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      AHH
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      AHH
      Keymaster

    • #58133
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      agreed, africa is victim to AI wars.  this video speaks to what many soldiers returning from the last great war knew but like so many truths was obscured—so AI driven or not, i wonder:  putin @ such a moment acknowledged this—fact.

      who generates the AI?  unknown.  to whose end?  this continues to give pause, does it serve empire?  france?  if not, could it be the axis have decided to influence the narrative?

       

      • #58161
        AHH
        Keymaster

        The Resistance side lacks the moneys, and cruel cunning behind these slick productions with the authoritative british accented deeply intoning narrator. For every 90% of solid content, there is 5% or so of slander, or misdirection, or subtle poison. And even the Truth is used to spin 100% towards the desired goal – whether to build up any human into an unrealizable giant, or force him through carefully crafted image by external enemies into forced action to maintain the image, etc etc.

        And they seek to harm relations between Russia and Burkina (or any other resistance) by coloring the relationship in ways not true, or holding Russia accountable for subsequent successful assassination, or not achieving developmental targets which neither side ever mentioned, etc. They’re shaping the terrain, for failure or attribution of failure in every eventually.

        And most who love the global Axes of Resistance will fall for it – for these are extremely positive videos, what is not to like? They are driven to subliminally blame Russia for not doing enough — when history shows it is relatively easy to murder any individual anywhere. Note how Nasrallah was permitted to rise and build into an international colossus, until the trigger was pulled at the cruelest moment for maximum impact.

        This is the new full-spectrum Hybrid War, using slick optics, beautiful imagery and audio, and imputing positions and relationships never stated or real in fact by the slandered, to craft the narrative towards the planned future crimes. Nothing new under the sun, except for the high-definition modern production

    • #58162
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Sudan update.

      You don’t hear much of it online. It’s because the tidal wave of return of Sudanese Armed Forces, under Iranian and Russian support, are rapidly retaking key parts and much of the country from another frankenstein Horde of mercenaries, UkroNazis, Anglo-French, Zionazi, UAE and gulfie salafis. The latter cabal increasingly resort to naked terrorism, including the recent dronification torching of the temporary capital of Port Sudan, on the Red Sea coast. Anglo-Zionists/Emiratis/UkroNazis play a key role in terrorism

      💠 @Arab_Africa:
      ⭕ 🇸🇩 Current balance of power in Sudan

      Green color – territory controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces

      Red color – territory controlled by the Rapid Reaction Forces
      [btw the map is deceptive. Before Anglo-Zionists severed South Sudan, Sudan was largest country in already huge Africa. Even today, with about a fifth chopped off, it ranks 15th largest country on earth by area. One of wealthiest countries on earth – in minerals (gold, uranium, etc) and meat (along with Somalia the top importer to arid arabian peninsula for eons) and agriculture. And location fought over by crusaders for eon, sitting directly across Makkah and in the northern Red Sea and as strategic to control of SLOCs as Yemen and Egypt. It literally, like Russia, has everything to be self-sufficient and a super power. But it has been mindwashed by Anglos for centuries and imploded by inadequate MB/salafi crazies]
      ⭕ 🇸🇩 Sudanese Armed Forces liberate White Nile province from SBR militants

      Sudanese authorities have announced that White Nile province has been completely liberated from Rapid Intervention Forces militants after regaining control of the Umm Ramtha district in the northwest of the province.

      The day before, the Sudanese Armed Forces Command announced the complete liberation of Khartoum province from militants. As a result, despite the intensive work of foreign instructors from one of the Eastern European countries to guide UAVs to strategic objects in Port Sudan, the army continued the offensive and will see it through to the end.

      On video: a fun movement between the army and the RRF in one of the provinces of Sudan
      ⭕ 🇸🇩 Sudan’s UN envoy accuses UAE of airstrikes on Port Sudan

      Sudan’s UN envoy Al-Harith Idris said the drone attack on Port Sudan, which began on May 4, was carried out from a UAE military base. Idris said their intelligence indicated the use of drones, presumably MQ-9B or MQ-9, as well as other kamikaze drones. Electronic, reconnaissance and other information, including targeting, is provided by UAE Navy warships in the Red Sea.

      Idris also said the attacks could be a response to the Sudanese military’s May 3 operation that resulted in the destruction of a UAE military aircraft in the city of Nyala.

      As for the transport plane destroyed on May 3 at Nyala airport, local sources claim that 70 SBR fighters heading abroad for treatment were killed in the strike. Among the dead were also foreigners of European and Arab appearance, whose bodies were later taken to Chad. The plane itself flew to Chad to the Um Jaras airfield on the evening of May 3, but returned a few minutes later due to weather conditions, where it was destroyed by the Sudanese Armed Forces.

      On video: authentic clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RRF in one of the country’s regions

    • #58332
      emersonreturn
      Participant
    • #58336
      AHH
      Keymaster

      This link works:
      https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/algeria-and-mali–divided-and-almost-conquered

      This issue between Mali and Algeria is heartbreaking. The ancient arabs have an old saying, “me against my brother, my brother and I against our cousin; my brother, I and our cousin against the outsider”. This appears applicable to most neighbors worldwide on a geopolitical historical view.. How many centuries of such deranged wars between the Anglos and the French? The Russkies in Novorossiya still go at it today, to detriment of both! The Indians and Pakistanis..

      I haven’t followed this specific issue closely, except to note (1) Algeria is not a friend to terrorists, and (2) both remain afflicted with Frenchie intrigue to this day. Several times after Algeria gained independence, the West sicced the salafi Horde on them. So they would be among the last to sponsor them. And only Frenchie (and zionazis) benefit from Mali and Algeria being hostile to each other.

      How was it done?

      I suspect the Tuareg desert bedouins, largely berber like Algerians, are surreptitiously supported by proud Algerians who refuse to recognize the 1885 Berlin Conference borders. Yet these Tuaregs are largely being instrumentalized by the West to destabilize Mali and the Sahel. Most of the 404 arms ratlines cross through the Sahara into the Sahel at Algerian-Libyan southern borders. Mali rightfully demands its sovereignty be respected and this plague halted. Algerians refuse to see the Tuaregs massacred, as the AES increasingly are forced to in order to halt Forever Wars.

      So British Borders, and “freedom fighters” (to one side) and “terrorists” to the other side. And a glum Russkie in between. General Armageddon is HQ’ed in Algeria. And the Russian Army openly defends Mali and the AES! What a mess.

      So at the heart is resolving British Borders, giving rights to what are minorities in most Saharan countries, but actually number in millions, spread all over, and supporting each other to detriment of entire region – like the Kurds, who also today largely serve Zion.

    • #58337
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      thank you, dear AHH!  canaduh for whatever reason diddles with alamayadeen now, similar to what it did to strategic culture in the past.  thank you for sorting it.

      i’m really glad you provided the background.  i’d been following the flow of reports on the AI brit narrated AI youtube plethora, waiting for news from some source…sputnik africa etc. & finally alamaydeen posted this.  happy day!  i couldn’t begin to parse it…algeria would not entertain empire’s worst, yet mali would not invent such a sorry cruel tale—none of it made sense.

      aware you are busy, aware hesitation is preferable to posting nonsense … still i am deeply grateful for this window, dear AHH.  @ such times as these, what days!, it’s overwhelming—yet africa is as you shared some years past awakening, & her awakening is biblical in the sense it is long awaited & long overdue & it is biblical.  doubts are erased when listening to traore.  i’m old, i’ve long  longed for such a voice…many times i doubted such a voice was possible that it wasn’t within the human realm & worse if it was i would not recognize it but let it pass unrecognized.  but here even me, lost in the white wasteland, stumbled upon it & wonder of wonders heard it–recognized it!  it’s that profound that true that inescapable!  things are afoot.  marvels are happening.  axis have shifted without our seeing simply knowing simply feeling.

      as awful as horrible as things are today—so there is a great wave— a the parting of the sea—the wave is drowning armies & there is a great vast new roadway a coming.  such a light we cannot miss.

    • #58507
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      this doesn’t appear AI generated simple straightforward: Algeria @ the UN saying what needs to be said.  good on Algeria!

       

    • #58570
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      Eritrea breaks west’s Red Sea chokehold, pivots to Iran, Russia, China

       

      https://thecradle.co/articles/eritrea-breaks-wests-red-sea-chokehold-with-pivot-to-resistance-axis

    • #58813
      AHH
      Keymaster


      The Nigerien leader identified two neighbors working with vindictive Frenchie and USUK to destabilize the AES — francophone Benin and Anglophone Nigeria (Agent Tinubu). The ying and yang of the eternal Resistance goes on …

    • #58814
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      empire’s diabolical separation of niger & nigeria is reminiscent of india & pakistan.  laith some interviews ago, when asked to speak to the indian/pakistani confrontation, said something near to this (my faulty memory & habitual hearing whatsoever i prefer taken into consideration),”i believe the borders are aberrations, imposed, which in time will fall away, whereby the inhabitants will return to living harmoniously as they had previously for centuries.”

      Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight & as far as the eye can see.  The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated & has fine columns.  The city is wealthy & industrious.  It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”  (1691, portuguese captain lourenco pinto’s description of Benin City.)

       

    • #58841
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Yes, malicious borders which divide and permit external rule of both are the root cause of much of Africa’s woes. As great a calamity as Sykes-Picot, and including the core duo of Anglo-French imperialists, was the 1885 Berlin Conference. These borders were carefully thought out with utmost malice, to perpetuate subjugation and underdevelopment, facilitating resource vacuuming and pillage..

      The distraught and envious Germans convened this coven of criminals as little of Africa was left to them! But they still used the coven to create even greater horrors – the still extant borders at root of most intra- and extra-state strife.

      This is what the current world war is about in the Ukraine and the Holy Land.

      This informs the western white-hot rage at the AES, and determination to dissolve them through the same bestial salafi Horde as finally wore down Syria — the AES dared to confederate and dissolve the Berlin 1885 borders which permit unending external interference.

      As recounted in above video by the leader of Niger – since this January the AES started to fight as a joint army to incrementally and successfully take back territory controlled by the Horde and other western proxies. And together they are quite potent, being almost 80,000,000 strong, mostly youth, and with top growing economies in entire world. And the experiences, instruction, arms, and other support of the civilizational-states are behind them.

      So the West responded by escalating and openly commanding the Horde in a joint control room, and bringing in salafis, UkroNazis, mercs, etc from worldwide, under Anglo-French lead. Unbelievable.

      The Pirates have no minds – just one-track aggressive bestiality. They’ll just get attrited into non-existence, as nearly happened in ww1. They never learn. Who can take on ALL mankind, as the lunatics aim?!

      And no shame whatsoever. The same “Mujahideen” welcomed into the Oval Orifice by Reagan in early 1980s, then denounced by demented Shrub in 2001, now Orange in 2025 shook the hand of the Horde head headchopper in Riyadh. Anglo exceptionalism, zionazi messianism, and salafi extremism — the three monkeys of our End Times ..

    • #58876
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      bill gates to spend his fortune ‘addressing challenges’ in Africa

       

      https://www.rt.com/africa/618596-bill-gates-africa-investments-plans/

    • #59085
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      Israel’s expanding shadow in Africa’s Great Game

       

      https://thecradle.co/articles/israels-expanding-shadow-in-africas-great-game

    • #60221
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      Assimi Goita Lands in Moscow to Putin’s Full Military honours

       

    • #60602
      HT
      Participant

      Riots erupted in Nairobi and other places around Kenya last week, when Gen Z went back on the streets to commemorate last year’s demonstrations against a controversial finance bill.

      Last year, deeply unpopular President Ruto, his government’s viewed as immensely corrupt, wanted to borrow more money from the IMF but was very vague about future repayment details. Gen Z was not having it and went flag-waving on the streets of Nairobi and around the country. Demos were largely peaceful, but hired goons and criminal gangs caused trouble. Police response was heavy-handed and brutal. Young people died by gunshots to their heads and some were kidnapped, never to be seen or heard from again.

      On one occasion, I happened to be in Nairobi’s central business district where their weekly demos took place. Realizing that it was dead quiet because of the planned demos, I was on my way out of the district when some youth ran past me with Kenyan flags draped over their backs. Before I knew, a riot policeman pulled his trigger and a tear gas cannister flew into our direction, ricocheting a couple of times. Tear gas everywhere. I learned my lesson and I’d make sure I knew which day of the week it was before I head to town again. I also took note of a large group of goons (mostly older, angry-looking men) bearing clubs and purple vests, standing idle and awaiting instructions from their political master.

      Weeks of demos passed before Ruto (no relation to Rutte) caved in and promised changes to his government. The demos stopped. Now, one year later Gen Z has noticed that little has changed, and that only some cabinet members were shuffled around. Hence, this turn of event:

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

      It’s deja vu. Whilst Kenya is not on the frontline of this world war, the empire is eager to keep it impoverished and subservient. Whilst I haven’t seen it myself, my wife drove past it and said the US embassy in Nairobi was enormous. Why? Because it serves as the imperial headquarters of course. Here’s a blurb about the US investing millions in strengthening Kenya democracy and civil society:

      https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-kenya-state-visit-the-united-states#:~:text=Delivering%20Democracy:%20The%20United%20States%20has%20programed,political%20processes%2C%20increase%20women’s%20political%20participation%20and

      We know what that really means of course…

      We’re back in Kampala and I’m catching up on local news. Museveni’s running for re-election next year. Almost four decades in power and it’s still not enough for this go-getter. “Five more years please!”, “Of what though?”, “Well, poverty and undignified living of course!”.

      What’s strange is that there is genuine support for this guy who has been in power before most Ugandans were even born. He brought peace after the last war, some say. Yeah, but he started the last war because he didn’t like the outcome of an election (spoiler: he lost).

      There is also support he buys. Apparently it costs only 5,000 Ugandan shillings (about US$1.40) to buy a vote. Or a big sack of beans for the whole family. People deserve the leaders they get… I saw a group of young motorcyclists driving around, playing loud music and waving yellow flags (the color of Museveni’s political party).  I couldn’t help but notice that they were led by men wearing completely black outfits, with black ski masks and sun glasses covering their entire faces. This isn’t the kind of political campaigning I’m used to, growing up in the West. This is a campaign of intimidation.

      Speaking of intimidation. Museveni’s son and heir (Muhoozi) scares the hell out of people with his behavior and now infamous tweets (Runyankore is the language/dialect of Museveni’s tribe): https://observer.ug/news/muhoozi-gloats-in-abducting-torturing-bobi-wines-bodyguard-eddie-mutwe/ 

      It got so bad, his uncle had to apologize to western ambassadors who were getting concerned… about their investment in the Museveni family. “We’ve opened an enormous imperial headquarters, I mean, US embassy in Kampala. The only future chaos we allow, is the future chaos we instruct you to cause”.

      As such, I find it odd that Uganda is a BRICS partner country. Museveni just likes to have a seat on every grown-up table, methinks. At least, Kenya isn’t pretending that it’s all for the multilateral world. It’s leaders are content being occupied.

      When Museveni dies, people here believe that his son won’t be in power for long. That some fighting will happen and that someone else or a group will take over. Imagine, these people are expecting something like a brief civil war to happen… yet, aren’t doing anything about it to stop it!

      They wish for an Ibrahim Traore, they clamor for Bobi Wine, but do they deserve a good king with this kind of attitude?

      In their own words, “we Ugandans are cowards”.

      Kenyan youth are different. But I worry they’re easily infiltrated by imperial agents.

      This part of the world isn’t on the frontline, but should the empire wish to ignite a fuse here, then it’d be very easy to do so.

      • #60656
        AHH
        Keymaster

        “Ruto (no relation to Rutte) caved in and promised changes”

        Thanks HT.

        This is an apt comparison. Are any two corrupt technocrats of Empire as slick, self-assured, sanctimonious, and with Teflon properties when it comes to looking clean?

        Two favorites of Empire — one a WEF child chosen to lead a former Imperial capital in Netherlands and now NATO. The other is the CEO of one of top African economies, financial capitals, the top port in East Africa (and maritime Silk Road for millennia) in Mombasa, and now gonna host one of main campuses of a downsizing UN. Two men with big sugar daddies!

        • #60658
          HT
          Participant

          Are any two corrupt technocrats of Empire as slick, self-assured, sanctimonious, and with Teflon properties when it comes to looking clean?

           

          Indeed AHH. They are thoroughly rotten. At least, the Kenyans see Ruto for what he is, a corrupt thief, and they’re picking him apart for it.

          Yet, Rutte ended up the longest-serving PM in Dutch history. And that’s the difference.

    • #60613
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      thank you HT!  tears in my eyes, thank you!  i hope you will bring us more news!

      • #60654
        HT
        Participant

        Will do emersonreturn. Kenyans aren’t scared of a fight. They’re brave. I’m very keen to find out how the situation will develop.

        Uganda’s elections are happening early 2026. And I’m also curious to see if Ugandans remain docile or if they’ll give Museveni a harder time.

         

    • #60617
      Anil
      Participant

      Jambo, HT. Mimi natoka Nairobi.

      Thank you so much for your updates!

      • #60655
        HT
        Participant

        Jambo Anil.

        I don’t speak Kiswahili, although I picked up a few words. But Google Translate is my friend.

        Nairobi’s a beautiful place. Its people some of the happiest and kindest I’ve encountered.

        I’ve got fond memories of it.

    • #61406
      AHH
      Keymaster


      ☝️ after physically kicking out Frenchie and Yanqui comes economic sovereignty. Ineluctable processes to be repeated worldwide during enforced Retreats


      💠 @Africa Intel:
      ⭕🇧🇪Alice Harris and her photographs of Belgian colonial crimes

      The history of Belgium’s presence in Africa rarely resonates as loudly in public memory as British or French colonialism. But in terms of the scale of violence and cynicism, it was the Belgian model in the Congo that became one of the most brutal in colonial history.

      It remained in the shadows for a long time, largely because it was controlled not by the state, but by one man: King Leopold II. Two Europeans played a crucial role in exposing these crimes: Alice Harris.

      Alice Harris arrived in the Congo at the beginning of the 20th century with her husband, a missionary. With her photography skills, she began to document the consequences of the atrocities she encountered in the villages. Her photographs show men, women and children who suffered at the hands of local agents of the royal administration. Her most famous work shows a Congolese man named Nsala sitting on the veranda of the mission, with the severed arm and leg of his five-year-old daughter in front of him, who was killed by ABIR guards for failing to meet her rubber quota (photo 1).

      “Collage of the Mutilated” (photo 2). This was a series of portraits showing men and boys with amputated limbs, photographed around 1904–1905 at the missionary station in Baringa.

      “Enslaved men in chains”(photo 3). The photograph shows two men shackled by iron collars and chains, a common punishment for resistance or debt during the Leopoldian era (c. 1903–1905).

      #ColonialCrimes
      ⭕ 🇸🇸🇩🇯Eight Men Deported to South Sudan After Legal Dispute and Detour Through Djibouti

      The United States has deported eight men to South Sudan, ending a prolonged legal dispute that had left them stranded in Djibouti for several weeks.

      The group included individuals convicted of serious crimes such as murder, sexual assault, and robbery. According to U.S. officials, most had either completed their prison terms or were nearing release.

      Notably, only one of the eight men is a South Sudanese national. The others are citizens of Myanmar, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, and Mexico. U.S. authorities stated that these individuals were sent to South Sudan because their countries of origin declined to take them back.

      The move comes amid efforts by the Trump administration to broaden deportation policies, including the practice of sending individuals to third countries when repatriation is blocked.

      #SouthSudan #Djiboti

      💠 @Sputnik Africa:
      Nigeria Rejects US Pressure to Accept Venezuelan Deportees

      “You have to also bear in mind that the US is mounting considerable pressure on African countries to accept Venezuelans to be deported from the US, some straight out of prison,” Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Brazil.

      🗣Citing Nigeria’s own substantial population of 230 million, the minister added, “It will be difficult for a country like Nigeria to accept Venezuelan prisoners into Nigeria. We have enough problems of our own.”

      This follows a recent White House meeting where Trump’s administration reportedly asked five visiting African leaders – from Liberia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Gabon – to take in migrants deported from the US who are not their own nationals.

      An internal State Department document reportedly outlined this request for the “dignified, safe, and timely transfer” of these third-country nationals.

      ❗️Trump has been pushing to accelerate deportations, even by rerouting migrants to third countries when repatriation to their home nations faces obstacles.
      [unbelievable. Is Orange attempting to torch what remains of US prestige disrepute? He is personally affixing the Scarlet Letter on his own bosom]

      💠 @🌎🛡 GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      ⭕📸 🇺🇸 Image of the week: Trump sitting in the White House, surrounded by the presidents of five African countries who remained standing by his side.
      [these five who humiliated themselves, our L to R: Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon, Liberia (“where did you learn to speak English so well?”), and Guinea-Bissau. Shame!
      NB. All are compradores grabbed from Frenchie (except Liberia) and which have eastern Atlantic coasts — i.e. sold basing for FOBs]

    • #61407
      cronetoo
      Participant

      An empty desk reflects… an empty mind.

      He’s the only one smiling.

       

    • #61408
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      I cannot tell you what it does to the African soul in me to see that photo of the neocolonialist slaves arranged in a standing lineup with Trump seated.  I want to fight and walk down that row and smack ’em in the kisser with the back of my hand, and say:  “No man! how can you disrespect yourself so much!”

      Grrrr .. I could have lived without seeing that.  Yet, those are the neocolonialist slaves that are doing something that, at least in the South of Africa, has major significance.  Africans in the south (old days) would put themselves lower than the one with the authority, as a sign of respect.  So, they should have sat, and Trump should have stood, to get the cultural image correct.

      • #61411
        AHH
        Keymaster

        It’s like a reverse Golden Shower on his guests… all of them.
        A real freak show.

        No wonder the Iranians refused to meet in person, and Putin keeps smiling gently (and promising to EVENTUALLY entertain the thought of attending a possible one-on-one meeting, if the stars align, and time permits, and he is a really good lad)



    • #61689
      HT
      Participant

      That image of the five lackeys standing behind their overlord should be widely distributed. Especially in the countries these so-called leaders come from.

    • #61696
      AHH
      Keymaster

      💠 @Arab_Africa:   
      ⭕ 🇱🇾🇺🇸 US Airline Carries Out Regular Patrols in Libyan Airspace

      According to Africa Intelligence, US Army airline Berry Aviation has been actively carrying out regular reconnaissance and transport flights between Misrata and Benghazi in recent weeks.

      The company is based in Texas and provides services to various US federal agencies, including the Special Operations Command and the Department of Defense. The company uses Dash 8-200 aircraft for flights over Libya, which depart from the company’s bases in Kenya, Abidjan [Ivory Coast], as well as Benin and Ghana.

      ☝️ I’ve marked in the following map the hottest zones and official Forward Operating Bases (FOBs):

      • GREEN-BLUE: main targets of western aggression at the moment (hottest circled)
      • PINK-RED: the four FOBs who openly host spy planes above and likely drones (doesn’t include occult ones such as Nigeria, Chad, etc)
      • ORANGE: the five sellouts who stood behind Orange, as well as open compradore states Morocco and Rwanda, and the international base-city-state of Djibouti

      Western Sahara is occupied by Morocco, thus most of the western coast of Africa provides FOBs to attack the richer interior..

      These coastal states have traditionally been least plagued with war and abject poverty, permitted a decent QOL to keep them quiet, whilst the interior was bled white and rarely entered modernity.

      Much of the coming fight will be to remove pirate footprints on these coastal criminal regimes permitting the neocolonial paradigm on all to persist. This is where the revolution of military affairs shall prove salutary – esp precision missiles and drones, and the higher MIC capacity of the interior backed by the civilizational-states to end Vampire Balls and essentially free resource extraction.

      The ramrod posture of the five desperate men behind Agent Chaos needs to be understood in the context they know it is End of the Line and the jig’s up. Fat Humpty Dumpty fell off the Wall, and all the King’s and Queen’s men cannot push back Time.

      • #61828
        HT
        Participant

        Thanks AHH.

        Looking at the map, I cannot help but apply Mackinder’s heartland theory.

        I wonder, does control of the Sahelian and/or Saharan areas give control over the vast lands of the entire continent?

        • #61831
          AHH
          Keymaster

          I believe so. In Lineaments 01 I noted the painful consequences of Geography for Africa – even before the European colonization.

          What the West has done is maintain this essential lack of intra-African and external connectivity of Africa to the wider worldthus entrenching underdevelopment and lack of progress/modernity.

          To this day, most Africans have extremely limited infrastructure (roads/rail) – the few which mostly run from the mines/plantations/factories to the nearest sea port … not within the continent or trade with each other. So Burkina Faso would ship out tomatoes to France and receive tomato paste back at exorbitant price (!!) and so on. Clearly disadvantageous, low-value-added resource management, maintained by neocolonial compradore elites.

          “geography formed the dominant and long continuing challenge inherent in connectivity with Africa. Further than Western neo-colonialism, “the geographic barriers to economic and cultural exchanges within and without sub-Saharan Africa have been formidable,” hindering development and promoting provincialism, fragmentation, and insularity. Thus building infrastructure and connections in challenging terrain, as well as detachment from a western grasp focused on resource-extraction and willful underdevelopment, provide the key mechanisms of helping Africa to develop. “

          https://web.archive.org/web/20220827201357/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zghnq_4u6MI

          So squatting on the interior of Africa (now switched to implanting forever wars and permanent Chaos), what Conrad aptly termed their “Heart of Darkness” (more an expression of their way of life) is not merely about raping and plundering the richest areas – it is about prevention of building of roads/rail and connections traversing Africa, and thus an internal economy and self-sufficiency within the entire continent. Another way to maintain colonial borders, and thus keep neighbors permanently divided, for easier external exploitation. They want to remain permanent middlemen, have free lunches, and keep all permanently poor and miserable…

          both my father and CAF long ago used similar phrases – he was talking of the Swiss and she of Banksters/West in general – that “misery is a business model.” Or what Putin termed the Vampire Ball. And if the West were permitted, and had a chance of winning this world war being waged to defang and declaw them and permanently roll them back, they would maintain these satanic unequal and criminal relations with all other civilizations until Kingdom Come.

    • #61832
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Yup, and each time there was a glimmer of light, the IMF moved in and changed the trade, by different ways, enforcement, or buying out the leaders for perpetual neo-colonialism. That wonderful little strip of country, Malawi, just to the right of Zambia and the top of Mozambique, was one of my ‘development countries’ that I studied. Right on the glorious Lake Malawi, which was a food forest and wonderful growing areas – a literal food basket. And not too far from Mozambican harbor for export, even if just to the rest of Africa, if we could develop the products. Namibia is mainly desert – mainly sheep and the Karacul sheep. Botswana is half desert. Botswana at the time was developing just fine – Tourism mainly and also cattle and had still big animals. And then, in the little Malawi, the IMF moved in – told the local population their leader (Hastings Banda) was a dictator (which he was, but benevolent – like an African father for his people). But he still believed the Brits, unfortunately. And soon after, there was ‘democratic elections’, the locals started fighting all these new ideas, instead of the coherence that our benevolent dictator maintained and the bread basket was hungry and the debt was growing.

      To my mind it is only the Sahel that is breaking free in a sane manner. Most of the rest of Africa still has strong neo-colonial habits. The populations,reading the various media, are more involved in a blame game about colonialism than a game of proper development. And now in Mozambique, the ISIS types have moved in big time.

      There is much criticism for China with their investment in Africa, but they’ve learned .. they have to keep hands-on until an industry is fully inculcated. They give loan forgiveness now and again, but they are like our benevolent dictator. Of course in Mozambique the Chinese had hold of the one port, a new airport, roads up to the lake or at least one usuable road, and good development and then, ISIS for you buddies! If one plumbs this ISIS business, you see the hands of Takfiris from the Gulf States.

      The African wars are not simple at the moment. Colonialism in a sense was almost benign compared to the strategies and tactics today.

    • #61848
      HT
      Participant

      It is a business model. And it sure keeps people’s spirits down too. Ugandans are far more miserable in outlook and demeanor than Kenyans. It’s painful and sad to hear some Ugandans (very few, but still) genuinely wishing for the Brits to return and fix their potholes and, well, everything else wrong here.

      On the other hand, I hear that Uganda is so fertile it could feed the whole of Africa (!). Hyperbolic or not, it shows there’s, fortunately, a confidence in their land and themselves. They’re just waiting for that good king or African father to come.

      Btw, Ugandan soil is considered to be so fertile that the zionazis dug some of it up during Operation Entebbe in 1976 and transported it to Israel post-haste.

      I agree that colonialism at least was honest with its brutality, naked aggression, and psychological warfare. Neocolonialism is very underhanded.

    • #61907
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      i’m hoping amarynth will give us her take on this discussion.

       

      • #61999
        amarynth
        Keymaster

        I will do .. a little time please.

        Just take a look as to who is being blamed now … Nelson Mandela, Traoré is not quite doing it, …. it is screwy from that DEI university.  (That is the same as the Black Empowerment Legislation, (BEE) which means you must get a job with salary and benefits, even if you never turn up.)

         

    • #62007
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      My dearest emersoonreturn,

      I do not know what you want me to say, but I’ve said some things.  The problem is that most of Africa is still so entangled in neo-colonialism, and it is not ‘the other guys fault’.

      This starts with a liberation movement that does not end up well – they are there to liberate but not to govern effectively.  YEAH! and then the excuses start.

      The white party … How dumb is Jamarl?  How many times has he been there?  Has he ever looked at the DA?  It is an integrated management team and a multi-cultural party.  I guess in this sphere, he is skating on thin ice by applying his Western values.  He does not know what he is talking about.  The DA is the 2nd largest party without which the ANC cannot survive.  If the DA walks, the ANC has no mandate to govern.   The DA is a relative white party as they are from the Cape Province and there are relatively more whites, coloreds and indians.  Rainbow nation duh!

      The white genocide … If he used his head, and looked at the numbers, the killings of farmers are critical. The crime rate is sky high, and if you roll it into the crime rate, it looks like nothing which shows how pathetic the crime rate is.  But if you start comparing.. farmer killings (and it is now all colors but there are relatively fewer black farmers) as a percentage of for example, killings of any other grouping, it is way beyond – compare that rate of killings of farmers with say … uhm, killings of policeman, the farmers are way ahead.  Farmers in South Africa are being killed at a higher rate than a small war.   Trump called ‘white genocide’, nobody else.   Nowadays the farmers are solidly connected with radios and can call for help very quickly.  The local social groups are intent on security.

      I just replayed the New African Covenant, from Traoré, before I saw your video here…

      Mandela was a stop gap president? What shortsightedness. He (and his alter ego) set a tone, they set a value .. and that was the value of a Rainbow Nation (many tribes or ethic groups) .. not a bunch of liberators that steal and refuse to govern. Always remember that the ANC inherited a functioning and thriving country, and now ALL state organizations are bankrupt – the airlines, the railways, the post office, the power generators… everything – all state governed service operators.  The ANC screwed it up totally. Not even the IMF or World Bank will give them loans any longer, and I’ve said before that BRICS won’t give them a sou, because they don’t develop; they steal it. And that has not changed.

      Mandela was in negotiations from the late 1980’s with the so called freedom election or democracy in 1994. He was neither isolated nor ignored and had his team with him even in the jail.  How bitter, to blame Mandela. How little does one have left over if you have to blame Madiba, the clan name of The Father of the Nation?.

      The ANC missed the opportunity, and they were advised by ‘whites’ on black empowerment to make structural changes. Now, the whites are to blame again. That is a dead ANC give-away – blame the other one, best if it is a white.

      Now, after 30 years, they want to do something? They’ve failed. How many do-overs do they want?

      People have rights, they can speak – he says. But they cannot live. They cannot eat. And they want to smash the state? That means smashing themselves, the ANC and I concur heartily. The state that made it so that they cannot eat? The story about wearing military uniforms – that is just nonsense. Traoré is at war .. it is a military administration – the western forces have put a mess of ISIS types on the Sahel States. Traoré has been there for just a few years, and he has thrown France out.  South Africa still are in cahoots with the ‘white’ bosses – they call it minority capital, but if that leaves, nobody will eat. Because it is relatively simple, they could not establish a government or an economic system that works.  They intend to make the Bolshevik mistakes.

      The race laws do not support the poor masses. They encourage those that do not work, do not learn and do not do anything … because they can shout race laws.  See how clever – those that cannot get the neo-colonialists out because they are in full cahoots,  by saying it is not a fundamental change. Uhm .. that kind of criticism just pissed me off.  Psychology of subordination?   Take a look at Traoré, he is not throwing out French that work with him .. he is throwing out those that are taking the Burkina Faso’s wealth in mining or in any other productive endeavour and in the main, he is economically supporting it locally – So what is this guy jealous about?  He is still decolonizing his mind? Sure sure .. Let’s keep a colonized mind so we have an excuse.

      The interviewee is also not South African, although he lectures there.  He is almost certainly from Northern climes, judging by his last name.  That name does not exist but it exists further North.

      You’re listening to a skilled ANC operative who would not be able to run a spaza shop if it were given to him.  He is there to encourage DEI at university level.  (Spaza shop, little local grocery, like very local grocery and daily milk and bread store – all universities in the country are now DEI shops.).

      Jamarl?  Well, what shall I say?   The man is deceived, and perhaps he wants to be deceived. Maybe he has to get on a plane and visit – and purchase from the little Spaza shops and hear what the real folks on the ground are saying these days.

      They cannot even agree on a budget. This is the latest from President Cyril Ramaphosa.

      Even as the world faces difficult economic headwinds, our economic reform agenda will create the conditions for higher growth and investment, while renewing our infrastructure for generations to come. (Now he has said that for the past 8 years!)

      Economic reform agenda?  He has said that for eight years!  Here is just one response. There were thousands, and all of them said .. Get Out! You are an incompetent fool who robs the country and helps your buddies to rob it more.  And the people stay hungry.

      Hay Cyril I truly thought you were different from the rest but this Mkhwanazi situation has exposed you completely. You’ve shown that you’d rather protect the ANC’s image & its corrupt comrades than stand up for the people of this country.

      Time & time again, you turn a blind eye to the very things that are destroying South Africa, collapsing institutions, lawlessness, illegal immigration & public sector looting all to protect a party not a nation. While you polish the ANC’s legacy, millions of South Africans are sinking deeper into poverty, unemployment & hopelessness. You are a disgrace to the legacy of black South Africans & those who fought & died for democracy. OMandela noHani didn’t sacrifice everything just so future generations would still be trapped in poverty, living with empty promises & staged unity. If this is what “freedom” looks like, then their fight was in vain because the black majority is still suffering, not thriving. History will remember this betrayal.

      Mkhwanzini was a fine, high-level police commissioner who uncovered graft from the political class. Ramaphosa gave that political class nice vacations, while they were under investigation. So far, not a word as far as I know.  This has happened repeatedly. I guess they need a real revolution to throw their lazy asses out and put the people who can govern a country to work. The danger is that this revolution is coming from the two small parties that are worse than the ANC. The one party led by the former president is quite something – he built himself a large village, utilizing state resources and labor, and lives there comfortably with his entourage of wives, numerous swimming pools, and fleets of luxury cars.

      Finally, Trump made a deal .. stop the race laws, stop the landgrabs without compensation and Trump the High Lord will be kind with tariffs.  They did not and now the tariffs are about 40% all told.   I see hungry people.

      OK; you have my comments.  It is a pity, because I love Africa.

       

    • #62014
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      bless you, amarynth! for confirmation.  🕊️   agreed, absolutely, from the get go the interview was off.    regrettably there is so little news (aside from AI) & africa is so crucial that i persevered, hoping i’d missed something.

      it’s all but impossible to fathom that an entire continent under going the most monumental change in humanity’s history escapes even cursory attention!  in such times as these, one would think africa’s ascension would enthral every nation, even here in the empire’s wasteland, even here there is a desperate need for good news, let alone gravity changing.

      sigh, perhaps sputnik africa will start a carousel of panels/interviews similar to rt’s.  possibly a university’s newspaper or radio station?

       

    • #62022
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Femi Akomolafe is the only one that I know that writes on these things … in English.  He has a burning article out now, but local stuff and probably difficult to get.

      There was one piece that struck me:

      “You cannot claim to be oppressed and yet carry yourself as the conqueror of every land you set foot upon.” You cannot cry marginalization in one breath and, in the next, impose your royal titles, tribal colors, and brash behavior in a land that is not yours.

      Have we learned nothing from history?

      Let us revisit the ugly chapters we often pretend never happened— no apology to those who may call it washing dirty linen in public. We are not in the image laundry business as polemicists. We are in the naked truth business. There is no integrity in calling out and cussing imperialism and racism while we romanticize our shortcomings in Africa.”

      He is not behind a pay wall, so you can read here:  https://femiakogun.substack.com/p/igbo-kingdom-of-commotion

      He says:  I am an unapologetic Pan-Africanist who is unconditionally opposed to any form or manifestation of racism, fascism, and discrimination.  There are not many of those around that say these things.  It is quite a joke .. if he has a piece that we can use, I always tell him “The whites are raiding again!  May I use this or that piece?” and we laugh … because we both know and we both are irked!

      Sputnik has an Africa X channel, but both Sputnik and RT only write about those who are Russia-oriented, and because of that, they sometimes publish absolute rubbish and interview the dregs, as long as they say they love Russia.    This channel sometimes has some good info:  https://t.me/africaintel  

      I did see an article today that describes how the media sphere is changing to independent media –  first because of cost-cutting and secondly because people have had enough of the bad media.

    • #62028
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      muchas gracias, amigo!  bookmarked, archived!

    • #62077
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Hi emersonreturn, RT has a reasonable article mainly about Nelson Mandela. In it, you will see how much of the original video is just wrong and I get so mad if they slander Mandela. You will see from his quotes in the article that he wanted the country to bury the hatchet. https://www.rt.com/africa/621448-nelson-mandela-lifelong-struggle/

      You will also notice that Mandela eventually started negotiations after rejecting them a number of times, but not under the the ANC. So, you may understand why I get so angry with the current bunch, because they have sold out every principle that Mandela set out – every sense of true reconciliation that there ever was.

      The white community was with Mandela. Anyway, much better article than the usual. There are a few detail problems. Each time it is described that some action was ‘peaceful’, it was very violent, from all sides.

      That beautiful and productive country these ANC dicks and criminals broke apart. I wonder if people even have any idea what a successful reconciliation in South Africa could have meant for the rest of Africa. It could have been the Burkina Faso of the times.

      Mandela: “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white”
      “I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred… The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity,”

      He understood the path of freedom very deeply.

      “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

      “It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination. Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial and, when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

      Now check this: “The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism. When it triumphs, it will not change that policy.”

      And lo and behold, Mandela was hardly cold in his grave and they changed that policy.

    • #62100
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      mandela’s courage united the world even so far away as athabasca. most native homes had photographs of him.  summers i worked on fire towers on the edge of wood buffalo park, the firefighters were native, & when they heard a girl had been stationed, the first woman ever, they knew i’d have some trouble…isolated for 40 to 50 days @ a stretch, not used to having burn garbage, not used to bears or wolves or black flies.  the first fire they brought me a picture of mandela, ‘he’ll help see you through.  he’s in solitary too.’

    • #62258
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      China & Africa are destroying DeBeers diamond cartel

       

       

       

    • #62264
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Get France out of Africa? (New wordsound for disgust, that I learned from Marwa Osman: Tfeh. Make it like spitting!)

      French Company Canal+ Acquires Pan-African Broadcaster MultiChoice

      South Africa’s antitrust regulator has conditionally approved the acquisition of pan-African media group MultiChoice by French television company Canal+ for $2 billion.

      The deal paves the way for the creation of Africa’s largest pay-TV and streaming business. Canal+ has been gradually purchasing MultiChoice shares since the deal was announced last year and will now buy out the remaining stakes from shareholders. The transaction is expected to close by October 8.

      So, an African broadcaster has just been sold to a French broadcaster. This is how neo-colonialsm is supported – for money. How hard is Russia and China working to build a broadcasting network that is not western.

      My dad had a word that he used for disgust .. Njef. I’m using both lol. There is the saying that they use in the UNSC and in African high level meetings: African solutions for African problems. It is only the Sahel States and Ebrahim Traoré that is living the truth. It is not good. Most of the rest are still in it for the money.

      We can watch and hope and encourage.

    • #62337
      Nico Cost
      Participant

      Go With Ali went to Burkina Faso

    • #62989
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      News Burkina Faso.  I found something-

      There is a lot of media (French crap) with all the media organizations complaining that Burkina Faso banned a lot of media.  All of the Reporters without borders and so on are just complaining. But I also see that Burkina Faso is trying to throw out videos of fighting.  What is true, I do not know.   We do need to remember that they are at war with the headchoppers.  The whole bunch that I looked at today does not feel healthy.

      But here is one thing.  I think this X channel is Ebrahim Traorés real X Channel. It is not blue checkmarked but the few that I translated – well the language is right.  https://x.com/capitaineib226?lang=en

      So, I would say we could look at that. Withouth the blue checkmark, it is tedious as one has to copy to a translator and copy back in if you want to use it because there is no translation on the French tweets.  (I don’t touch Grok).  But look at this:  Sounds right eh?

      Captain Ibrahim TRAORÉ @CapitaineIb226 · 12h On August 5, 1960, 65 years ago, our country’s independence was proclaimed.

      On this commemorative day, I invite every Burkinabe to become more aware of the richness of our history, the diversity of our cultural expressions, the strength of our unity, and our ability to be the sole masters of our destiny and the destiny of our country.

      I pay a vibrant tribute to our elders who courageously fought, often at the cost of the supreme sacrifice, for the true independence and emancipation of our country.

      Their sacrifice and determination still inspire us today in our commitment to a free and dignified Burkina Faso. We must look to the future with ambition, confidence, and determination.

      We must continue to build a prosperous, just, and united country that will guarantee the full development of every citizen. I am confident that through our hard work, our sense of duty, and our shared desire to succeed, we will be able to overcome the challenges ahead and build a better future for future generations.

      Happy Independence Day! HOMELAND OR DEATH, WE SHALL WIN.

      And this media .. here, what we need to do, is to sleuth a little and find a journalist that seems right and ‘holy’.  If we find someone, I will approach them and check out and make an agreement.  Anyway, this is not a one day job as one has to read over time.  Anyone with a little time that can help sleuth .. would be so welcome.

      https://www.africanews.com/country/burkina-faso/

       

       

    • #63156
      AHH
      Keymaster

      “UAE bars Sudanese flights after Khartoum downs Emirati plane transporting Colombian mercenaries

      Sudan severed diplomatic ties with the UAE earlier this year over its alleged support for the RSF paramilitary group engaged in a civil war against the Sudanese army

      💠 @Arab_Africa:
      ⭕ 🇹🇩 The government of Chad has begun a campaign against local politicians with American passports.

      According to local sources, on July 14, the secretary general of the opposition party Les Transformateurs Ndoléba Nzéssa was prevented from leaving Chad and his Chadian and American passports were confiscated as he prepared to fly to the United States on a Turkish Airlines flight. It was a *fascinating* discussion
      [Chad’s an interesting country. A true wild card, feared by all. They are kinda like Yemenis. Neighbors of the AES Sahel Juntas, and reportedly in discussion to confederate with them. Several weeks ago, when Orange blocked visas to them and many others, they immediately retaliated by blocking visas to Yanquis]
      Russia Libya⭕ 🇱🇾🇷🇺🇺🇸 AFRICOM continues to be concerned about the increasing Russian presence in Africa

      The “Africa Defense Forum” magazine of the U.S. Africa Command “AFRICOM” recently once again “expressed concern” about the expansion of Russian military and economic presence in Africa, particularly in Libya.

      The “concerns” are, as always, vague and lack any specifics. However, local experts and analysts regularly speak appreciatively about the assistance and security stability that came with the Russian military instructors. Experts especially note the successful counter-terrorism operations in the Sahel countries in cooperation with local armed forces.

      💠 @Africa Intel:
      ⭕ 🇲🇱 Mali: Army Strikes Leave Over 70 Militants Dead

      Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) have intensified their offensive operations against terrorist groups across several regions of the country. In recent days, a series of successful strikes have resulted in heavy militant losses.

      • July 15: Sahel Alliance air forces conducted a precise strike on a terrorist gathering in Anderamboukane (Menaka region), killing around 40 militants.
      • July 17: A major training and supply base was destroyed in Niono (Segou region), with 30 terrorists neutralized.
      • July 19: FAMa forces destroyed two armed pickups escorting a logistics convoy near Aguelhok.
      • On the same day, another militant stronghold was destroyed in Tin Aicha (Timbuktu region)

      #Mali
      ⭕ 🇲🇱Malian Army Neutralizes Senior Daesh Leader in Chimam

      On Monday, July 21, 2025, the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) successfully carried out a precision operation targeting a senior figure of the terrorist group Daesh in the locality of Chimam, about 45 km from Ménaka.

      The mission, based on accurate intelligence, targeted Souleymane Ag Bakawa, known by the alias “Soldat”, a deserter turned active Daesh commander. He was implicated in a series of violent incidents, including the murder of two police officers and MSA fighters in Ménaka, the execution of civilians including community leaders, and the recent abduction of Sidi Barka, head of Ménaka’s civil society.

      Caught by surprise at dawn in his camp, “Soldat” attempted to resist with the help of Daesh reinforcements. However, the swift and decisive response of the FAMa successfully neutralized him.

      This operation once again highlights the growing capabilities of the Malian army and its firm commitment to combating terrorism and ensuring the security and stability of the nation.
      ⭕ Fun Fact: In less than 5 years, the Malian army has eliminated more terrorist leaders than MINUSMA and the French army did in 10 years…
      ⭕🇩🇿Algeria Replaces Morocco as Chair of AU Peace and Security Council

      In August, Algeria assumed the rotating chairmanship of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC). Elected for a three-year term during an extraordinary AU Executive Council session in Ethiopia, Algeria secured 34 votes from member states — defeating Libya, which received only 15. This marks a turnaround from February 2025, when Morocco narrowly blocked Algeria’s bid by a single vote.

      The PSC includes 15 members. Alongside Algeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Eswatini were also elected for three-year terms; the rest serve two years.

      Algeria plans to focus on critical security issues in Sudan, South Sudan, and engage with African members of the UN Security Council. The country previously held a seat from 2008 to 2021, contributing to the creation of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), including the CEWS and ASF systems, and was active in peace efforts in Mali, Libya, and Somalia.

      Observers expect Algeria to use its leadership to advance positions on Western Sahara and Mali.
      ⭕🇲🇱🇨🇳New Armor for Mali: China Delivers Heavy Equipment

      Photos have surfaced online showing the unloading of 36 Chinese Norinco CS/VP14 MRAP armored vehicles, reportedly in a West African port — likely Guinea.

      This shipment marks the beginning of a larger contract: Mali has ordered a total of 160 units to reinforce its army in the fight against terrorism. The current batch is expected to be transported overland to Mali in the coming days.

      What makes this delivery significant is battlefield experience. Russian fighters who took part in counter-terrorism operations in Mali praised the vehicles, noting that during IED attacks, the MRAPs provided solid protection — some injuries occurred, but no fatalities.

      In high-risk environments, that level of protection can mean the difference between life and death. The arrival of these armored vehicles signals a clear intention: Mali is rearming with proven, practical equipment — and preparing for the next phase of its internal security mission.

      💠 @Sputnik Africa:
      ⭕ US Court Dismisses Malian Child Labor Lawsuit Against Chocolate Giants

      Plaintiffs’ attorney said they are “extremely disappointed” and considering legal options. In an email letter, quoted by a US legal news site, he stated the defendants hid supply chain details, preventing victims from proving links to the farms where they were exploited as children.

      ✊ Eight Malian plaintiffs, who were trafficked as children to Ivorian cocoa farms and forced to work there, accused Hershey, Nestle and five other companies of:

      • Knowingly benefitting from supply chains involving forced labor;
      • Violating the US Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.
        ⚖️ Judge expressed “the greatest sympathy” for the victims, and “the greatest condemnation” to the exploiters, but ruled against the case, saying the plaintiffs “lacked standing” as:
      • Plaintiffs failed to prove direct connection between specific companies and farms;
      • They couldn’t identify which farms supplied which defendants;
      • General allegations about industry-wide practices insufficient.

      💠 @Arab_Africa:
      ⭕ 🇱🇾🇫🇷 French Armed Forces will establish their base in southwestern Libya

      Local sources report that the French Armed Forces have started sending military equipment to the city of Ghadames in coordination with Major General Usama al-Juwaili. According to sources, al-Juwaili is preparing the airfield in the mentioned city to hand it over to the French. Recently, by the way, he visited Ghadames for an inspection.

      After the French were driven out of the Sahel countries, they became in urgent need of permanent deployment locations in the region, and Ghadames is quite suitable for these purposes, as it is located near Algeria and Niger, from where they will be able to conduct their destructive activities and support terrorist groups in the Sahel.

      💠 @🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      ⭕🇳🇪 Niger creates a civilian militia called “Shields of the Homeland”

      The M62 movement launched the Garkouwar Kassa initiative, a volunteer force intended to support the army.

      According to the authorities, citizens will participate in night patrols, efforts to combat disinformation, and patriotic education.

      The project, approved by the Advisory Council for Reforms, has already started in Niamey.

      This fits into a regional trend: just like the VDP in Burkina Faso, Niger’s initiative is a response to the terrorist threat in a context of limited military resources.

      However, strict supervision, proper training, and subordination to military command seem necessary to avoid abuses.
      [much is percolating under the surface in the Sahel, the most promising laboratory for creating a post-neocolonial paradigm. These militias are the equivalent of the Soviet Smersh, or the current Iranian Basij. Very useful to creating internal security, augmenting the armed forces, and promoting confidence and tranquility in the targeted nation. No development or future positive hopes can be realized whilst under the shadow of western forever wars and terrorism] 

    • #63175
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      we knew empire wouldn’t forsake africa.   the transition from north america to an entire continent has begun but very like Palestine, very like russia, it’s a new day, a dawning where empire commits seppuku before our eyes.

    • #63254
      AHH
      Keymaster

      More than India and Latin America, the two greatest sources of loot, plunder and essentially free and limitless rent extraction that built the West and the Anglo-American imperium into Jungle Borrell’s “The Garden” have been the stupendous resources of Africa and the Persian Gulf energy. This world war is being fought mainly to retain these — focusing on attriting the civilizational-states through direct kinetic attack and the methodical piecemeal and wholesale-erasing of the Arabs squatting on MENA, the most strategic real estate on Earth, at the Levantine junction of the World-Island (the land bridge between Afro-Asia).

      Here’s more good news from Africa.

      One cannot take on the entire planet, and Cosmos, and not lose focus and energy in many directions. “Jack of all trades, Master of none”. It also informs their ever escalating rage and madness, realizing how they’re being in turn methodically defeated everywhere. And that even if they were to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat from the civilizational-states, the genie is outta the bottle in Africa, requiring another century of bitter ground slog and exterminating to retake a former fiefdom.

      💠 @Sputnik Africa:
      Niger Nationalizes Major Gold Miner SML After Australian Operator’s Failure

      ✍️ President Abdourahamane Tiani signed an order to take full control of the Societe des Mines du Liptako (SML) to save this strategic company that operates two key gold mines, the government said in a statement.

      ⛏️In 2019, state-owned SOPAMIN mining company transferred 80% of its SML shares to Australian McKinel Resources, which committed to revive SML’s operations and invest $10 million within months.

      But six years later, the government reported:

      • No investment plan submitted;
      • Unpaid taxes and wages;
      • Heavy debt and no new funding;
      • SML owes significant tax arrears to Niger.

      ⚠️The statement outlined the severe operational failures that necessitated nationalization:

      • repeated shutdowns,
      • over half the workforce to be laid off,
      • unpaid salaries,
      • no insurance or social security,
      • constant supply disruptions.


      ☝️ LOL. Agadez was the US Armed Forces and CIA’s largest drone facility in all of Africa. Prompting Vicious Vicky Nuland to come running in July 2023, within days of the coup, in vain hopes of splitting themselves from the bitter Frenchie fate

      💠 @Africa Intel:
      ⭕ 🇧🇫Burkina Faso is actively modernizing its military strength

      In recent months, the army has received the latest types of weaponry, including the SR5 guided multiple rocket launchers, VN22B armored vehicles, and SM6/WMA09 self-propelled artillery systems. In May, Chinese CS/SH1 howitzers were delivered, confirming the country’s effort to update its arsenal.

      As a result, Ouagadougou is building a highly mobile military force equipped with modern heavy weaponry, capable of swiftly responding to threats and striking at long distances. |media|
      [Let’s holler after them in unison: “China is ripping off the poor Africans!” Or was it providing the means to emancipation and her maintenance?]
      ⭕ 🇳🇪 Niger reclaims its gold: the country’s main mine is nationalised

      The President of Niger, Abdourahamane Tiani, has ordered the nationalization of the Société des Mines du Liptako (SML SA), the country’s sole industrial gold producer, due to serious contractual violations.

      The company, largely controlled by the Australian McKinel Resources, failed to invest the promised 10 million dollars, accumulated tax debts, failed to pay salaries, and carried out mass layoffs.

      The Nigerien state is taking control of this strategic sector, continuing the trend of nationalizing uranium mines, which began in 2024. This decision reflects the intention to return full control of the country’s resources to the people of Niger.

      In 2023, the Samira Hill mine (managed by SML SA) produced only 180 kg of gold, far below expected levels. Meanwhile, artisanal cooperatives in Niger continue to produce around 2 tons of gold annually.

    • #63256
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      africa’s awakening cannot be overlooked, africa is the essential balance to the evil of gaza, africa & gaza are  saucers of the scale.  equal.   africa’s resurrection & gaza’s reckoning must balance, such days as these test humanity, without a collective soul searching we can go no further.   this is not a test.

    • #64214
      AHH
      Keymaster

      💠 @Russian MFA:
      ⭕ 🎙 Statement by Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Dmitry Polyanskiy at a UNSC Briefing on Threats to International Peace and Security caused by ISIL (New York, August 20, 2025)

      💬 Dmitry Polyanskiy: We agree with the assessment contained therein that the danger posed by this international terrorist organization is not getting lower. The group is adapting to new conditions, including by changing the geography of its activities. It is increasingly pivoting to Africa.

      ⚠️ The events of recent decades clearly show who has paved the way for terrorists coming to Africa. The destruction of state institutions in Libya and Iraq as a result of NATO interventions created a long-term power and security vacuum, which militants have taken advantage of.

      Today, in pursuit of their geopolitical interests, the former colonial powers continue to support illegal armed groups on the African continent and exploit local tensions and socio-economic problems.

      ***

      We firmly condemn the use of terrorism by certain Western countries as a tool of their neocolonial policies.

      African States have repeatedly emphasized that instead of the pledged support, they have actually received subversive activities. This fact clearly explains why long-standing so-called counterterrorism operations were hardly effective.

      ❗️ A rallying cry of fighting terrorism served merely as a pretext for continued foreign military presence, which runs counter to the interests of the affected states.

      ***

      There are concrete facts that clearly demonstrate that the Ukrainian special services, including the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, have been involved in subversive activities in the Sahel countries and other regions of Africa.

      They are supplying militants with weapons and drones, training them how to use this weaponry, coordinating the actions of terrorists, including JNIM in Mali, and deploying trained mercenaries to act against local governments.

      👉 All of the above requires a thorough international investigation involving the relevant UN mechanisms.

      ***

      Russia has consistently advocated for an honest, depoliticized, and results-oriented fight against terrorism without any “hidden agendas.”

      We are open to cooperation with UN member states and UN structures on the basis of the principles of the UN Charter, above all sovereign equality of States and non-interference in internal affairs.

      ☝️ Only international cooperation based on mutual respect and dialogue will help achieve a lasting decrease in the terrorist threat and strengthen international security.

      Read in full

    • #64293
      AHH
      Keymaster

      💠 @Sputnik Africa:
      Burkina Faso Targets 6,000 Tonnes of Wheat by 2025–2026, Dependent on Fertilizer Supply, Official Says

      🌱Despite global disruptions caused by sanctions on Russian fertilizers, Burkina Faso has moved proactively to secure supplies, Malick Niang, board member of the West African Fertilizer Association, noted.

      “We are seeing much larger flows through the ports, whether in Abidjan or Lomé. There is an increase in the use of agricultural inputs,” he told Sputnik Africa.

      🔸Rising crop yields could help the country cut its reliance on imports, according to the speaker.

      “It is important for landlocked countries like Burkina Faso to secure a minimum level of local production—maybe 50% to 60% of local cereal consumption,” the official explained.

      💠 @🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      Burkina Faso and Mali are boycotting the African Summit of Chiefs of Defense Staff organized by Nigeria in Abuja, highlighting tensions with West African neighbors.

      Niger, the only AES state present, was represented by its defense attaché, Colonel-Major Soumana Kalkoye.
      [and Niger, at lesser level, was likely represented out of respect for close neighbor and kin Nigeria, since ~ half of the huge Hausa tribe live in Niger, and much of the other half in Nigeria, due to more dastardly british borders. In fact, the wisdom of this tribe helped defuse western plans for Nigerian-led invasion of ECOWAS into Niger in the summer of 2023; much of the armed forces and leadership and staging grounds for invasion into Niger involved Hausa and their northern provinces. So respect must be kept with such intertwined kin, even living in compradore Nigeria]

      • #64361
        AHH
        Keymaster

        cool thread (click) on the Hausa people who live mostly in Niger and Nigeria 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 I have a Hausa neighbor who visits us most weeks

    • #65668
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      kevin checks in on africa

       

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