African Affairs Western Agendas

"Pirates, warlords, Marxist guerilla turned G20 statesman and the USA...the real story of the Somali pirates in the Horn of Africa is a tale that needs telling..."

Mon, 2010-09-13 06:08

#56

NDPP

Keith Harmon Snow on UN 'Leaked' Report on Atrocities in the Congo 1993-2004 (audio)

http://afrobeatradio.net/2010/09/05/keith-harmon-snow-on-un-leaked-repor...

"The United Nations has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An unprecedented 600 page Report based on investigations by the UN High Commission for Human Rights catalogued years of murder, rape and looting in a conflict in which hundreds of thousands were slaughtered...

The Report accuses the Tutsi dominated Rwandan army of killing tens of thousands of ethnic HUTUS - including women, childen and the elderly over a period of seven years and two invasions - acts, it says, may amount to genocide..

Among the accusations, is that Rwandan forces and local allies rounded up hundreds of mean, women and children at a time and butchered them with hoes and axes. On other occasions Hutu refugees were bayoneted, buried alive or killed with hammer blows in large numbers. While the story of the HUTU Genocide has been around for a few years, it is the first time the UN has published such forthright allegations against Rwanda, a close ally of Britain and the US [*AND CANADA* who helped install Kagame in power as part of the US regime change operation...ps 'Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou..?]

Rwanda's TUTSI leaders will be particularly discomfited by the accusations of genocide when they lay claim to the moral highground for bringing to an end the 1994 genocide in their own country.."

This is a must-hear interview!! There should be serious questions asked in the evil talkshop in Ottawa over Canada's role in this part of Africa and the actions of resource interests based here.

UN Admits Failing DR Congo Victims

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2010/09/201098142513393312.html

"A senior United Nations official has admitted that UN troops failed to protect women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 500 rapes have now been reported there in the past month alone, including 242 women and children who were raped over several days just 30 km away from a base used by UN peacekeepers.."

The Peacekeepers (NFB)

http://www.ipexview.com/solution/videos/National_Film_Board_of_Canada/Th...

"The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to avert another Rwanda disaster..."

Tue, 2010-09-14 13:53

#57

NDPP

The Rwanda Patriotic Front's Bloody Record and the History of UN Coverups - by Christopher Black

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/black120910.html

"The invasion from Uganda had only one purpose: to clear the path through Rwanda to Zaire (DRC)..It means that the Americans, British particularly with Kagame and Museveni, planned the invasion of Zaire in 1994, probably before that...Mr. Jallow and Louise Arbour and everyone else have been protecting the RPF [President Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front] which hs now resulted in millions of deaths in the Congo and continues up till today.."

Keith Harmon Snow on 'Leaked' UN Report on Atrocities in Congo 1993-2003

http://consciousbeingalliance.com/2010/09/wbai-afrobeat-with-keith-harmo...

"This UN report is another form of whitewash, and it's very interesting to see how the media and the intelligence flaks used as mouthpieces on the media, spin and twist it. Of course the report has major problems, but that's the nature of our racist war against people of colour everywhere...." [ a better version of a posting upstream with additional bg]

The Politics of Denial: The Strange Case of Rwanda - by Gerald Caplan

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/65265

"...why they want to create such gratuitous hurt for the survivors of the genocide in Rwanda is 'impossible to fathom' says Caplan, but their 'egregious views' relegate this squarely to the lunatic fringe.."

Who's in 'denial?' Once again the NDP comes to the defence of Canadian and western imperialism...

Thu, 2010-10-14 11:14

#58

NDPP

No International Justice for Congo: UN Coverup of War Crimes

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21403

"Human Rights activists around the world have called for international justice and an end to impunity in the wake of the UN Mapping Report on Human Rights Abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The report, which covers the period from 1993 to 2003 was released on October 1st, by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says that, though it covers a period ending in 2003, these crimes continue because the perpetrators have never been prosecuted.

Defense lawyers for the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda (ICTR) say, however, that there is no reason to expect justice from an international criminal tribunal. ICTR defense lawyer Christopher Black, who recently published The Rwanda Patriotic Front's Bloody Record and the History of UN Coverups, in Monthly Review Zine, says that the ICTR will never charge officers of Kagame's army because if charged they will implicate their US and European allies:

''They're never going to charge the RPF, because it would be too dangerous. If you start charging the RPF, RPF officers, to save their necks, are going to start talking about others. And then you're going to get up to the Americans and the British and the Canadians and the Belgians. The whole thing would fall apart. They don't dare do that.."

Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?

Thu, 2010-10-14 11:33

#59

NDPP

Uganda, America's Pit-Bull, Wants to Lead a Larger War in Somalia

http://blackagendareport.com/

"America's top hit-man in Africa, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, is calling for much larger air, sea adn land war in Somalia - with Museveni's forces on point. The sabre-rattling follows on the heels of Uganda's and Rwanda's threats to withdraw from UN 'peacekeeping' missions, such as Somalia. What's up?

Sat, 2010-10-16 10:00

#60

NDPP

Rwandan Opposition Leader Victoire Ingabire Arrested

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21459

Opposiiton leader Victoire Ingabure Umuhoza has been arrested in Rwanda, according to members of her FDU-Inkingi Coalition of Rwanda Political Parties, who also report that authorities have taken her to an undisclosed location.."

Kagame - another vicious western proxy and 'friend' of Canada who helped install him..

Wed, 2010-11-10 02:02

#61

NDPP

Congolese Try Suing Anvil Mining in Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/11/08/congo-victims-to-sue-...

"Congolese citizens have moved to sue a Montreal-based mining company, alleging it played a role in a massacre in their country six years ago..."

Tue, 2010-12-28 22:40

#62

NDPP

Obama Take Heed: French Judge Files Charges Against Kagame Allies

http://sfbayview.com/2010/obama-take-heed-french-judge-files-charges-aga...

"On December 15 a French judge filed preliminary charges against six people close to Kagame, including Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe, for the 1994 assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Rwandan and Burundian presidents at the time, that triggered the Rwanda Genocide.

If I were Louise Arbour or Romeo Dallaire I would be sweating...

Coalition to UN Security Council: Address UN Congo Mapping Report and Enforce Justice for Victims

http://sfbayview.com/2010/coalition-to-un-security-council-address-un-co...

"This month the US and UN Security Council must choose - Will they hold accountable major perpetrators of continued atrocities in the Congo or collaborate with them to put the blame on a few guilty but minor scapegoats and some innocent people who are guilty only of challenging the major offenders?"

Sat, 2011-01-01 06:05

#63

NDPP

France and the Ivory Coast: The Empire Strikes Back - by Gary K Busch

http://www.saharareporters.com/article/france-and-ivory-coast-empire-str...

"Currently there is an impasse in the runoff of the Presidential elections in the Ivory Coast. The French-linked and funded electoral commission declared that Allasane Outtora won the election while the Constitutional Court declared incumbent President Gbagbo as the victor.

The 'International community' of Western countrys, NGOs, UN appeasers, and a variety of Francofrique cowards and bed-wetters support Ouattora even though massive fraud has been demonstrated at the polls in the rebel-held North

BBC News - Lauran Ggagbo Exit 'Could Worsen Ivory Coast Crisis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12100340

"Mr Gbagbo told Euronews he would be prepared to accept a recount, although he did not give any details of his proposals. 'We are negotiating. I ask myself why those who claim to have beaten me oppose a recount of the votes,' he said.

UN Fears Cote d'Ivoire Ethnic Clash

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/12/201012319445597806.html

"Famous French lawyers Roland Dumas and Jacques Verges visited Gbagbo on Thursday to offer their support and professional council. 'France cannot treat Cote d'Ivoire as a colony, it is an independent country we need to respect..."

Mon, 2011-01-03 12:00

#64

NDPP

West African Leaders To Pressure Gbagbo Again

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/03/ivory-coast-gbagbo.html

See first comment by Sygei S

Thu, 2011-01-06 22:49

#65

NDPP

Cables Reveal How US and UK Sought to Plunder Zimbabwe's Resources

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/zimb-j06.shtml

"The US diplomatic cables published by WIkiLeaks continue revealing details of how the United States and Britain sought to further their commercial interests in Zimbabwe.."

Sat, 2011-01-08 15:13

#66

NDPP

Paul Kagame: 'Our Kind of Guy' - by Ed Herman and David Peterson

http://www.voltairenet.org/article167972.html

"What really happened was not a genocide by the Hutu power against Tutsis, but a secret US war that butchered an equal number of victims on both sides. At the heart of this slaughterous game we find the impervious Paul Kagame.."

Sun, 2011-01-09 05:36

#67

NDPP

Militarization of Energy Policy: US Africa Command and Gulf of Guinea - by Rick Rozoff (STOP NATO)

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/militarization-of-energy-poli...

"The Pentagon and its NATO allies are firmly esconced in the Gulf of Guinea in part to realize one of the decisions agreed upon at last November's NATO summit in Portugal: To 'develop the capacity to contribute to energy security,' as the summit declaration stated. The Pentagon has forged both bilateral and regional military partnerships with every African nation except for

Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Libya, Sudan and Zimbabwe.

What began in the Gulf of Guinea has now absorbed an entire continent.."

Sat, 2011-01-22 00:43

#68

NDPP

Israelis Can Tell the Whole Story of Sudan's Division - They Wrote the Script and Trained the Actors

http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/middle-east/1955-israelis-c...

"It is clear that Israel has been eyeing southern sudan for more than half a century. While Israel was supporting the southern rebels with arms, Western countries were continuing their diplomatic efforts to arrange the division of Sudan through a referendum..

Self-determination appears to be acceptable, indeed highly desirable, if it will weaken a predominantly Arab state, but off the agenda when it involves the Palestinians obtaining their rights against the Zionist state of Israel.."

Sun, 2011-01-23 22:07

#69

NDPP

Ivory Coast: Testing Ground for US Backed African Standby Force - by Rick Rozoff

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ivory-Coast-Testing-Groun-by-Rick-Rozof...

"Both Gbagbo and Ouattara were sworn in as President and in the interim the drumbeats of military intervention to depose Gbagbo have steadily risen in intensity. Whatever the respective merits of the two candidates' contentions, that the US has entered the fray on behalf of the one declared the loser by the nation's top court, exactly a decade after the 2000 US presidential election was decided by the Supreme Court would prove embarassing to any country other than the world's sole military superpower.

ECOWAS has suspended Ivory Coast's membership in the fifteen-nation group (Niger was suspended in 2009) and pressure is being put on ECOWAS to activate the West African Standby Force brigade under its control for an invasion of Ivory Coast. The African Standby Force, under the nominal direction of the African Union but trained by the US Africa Command and NATO, was to have been activated last year and to have provided brigades of an estimated 3,000 - 4,000 troops each for five regions in Africa: East, west, north, south and central. The West African brigade is to grow to 6,500 troops.

The role of ECOWAS military forces is to prepare the way forward and give an African cover to Western armed intervention in Africa."

Tue, 2011-01-25 13:44

#70

NDPP

Amid Rumours of Rebel Groups Unifying in Congo Countries in Region Discuss Joint Military Action

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2011/0124/Amid-rumo...

"As previously reported here, Rwanda, Burundi and the DRC met in Kigali last week to discuss the military situation in the eastern Congo. At the end of the meeting, they alleged that a new coalition of rebel groups had formed in Kivus region...Some sources familiar with the closed-door meeting suggest that the three countries were not just sharing information. Allegedly new joint military actions on Congolese soil are being discussed.."

the feeding frenzy over the riches of Kivus/DRC continues

Tue, 2011-02-22 18:45

#71

NDPP

'Israeli Mercenaries in Kenya'

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/166565.html

"Kenyan lawmakers have strongly condemned Israel for dispatching mercenaries and spreading political unrest in the east-African country, a report says. The lawmakers say the mercenaries of Israeli origin were planning to assassinate high profile political figures and target key government installations.."

Tue, 2011-03-01 22:24

#72

NDPP

Africa: Global NATO Seeks to Recruit 50 New Military Partners - by Rick Rozoff STOP NATO

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23307

"A recent article in Kenya's Africa Review cited sources in the African Union (AU) disclosing that the 28 member North Atlantic Treaty Organization is preparing to sign a military partnership treaty with the 53 nation AU.

The author of the article, relaying comments from AU officials in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where the organization has its headquarters, wrote that although 'the stated aim is to counter global security threats and specifically threats against Africa, some observers read the pact as aiming to counter Chinese expansion in Africa.."

Tue, 2011-03-01 22:50

#73

N.Beltov

Inter-imperial rivalry, specifically between the previously dominant states of the anglosphere (USA, UK, etc) and the rising influence of China is the barely spoken of undercurrent in many issues in African politics today, eg, Zimbabwe and the issues in the region of southern Africa. It seems like a modern day carving up of colonies in neo liberal disguise.

Thu, 2011-04-07 01:11

#74

NDPP

Ivory Coast and Libya, Dismantlement of International Law: A New Strategy of Global Elite

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/04/06/dismantlement-internati...

"The western media shower their audience with allegations that Gbagbo lost the 2010 elections and should therefore step down. Their key argument - the head of the elections commission declared Outterra the winner - ignores the fact that in the Ivory Coast it is up to the Constitutional Council, not the elections commission to decide who prevailed in the race over presidency, in case the outcome of the vote is called into question.

As for the Constitutional Council, it gave victory to Gbagbo, meaning that as of today, he is the legitimate president of the Ivory Coast and that the offensive meant to dislodge him is an outright aggression...Africa seems to have become a proving ground for suspicious novelties in the sphere of international law.."

Sun, 2011-04-10 22:28

#75

NDPP

Rwanda Genocide: Erlinder v Kagame

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24253

"Law Professor and former National Lawyers Guild President Peter Erlinder's case against Rwandan President Paul Kagame continues in the court of public opinion, with Erlinder refusing to return to work at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda..."

ICTR-TPIR International Justice or Judicially Constructed Victors' Impunity

http://afrobeatradio.net/2011/04/10/the-united-nations-ad-hoc-tribunal-f...

"The Director of the International Humanitarian Law Institute, Prof Peter Erlinder, announced the publication of a book-length research work by DePaul University Law School Journal for Social Justice today: The UN Ad Hoc Tribunal for Rwanda: International Justice or Judicially Constructed Victors' Impunity.

Based on previously unpublished UN and US government documents, in the nature of the Pentagon Papers or WikiLeaks exposures, the heavily footnoted narrative is based on documents only in evidence at the UN Tribunal for Rwanda, and published on the IHLI website: www.rwandadocumentsproject.net.

The documents explain how the current RPF government became the dominant military power in the country more than a year before the Rwandan Genocide with the outside assistance from Uganda, UK and the Pentagon. The documents include sworn ICTR testimony of former RPF officers and members who testified that Paul Kagame ordered the assassination of the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi on April 6, 1994 that touched off the mass violence predicted by the US Ambassador..."

Mon, 2011-04-11 12:30

#76

N.Beltov

John Pilger wrote:
The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the West's response to popular uprisings in strategic, resource-rich regions of the world and the beginning of a war of attrition against the new imperial rival, China.

More on China ...

Quote:
President Barack Obama's historical distinction is now guaranteed. He is America's first black president to invade Africa. His assault on Libya is run by the US Africa Command, which was set up in 2007 to secure the continent's lucrative natural resources from Africa's impoverished people and the rapidly spreading commercial influence of China. Libya, along with Angola and Nigeria, is China's principal source of oil.

"Libya, along with Angola and Nigeria, is China's principal source of oil."

Pilger on the Euro-American attack on Libya

Wed, 2011-04-13 23:42

#77

NDPP

West Makes Ivory Coast Safe For Cocoa - by Kalundi Serumaga

http://blackagendareport.com/content/west-makes-ivory-coast-safe-cocoa

"The ultimate tragedy for Cote d'Ivoire is not that Gbagbo had to be driven out by force of arms, but that someone else has replaced him by the same means.."

Mon, 2011-04-18 12:12

#78

NDPP

Ivory Coast Uncovered - The Untold Story - by Dr Kwame Osei

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24368

"...With the ongoing civil war in Ivory Coast seemingly close to an end it is appropriate to tell the real story..."

Sat, 2011-05-21 22:06

#79

NDPP

Next Steps On Congo - by Kambale Musavuli

http://www.fpif.org/articles/next_steps_on_congo

"...For the past 14 years, more than six million Congolese (some say 10 million) have perished in the ongoing conflict triggered by US allies Rwanda and Uganda when they invaded Congo in 1996. As the world focuses on the Western intervention in Libya under the guise of moral responsibility to protect the vulnerable, the global community must question the lack of action by the United States and the coalition on the millions dead in the Congo.."

Wed, 2011-06-08 03:26

#80

epaulo13

Published on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by The Toronto Star

Canada Mines African Discontent

by Linda McQuaig

While Canadians may think of ourselves as best known for owning the Olympic podium, among Africans we may actually be better known — and not particularly liked — for owning their natural resources.

Once beloved on the continent, Canada is no longer so fondly regarded in Africa.

The new, less enthusiastic view of Canada was vividly illustrated last month when more than 1,500 desperately poor Tanzanian villagers picked up machetes, rocks and hammers and stormed the mining compound of Canadian-owned African Barrick Gold.

The uprising — leading to the shooting deaths of seven of the villagers by police and security forces at the mine — is a startling reminder that theories widely held in the West about the benefits of foreign investment for the developing world are not always shared by people on the receiving end....

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/07-0

Mon, 2011-10-17 02:38

#81

NDPP

Obama Sends US Military Advisers to Help Track LRA's Kony - by Jim Lobe

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105474

"In his latest military intervention overseas, US President Barack Obama announced Friday that he is dispatching about 100 'Combat equipped' military personnel [Special Forces] to East Africa to help track the fugitive Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and its top commanders. The move appears to mark another victory for 'humanitarian intervention' advocates.."

yeah right.

Tue, 2011-10-18 05:24

#82

NDPP

US Is About to Stir Another Hornet's Nest (and vid)

http://rt.com/news/uganda-us-commandos-africom-067/

"America's plan to send commandos to Africa to help eliminate terrorists in Uganda appears to have all the ingredients for getting the US military bogged down in a new prolonged Afghan-like military quagmire.."

Wed, 2011-10-19 13:25

#83

NDPP

Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as US Tightens Military Grop on Continent

http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/somalis-under-relentless-drone-...

"Africa under President Obama, is an expanding theatre of war for the United States. There are few points on the African map where the US military does not operate, independently, through proxies, or by agreement with local governments and militaries. AFRICOM has penetrated the armed forces of the continent to a degree no single European power could have ever aspired to.

Indeed, the US has so thoroughly infiltrated African armies, many if not most, would be of no use for national defense against the Americans. Meanwhile, the NATO attack on Libya threatens to set the whole northern tier of Africa ablaze, a pretext for further US and French operations..."

only one country refused to join Africom - Libya

Thu, 2011-10-20 03:56

#84

NDPP

Strings Attached: US in Uganda (and vid)

http://rt.com/news/us-sending-troops-uganda-179/

"The US denies an interest in Uganda's oil, but there are many other reasons for its presence in the region, none of them altruistic, claims war correspondent Eric Margolis. The first American troops already arrived in Uganda last week and will soon deploy elsewhere throughout the region once other nations in the area approve the actions..."

Mon, 2011-10-31 08:44

#85

NDPP

'US After Uganda's Oil Revenues' (and vid)

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207370.html

"...experts are saying that the US has entered the troubled region to fain favor of Uganda's newly discovered oil deposits, and to support its proxy war against the al Shabab movement in Somalia.."

One of the favoured few Western oil companies already active in Uganda and also in Libya is TSE-listed Heritage Oil. Its CEO Tony Buckingham was also associated with Sandline International and Executive Outcomes - corporate mercenary firms.

Tue, 2011-11-01 08:38

#86

NDPP

American Troops in Uganda: Is it the Thin Edge of the Wedge? (and vid)

http://www.presstv.ir/Program/206722.html

"Why is the US sending its troops to finish off a fractured band of bush fighters (LRA) in the middle of Africa"?

discussion with experts

Tue, 2011-11-08 07:34

#87

Slumberjack

Non-Consensual Research in Africa: The Outsourcing of Tuskeegee

Quote:
United States biomedical researchers and pharmaceutical companies are conducting and paying African doctors to conduct unethical and illegal testing of human subjects. Non-consensual research on human subjects is an atrocity that occurred in Tuskegee, Alabama, and in Guatemala for over forty years. Once outlawed in the U.S., medical researchers began experimenting on thousands of human research subjects without their consent in Cameroon, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other African countries.

Believing they were receiving routine medical care, some African women and children were used to test medication for HIV, malaria, and meningitis, often resulting in infection, and/or even death. These unethical research practices coupled with the failure to get signed informed consent violate multiple U.S. and international laws.

Sat, 2011-12-31 18:03

#88

NDPP

Your World News Interview With Keith Harmon Snow: The Politics of Genocide (and vid)

http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com/2011/12/your-world-news-interview-...

Sat, 2012-01-07 02:28

#89

NDPP

Nigeria: The Next Front For AFRICOM? - by Nile Bowie

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28520

"In the presence of US State Department Officials, employees from the Rand Corporation and Israeli military personnel, a military exercise was undertaken which tested how AFRICOM would respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of collapse amidst civil war.."

Sat, 2012-01-14 22:30

#90

NDPP

DHS Targets Nigerian Islamist Group Boko Haram - by Nile Bowie

http://nilebowie.blogspot.com/2012/01/dhs-targets-nigerian-islamist-grou...

"Regardless of the group's legitimacy, remarkable unoriginality and possible foreign nurturing, the case for marketing foreign military intervention to Western audiences is steadily increasing..."

Wed, 2012-01-18 02:09

#91

NDPP

General Strike Rocks Nigeria - by Matt Swagler

http://zcommunications.org/general-strike-rocks-nigeria-by-matt-swagler

"...A GENERAL strike has brought business and transportation in key Nigerian cities to a complete standstill over the past week. Millions of Nigerians have refused to work in protest over the government's decision to cut a state gasoline subsidy. The SIGNIFICANCE of a general strike in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. It is the most populous country in Africa..

The LOSS of the gasoline subsidy is seen as particularly outrageous in a country that is the world's sixth largest supplier of crude oil--producing nearly as much as countries like Kuiwait..

In addition to controlling the Niger Delta, the US government is now talking about a new fron in the 'war on terror' -- against an amorphous Islamist group in Nigeria called Boko Haram...

The strike has also become a protest against the incredible wealth accumulated by Nigerian leaders and foreign companies at the expense of the Nigerian people.."

Nigeria is currently Canada's second largest trading partner in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wed, 2012-01-18 19:28

#92

NDPP

Nigerian Unions Suspend General Strike As Army Deploys in Cities

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/nige-j17.shtml

"Nigeria's two main trade union federations, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have called off the strike against President Goodluck Jonathan, as army forces moved into cities around the country.."

Fri, 2012-01-27 16:33

#93

NDPP

Nigeria: Thrown into Chaos and a State of Civil War - The Role of the IMF - by F William Engdahl

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28900

"Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence, being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war...

Nigeria today is one of the world's most important producers of light, sweet, crude oil - the same high quality crude oil that Libya produces..."

more blood for oil...

Thu, 2012-02-23 00:03

#94

NDPP

South Africa Buries Its Freedom Charter

http://blackagendareport.com/content/south-africa-buries-its-freedom-cha...

"The ANC has transformed itself into a handmaiden of multinational capital. Its program of Black capitalism has served only to graft a corrupt Black political class onto the already existing structures of corporate rule. The Freedom Charter is a dead letter..."

Wed, 2012-03-21 19:37

#95

NDPP

Mali Soldiers Mutiny, Seize Presidential Palace

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/232720.html

"Malian soldiers have mutinied, attacked the presidential palace in capital Bamako, and taken full control of the state broadcaster, sparking fears of a coup d'etat.

Thu, 2012-03-22 23:15

#96

NDPP

Destabilization In Africa: Coup in Mali - by Tony Cartalucci

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/destabilization-of-africa-coup-...

"...Above all we must not let the obscurity with which nations in Africa are treated involve apathy, because in the creation of a global empire, even the farthest flung nations can play a pivotal role in either bolstering or obstructing imperialist ambitions.."

Mali Uprising Claims a President

http://libya360.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/possible-coup-in-mali/

"...There are going to be three million people affected by the food security problems in Mali come April [2012], warned Abdoulaye Samara, advocacy officer with Oxfam in Bamako. 'There is a danger that the government will put all its political, financial and decision making capacity into sorting out the crisis in the north..."

Wed, 2012-03-28 05:25

#97

NDPP

Mali Coup Led By US-Trained Captain

http://rt.com/news/mali-coup-american-trained-377/

"A US Africa Command official officially confirmed on Friday the leader of a military coup in Mali has visited the US on several occasions, receiving professional military education. Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo participated in the America's International Military Education and Training Program, sponsored by the US State Department, Public Affairs representative Patrick Barnes revealed to the Washington Post. Foreign officers are handpicked for the program by US embassies in respective countries.."

Arc of Instability in Africa May Turn into Battlefield - Moscow Envoy

http://rt.com/politics/mali-africa-arab-spring-538/

"A 'green arc of instability' is being formed from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa. Therefore careful monitoring of events in the region is necessary not to allow the transformation of this arc into a battlefield,' the official stressed.."

Mon, 2012-04-02 01:20

#98

NDPP

Malian Tuareg Rebels Seize Key Northern Town of Timbuktu

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/234132.html

"Tuareg rebels say they have gained control of Mali's strategically important town of Timbuktu in the north as the coup leader pledges to bring back order to the country..."

Separatist War Looms in Post-Coup Mali - by Nile Bowie

http://nilebowie.blogspot.ca/2012/03/separatist-war-looms-in-post-coup-m...

"...The influx of arms from NATO's regime change programme in Libya has created dire prospects for a heavily armed civil war in Mali. The worsening situation in both Mali and Nigeria provide further justification for foreign intervention and war profiteering.."

Pentagon: All US Elite Commandos in Mali 'Accounted For'

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/2012/03/23/pentagon-all-us-elite...

"The Pentagon confirmed Friday that all US Special Operations forces in Mali are safe amid an attempt by rogue military forces to topple the east African nation's civilian government. As part of a counterterrorism effort in Trans-Sahara Africa that incudes Mali and eight other nations, US military and government personnel have worked with Malian forces to counter extremist groups, 'discrediting terrorist ideology,' and improve nations' military cooperation, according to US Africa Command."

Wed, 2012-04-04 22:22

#99

NDPP

US--Hands Off Mali!

http://warisacrime.org/content/us-hands-mali

"Recent developments in the West African Republic of Mali are raising serious concerns about the possibility of yet another US intervention. We say: US Hands Off Mali!"

USA Militarizing Africa (podcast

http://www.voxunion.com/militarizing-africa/

Part 1 of a 4 part radio documentary series about the destructive impact of US imperialism in Africa

Sat, 2012-04-07 19:32

#100

NDPP

Mali: Junta Agrees on Power Transfer Deal with ECOWAS

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/234959.html

"Mali's military rulers have agreed with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to adopt a framework for a return to Constitutional rule. Earlier, ECOWAS rebuffed a declaration of independence by Tuareg rebels who captured power in the north of the country.."

The 'Specter' of Al Qaeda in Africa - by Finian Cunningham

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30151

"...The pretext of anti-jihadist counter-terrorism by Western powers is shifting to Africa. The purported AQ link in Mali appears incongruous..."

Tue, 2012-04-10 16:47

#101

NDPP

Help Keep Hope Alive in the Sahel Region

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/997/560/708/

"Nearly THIRTEEN MILLION PEOPLE are in urgent need of help surviving this year's failed harvest and drought. But will this be enough to make the world's media sit up and take notice? Take action today: Pledge to spread the word and help keep hope alive for people of the Sahel region.."

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