Ahjamu Umi February 21, 2021 marked the 56th commemoration of the assassination of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz aka Malcolm X in Harlem, New York. The 24th marked the 50th commemoration of the CIA (Criminals In Action) sponsored coup that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah’s democratically elected government in Ghana. The close historical proximity of the downfall…
Category: AFRICA
45th SADR Anniversary: Africa Will Never Be Free as Long as One of its Countries Remains Occupied
Pretoria (South Africa) Feb 24, 2021 (Sahara Press Servive) – African movements of solidarity with the Sahrawi people organized an “African Virtual Conference to Commemorate the 45th Anniversary of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic” on Wednesday called the AU to quickly intervene to protect Sahrawi civilians from Moroccan violations and put an end to the…
The Empire’s Hidden Hand: How the US Established, Sustains and Benefits from Morocco’s Occupation of Western Sahara
Dan Cohen On November 13, 2020, commanders from the United States and Morrocan militaries met to plan annual joint exercises. The following day, 1,000 Moroccan soldiers and 200 vehicles stormed into the Guerguerat border crossing – a key highway in the occupied Western Sahara that connects Morocco to Mauritania, built in violation of international law….
African Solidarity Conference Calls on UN and AU to Speed Up the Total Liberation of Western Sahara
Pretoria (South Africa) 24 February 2021 (Sahara Press Service)- African movements of solidarity with the Saharawi people organised an “African Virtual Conference to Commemorate the 45th Anniversary of the Saharawi Republic” on Wednesday, calling on the UN, AU, EU and ICRC to quickly intervene to protect Saharawi civilians from Moroccan violations and put an end…
Libya: Citizens, Organizations, Demand December Elections, Reject Impediments, Delays
Sirte National Committee for Youth Empowerment Demand Presidential and Parliamentary Elections as Pledged The Sirte National Committee for Youth Empowerment issue a statement ahead of the Parliamentary meeting in the city, demanding that the new Presidential Council and its interim government and the House of Representatives fulfil their pledge to the political agreement and hold…
The Roots of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa—A Pan African Response
Black Agenda Review Editors South Africa must dismantle and transcend the colonial nation-state through creation of a Pan-African federation that stretches across the Southern African sub-continent. “Madalitso Zililo Phiri traces the contemporary rise of xenophobia in South Africa to the colonial and imperial formation of the Union of South Africa.” For the fourth post in the Black…
How Did a Fateful CIA Coup—Executed 55 Years Ago this February 24—Doom Much of Sub-Saharan Africa?
Charles Quist-Adade, Ph.D. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana and Pan-Africanist visionary who was voted as “Africa’s Man of the Millennium.” [Source: africanglobe.net] Fifty-five years ago on this day, the fate of Africa was irrevocably altered when the CIA sponsored a 1966 coup d’état against Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana…
Zionism’s Shrewd Manipulation of African Movements
Ahjamu Umi The conscious African activist community is reacting today to the announcement that Alicia Garza – one of the original spokespersons for the rising Black Lives Matter movement in 2014 – has accepted an invitation to speak at a so-called “Jewish Values International Awards dinner during February of 2021. To the untrained eye, it’s…
Where Does the Sudanese Revolution Stand Today?
Dr. Fathi Elfad of the Sudanese Communist Party talks about the current stage of the Sudanese Revolution and its betrayal by certain sections of the erstwhile opposition. In the first part of an interview with Peoples Dispatch, he explains the chronology of the coming together of the opposition, certain compromises and deals made by some…
Besieged Population in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region Faces Starvation, Rights Violations
Peoples Dispatch The besieged population of the Tigray region in the northern end of Ethiopia is facing starvation, lack of clean water, medicines and sanitation, and widespread sexual atrocities. Alerts have been raised since last month that the region may be on the brink of famine and genocide. On Tuesday, February 16, UNICEF warned that…
Libya: 10 Years of Nakba, Three Governments, No Progress
Militia fire rockets into an affluent district of Tripoli, 2014. Today, the Libyan people remember a vicious Crusader conspiracy, which, with the help of traitors, managed to overthrow the Libyan state, under which citizens lived in prosperity, freedom, social justice and human dignity. During the 42 years of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s rule, Libya knew nothing…
The Power of Abahlali and Our Living Politic Has Been Built with Our Blood
Talk delivered by S’bu. Zikode as part of the virtual speaker series “Thinking Freedom from the Global South”. May I first of all take this opportunity to thank the American University’s Anti-Racist Research & Policy Center, Department of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies and Women’s Initiative for giving Abahlali this important opportunity to speak…
