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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:16 pm
Drought in Horn of Africa Expected To Worsen, WMO Says
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Published 26 August 2022
Below-normal rainfall levels are forecast by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia for October-December.
The international organization warned of worsening drought in the Horn of Africa region in the face of the fifth consecutive season without rain.
The WMO said that drought-affected areas in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are expected to receive significantly below normal rainfall levels through the end of the year.
According to the organization's spokesperson, Clare Nullis, this lack of rainfall will bring with it very tough consequences, since "in the equatorial areas of the Greater Horn of Africa, the October to December season brings up to 70 percent of the total annual rainfall, especially in eastern Kenya."
The director of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development's (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC), Guleid Artan, said, "In Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, we are on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe."
World Health Organization (WHO) data reveal that more than 80 million people in the countries of the region (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda) are food insecure.
In this regard, the World Food Program (WFP) said that the risk of famine caused by the fifth consecutive season without rains must be tackled immediately.
International agencies have said the drought in the Horn of Africa is the longest in 40 years. An emergency was declared last July given the situation of acute food insecurity suffered by over 50 million people in the region.
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Africans Take UK to Court Over Abuses Committed During Colonial Era
AUGUST 26, 2022
British colonial forces in Africa. File photo.
Kenyan activists are suing the United Kingdom for its grave abuses during the country’s colonial era after London refused to take any accountability for its crimes.
Several Kenyan activists are suing the United Kingdom over abuses committed during the British empire’s colonial era, raising a case against the country in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday.
The plaintiffs, Africans forced off their land in the Kenyan Rift Valley, are saying London violated the European Convention of Human Rights through the abuses it committed in Africa during its colonial rule of the continent.
The UK is a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights, and the plaintiffs’ lawyers are saying it violated the accord by consistently ignoring complaints raised by the victims of the brutal British colonial rule.
“The UK government has ducked and dived, and sadly avoided every possible avenue of redress,” Joel Kimutai Bosek, a lawyer representing the Kipsigis and Talai peoples, said. “We have no choice but to proceed to court for our clients so that history can be righted.”
The British Empire, the world’s biggest colonial empire, ruled Kenya between the late 19th century and 1962 while having a chokehold on the majority of the African continent, among various other regions of the world.
The peoples living in the Rift Valley were uprooted from their land in the early 1900s. One of the areas they were forced off of, the one surrounding Kericho, the biggest town in the Valley, is a key region used to grow tea, which is then farmed by multinational corporations to this day.
“Today, some of the world’s most prosperous tea companies, like Unilever, Williamson Tea, Finlay’s, and Lipton occupy and farm these lands and continue to use them to generate considerable profits,” the plaintiffs said in a statement.
The indigenous peoples of the region are not only deprived of their land but are also robbed of the potential profits they could be making from the fertile lands.
Previously, the Kipsigis and Talai took their cause to the UN, where a special investigative panel expressed “serious concern” last year over London failing to take any part of the blame and accountability or even issue an apology for the abuses committed during its colonial era.
The complaint sent to the UN was signed by more than 100,000 people that directly suffered from the colonial rule and those people’s descendants. They were demanding an apology and reparations for their land being ceded to white colonial settlers.
Kericho County outgoing governor Paul Chepkwony highly lauded the plaintiffs’ filing of their case with the ECHR, saying it was a “historic day” for the whole region.
“We have taken all reasonable and dignified steps. But the UK Government has given us the cold shoulder… we hope for those who have suffered for too long that their dignity will be restored,” Chepkwony said.
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Leaders of several countries bid farewell to remains of former Angolan president
Dos Santos was fired in an open and massive ceremony held in the Republic Square in Luanda.
Published 28 August 2022
At least delegations from 21 countries attended the funeral ceremony of José Eduardo dos Santos, who was the president of Angola between 1979 and 2017.
Leaders from various countries and official delegations from at least 21 states bid farewell this Sunday, along with thousands of Angolans, to the funeral remains of former president José Eduardo dos Santos, in an open ceremony that took place in the Republic Square in Luanda, capital.
Local media detail that they traveled to Luanda, among other personalities, the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa; the one from Cape Verde, José Maria Pereira Neves; the dignitary of São Tomé and Príncipe Carlos Vila Nova; that of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa; and the one from Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi.
The Minister of the Territory of that African nation, Marcy Lopes, also attended Denis Sassou Nguesso, head of state of the Congo; Emmerson Mnangagwa, from Zimbabwe; Umaro Sissoco Embalo, from Guinea-Bissau.
José Eduardo dos Santos died on July 8 at the age of 79 in a Barcelona hospital, as a result of cardiac arrest and after being hospitalized since June 23.
The arrival in Angola of his mortal remains took place on August 20, a few days before the elections; and his body was given to his widow, Ana Paula dos Santos, after a legal battle between the two parts of the family in the Spanish courts.
Dos Santos assumed the position of President of the Republic in September 1979, and was in office for 38 years until 2017, becoming the second dignitary of that nation and succeeding the also deceased António Agostinho Neto.
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Macron Insulted Africans’ Intelligence
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on AUGUST 29, 2022
Andrew
The shameless ethno-nationalist supremacy associated with his hateful remark will result in Africans doubling down on their anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanism activism since no self-respecting person would ever capitulate in the face of such blatantly racist pressure and thus voluntarily submit themselves to being dominated by their abuser.
French President Macron claimed during his latest trip to Algeria that “Many of the (information) networks that are covertly pushed (in Africa) – … by Turkey… by Russia… by China – have an enemy: France.” This was a supreme insult to all Africans’ intelligence since it channeled the discredited racist trope that they’re supposedly so stupid as to be easily manipulated by multipolar powers. Instead of acknowledging the genuinely grassroots and politically legitimate reasons why many Africans are actively rebelling against French influence in its self-proclaimed “sphere of influence” in so-called “Françafrique” like Turkiye’s Foreign Ministry suggested that he do, Macron chose to once again spew unsubstantiated smears similar in spirit to those malicious ones that it earlier made against Mali.
The reality is that the global systemic transition to multipolarity that unprecedentedly accelerated since the latest US-provoked phase of the Ukrainian Conflict has served to inspire the entire BRICS-led Global South to push back against the US-led West’s Golden Billion at this pivotal moment in the New Cold War between those two polar opposite models of socio-economic and political development. Moreover, many Africans felt emboldened to further intensify their efforts after President Putin unveiled his global revolutionary manifesto in late July that was followed shortly thereafter by Foreign Minister Lavrov pledging that Russia will help Africa fully complete its decolonization processes ahead of his successful trip to the continent.
“Africa’s Role In The New Cold War” is destined to be that of a major battleground between the Golden Billion and the Global South precisely because its people refuse to be subjugated any longer by the former after having ruthlessly been exploited by them for half a millennium. France, which is among the most powerful of the Golden Billion’s hegemons in Africa and even surpasses the US’ influence in some parts of the continent, isn’t even hiding its neo-colonial intentions anymore after Macron ripped off his mask and started insulting Africans’ intelligence in the extremely racist way that he just did. The so-called “battle for hearts and minds” has already been won by the Global South’s multipolar Great Powers like Russia and China, who are helping to liberate all African countries with no strings attached.
They’d never dare disrespect their partners, let alone in the crude way that Macron just did, especially because they themselves have been victimized by similar forms of verbal abuse. Africans are well aware not only of those two and others’ proud anti-colonial histories, but also of just how sincerely they respect all others in contrast to the behavior exemplified by Western leaders like the French one and his peers. Macron’s racist insult of all Africans’ intelligence isn’t just rude, but also suggests that the Golden Billion is done “playing nice” after having abandoned all pretenses of their faux “politeness” that they unconvincingly attempted to practice in the past. As Western “thought leaders” never tire of reminding everyone, “might makes right” in their eyes, hence why they’re now sowing chaos across Africa.
This isn’t speculation either but documented fact after Mali recently accused France of supporting those Al Qaeda-connected terrorists that declared war on its Russian partner in late June and then the joint US- and Egyptian-led but TPLF-driven Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia resumed shortly thereafter on the other side of the continent. In fact, that second-mentioned conflict that first went hot in November 2020 after years of multilateral planning can be seen in hindsight as the new template that the West and its regional vassals like Egypt are employing since it was hatched as punishment for Ethiopia’s principled neutrality in the New Cold War between the US-led West’s Golden Billion and the BRICS-led Global South. It therefore follows that similarly multipolar states like Mali and others will be punished too.
Macron made a major mistake though by letting his mask slip after spewing his racist innuendo about Africans supposedly lacking the intelligence to not be manipulated by foreign powers. The shameless ethno-nationalist supremacy associated with his hateful remark will result in Africans doubling down on their anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanism activism since no self-respecting person would ever capitulate in the face of such blatantly racist pressure and thus voluntarily submit themselves to being dominated by their abuser. Far from helping the Golden Billion’s hegemonic cause like his twisted mind imagined that his crude insult would supposedly do, the French leader’s public embrace of racist tropes against Africans will only serve to accelerate the decline of the US-led West’s hegemony over that continent.
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The Ethiopian Embassy in the US Decisively Responded to the New York Times’ Disinformation
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on AUGUST 28, 2022
Andrew Korybko
What’s so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for this latest information warfare provocation, hence the importance of the Ethiopian Embassy in the US responding as decisively as it did.
The New York Times (NYT) spread disinformation about the latest phase of the Ethiopian Conflict in its recent piece titled “Fighting Erupts In Northern Ethiopia, Shattering Ceasefire”, which prompted the Ethiopian Embassy in the US to decisively respond in a statement shared on their Twitter account so as to set the record straight. That country’s diplomats reminded everyone of their government’s commitment to hold African Union-led peace talks anywhere, about any subject, and at any time without preconditions. They also took issue with that outlet omitting any mention of the TPLF’s responsibility for starting the conflict in November 2020 after their long-planned and coordinated sneak attack against the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF).
Building upon that, another of their contentions was that the NYT falsely framed the conflict as having personally been commenced by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed out of supposed malice for his political opponents. The Ethiopian Embassy in the US then drew a sharp contrast between their universally recognized and democratically elected government’s progressive partnership with the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) and the TPLF’s latest raid against one of its warehouses that was condemned by that global body. They then concluded by warning that “Inaccuracies like those presented on August 24 risk emboldening further aggression in Ethiopia and other parts of the world where democracy is under threat” before reaffirming that the NYT’s audience deserves to know the truth about this conflict.
Taken together, their response can accurately be described as decisive since it concisely corrected the record by sharing objectively existing and easily verifiable facts with that outlet’s audience, who might otherwise have unquestionably extended credence to the NYT’s artificially manufactured narrative and thus falsely thought that Ethiopia’s central government was to blame for everything. The reality is that this multipolar and historically diverse civilization-state has been victimized by a joint US- and Egyptian-led but TPLF-driven Hybrid War of Terror as punishment for its principled neutrality in the New Cold War between the West’s Golden Billion and the BRICS-led Global South. In fact, the latest round of fighting was once again initiated by the TPLF at its patrons’ behest to punish Ethiopia for its summer of success.
Since the hot stage of this preplanned conflict began almost two years ago, the dual American and Egyptian masterminds have relied immensely on information warfare to manipulate the global audience about its dynamics. From falsely alleging that a so-called “genocide” was taking place in the Tigray Region to recently claiming that the Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) bombed a kindergarten full of kids inside despite the school season having not yet begun (and being stopped entirely in that region since the conflict started), everything pushed about the central government by those two perpetrators and their media proxies has been nothing but lies. It therefore naturally follows that the NYT would also participate in this dimension of the Hybrid War by virtue of its global influence in shaping the narrative.
What’s so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for this latest information warfare provocation, hence the importance of the Ethiopian Embassy in the US responding as decisively as it did. Seeing as how the Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia probably won’t end anytime soon since its perpetrators refuse to let that multipolar civilization-state peacefully develop according to the vision of its democratically elected leadership, more such fake news and consequence responses should be expected in the coming future.
Scrutinizing The Claim That The Ethiopian Air Force Just Bombed A Kindergarten In Mekelle
Even leaving aside the central government’s factually grounded designation of the TPLF as terrorists, that group’s proven disreputableness, and its prior pattern of manipulating the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) into amplifying its false narrative against the state by dumping fake body bags and/or the bodies of those who died elsewhere at the scenes of where it claims the government committed war crimes, there are three other reasons not to believe its latest accusations.
The terrorist-designated TPLF claimed that the Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) just bombed a kindergarten in the regional capital of Mekelle and killed several children as part of the latest round of fighting that this group provoked last week at the behest of its American and Egyptian patrons. Despite this scandalous accusation having only just been made by the same organization that’s infamous for spreading fake news about these sorts of attacks and thus not yet confirmed by any independent third-party observers, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell jumped on the bandwagon by extending credence to this narrative. The Government Communication Service defended the state’s reputation by revealing that “the terrorist TPLF has begun dumping fake body bags in civilian areas in order to claim that the Air Force attacked civilians”, which is consistent with what that group’s done since November 2020.
These conflicting allegations have understandably resulted in a lot of confusion about what just transpired, hence the need to closely scrutinize the original war crime claim being made by the ETAF. Even leaving aside the central government’s factually grounded designation of the TPLF as terrorists, that group’s proven disreputableness, and its prior pattern of manipulating the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) into amplifying its false narrative against the state by dumping fake body bags and/or the bodies of those who died elsewhere at the scenes of where it claims the government committed war crimes, there are three other reasons not to believe its latest accusations. The first and most obvious of these is that the school season has yet to start in Ethiopia, meaning that it’s highly unlikely that children were at the site when it was allegedly hit.
Second, the reader should be reminded that the TPLF is functioning as their joint American and Egyptian patrons’ proxies in the Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia, which is the exact same role that NATO-backed Kiev plays vis a vis that bloc’s Hybrid War on Russia throughout the course of the latest US-provoked phase of the Ukrainian Conflict. It’s therefore reasonable to suspect that Kiev’s strategy of illegally militarizing residential areas in order to deter its opponent’s attacks, which was just proven by Amnesty International’s recent bombshell report, is also being replicated by the TPLF since both forces are Western Hybrid War proxies with the same American patron. With this in mind, it thus can’t be discounted that the terrorists militarized a school building without children inside of it at the time, but were then bombed as legitimate military targets and only afterwards brought bodies from elsewhere.
The final reason not to believe the TPLF’s latest accusations is that the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have gone to great lengths to mitigate civilian casualties during their law-enforcement-turned-anti-terrorist operation exactly as the Russian Armed Forces (RFAF) have during their special military operation in Ukraine. Just like President Putin truly believes in the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians as proven by his treatise on this topic from summer 2021, to which end he’s declined to authorize the American-like carpet-bombing of enemy-controlled cities (especially those with human shields being held at illegally militarized residential areas) even though this has led to slow but steady progress for his side, so too does Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy truly believe in the historical unity of the diverse Ethiopian people and would thus never authorize the targeting of civilians either.
To summarize the skepticism towards the TPLF’s latest war crime claim against the central government: the group is already rightly designated as terrorists; is infamous for its disreputableness; and previously manipulated the MSM through the means that the Government Communication Service recently reminded everyone of. In the context of the current incident: school doesn’t even start in Ethiopia until Monday; there’s reason to suspect that the TPLF is replicating Kiev’s strategy of illegally militarizing residential areas in order to deter its opponent’s attacks seeing as how they’re Hybrid War proxies that share the same US patron; and Prime Minister Abiy sincerely believes in the historical unity of the diverse Ethiopian people so he’d never authorize the targeting of civilians. Taken together, these six points discredit the latest war crime claim against Ethiopia while suggesting that the TPLF and even UNICIF lied.
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Lindokuhle Mnguni is third Abahlali baseMjondolo leader to be killed this year
28-year-old Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana commune of South African shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), was gunned down at his home in Durban on August 20.
August 27, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch
28-year-old Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana commune of South African shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), was gunned down at his home in Durban on August 20. In its statement, Abahlali described him as “a fearless leader” who always “stood for his community. … He made it very clear, in his calm and gentle way, that he had chosen socialism or death.”
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Published 26 August 2022
Below-normal rainfall levels are forecast by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia for October-December.
The international organization warned of worsening drought in the Horn of Africa region in the face of the fifth consecutive season without rain.
The WMO said that drought-affected areas in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are expected to receive significantly below normal rainfall levels through the end of the year.
According to the organization's spokesperson, Clare Nullis, this lack of rainfall will bring with it very tough consequences, since "in the equatorial areas of the Greater Horn of Africa, the October to December season brings up to 70 percent of the total annual rainfall, especially in eastern Kenya."
The director of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development's (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC), Guleid Artan, said, "In Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, we are on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe."
World Health Organization (WHO) data reveal that more than 80 million people in the countries of the region (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda) are food insecure.
In this regard, the World Food Program (WFP) said that the risk of famine caused by the fifth consecutive season without rains must be tackled immediately.
International agencies have said the drought in the Horn of Africa is the longest in 40 years. An emergency was declared last July given the situation of acute food insecurity suffered by over 50 million people in the region.
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Africans Take UK to Court Over Abuses Committed During Colonial Era
AUGUST 26, 2022
British colonial forces in Africa. File photo.
Kenyan activists are suing the United Kingdom for its grave abuses during the country’s colonial era after London refused to take any accountability for its crimes.
Several Kenyan activists are suing the United Kingdom over abuses committed during the British empire’s colonial era, raising a case against the country in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday.
The plaintiffs, Africans forced off their land in the Kenyan Rift Valley, are saying London violated the European Convention of Human Rights through the abuses it committed in Africa during its colonial rule of the continent.
The UK is a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights, and the plaintiffs’ lawyers are saying it violated the accord by consistently ignoring complaints raised by the victims of the brutal British colonial rule.
“The UK government has ducked and dived, and sadly avoided every possible avenue of redress,” Joel Kimutai Bosek, a lawyer representing the Kipsigis and Talai peoples, said. “We have no choice but to proceed to court for our clients so that history can be righted.”
The British Empire, the world’s biggest colonial empire, ruled Kenya between the late 19th century and 1962 while having a chokehold on the majority of the African continent, among various other regions of the world.
The peoples living in the Rift Valley were uprooted from their land in the early 1900s. One of the areas they were forced off of, the one surrounding Kericho, the biggest town in the Valley, is a key region used to grow tea, which is then farmed by multinational corporations to this day.
“Today, some of the world’s most prosperous tea companies, like Unilever, Williamson Tea, Finlay’s, and Lipton occupy and farm these lands and continue to use them to generate considerable profits,” the plaintiffs said in a statement.
The indigenous peoples of the region are not only deprived of their land but are also robbed of the potential profits they could be making from the fertile lands.
Previously, the Kipsigis and Talai took their cause to the UN, where a special investigative panel expressed “serious concern” last year over London failing to take any part of the blame and accountability or even issue an apology for the abuses committed during its colonial era.
The complaint sent to the UN was signed by more than 100,000 people that directly suffered from the colonial rule and those people’s descendants. They were demanding an apology and reparations for their land being ceded to white colonial settlers.
Kericho County outgoing governor Paul Chepkwony highly lauded the plaintiffs’ filing of their case with the ECHR, saying it was a “historic day” for the whole region.
“We have taken all reasonable and dignified steps. But the UK Government has given us the cold shoulder… we hope for those who have suffered for too long that their dignity will be restored,” Chepkwony said.
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Leaders of several countries bid farewell to remains of former Angolan president
Dos Santos was fired in an open and massive ceremony held in the Republic Square in Luanda.
Published 28 August 2022
At least delegations from 21 countries attended the funeral ceremony of José Eduardo dos Santos, who was the president of Angola between 1979 and 2017.
Leaders from various countries and official delegations from at least 21 states bid farewell this Sunday, along with thousands of Angolans, to the funeral remains of former president José Eduardo dos Santos, in an open ceremony that took place in the Republic Square in Luanda, capital.
Local media detail that they traveled to Luanda, among other personalities, the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa; the one from Cape Verde, José Maria Pereira Neves; the dignitary of São Tomé and Príncipe Carlos Vila Nova; that of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa; and the one from Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi.
The Minister of the Territory of that African nation, Marcy Lopes, also attended Denis Sassou Nguesso, head of state of the Congo; Emmerson Mnangagwa, from Zimbabwe; Umaro Sissoco Embalo, from Guinea-Bissau.
José Eduardo dos Santos died on July 8 at the age of 79 in a Barcelona hospital, as a result of cardiac arrest and after being hospitalized since June 23.
The arrival in Angola of his mortal remains took place on August 20, a few days before the elections; and his body was given to his widow, Ana Paula dos Santos, after a legal battle between the two parts of the family in the Spanish courts.
Dos Santos assumed the position of President of the Republic in September 1979, and was in office for 38 years until 2017, becoming the second dignitary of that nation and succeeding the also deceased António Agostinho Neto.
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Macron Insulted Africans’ Intelligence
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on AUGUST 29, 2022
Andrew
The shameless ethno-nationalist supremacy associated with his hateful remark will result in Africans doubling down on their anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanism activism since no self-respecting person would ever capitulate in the face of such blatantly racist pressure and thus voluntarily submit themselves to being dominated by their abuser.
French President Macron claimed during his latest trip to Algeria that “Many of the (information) networks that are covertly pushed (in Africa) – … by Turkey… by Russia… by China – have an enemy: France.” This was a supreme insult to all Africans’ intelligence since it channeled the discredited racist trope that they’re supposedly so stupid as to be easily manipulated by multipolar powers. Instead of acknowledging the genuinely grassroots and politically legitimate reasons why many Africans are actively rebelling against French influence in its self-proclaimed “sphere of influence” in so-called “Françafrique” like Turkiye’s Foreign Ministry suggested that he do, Macron chose to once again spew unsubstantiated smears similar in spirit to those malicious ones that it earlier made against Mali.
The reality is that the global systemic transition to multipolarity that unprecedentedly accelerated since the latest US-provoked phase of the Ukrainian Conflict has served to inspire the entire BRICS-led Global South to push back against the US-led West’s Golden Billion at this pivotal moment in the New Cold War between those two polar opposite models of socio-economic and political development. Moreover, many Africans felt emboldened to further intensify their efforts after President Putin unveiled his global revolutionary manifesto in late July that was followed shortly thereafter by Foreign Minister Lavrov pledging that Russia will help Africa fully complete its decolonization processes ahead of his successful trip to the continent.
“Africa’s Role In The New Cold War” is destined to be that of a major battleground between the Golden Billion and the Global South precisely because its people refuse to be subjugated any longer by the former after having ruthlessly been exploited by them for half a millennium. France, which is among the most powerful of the Golden Billion’s hegemons in Africa and even surpasses the US’ influence in some parts of the continent, isn’t even hiding its neo-colonial intentions anymore after Macron ripped off his mask and started insulting Africans’ intelligence in the extremely racist way that he just did. The so-called “battle for hearts and minds” has already been won by the Global South’s multipolar Great Powers like Russia and China, who are helping to liberate all African countries with no strings attached.
They’d never dare disrespect their partners, let alone in the crude way that Macron just did, especially because they themselves have been victimized by similar forms of verbal abuse. Africans are well aware not only of those two and others’ proud anti-colonial histories, but also of just how sincerely they respect all others in contrast to the behavior exemplified by Western leaders like the French one and his peers. Macron’s racist insult of all Africans’ intelligence isn’t just rude, but also suggests that the Golden Billion is done “playing nice” after having abandoned all pretenses of their faux “politeness” that they unconvincingly attempted to practice in the past. As Western “thought leaders” never tire of reminding everyone, “might makes right” in their eyes, hence why they’re now sowing chaos across Africa.
This isn’t speculation either but documented fact after Mali recently accused France of supporting those Al Qaeda-connected terrorists that declared war on its Russian partner in late June and then the joint US- and Egyptian-led but TPLF-driven Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia resumed shortly thereafter on the other side of the continent. In fact, that second-mentioned conflict that first went hot in November 2020 after years of multilateral planning can be seen in hindsight as the new template that the West and its regional vassals like Egypt are employing since it was hatched as punishment for Ethiopia’s principled neutrality in the New Cold War between the US-led West’s Golden Billion and the BRICS-led Global South. It therefore follows that similarly multipolar states like Mali and others will be punished too.
Macron made a major mistake though by letting his mask slip after spewing his racist innuendo about Africans supposedly lacking the intelligence to not be manipulated by foreign powers. The shameless ethno-nationalist supremacy associated with his hateful remark will result in Africans doubling down on their anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanism activism since no self-respecting person would ever capitulate in the face of such blatantly racist pressure and thus voluntarily submit themselves to being dominated by their abuser. Far from helping the Golden Billion’s hegemonic cause like his twisted mind imagined that his crude insult would supposedly do, the French leader’s public embrace of racist tropes against Africans will only serve to accelerate the decline of the US-led West’s hegemony over that continent.
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The Ethiopian Embassy in the US Decisively Responded to the New York Times’ Disinformation
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on AUGUST 28, 2022
Andrew Korybko
What’s so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for this latest information warfare provocation, hence the importance of the Ethiopian Embassy in the US responding as decisively as it did.
The New York Times (NYT) spread disinformation about the latest phase of the Ethiopian Conflict in its recent piece titled “Fighting Erupts In Northern Ethiopia, Shattering Ceasefire”, which prompted the Ethiopian Embassy in the US to decisively respond in a statement shared on their Twitter account so as to set the record straight. That country’s diplomats reminded everyone of their government’s commitment to hold African Union-led peace talks anywhere, about any subject, and at any time without preconditions. They also took issue with that outlet omitting any mention of the TPLF’s responsibility for starting the conflict in November 2020 after their long-planned and coordinated sneak attack against the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF).
Building upon that, another of their contentions was that the NYT falsely framed the conflict as having personally been commenced by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed out of supposed malice for his political opponents. The Ethiopian Embassy in the US then drew a sharp contrast between their universally recognized and democratically elected government’s progressive partnership with the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) and the TPLF’s latest raid against one of its warehouses that was condemned by that global body. They then concluded by warning that “Inaccuracies like those presented on August 24 risk emboldening further aggression in Ethiopia and other parts of the world where democracy is under threat” before reaffirming that the NYT’s audience deserves to know the truth about this conflict.
Taken together, their response can accurately be described as decisive since it concisely corrected the record by sharing objectively existing and easily verifiable facts with that outlet’s audience, who might otherwise have unquestionably extended credence to the NYT’s artificially manufactured narrative and thus falsely thought that Ethiopia’s central government was to blame for everything. The reality is that this multipolar and historically diverse civilization-state has been victimized by a joint US- and Egyptian-led but TPLF-driven Hybrid War of Terror as punishment for its principled neutrality in the New Cold War between the West’s Golden Billion and the BRICS-led Global South. In fact, the latest round of fighting was once again initiated by the TPLF at its patrons’ behest to punish Ethiopia for its summer of success.
Since the hot stage of this preplanned conflict began almost two years ago, the dual American and Egyptian masterminds have relied immensely on information warfare to manipulate the global audience about its dynamics. From falsely alleging that a so-called “genocide” was taking place in the Tigray Region to recently claiming that the Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) bombed a kindergarten full of kids inside despite the school season having not yet begun (and being stopped entirely in that region since the conflict started), everything pushed about the central government by those two perpetrators and their media proxies has been nothing but lies. It therefore naturally follows that the NYT would also participate in this dimension of the Hybrid War by virtue of its global influence in shaping the narrative.
What’s so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for this latest information warfare provocation, hence the importance of the Ethiopian Embassy in the US responding as decisively as it did. Seeing as how the Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia probably won’t end anytime soon since its perpetrators refuse to let that multipolar civilization-state peacefully develop according to the vision of its democratically elected leadership, more such fake news and consequence responses should be expected in the coming future.
Scrutinizing The Claim That The Ethiopian Air Force Just Bombed A Kindergarten In Mekelle
Even leaving aside the central government’s factually grounded designation of the TPLF as terrorists, that group’s proven disreputableness, and its prior pattern of manipulating the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) into amplifying its false narrative against the state by dumping fake body bags and/or the bodies of those who died elsewhere at the scenes of where it claims the government committed war crimes, there are three other reasons not to believe its latest accusations.
The terrorist-designated TPLF claimed that the Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) just bombed a kindergarten in the regional capital of Mekelle and killed several children as part of the latest round of fighting that this group provoked last week at the behest of its American and Egyptian patrons. Despite this scandalous accusation having only just been made by the same organization that’s infamous for spreading fake news about these sorts of attacks and thus not yet confirmed by any independent third-party observers, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell jumped on the bandwagon by extending credence to this narrative. The Government Communication Service defended the state’s reputation by revealing that “the terrorist TPLF has begun dumping fake body bags in civilian areas in order to claim that the Air Force attacked civilians”, which is consistent with what that group’s done since November 2020.
These conflicting allegations have understandably resulted in a lot of confusion about what just transpired, hence the need to closely scrutinize the original war crime claim being made by the ETAF. Even leaving aside the central government’s factually grounded designation of the TPLF as terrorists, that group’s proven disreputableness, and its prior pattern of manipulating the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) into amplifying its false narrative against the state by dumping fake body bags and/or the bodies of those who died elsewhere at the scenes of where it claims the government committed war crimes, there are three other reasons not to believe its latest accusations. The first and most obvious of these is that the school season has yet to start in Ethiopia, meaning that it’s highly unlikely that children were at the site when it was allegedly hit.
Second, the reader should be reminded that the TPLF is functioning as their joint American and Egyptian patrons’ proxies in the Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia, which is the exact same role that NATO-backed Kiev plays vis a vis that bloc’s Hybrid War on Russia throughout the course of the latest US-provoked phase of the Ukrainian Conflict. It’s therefore reasonable to suspect that Kiev’s strategy of illegally militarizing residential areas in order to deter its opponent’s attacks, which was just proven by Amnesty International’s recent bombshell report, is also being replicated by the TPLF since both forces are Western Hybrid War proxies with the same American patron. With this in mind, it thus can’t be discounted that the terrorists militarized a school building without children inside of it at the time, but were then bombed as legitimate military targets and only afterwards brought bodies from elsewhere.
The final reason not to believe the TPLF’s latest accusations is that the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have gone to great lengths to mitigate civilian casualties during their law-enforcement-turned-anti-terrorist operation exactly as the Russian Armed Forces (RFAF) have during their special military operation in Ukraine. Just like President Putin truly believes in the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians as proven by his treatise on this topic from summer 2021, to which end he’s declined to authorize the American-like carpet-bombing of enemy-controlled cities (especially those with human shields being held at illegally militarized residential areas) even though this has led to slow but steady progress for his side, so too does Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy truly believe in the historical unity of the diverse Ethiopian people and would thus never authorize the targeting of civilians either.
To summarize the skepticism towards the TPLF’s latest war crime claim against the central government: the group is already rightly designated as terrorists; is infamous for its disreputableness; and previously manipulated the MSM through the means that the Government Communication Service recently reminded everyone of. In the context of the current incident: school doesn’t even start in Ethiopia until Monday; there’s reason to suspect that the TPLF is replicating Kiev’s strategy of illegally militarizing residential areas in order to deter its opponent’s attacks seeing as how they’re Hybrid War proxies that share the same US patron; and Prime Minister Abiy sincerely believes in the historical unity of the diverse Ethiopian people so he’d never authorize the targeting of civilians. Taken together, these six points discredit the latest war crime claim against Ethiopia while suggesting that the TPLF and even UNICIF lied.
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Lindokuhle Mnguni is third Abahlali baseMjondolo leader to be killed this year
28-year-old Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana commune of South African shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), was gunned down at his home in Durban on August 20.
August 27, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch
28-year-old Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana commune of South African shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), was gunned down at his home in Durban on August 20. In its statement, Abahlali described him as “a fearless leader” who always “stood for his community. … He made it very clear, in his calm and gentle way, that he had chosen socialism or death.”
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