The Misery America Has Brought To Africa.

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Americans want to believe their president when he poses as a humanitarian world leader. But Africa knows different. Literally millions have died and been displaced as a direct result of U.S. imperial strategies. “American policy in Africa is to create chaos, and then to present itself as the cure.”

Far from a Humanitarian Savior, the U.S. Causes Vast Misery In Africa

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

“The United States is the main vector of mass carnage and misery, from Somalia to Libya to Congo and so many points in between.”

The United States has finally made a token effort towards reining in its central African client state, Rwanda, whose destabilization of neighboring Congo has contributed to the deaths of six million people over the past 16 years. A United Nations panel charged that Rwanda has been supporting a Tutsi tribal rebel group in Congo. Rwanda and another U.S. puppet regime, Uganda, have profited enormously from stealing the mineral resources of eastern Congo, in collaboration with U.S. and European mining companies. At the end of last year, 1.7 million Congolese remained homeless, largely because of Rwanda’s continued interference in Congolese affairs.

Bowing ever so slightly to world opinion, Washington announced that it would cut military assistance to Rwanda. As it turns out, the only money the U.S. is withholding is for an academy for Rwandan non-commissioned officers – a measly $200,000 out of a total Rwandan aid package of $528 million. The gesture is an insult to the millions of Congolese who have been killed or displaced by the U.S. and its Rwandan and Ugandan mercenaries.

The United Nations Refugee Agency reports that the number of Somalis forced to leave their country has reached the one million mark. At root, this is also an American crime against humanity. Somalia ranks behind only Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia in its number of displaced persons. And, like the other three countries, Somalia’s humanitarian crisis is the result of Washington’s imperial military strategies.

“The number of Somalis forced to leave their country has reached the one million mark.”

The U.S. dragged Somalia into hell in December of 2006, when it funded and armed an Ethiopia invasion of the country. Tens of thousands were killed outright, and Somalia was robbed of a chance to build peace under a moderately Islamist government. In the capital city, Mogadishu, alone, nearly two million people were forced from their homes, and soon the United Nations declared Somalia “the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa.”

In the ensuing five years, the United States methodically attempted to starve out the Somali Shabaab resistance forces, so that when the worst drought in 60 years struck the region, last year, mass deaths were inevitable. By now, the U.S. had ensnared most of Somalia’s neighbors in its war – Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, a whole region in flames – in order to facilitate an expansion of U.S. military influence in the region.

Far from playing a humanitarian role in Africa, the United States is the main vector of mass carnage and misery, from Somalia to Libya to Congo and so many points in between. American policy in Africa is to create chaos, and then to present itself as the cure.

Economically, the U.S. offers nothing to Africa, except rigged deals and endless debt. Years ago, China eclipsed the U.S. as a trading partner, and now offers Africa more and better quality foreign aid than the Americans. Unable to compete on a level laying field, Washington exports death to Africa, in the form of weapons systems and Green Berets. There is nothing good that the United States can do for Africa, but leave.

For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.

BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.

http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/far-humanitarian-savior-us-causes-vast-misery-africa

Somalia :UN Suggest Washington Are Violating Arms Embargo.

The skies over Somalia have become so congested with drones that the unmanned aircraft pose a danger to air traffic and potentially violate a long-standing arms embargo against the war-torn country, according to United Nations officials.

In a recently completed report, U.N. officials describe several narrowly averted disasters in which drones crashed into a refugee camp, flew dangerously close to a fuel dump and almost collided with a large passenger plane over Mogadishu, the capital.

Although U.N. investigators did not directly pin the blame for the mishaps on the United States, the report noted that at least two of the unmanned aircraft appeared to be U.S.-manufactured and suggested that Washington had been less than forthcoming about its drone operations in Somalia....read more

http://www.stripes.com/news/africa/drones-pose-a-danger-to-air-traffic-over-somalia-un-says-1.184008

Why African LGBTI Should Say NO To U.S. Imperialism.

The US Embassy in Nairobi recently announced that  it would be holding “the first ever annual celebration of LGBT Pride at their embassy on June 26″ .

Gay pridreceived mixed responses from local LGBTI activists.  Those supporting the event have defended it saying it is a good opportunity for networking and “shows the US is actively reaching out to the local LGBT community”. Others have accused those of calling for a boycotte as ‘insecure”  and “spreading fear” .  But as Kenne  Mwikya points out in his post there are deeper  issues at stake here which have conveniently been ignored by those supporting the event such as “supplanting of local queer initiatives”; possible backlash from the Kenyan public and government; and by attending implicitly supporting US imperialism and it’s ‘war on terror’.  Added to these are serious concerns over aid and trade conditionality….

Topping the list is the requirement that the beneficiary promote “a market-based economy that protects private property rights… and minimises government interference in the economy through such measures as price controls, subsidies, and government ownership of economic assets.” In addition – and here’s the big one – the beneficiary must make progress toward “the elimination of barriers to United States trade and investment.”

as well as the presence and role of AFRICOM which is closely tied with various Anti-Terrorist legislations and increased US surveillance across the continent .e or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward LGBT  people to promote their self-affirmation, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance.

Local LGBT activists and dignitaries have been invited to this event....read more

http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/06/why-african-lgbti-communities-should-say-no-to-us-imperialism/

Secret U.S. Prisons In Africa. Shocking And Cruel.

A new exposé by human rights investigator Clara Gutteridge for The Nation magazine looks at secret U.S. operations in Africa and how the United States rendered, tortured and discarded one innocent man from Tanzania.

Suleiman Abdallah was captured in Mogadishu in 2003 by a Somali warlord and handed over to U.S. officials, who had him rendered to Afghanistan for five years of detention and torture.

Imprisoned in three different U.S. facilities, Abdallah said he was subjected to severe beatings, prolonged solitary confinement, forced nakedness and humiliation. He said he was also sexually assaulted, locked naked in a coffin, and forced to lie on a wet mat, naked and handcuffed.

Abdallah was finally released in July 2008 from Bagram Air Force Base — with a piece of paper confirming his innocence. However, he has received neither reparations nor apologies for his ordeal. "The worst of the torture, we’re not authorized to talk about, because it’s too painful for him," Gutteridge says. "What I can say is that he was subject to some of the worst torture that I have ever encountered in interviewing over a hundred U.S. torture victims."

Please go to link provided for transcript and video.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/6/rendered_tortured_discarded_a_shocking_story

Kenya:Israel Says Iranian Terrorists Plotting to Attack Its Interests in Kenya

allafrica.com

July 5, 2012

The arraignment in a Nairobi court of two Iranians accused of having explosives has opened a new front in the diplomatic row between Israel and Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran of plotting terror attacks against its (Israel’s) interests in Kenya. Netanyahu further accused Tehran of being a sponsor of international terrorism. “Iranian terrorism knows no borders,” Netanyahu is quoted as saying in a statement from his office.

“After Iran sent its agents to murder the Saudi ambassador on US soil, the country has engaged in attacks in Azerbaijan, Bangkok, in Tbilisi, in New Delhi, and now we have just discovered a plot for a terrorist attack in Africa,” Netanyahu said. “The international community must fight against this major player in the world of terrorism,” he added.

According to the court charges against Ahmed Mohamud and Said Mausud, the two Iranians were arrested after they were found with 15 kilogrammes of RDX explosives in circumstances which indicated that they were armed with intent to commit a felony. They were arrested in Nairobi and led investigators to the Mombasa Golf Course on Mama Ngina Drive where the explosives were found. They both denied the charges before Principal Magistrate PC Biwott, just a day after the June 25 grenade attack on a bar in Mishomoroni area of Mombasa that killed three people.

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http://allafrica.com http://bit.ly/PkjmNO

Africa After Gaddafi - Full Spectrum Dominance - Kenya And Somalia The Next Targets.

On Monday, 22 August 2011, Africa fell to the beginning of the New World Order (NWO), and Full Spectrum Dominance when the Sovereign Libyan Government was toppled with the aid of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), The European Union (EU), Gulf Cooperating Countries (GCC), and NATO Sponsored Terrorists imported from CIA Sponsored Training Grounds of Afghanistan, Yemen, Turkey, Jordan and Qatar.

The Libyan Nation is now in turmoil with the Country split into two halves, Tripoli representing the Western half of a very insecure and unstable country, and Benghazi the Eastern half. Chaos prevails in both halves, killings; kidnappings for ransom and revenge murders are daily routines for the gangs of armed “Liberators” who refuse to lay down their weapons in support of a singular State. With Gaddafi gone, Libya will not have prosperity or Security for at least the next 30-years, destabilizing neighbouring states starting with Niger, Mali, Algeria and Tunisia.
Now the United States of America and its allies from among the EU/NATO Member States and GCC Countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan), as well as Turkey are now embarking on the destabilization of the West and East African Region. Specifically, Kenya and Somalia in Eastern Africa, Niger and Mali in Western Africa for economic, natural resources and military purposes, key among them is to halt the growing dominance of China’s influence over Africa.

On Sunday, 10 June 2012 in the early hours of the morning, a Kenyan Police Helicopter crashed killing all six Souls on board, including George Saitoti, Minister of State in the Office of the Kenyan President, in charge of Internal Security and Provincial Administration, whooversaw the launch of the war on the so-called Al-Shabab terrorist militia as part of the African Union’s efforts to stabilize Somalia. This incident seen in isolation would have been forgotten quite quickly if was not for the US Military’s’ concept of Full Spectrum dominance, defined as the cumulative effect of dominance in the air, land, maritime, and space domains and information environment that permits the conduct of joint operations without effective opposition or prohibitive interference. Professor Saitoti had intended to stand in the forthcoming Presidential Elections and was widely considered to be a front-runner in the race to succeed the present incumbent, Mwai Kibaki whose term ends in 2013, Professor Saitoti was not acceptable to Washington but that is moot now....read more


http://libya360.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/africa-after-gaddafi-full-spectrum-dominance-kenya-and-somalia-the-next-targets/

White House unveils strategy for Africa: intensified militarization and war on terror.

The White House has put in writing its policies for sub-Saharan Africa. The problem is, there’s hardly a word of truth in the document, and not a single mention of AFRICOM, the U.S. military command on the continent. The presidential paper repeats Obama’s 2009 lecture to Africans on “good governance.” He also warned that they avoid the “excuses” of blaming “neocolonialism” and “racism” for their problems. Meanwhile, AFRICOM is “positioning the U.S. to launch coups at will against African civilian, or even military, leaders that fall out of favor with Washington.”....read more

http://declanoshea.net/2012/06/25/white-house-unveils-strategy-for-africa-intensified-militarization-and-war-on-terror/