Declassified Emails Reveal NATO Killed Gaddafi to Stop Libyan Creation of Gol... Washington, D.C. – In spite of French-led U.N.
Security Council Resolution 1973 creating a no-fly zone over Libya with the express intent of protecting civilians, one of the over 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department on New Year’s Eve, contain damning evidence of Western nations using NATO as a tool to topple Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. AFRICOM’s Secret Empire: US Military Turns Africa Into ‘Laboratory’ Of Modern... The U.S. military already plans to expand its massive military footprint in Africa and elsewhere to the tune of “several million dollars” a year and thousands of troops.
Soldiers of the East Africa Response Force (EARF), a Djibouti-based joint team assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, depart from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules in Juba, South Sudan. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has overseen an unprecedented expansion of American military might on the African continent, with dozens of bases and outposts opening there since he took office. A Nov. 17 investigation by Nick Turse, a journalist and American military scholar, found that the United States maintains at least 60 bases or military outposts throughout Africa, although not all are actively used at all times: The US Helped Overthrow Libya In 2011. Here's What's Happening There Now. Tyler Durden January 6, 2016 (ZEROHEDGE) “We are helpless and not being able to do anything against this deliberate destruction to the oil installations.
NOC urges all faithful and honorable people of this homeland to hurry to rescue what is left from our resources before it is too late.” How the Rich Keep us Poor. Israeli arms fuel atrocities in Africa. Israeli weapons are fueling atrocities in South Sudan, according to a United Nations report that sheds new light on the secretive Israeli arms trade in Africa.
Authored by an investigative team assembled by the UN Security Council, the report cites photographic evidence of automatic rifles made by Israel Military Industries (IMI) being in the arsenal of South Sudan’s army and police. Christian Militias In The CAR Give Muslims A Choice: Convert Or Die. As the world continues to focus on the menace posed by ISIS, Muslims are dying and losing their cultural identity in the Central African Republic.
BANGUI, Central African Republic — Despite assurances from United Nations observers that the situation is improving in the Central African Republic, ethnic cleansing, looming civil war and widespread unrest continue to create suffering, especially for the nation’s oppressed Muslim population. Conflict has raged in the CAR since March 2013, when the Seleka, a group of mostly Muslim rebels, took power. The Seleka were ousted in January 2014, and civil war has since raged between the group and their main opponents, an armed coalition known as anti-Balaka. Since the coup, Christian militias have frequently targeted the country’s minority Muslim population for genocide.
According to a report published Wednesday on the U.N. Boko Haram freed Nigerian women tell of captivity horror - BBC News. Former hostages held by Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria say some fellow captives were stoned to death as the army approached to rescue them.
The women said Boko Haram fighters started pelting them when they refused to run away as the army came nearer. World Ignores Genocide In Central African Republic Because It's Not ISIS & Th... “I find it difficult to believe that's it's not given more attention, but maybe it's simply that the politics of the situation don't serve the interests of those shaping what we see,” a journalist tells MintPress.
“There’s a reason the crisis in CAR is known as the Forgotten Conflict.” Aminatou Bello a 24-year-old Muslim, who was attacked by Christian Anti-Balaka forces, lies on a bed in Boda, Central African Republic. US Conducts 674 Covert Military Operations In Africa Last Year; But Militants... Intelligence It has emerged that the United States of America has carried out 674 covert military operations in Africa last year, under the cover of the US-Africa Command (AFRICOM) military strategy aimed at eradicating terrorism activities in Africa.
Hunger. Don't worry Africa. Water use. Think Iraq's bad? Read this terrifying dispatch from 'liberated' Libya. By Andrew Malone Published: 23:28 GMT, 13 June 2014 | Updated: 23:54 GMT, 13 June 2014.
Glogin?mobile=1&URI=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F05%2F27%2Fworld%... CAR_VIZ_bangui_snapshot_140326_en.pdf. The Devil Tried to Divide Us: War in the Central African Republic (Part 1 of 5) The Central African Republic's capital of Bangui has seen its Muslim population drop from 130,000 to under 1000 over the past few months.
Over the past year, thousands across CAR have been killed and nearly a million have been displaced. The United Nations recently stated that the entire Western half of the country has now been cleansed of Muslims. CAR has never fully recovered from France's colonial rule, and it has only known ten years of a civilian government - from 1993 to 2003 - since achieving independence in 1960. Behind the rise of Boko Haram - ecological disaster, oil crisis, spy games.
The kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala, by the militant al-Qaeda affiliated group, Boko Haram, has shocked the world. But while condemnations have rightly been forthcoming from a whole range of senior figures from celebrities to government officials, less attention has been paid to the roots of the crisis.
Instability in Nigeria, however, has been growing steadily over the last decade - and one reason is climate change. In 2009, a UK Department for International Development (Dfid) study warned that climate change could contribute to increasing resource shortages in the country due to land scarcity from desertification, water shortages, and mounting crop failures.
United Human Rights Council. Darfur is in the western part of Sudan, bordering on Libya, Chad, and the Central African Republic. Darfur is a region in Sudan the size of France. It is home to about 6 million people from nearly 100 tribes. Resources. Central African Republic Marks a Grim Anniversary of Chaos. U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa. The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation activities. For years, the U.S. military has publicly insisted that its efforts in Africa are small scale. Its public affairs personnel and commanders have repeatedly claimed no more than a “light footprint” on that continent, including a remarkably modest presence when it comes to military personnel. They have, however, balked at specifying just what that light footprint actually consists of.
During an interview, for instance, a U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) spokesman once expressed worry that tabulating the command’s deployments would offer a “skewed image” of U.S. efforts there. Central African Republic: Legacy of Misrule. How did the Central African Republic reach its current violent state? The modern history of Central African Republic begins in 1960 when it achieved independence from France, part of the wave of independence that swept across Africa. But since then, its people have been subjected to decades of misrule.
Nearly every time power has changed hands, the transition has been marked by violence. Between independence and early 2013, five men have led the country. Congo Militia Leader Convicted of Four War Crimes. The International Criminal Court found Germain Katanga, a brutal Congo warlord, guilty of four counts of war crimes and one count of crime against humanity on Friday. Slavery's last stronghold. Nouakchott, Mauritania (CNN) Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master’s goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die. The Devil Tried to Divide Us: War in the Central African Republic (Full Length) Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born 5 June 1942) is an Equatoguinean politician who has been President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
Robert Mugabe. Robert Gabriel Mugabe (/muːˈɡɑːbiː/ moo-GAH-bee; Shona pronunciation: [muɡaɓe];[needs tone] born 21 February 1924) is a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the rebel groups against white minority rule, he was elected as Prime Minister, head of government, in 1980, and served in that office until 1987, when he became the country's first executive head of state.[1] Having been repeatedly re-elected, he retains this post to this day.