Little attention has been paid to the possibility that perhaps African countries are fed up with the old apparatus, that of Western-supported wealthy and violent dictators - and supposed 'democrats' - who squander their country's wealth to remain in power.
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The reality of the West’s trademark current foreign policy – marketed for the past two decades under the principle of a “Responsibility to Protect” – is all too visible amid Libya’s flood wreckage. Many thousands are dead or missing in the port of Derna after two dams protecting the city burst this week as they […]
Back at school for just two days, Jack Watson was irked to be told by his French teacher that French is being made more 'trans inclusive' by messing around with the already baffling gender of words.
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Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Turkey and France are not far apart on a map of the Mediterranean Sea; however, they are miles apart on political views and culture, even though both are NATO members, and Turkey’s army represents the largest, and strongest of all NATO members. Turkey has been at odds with […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Russia and China jointly are enabling what used to be called “the Third World countries” (victims of Western imperialism) to stand up for their rights against their colonizer, which is always backed by the U.S. Government. Russia and China do this breaking-up of the U.S.-and-‘allied’ global-imperial grip, as a tag-team, […]
There were several military coups in West Africa lately. Mostly in former French colonies, and in many ways “neo-colonies” of France, that do arguably more harm to the Sahel countries than the more than 300 years of French “on-the-ground” colonies, or enslavement. Though, this latter crime is not to be discarded at all. It has […]
Before a military coup removed Gabon’s hopelessly corrupt President, Ali Bongo, from office, he was courted by Obama and feted from Washington to Davos. The US war on Libya which destabilized the region may not have succeeded without him. When a military junta arrested President Ali Bongo Ondimba on August 30, Gabon became the ninth African nation to depose its government through a military coup. As citizens of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali did before them, crowds of Gabonese poured […]
[Prefatory Note: The original interview on the coup in Niger with Zahra Mizrafarjouyan of Mehr Agency in Tehran was published on Aug. 14, 2023. A lot has happened since then that affects Niger, and how we understand its relation to that country, to West Africa’s Sahel region, to Africa generally, and to the geopolitical war […]
Leslie Amine (Benin), Swamp, 2022 In 1958, the poet and trade union leader Abdoulaye Mamani of Zinder (Niger) won an election in his home region against Hamani Diori, one of the founders of the Nigerien Progressive Party. This election result posed a problem for French colonial authorities, who wanted Diori to lead the new Niger. […]
