

Malian authorities have demanded that the UN mission leave the country after ten years of presence, as, in their opinion, the peacekeepers were not providing a sufficient level of security in the country.

MINUSMA effectively ceased operations on 31 December 2023. However, some teams still remained in Mali to complete the mission.

#Mali

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
🇲🇱🇺🇳 MINUSMA’s page is definitely turned: UN mission completes its liquidation in Mali ahead of schedule

Today, the UN mission handed over its camp in Bamako, the last remaining piece of infrastructure, to the Malian transitional authorities.

Yesterday, Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdoulaye Diop met with the MINUSMA (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali) liquidation team.

🗣 “The Malian and UN parties expressed satisfaction with the significant joint efforts that led to a shared success of this withdrawal and liquidation process, despite the challenges and issues involved,” the Malian Foreign Ministry stated.

The final deadline of the mission was initially set for December 31, 2024.

Established in 2013, MINUSMA ceased operations on December 31, 2023, following a request from the Malian authorities in June. Since then, the mission had no mandate and conducted no activities.

⭕ 🇺🇳🇲🇱 MINUSMA mission “had the objectives that did not correspond to the interests of the Malian people,” an expert says

The UN mission in Mali since 2013 (UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali – MINUSMA), which was wound up on November 15, “was not up to the task” and “completely failed”, the president of the Bloc for the recovery and development of Mali (BRDM) Oumar Mc Kone told Sputnik Africa.

MINUSMA once interfered with the Malian army to prevent it from retaking territories occupied by terrorists, jihadists and their nebulous groups, which was incomprehensible to the Malian people, the expert noted.

❌ The BRDM president also spoke of the international community’s lack of reaction to Kiev’s support for terrorism in the Sahel. He denounced the double standards of the West, which promotes the fight against terrorism but on the other hand supports those who support terrorism.
⭕ 🇺🇳🇲🇱 The end of MINUSMA: “Mali has shown that no one else can come in and guarantee its security,” an expert says

The withdrawal of the UN mission, which ended on November 15, could pave the way for a new political and security dynamic in the Sahel, the president of the Bloc for the recovery and development of Mali (BRDM) Oumar Mc Kone said in an interview with Sputnik Africa.

💬 “No country in the world will be able to come and defend Mali instead of Mali,” the speaker noted.

However, the Malian army has succeeded in an extraordinary way: “it has achieved in two years what foreign organizations, including MINUSMA, have not been able to achieve in 12-13 years,” Kone emphasized.

💬 “Gradually, Mali is pinning its hopes on itself, before anyone else, in order to achieve peace and stability, and this is a prerequisite for attracting investors to the country in the future, because they will find it safe, stable and secure,” he concluded.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇦🇺🇲🇱 Australian gold miner Resolute pays Mali an initial $80 million out of a total of $160 million over a tax dispute

“The protocol [a memorandum of understanding between the Malian government and the miner] also provides that all outstanding claims by the government against the company, including those related to tax, customs levies, maintenance and management of offshore accounts are settled,” Resolute Mining said in a statement.

Resolute has made an initial settlement payment of approximately $80 million to Mali’s government from existing cash reserves, with future payments of approximately $80 million to be made in the coming months, according to the statement.

➡️ The move follows more than a week of detention in Mali of the company’s CEO, Terence Holohan, and two of the company’s employees, who were in the capital, Bamako, for discussions with the country’s mining and tax authorities about Resolute’s operations in the country and to pursue unfounded tax claims against the company, the miner noted in a statement last Monday.

The Malian government is demanding $161 million from Resolute Mining, which operates the Syama gold mine, to settle a dispute primarily involving alleged back taxes, reports said.

💠@Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇲🇱 Mali wins $160m in gold mining dispute after detaining British businessman

An Australian mining company, Resolute Mining, says it will pay Mali’s military government $160m (£126m) to settle a tax dispute, after the company’s British boss and two other staff were detained 10 days ago.

Reports say Terry Holohan and his colleagues were arrested while travelling to the capital city, Bamako, for what they were expecting to be routine negotiations.

Resolute, which owns a gold mine in Mali, said on Sunday it would pay $80m immediately from existing cash reserves, and the rest in the coming months.

Mali is one of Africa’s top gold producers and is seeking to extract a greater share of income from foreign operators in the sector.

It is not yet clear when the three Resolute employees will be released but part of the conditions for their release were that they must sign the memorandum of understanding and complete the initial payment, according to media reports.

Mali detained the three Resolute executives on charges of forgery and damaging public property, seen as an attempt to force the Australian company amid an ongoing state crackdown on foreign – mostly Western – mining companies in the West African country.

Last year, President Col Assimi Goïta signed into law a new mining code increasing the maximum stake for state and local investors from 20% to 35%.

[As we anticipated, the Sahelian Juntas were the canary in the mine – for alotta reasons. They were among the poorest peoples on earth, living mostly in the simple preindustrial state, having never been permitted to enter modernity by cruel French scum, and so had the least to lose. And they were given alotta guns, ISR and C&C by all the civilizational-states, to serve as laboratory for both evicting the western Pirates and settling scores with their local extremist and hired proxies to obtain the necessary security for development.

the transnational corporations (TNCs) are over the proverbial barrel.

1. USUK ironically started the massive hemorrhaging with suicidal sanctions against Russia, Iran and almost half of mankind;
2. Yemen opened wide the heavy bleeding by blockading the Red Sea and parts of the surrounding seas.
3. Now they’re in furious retreat everywhere, paying unprecedented damages for habitual piracy and criminality conducted in the past with open impunity

keep all this in mind, and Iran’s bill of $1 Trillion to the USA for sanctions damages in the last day. Every aggrieved civilization, society, nation, and tribe is updating its iron ledger. This is era of paybacks and retribution, come Armageddon or high water.]

The British are heading the UNSC Presidency this month. They are behind the genocide in Sudan, along with vast hordes of mercs and various tribes organized and supported by the GCC (mostly UAE). Russia used its first veto for Sudan..

The hypocrisy is staggering. Whenever the hyenas cannot win a war, they resort to lawfare, UN sanctions, unilateral sanctions, organizing their neighbors against them, and/or economic siege. But all these “war by other means” tactics lose teeth in the bitter Interregnum.

Look at the simpering virtue signaling and shaming they’re forced to engage in! Goodness, you can stick a fork in USUK and their pretensions, after this groveling shitshow. It appears they KNOW the era of impunity is at an end. What comes next for them shall be most interesting |media|

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇸🇩 Russia vetoes UK draft resolution on Sudan

On November 18, Russia used its veto power in the UN Security Council to thwart a British draft resolution on Sudan.

Sudanese diplomat to the UN Ammar Mahmoud said the Russian veto was the first on a draft resolution concerning Sudan. He stressed that resolving the current conflict requires full implementation of the Jeddah agreement and an end to what he called the UAE’s destabilizing support for the Rapid Reaction Force.

The British draft resolution, as Britain, which holds the presidency of the Security Council this month, wanted to show, called for “an immediate cessation of hostilities between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Reaction Force” and included “ensuring safe and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid, condemning crimes against civilians and calling on the parties to respect international humanitarian law.”

Dmitry Polyansky, explaining Russia’s vote against the project, stated that Russia agrees with all members of the Security Council on the need for an urgent resolution to the conflict in Sudan, and that the only solution to this problem is the agreement of the two warring parties to a ceasefire.

Polyansky added: “We believe that the role of the Security Council is to help (the two sides) achieve this, but this should be done in a consistent and open manner, and not by imposing on the Sudanese – through a Security Council resolution – the opinion of its individual members, imbued with a post-colonial tendency.

In turn, Sudanese media welcomed Russia’s decision to use its veto power, stating that “the draft resolution went beyond the country’s national priorities and did not even mention the UAE and its aggressive role in arming the Rapid Reaction Force.”

off the top of my head, first glance perusal:

central america, south america & africa have an interest & a stake in china’s proposed canal through nicaragua.  looking @ a map reveals the promise & possibilities opening for all 3.  the atlantic coast of africa has few deep water ports, ships must wait for smaller vessels to transfer goods.  the wealth & vast diversity of minerals & raw products is staggering & the urgency to devise a way & construct the infrastructure is obvious.   the niger river seems a probable/possible beginning.  the congo river may more require intense engineering logistically & structurally.

potentially, traffic from africa’s atlantic coast could on along their way to china deposit trade in brazil, & while off-loading pick up goods, then transit to bolivia & venezuela, do the same, although their will be traffic & tankers  in both devoted wholly to bolivia & venezuela, & then head for the nica canal, where on the pacific side it’s possible to connect with ships going or coming from peru’s chancay port.

RealLifeLore:

How Africa’s Geography Traps It Poverty:

Tass: Armed militants kill 10 servicemen in southwest Niger

https://tass.com/world/1886201

💠 “Moscow reacts to French troops exiting Ivory Coast” —
The African nation no longer needs the “supposed support” of foreign troops, the Russian Foreign Ministry has stated

☝️☝️ That’s three more African countries that Lil Frenchie lost in the last week. And they were arguably the most important for political control (Senegal, Ivory Coast) and military control (Chad) of the entire west-central continental “Françafrique.” This follows loss of the massive resources of the three Juntas (Niger, Mali, Burkina) which are among global storehouses of gold, uranium, etc. More metrics of Collapse — and why the sore losers escalate to Armageddon

africa reloaded:

Niger accuse Nigeria’s President Tinbu of collaborating with France to Cause Destablization–youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9w3SIXpOw