Rwanda
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Labour on immigration: 5 things you need to know
The Tories’ 14-year run is over, but migrant solidarity campaigners are doubtful whether things look much brighter under Labour. How much has Keir Starmer’s government departed from the Conservatives’ migration policies, and what does the Home Office have in store for the next few years? Continue reading
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“We must stop another Windrush.”
“EU citizens may soon encounter issues akin to those witnessed in the Windrush scandal,” say legal charity Here For Good. Last year, the Home Office introduced “draconian rules” relating to late applications for the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). The scheme gives EU citizens legal rights to stay in the UK post-Brexit. Continue reading
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Let’s demand the impossible
The Rwanda Deportation sham continues to dominate British politics causing relentless trauma. Continue reading
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Israel’s fortress state is the model for the UK’s new asylum policy
There is nothing innovative or humanitarian about Britain’s new policy of shipping asylum seekers, “on a one-way ticket“, thousands of miles to central Africa. Nor is there anything surprising about the choice of destination: Rwanda. Boris Johnson’s government has simply copied wholesale a programme established by Israel eight years ago. Continue reading
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UK: Contributing to Genocide in Rwanda
In the hundreds of media articles on the 1994 Rwanda genocide, there is barely a mention of Britain being a permanent member of the UN security council and in any way responsible for what happened. I recounted Britain’s role in my previous book, The Great Deception, so I will not repeat everything here. Since then,… Continue reading
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Stealing Mineral Wealth for Corporate Interests: U.S. Bankrolled Mass Murder of Millions in Central Africa
A new book reveals how U.S. Presidents of both parties unleashed the CIA in the Congo to do the dirty work of greedy corporations, causing misery, mutilations and massacres of such magnitude they dwarfed even the wildest accounts depicted in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Continue reading
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Et Tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda By Ann Garrison
The great lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and helped justify U.S. military interventions in Libya and Syria, argues Ann Garrison. Continue reading
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Congo in the Abyss By Ann Garrison
The aggression of Western governments has inflicted multiple holocausts on the Congolese people, Congolese historian Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko tells Ann Garrison. This week I spoke to Swiss Congolese historian and activist Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko about recent developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who said, “In Congo, globalized capitalism creates permanent chaos.” Continue reading
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Pambazuka News 842 20 October 2017: Kenya on the brink
20 October 2017 — Pambazuka News Contents 1. Features http://www.pambazuka.net/en/issue.php/current/#cat_1 2. Announcements http://www.pambazuka.net/en/issue.php/current/#cat_3 Features Step back from the brink https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/step-back-brink *An open letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rt. Hon Raila Odinga* ICJ-Kenya https://www.pambazuka.org/author/icj-kenya The ruling Jubilee coalition insists repeat presidential elections must go on next Thursday. The opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) has called Continue reading
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Twenty Years Ago: Rwanda, Installing a US Proxy State in Central Africa. The US was Behind the Genocide By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The world is currently commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. The official story is that the genocide directed against the Tutsi population was triggered by the Interhamwe militia of the Hamyarimana government in the wake of plane crash which led to the death of president Habyarimana. The evidence suggests that the United States… Continue reading
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Rwandan Warlord Kagame Threatens Neighbors and UN Force
Paul Kagame, the minority Tutsi warlord of Rwanda, is in a dangerous mood. For 17 years, the United States armed Kagame’s military to the teeth as Rwanda and another U.S. ally, Uganda, plundered and destabilized the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing millions in the process. However, in the face of mounting international outcry, the U.S.… Continue reading
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Obama in South Africa: Washington tells Pretoria how to ‘play the game’ in Africa By Patrick Bond
US President Barack Barack Obama’s weekend trip to South Africa may have the desired effect of slowing the geopolitical realignment of Pretoria to the Brazil-India-Russia-China-South Africa (BRICS) axis. That shift to BRICS has not, however, meant deviation from the hosts’ political philosophy, best understood as “talk left, walk right” since it mixes anti-imperialist rhetoric with… Continue reading
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Obama in South Africa: Washington tells Pretoria how to ‘play the game’ in Africa By Patrick Bond
US President Barack Barack Obama’s weekend trip to South Africa may have the desired effect of slowing the geopolitical realignment of Pretoria to the Brazil-India-Russia-China-South Africa (BRICS) axis. That shift to BRICS has not, however, meant deviation from the hosts’ political philosophy, best understood as “talk left, walk right” since it mixes anti-imperialist rhetoric with… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 May 2013: The More Effective Evil, When Prosecutors Are Crimimals
15 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The More Effective Evil by Your World News For some time now, Black Agenda Report has been calling the Obama administration not the lesser of two but the more effective evil, able to enact measures that white Democrats or Republicans could not Continue reading
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Africa: Imperialism’s High Mark of Conquest in the 21st Century By Glen Ford
The US-NATO military curtain has fallen the length and breadth of Africa. “Zimbabwe and tiny Eritrea are among the few nations on the African continent that have not yet been absorbed into the AFRICOM matrix.” Continue reading
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Freedom of Information Follies: FOIA Reviewers Declassify Same Rwanda Document Four Times, Creating New Secrets Each Time
The U.S. government’s Freedom of Information Act reviewers produced four different versions of the same State Department document over a 12-year period, releasing different information each time, according to the National Security Archive’s posting today of the documents obtained by author and journalist Michael Dobbs. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 619: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MOURNING CHAVEZ AND CHINA IN AFRICA
8 March 2013 — Pambazuka News 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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The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War By Diana Johnstone
Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities. Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set up headed by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former defense secretary William Cohen, both veterans of the Clinton administration. 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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Black Agenda Report November 28, 2012 — Susan Rice to Oversee Congo Genocide? FCC to OK Media Consolidation? Why White folks Get Mad…
28 November 20912 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report A Second Wave of Genocide Looms in Congo, with Susan Rice on Point Wed, 11/28/2012 – 13:14 — Glen Ford by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Susan Rice is a woman of ghastly accomplishments: suppressor of the facts on genocide in Congo, and Continue reading
The New Dark Age 