Ethiopia
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Neocolonialism haunts Horn of Africa
Chinese foreign ministers have traditionally marked the new year by visiting the African continent. Wang Yi’s 2022 African tour begins with Eritrea against the backdrop of the US strategy in the Horn of Africa to gain control of the strategically vital Red Sea that connects Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal. Continue reading
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Horn of Africa — Washington’s Next Arab Spring?
The Biden State Department has just named career diplomat Jeffrey Feltman to be Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa. Given the geopolitical powder keg in the region and given the dark history of Feltman, especially in Lebanon and during the infamous CIA Arab Spring interventions after 2009, the relevant question is whether Washington has… Continue reading
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How Western Media (and others) are Still Failing Ethiopia
Evelyn Waugh would have a field day with what’s happening in Ethiopia right now. The talented author of Brideshead Revisited and Scoop was a racist little creep sent out by a rightwing, pro-Fascist newspaper in 1935 to cover Mussolini’s invasion. Just to give you an idea of the man, he wrote home to a friend, “I have got to… Continue reading
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Global Poverty and Post-colonial “Development Agendas”: Ethiopia and the West By Paul O’Keeffe
The world of international aid is a multi-trillion dollar exercise with transactions affecting every country on earth. Some give, some receive, some give and receive, but all are involved in aid flows that are ultimately held up as virtuous considerations of man to fellow man. The world has long been used to the cycles of… Continue reading
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Fleets of Drones Descend on Africa By Glen Ford
U.S. drone bases are multiplying on the African continent. Niger has just “given the green light to accepting American surveillance drones on its soil”; neighboring Burkina Faso already has one; two new drone facilities are opening in Ethiopia and the Seychelles; and UN peacekeepers in Congo want U.S. drones. Drones have terrorized Somalia from AFRICOM’s… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 578: DRC & SENEGAL: THE PEOPLE'S VOICE UNHEARD
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 578: DRC & SENEGAL: THE PEOPLE’S VOICE UNHEARD
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 March 2012: 20 US Troops In Afghan Rape Massacre?
18 March 2012— Information Clearing House Up to 20 US Troops Behind Kandahar Bloodbath/Rape – Afghan Probe By RT He appealed to the international community to ensure that the responsible parties were brought to justice, stressing the Afghan parliament would not rest until the killers were prosecuted. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30844.htm Continue reading
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Stop NATO news: November 20, 2011
20 November 2011 — Stop NATO Ethiopian Troops Invade Somalia Syria: Western Military Attack Will Destabilize Entire Middle East Kazakhstan Warns Against Repeating NATO Libyan War In Syria Turkish Activists Protest NATO Missile System United Arab Emirates To Be Provided First Advanced Missile Interceptors Outside U.S. Georgia: U.S. To Install New Radar Systems, Upgrade Navy… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 28, 2011
28 October 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Chief: Libya War ‘Great Success,’ Nation To Revert To AFRICOM Control State Department: NATO Shifts To ‘Post-Conflict’ Role In Libya Expanded Syrian Conflict: The West’s Unwinnable War Second U.S. Drone Attacks Kills Six In Pakistan Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen: U.S. Drones Kill 50 In One Day Continue reading
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U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The bombs that exploded in Kampala earlier this month, killing 76 people and unleashing a wave of arrests and deportations by the Ugandan regime, are chickens coming home to roost from the U.S.-sponsored war in Somalia. U.S. corporate media routinely fail to note that the Ugandan military and other U.S. African allies are all that… Continue reading
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa By John Vidal
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations. Continue reading
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Revealing the Real U.S.-Africa Policy By Gerald LeMelle
It’s time for some straight talk on U.S. foreign policy as it relates to Africa. While Obama administration officials and the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) representatives insist that U.S. foreign policy towards Africa isn’t being militarized, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. Continue reading
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Stephen Roblin, "Lessons from History: The Case against AFRICOM"
In contrast to proponents, I argue that, given the history of U.S. involvement in Africa, past and present, there is ‘sufficient reason’ to think that AFRICOM will be potentially disastrous for citizens of African countries. Continue reading
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Mike Whitney: Somalia: Another CIA-backed coup blows up
The United States has lost the ground war in Somalia, but that doesn’t mean its geopolitical objectives have changed one iota. The US intends to stay in the region for years to come and use its naval power to control the critical shipping lanes from the Gulf of Aden. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Somalia – Hidden Catastrophe Hidden Agenda
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media May 13, 2008 On May 1, the BBC website reported an attack on Somalia with the words: “Air raid kills Somali militants.†One might think the BBC’s headline would identify the agency responsible for the bombing, but the first few sentences also shed no… Continue reading
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Making Sense of Sudan By William Bowles
The build-up in the press coverage of Sudan to its present hysterical fever pitch must surely come as no surprise to most knowledgeable Africa watchers but the reality is that the present situation in Sudan is well over a quarter of a century old and much longer in the making. And of course it’s also… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 