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10Sep

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Africa, C.I.A, Ethiopia

The CIA in Ethiopia

https://www.youtube.com/embed/jlZH7W6gUQA?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Tales of the American Empire In 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed a presidential “finding” under the National Security Act authorizing the CIA to conduct a nonlethal campaign to support democratic resistance to the communist Dergs and the CIA budgeted 500,000 dollars a year to help the Ethiopian People’s Democratic Alliance conduct a worldwide propaganda war against the Marxist government. This group was led by wealthy Ethiopian landowners who had fled their nation after the communists seized their property. Reagan labeled Ethiopia a threat to the world, and was one of four nations he targeted for re...

Are Extremists Dragging Libya into a Dangerous Form of Islam?

7Sep

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Libya

Are Extremists Dragging Libya into a Dangerous Form of Islam?

Zionist puppet Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush speaks during a joint press conference with her Kuwaiti counterpart in Kuwait City on Oct. 3, 2021. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2023, pp. 46-47 Special Report By Mustafa Fetouri AS A PREDOMINANTLY Sunni Muslim country, Libya has long been known for its moderate practice of Islam based on tolerance and acceptance of others. Christians in the country, nearly all of whom are foreigners including Egyptian Copts, are welcomed by the people and have their own places of worship. They seldom face any prejudice based on their religion. Last May, Libya’s General Authority for Awqaf and Islamic Affairs (GAAIA), a public organization, anno...

1Sep

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Italy, Libya

The Italy-Libya Treaty at 15: A Precedent for Colonized Nations

MUSTAFA FETOURI At the Quirinale Palace, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi hailed a “new era” in relations with Italy during his first visit to his country’s former colonial ruler on June 10, 2009. (ERIC VANDEVILLE/GAMMA-RAPHO VIA GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2023, pp. 44-45 Special Report By Mustafa Fetouri IN 2008 ITALY signed a treaty with Libya whereby it agreed to pay reparations to that country for its decades of ruthless colonial misdeeds during the first half of the 20th century. The treaty—the first of its kind between a colonial power and a former colony—offers a model for other countries to follow. THE MOVIE THAT EXPOSED ITALY’S DARK HISTORY In 1980 the Libyan government spent more than $30 milli...

Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution

31Aug

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Africa

Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution

Another Sahel comprador regime has fallen to a popular movement led by patriotic army officers. The contagion is bound to spread. On 26 July, units of his presidential guard arrested Niger’s president, Mohammed Bazoum. The guards proceeded to dismiss the regime headed by Ouhoumodou Mohamadou, and head of the presidential guard General Abdourahamne Tchiani was declared the leader of a new government entitled the ‘National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland’. It soon became clear that this was no mere squabble between rival factions of the Nigerien ruling class. Actions in the streets showed unequivocally that the coup leaders had mass support – not only in Niger itself but also across the wider Sahel region. In its first official communique, the new government decla...

The Saudi Zio-Wahhabi Ethiopian Migrant Killings

29Aug

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Africa, Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Zio-Wahhabi Ethiopian Migrant Killings

Border Massacres: The Saudi Ethiopian Migrant Killings BY BINOY KAMPMARK A topographic map of Yemen. Photograph Source: Carport – CC BY-SA 3.0 We know what the regime is like. Starving a country, bombing its hospitals and strafing its schools has been minor fare for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The population of Yemen has found this out to their colossal cost. Add to this the killing of dissident journalists, the enthusiastic employment of capital punishment, and an assortment of other merry brutalities, the House of Saud comes across as a fine specimen of barbaric endeavour. At least, as many of their supporters will say, they like international sporting events, and are willing to throw money at, if not completely purchase, full eve...

26Aug

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Africa, South Africa

Clashing Anniversaries in South Africa

BY RICHARD PITHOUSE On 20 August 2023 Abahlali baseMjondolo held an event at the eKhenana Commune in Durban to commemorate four of their comrades who were murdered last year. Photo: Zodwa Nsibande. In the 1980s millions of people were organised into militant trade unions and community organisations across South Africa. At the time it was argued that South Africa, along with Haiti and the Philippines, was one of the most mobilised countries on the planet. This year the anniversaries of two key moments in building this incoming tide of popular democratising power have been marked. The first was the fiftieth anniversary of the strikes in Durban which began on 9 January 1973 and opened the sequence of struggle that built a formidable trade union movement. Brought together in t...

24Aug

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Africa, France

Niger expels French ambassador

Niamey cited hostile actions by Paris, as it braces for a possible attack by ECOWAS Supporters of Niger's military government (CNSP) demand 'departure of France' during a protest at Place de la Concertation in Niamey, August 20, 2023. The military government of Niger on Friday gave French Ambassador Sylvain Itte 48 hours to leave the country. The Nigerien Foreign Ministry justified the decision by Itte not responding to their invitation to a meeting and “other actions of the French Government contra the interests of Niger.” The ambassador’s expulsion comes a month after the military of the former French colony, led by Brigadier General Abdourahamane Tchiani, ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. In response, 11 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)...

Libyan military launches major operation against rebels

24Aug

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Libya

Libyan military launches major operation against rebels

The Libyan National Army has mounted air strikes and an airborne assault on insurgents from neighboring Chad Members of the Libyan National Army (LNA) special forces gather in the city of Benghazi on June 18, 2020. © Abdullah DOMA / AFP The Libyan National Army (LNA), representing one of the country's major factions led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has launched a large-scale military operation to push back Chadian rebels. In a statement on Friday, the press service of the LNA’s General Command said that air forces had bombed rebel gatherings in the southern part of the country bordering Chad. It added that, in a bid to secure the border, Haftar’s forces had also launched an airborne assault in the wake of the strikes. Commenting on the development, army...

23Aug

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Africa, Russia

Russia more trusted than West in Africa

Konstantin Malofeyev told the Financial Times that Moscow’s influence on the continent won’t diminish after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death A demonstrator holds a Russian flag on March 22, 2023, Bangui, Central African Republic © AFP / Barbara DEBOUT/AFP Russia enjoys the trust of most African nations in stark contrast to their former Western colonial masters, Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeyev has claimed, speaking to the Financial Times. He also predicted that the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner PMC is active in several countries on the continent, will not erode Russia’s standing in Africa. In an article published on Friday, the FT quoted Malofeyev as saying that “anyone representing Russia would enjoy an unchanged situation and the full trust of Afr...

19Aug

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Africa

The Military Junta in Burkina Faso

BY MALICK DOUCOURÉ Ibrahim Traore, shortly after the military coup in September, 2022. Youtube screengrab. West Africa has, in recent years, seen a flurry of coup d’états spanning across the Sahel and extending into the tropical shores of Guinea. France, the former colonial power for these nations, has been caught on the backfoot again and again – French President Emmanuel Macron was reportedly “furious” with French intelligence services for not predicting the Niger Coup. The anti-Western sentiments accompanying these events, alongside the encroachment of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) throughout the African continent, remain a significant topic of discussion as the world reacts to the reshaping of the West African geopolit...