Nile Bowie Lagos Dissents Under IMF Hegemony On a recent trip to West Africa, the newly appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde ordered the governments of Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Chad to relinquish vital fuel subsidies. Much to the dismay of the population of these nations, the prices of fuel…
Category: AFRICOM
Cynthia McKinney: Against AFRICOM
GlobalResearchTV Established in 2007, the United States African Command (AFRICOM) has been at the heart of the US agenda to secure the continent and its resources against America’s supposed enemies. Now, many are questioning AFRICOM’s role on the continent at all.
Investigating the Pentagon’s African Holocaust
Gearóid Ó Colmáin On November 29th investigative journalist and genocide expert Keith Harmon Snow testified before Spain’s Highest Court (Audencia Nacional) to support the indictments against 40 Rwandan officials for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity during the western-backed invasions of Rwanda and Congo/Zaire by Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) and…
Africa Lies Naked To Euro-American Military Offensive
As the U.S. and its NATO allies move southward to further consolidate their grip on Africa, following the seizure of Libya and its vast oil fields, most of the continent’s leadership seems to welcome re-absorption into empire. “Africa is the most vulnerable region in America’s warpath, a continent ripe for the plucking due to the…
America’s Secret War In Somalia
Tense ties plagued Africa ops Sean D. Naylor Pan-African News Wire The U.S. operators were in trouble. Deep trouble. Along with some Ethiopian troops, a “really small” number of U.S. personnel were hunting a high-value target near the town of Bargal in Somalia’s autonomous Puntland region when they came under heavy fire that not only…
Remilitarization Of Africa Set To Fail
Kenya’s foray into Somalia, led from behind by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), represents a heightened threat to peace and reconstruction in Africa, especially East Africa. This Western-supported incursion is more against the Kenyan people than against the forces of Al-Shabaab, or whatever name that will be given to the musical chairs of military entrepreneurs in…
AFRICOM: An Imperialist Tool For Re-colonizing Africa
Africa does not need an American military base on its soil. Would Americans welcome such a foreign base in their land? Motsoko Pheko urges African countries to resist this imperialist move, which is intended to facilitate plunder of their resources. Motsoko Pheko PN The USA Africa Command, which America calls ‘Africom’, is a military structure…
Bab el-Mandeb: The Key To US Hegemony In Africa
Choke Point Bab el-Mandeb: Understanding the Strategically Critical Horn of Africa Thomas C. Mountain The Horn of Africa is one of the most strategically critical regions in the world with the narrow passage where the Red Sea joins the Indian Ocean, the Bab el-Mandeb, being a potential choke point for much of the worlds commerce….
Who Said Gaddafi Had To Go?
Hugh Roberts So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s one and only State of the Masses, the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, has ended badly. In contrast to the bloodless coup of 1 September 1969…
Gaddafi’s Assassination: Bombing Africa Into “Civilization”
‘Despite the neocolonialist excuses of humanitarian motives, the real motivations’ for Gaddafi’s assassination ‘keep popping up’. But ‘where is the international outrage and condemnation’? Nana Akyea Mensah Pan-Africanist International Mr Kwesi Pratt, Jnr, a leading member of the Socialist Forum and managing editor of the Insight newspaper, was certainly not amused at hearing the news…
Imperialist War Escalates In Somalia
More US drone attacks and French air support worsens humanitarian crisis Abayomi Azikiwe Pan-African News Wire United States and French military involvement in Africa is taking a deadly toll in the country of Somalia where despite Washington’s denials the people of this nation are suffering under the impact of yet another imperialist-driven war. Kenyan army…
Africa 2011: Year Of Mass Upheaval, Imperialist Interventions, Parts I – III
Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Africa 2011: Year of mass upheaval, imperialist interventions Part I Dec. 17 marks the anniversary of a year of uprisings, strikes, government resignations and regime change on the African continent. A resource-rich and strategically located geopolitical region, Africa has experienced numerous mass demonstrations, general strikes, rebellions and full-scale military assaults as…
