In a rare move, several countries in West Africa have agreed on a plan to send 3,300 troops into Mali to stabilize the neighboring country and topple the Islamist extremists who are currently imposing a harsh form of sharia law on its citizens. The situation in Mali has drawn the concern of the whole world [...]
United States Expanding Military Bases in Africa
June 22, 2012 | Posted by
The United States military is expanding a secret network of air bases across Africa in order to spy on al-Qaeda and other such groups, a US newspaper said. The surveillance is carried out by small, unmarked turboprop planes with hidden state-of-the-art sensors that fly thousands of kilometres between air bases and bush landing strips across the vast [...]
U.S. Won’t Be Taken Seriously in Africa Until It Stops Hypocrisy
June 19, 2012 | Posted by
In a provocative piece on the Atlantic Monthly’s website, veteran foreign correspondent Howard French says that America won’t be taken seriously in Africa and won’t have as much influence as it would like until it stops hypocritically coddling anti-democratic strongmen on the continent when it serves the U.S.’s purposes while paying lip service to the [...]
African Child Policy Forum: African Adoption Should Be Discouraged ‘At All Costs’
May 30, 2012 | Posted by
The number of children from Africa being adopted by foreign nationals from other continents has risen dramatically, a report has said. In the past eight years, international adoptions increased by almost 400%, the African Child Policy Forum has found. “Africa is becoming the new frontier for inter-country adoption,” the Addis Ababa-based group said. But many [...]
West African Nations Financial Enslavement To France (Analysis)
May 4, 2012 | Posted by
An analysis of the continuing financial enslavement of West African nations to the French government. The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) is an organization of eight West African states. It was established to promote economic integration among countries that share the Communauté Financière d’Afrique (CFA) franc as a common currency. The currency is [...]
