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Africa

Niger’s new reality

Niger’s new interim government has rightly accused France of sending its troops and “a large amount of military equipment” to the region in preparation for a possible invasion to overthrow leaders that toppled the previous president, who was a puppet of Paris. Officers in Niger’s military claim that troops from the French Armed Forces have been deployed in several West African countries in preparation for a military attack on Niger’s new leadership, to be mounted in coordination with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Colonel Amadou Abdramane, spokesman for the Nigerien coup leaders and its new interim government, made the above claims in an announcement on national television…

Viktor Mikhin

Ethiopia: a new narrative on the balance of power

Today, the vast majority of nations in the historical West are intensely focused on their own problems or wars that are unfolding “on the outskirts” of the Old World: in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Nevertheless, as some analysts correctly point out, Africa experienced the largest and deadliest upheavals in recent years, not Europe. For instance, northern Ethiopia was subject to the greatest number of victims of armed conflict in 2022, despite the fact that these events only received, at best, marginal attention from much of the world’s population…

Ivan Kopytsev

Spy in the Sky for "French Fries" in French West Africa & Freedom Fries for American GIs!

The US is shifting to Africa, walking away from one car pileup after another! It is ironic, too, especially now that it is helping the French. It is equally sad to witness to what lengths and the “stretch-of-the-imagination” that the US government will go to in deploying troops to faraway places. Most of these young men and women, at least those from America, would not even know where to start looking to find such remote and unheard of spots on a map, especially now with a long list of countries in Africa that is now in the crosshairs of US and French hegemonic interests—and that is for starters!

Seth Ferris

The West must realize that the world has become multipolar

Veniamin Popov

Africa puts the French neo-colonialists in their place

Viktor Mikhin

Sahel at the Forefront of Combatting Terrorism

Viktor Mikhin

Japan Activates in Africa

Vladimir Terehov

Africa: Between Gulf Money and Geopolitical Struggles

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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