Africa
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Is the French Invasion of Mali tied to a Colonial War for Uranium? By Saeed Shabazz
There is still confusion in UN corridors concerning France’s military intervention in Northern Mali, which began on Jan. 11 with air strikes against the so-called Islamist camps moving closer to the capital city of Bamako. Continue reading
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Malian War Spreading into Niger: French Military Moves Further Into Northern Region By Abayomi Azikiwe
Reports emanating from the West African state of Mali indicate that French grounds forces accompanied by the national army from the capital of Bamako–along with a small contingent of regional troops from Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal, Benin, Chad and Nigeria–are moving towards the northern historic city of Timbuktu. Although there has been a media… Continue reading
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Hidden Agenda behind America’s War on Africa: Containing China by “Fighting Al-Qaeda” By Ben Schreiner
France’s military intervention into Mali may at first glance appear to have little to do with the U.S. “pivot” to Asia. But as a French mission supposedly meant to bolster a U.N. sanctioned and African-led intervention has gone from “a question of weeks” to “the total re-conquest of Mali,” what may have begun as a… Continue reading
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From the Algerian Terror to Al Qaeda Meets Mali: The West’s Hidden Agenda By Victor Kotsev
mali When it comes to unfamiliar, far-off places, we trust our mainstream media to tell us what is going on with interminable conflicts raging through much of the world, and why—and most media trust Western governments’ explanations. Continue reading
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Africa: Planning Black Deeds to Reshape Black Continent By Nikolai MALISHEVSKI
The beginning of the XXI century is the time France and the USA started to reshape the African borders, as well as to redistribute the resources of the Black Continent in their favor. A deputy head of US State Department said the African oil has become a sphere of strategic interests for the United States. Continue reading
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Video: Back to the future in Mali: French neo-colonialism looms over Africa?
Malians hoping French troops have arrived to save them from Islamists may see other objectives revealed. France views Mali as a promising source of uranium and oil, and part of a geopolitical game, say observers. Continue reading
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Mali: France’s New Afghanistan By He Wenping
Since France launched military strikes against Mali rebels on January 11, the little-known West African country, which has been mired in a crisis for over a year, suddenly came under the media spotlight and made headlines around the world. Continue reading
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‘Al-Qaeda threat used by NATO as smoke screen for re-colonization of Northern Africa’
With more western countries getting indirectly involved in the conflict in Mali, there’s increasing speculation about their motives. Journalist and broadcaster Neil Clark told RT, that the intervention has ‘only economic reasons’. Continue reading
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Video: US AFRICOM Operation Underway in Mali. “Keeping China out of Africa” By Patrick Henningsen
As we predicted this past week, the theatrical upheaval in Mali was merely a nudging exercise to move forward the stated objectives laid down in US AFRICOM policy. Continue reading
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Efforts to divide spheres of influence in Africa By Natalya Kovalenko
The French armed forces are conducting a successful counter-terrorist operation in Mali. The town of Kona was retaken from the Islamists Thursday. The enemy suffered considerable losses, the military says. Among such cheerful statements the issue of what the foreign armed forces are doing in an alien country has been pushed into the background. Continue reading
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‘Pentagon’s hand behind French intervention in Mali’ By William Engdahl
As French soldiers pour into Mali in the fight to push back the advancing Islamist militants, questions have been raised as to the motives behind the intervention. Author William Engdahl told RT the US was using France as a scapegoat to save face. Continue reading
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France Launches War in Mali in Bid to Secure Resources, Stamp Out National Rights Struggles By Roger Annis
France, the former slave power of west Africa, has poured into Mali with a vengeance in a military attack launched on January 11. French warplanes are bombing towns and cities across the vast swath of northern Mali, a territory measuring some one thousand kilometers from south to north and east to west. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 19 January 2013: The Scramble for Africa
19 January 2013 — Global Research Mali Conflict Could Refuel Algeria’s Civil War, Abayomi Azikiwe, January 18, 2013 Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire In regard to the situation in Algeria, there has been over the last two decades insurgencies led by Islamist forces there and it appeared as if these difficulties and conflicts… Continue reading
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Mali Conflict Could Refuel Algeria’s Civil War By Abayomi Azikiwe
The French offensive against Malian militants can refuel the Algerian government’s more than a decade-long armed conflict with various rebel forces which ended in 2002, an analyst tells Press TV. Continue reading
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Mali War Retaliation: World Police Protecting Corporate Interests in Africa By grtv
Geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen joins RT from Beirut to discuss the prospects of the mission and the rising threat of retaliation attacks. Continue reading
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France and the U.S. Play Tag-Team in Africa By Glen Ford
The United States and France, once thought of as imperial competitors, act as military tag team partners in Africa. France puffed up like a hyper-aggressive peacock in the assault on Libya, and now strikes unilaterally against Islamists in Mali. But the junior imperialist’s brashness comes with the confidence that the superpower has its back. Continue reading
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2013 and the new Scramble for Africa By Chris Marsden
France’s military aggression in Mali is only the latest expression of a renewed Scramble for Africa being undertaken by all of the continent’s former imperialist overlords. This involves not only those powers that directly ruled Africa from the late nineteenth century through to the 1960s, such as France and Britain, but above all the United… Continue reading
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The War on Mali. What you Should Know: An Eldorado of Uranium, Gold, Petroleum, Strategic Minerals By R. Teichman
Whatever is reported by the mainstream media, the goal of this new war is no other than stripping yet another country of its natural resources by securing the access of international corporations to do it. What is being done now in Mali through bombs and bullets is being done to Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain… Continue reading
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