Eurafrique reloaded Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara is a calculated pivot in a decades-old plan to reassert French influence across the Sahel.

"Expelled from the Sahel by the front door, France intends to return through Western Sahara, via Morocco."

Eswatini: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation | CNN Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a…

Source: CNN

The NYT saying in their obituary "Mr. Ngugi (pronounced GOO-ghee)" is really something and that something is probably How in the Year of Our Lord 2025 does this still happen (but also, you know)

Two of them are here:

@alhaq.bsky.social @almezan.bsky.social

Please follow these organisations.

At this critical time—today, right now—I hope you’ll join me in donating to those in need of food & the basics of survival, like those served by the Sameer Project.

People will die without our help.

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Here's the thing: I don't care. The chance that even a single real Palestinian is getting blocked from posting while up at 4AM pleading through a US-backed Israeli genocide while their kid is starving and their husband has been executed for being a medic is good enough to accept these risks.

Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza [CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories...

Breaking depressed-bachelor kayfabe to say you should sign this, and that if Bluesky wants to be a genuinely "different" platform they could start by not nuking the accounts of desperate Palestinians

Proud to have my name on this letter and the writers have my thanks. The Bluesky team must, must, must do better by the starving, desperate Palestinians they are routinely deleting and banning

A quick visit here seems to confirm this.

Coups d’état et réactions populaires au Burkina Faso : l’échec de la consolidation démocratique ? Pas encore de compte ?

Avez-vous lu le papier d'Éloïse Bertrand et Samiratou Dipama dans Politique Africaine ? Elles reviennent sur les coups d’État de 2022 au #BurkinaFaso et leur réception populaire. shs.cairn.info/revue-politi...

You’re here! One of the first accounts I’d actually open up this weird thing to read 😂

Because the last few decades in the USA have proven there is no plausible means by which that happens without an eruption of popular rage scary enough to compel the US political class to allow it.

On the call with staff Friday, Litwin apologized for the lack of communication. “We recognize the flow of communication has not been how we typically handle sensitive matters like this,” Litwin said. Detailing corporate employees’ benefits and severance, Party City’s Chief Human Resources Officer Karen McGowan broke down in tears several times on the short video conference call. “I certainly know this is a lot to take in,” McGowan said before she paused and teared up. “My apologies.”

it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...

Those brows are formidable

Great critique of Said via Amin by @ingridhk.bsky.social
Afrihistosky

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

Afrihistosky #Congo #Belgium #racism #decolonisation
Appalling story of how the Belgium state tried to eliminate « métisse » children in Congo (now DRC).
Did Britain, France, Netherlands and Portugal do similarly?

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Join us December 2 for a training on Bluesky, with lots of tips and guidance for social change groups and activists. The training is free for those who need free access to join.
#Bluesky #endX

community.socialmovementtechnologies.org/courses/blue...

Chad ends defence cooperation agreement with France Chad's government said on Thursday it has ended its defence cooperation pact with France, a move that could see French troops leave the Central African country.

There has been speculation about Deby's intentions for more than a year, but this move is still intriguing - after all, the French presence served as an ultimate guarantee against any rebel columns charging towards N'Djamena from Libya or Darfur. So what's next?
www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Chad ends defence cooperation agreement with France Chad's government said on Thursday it has ended its defence cooperation pact with France, a move that could see French troops leave the Central African country.

#Chad ends #defence agreement with #France.

France still has 1000 troops in the country which has previously been contributing troops to #Barkhane & earlier to Serval

No new statement about #Russia. Yet..

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

If you want decolonisation go to the economics of Samir Amin | Aeon Essays If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin

Beyond Eurocentrism

If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin

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Un reportage sur l’uranium au Niger de l’ex-émission “Vert de rage”, de France 5, pièce à conviction pour la justice INFO TÉLÉRAMA – L’émission traquait les écocides, France Télévisions l’a suspendue. Mais la justice s’empare d’un de ses documentaires, diffusé en mars 2022, dans une enquête pour mise en danger d’aut...

La justice s’appuie une nouvelle fois sur un documentaire de l’émission d’investigation environnementale "Vert de rage".

Un magazine d’utilité publique que France Télévisions a choisi de supprimer cette année.

Global Weather Hazards Summary, November 21, 2024 - November 27, 2024 - World Situation Report in English on World and 40 other countries about Agriculture, Drought, Flash Flood and more; published on 20 Nov 2024 by FEWS NET

World: Global Weather Hazards Summary, November 21, 2024 - November 27, 2024 #Refugees

Ouganda: L'opposant historique Kizza Besigye comparaît devant une cour martiale de Kampala Porté disparu depuis samedi, l'opposant historique ougandais Kizza Besigye a comparu ce mercredi 20 novembre devant une cour martiale à Kampala, la capitale. Cette comparution intervient quelques heures après que son épouse a déclaré qu'il avait été « kidnappé » au Kenya.

Ouganda: L'opposant historique Kizza Besigye comparaît devant une cour martiale de Kampala

www.jeuneafrique.com/1631589/politique/france...
Marius Bercea, ressortissant français soupçonné d’être un agent de la DGSE, a été interpellé par la junte militaire au pouvoir le 13 novembre dernier.
#Niger

Niger: Un ressortissant français a été arrêté à Niamey Arrêté mercredi 13 novembre, Marius Bercea est présenté comme un agent de la DGSE - les renseignements français - par la télévision publique nigérienne. Son interpellation intervient alors que les relations entre la France et le Niger sont extrêmement tendues depuis le coup d'Etat qui a renversé le président Mohamed Bazoum en juillet 2023, Niamey accusant régulièrement Paris de vouloir déstabiliser le pays.

Niger: Un ressortissant français a été arrêté à Niamey

The anti-imperialist upsurge in the Sahel is irreversible, say leaders at historic conference in Niamey : Peoples Dispatch Hundreds gather in Niamey, Niger for opening day of a historic conference in solidarity with the people of the Sahel

El auge antiimperialista en el Sahel es irreversible, afirman los dirigentes en una conferencia histórica en Niamey

Cientos de personas se reúnen en Niamey, Níger, para la jornada inaugural de una conferencia histórica en solidaridad con los pueblos del Sahel
peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/19/t...

Clashes have erupted between traders and officials in #Niger #Niamey as a result of evacuation efforts initiated by municipal authorities to address the traffic caused by traders' illegal use of public spaces.