[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5JjULKxXG4&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Alex de Waal
Africa
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Who Killed Thomas Sankara?
Yamba Elysée Ilboudo, a 62-year-old former driver and presidential bodyguard, sat behind a wooden dock that framed his small form. An illiterate soldier who started … Who Killed Thomas Sankara?Read more
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Facebook knew it was being used to incite violence in Ethiopia
Facebook employees repeatedly sounded the alarm on the company’s failure to curb the spread of posts inciting violence in “at risk” countries like Ethiopia, where … Facebook knew it was being used to incite violence in EthiopiaRead more
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How the US enabled Ethiopia’s bloodletting, training its military while playing innocent observer
The Biden administration has sanctioned Eritrea and Ethiopia for alleged crimes against the Tigray people. But over the last three decades, successive US governments trained … How the US enabled Ethiopia’s bloodletting, training its military while playing innocent observerRead more
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The Trial Of Thomas Sankara’s Killers
The renowned revolutionary and anti-imperialist leader Thomas Sankara was murdered on October 15, 1987, at the age of 37. Sankara took power in the landlocked … The Trial Of Thomas Sankara’s KillersRead more
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Men are marched out of prison camps. Then corpses float down the river
The ghostly outlines of limbs emerge through the mist along the Setit River in eastern Sudan. As the river’s path narrows, the drifting bodies become … Men are marched out of prison camps. Then corpses float down the riverRead more
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Ethnic Cleansing & Illegal Arms Shipments
it goes to the heart of the narrative that Ethiopia and Eritrea have been positing right from the beginning of this conflict, that the Tigray … Ethnic Cleansing & Illegal Arms ShipmentsRead more
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GMO cotton failure in Burkina Faso
African farmers speak out: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsPkBiVITW0&rel=0&feature=relmfu]
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The US is turning oil-rich Nigeria into a proxy for its Africa wars
Last month, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times. It might as well have been written by the Pentagon. Buhari promoted … The US is turning oil-rich Nigeria into a proxy for its Africa warsRead more
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Africa’s Twin Pandemics of Coronavirus & Hunger
Some 265 million people are expected to face acute hunger as the coronavirus crisis could trigger a second pandemic of hunger. The crisis is projected … Africa’s Twin Pandemics of Coronavirus & HungerRead more