🇳🇪 Several left and people’s organizations in West Africa have condemned the threat issued by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to militarily intervene with the backing of France and the US to restore the unpopular Mohamed Bazoum to Niger’s presidency.

The West African Peoples’ Organization (WAPO) has “vehemently opposed” the ultimatum by ECOWAS Heads of States on July 30 to “take all measures necessary,” including “the use of force,” if the ousted president and his government is not restored by Sunday, August 6.

This decision of ECOWAS is “a maneuver by colonial France and Great Britain, under the hegemony of American imperialism, to resort to armed intervention under the guise of restoring democracy and human rights in Niger,” WAPO said in a statement on Wednesday, August 2.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/03/peoples-movements-oppose-west-backed-military-intervention-by-ecowas-in-niger/

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🇵🇸 Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian child in the late hours of Tuesday, August 1. Just hours before, a 20-year-old Palestinian man was also killed by them.

The killings come amid rampant Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem earlier in the week.

Earlier in the week, Israeli forces conducted multiple raids across the occupied West Bank, with settler attacks and other acts of violence against Palestinians also being reported.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/04/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-as-raids-continue-across-occupied-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem/

🇦🇷 Here is what you need to know about Argentinian presidential pre-candidate Juan Grabois and the upcoming primary and general elections the South American country will face in the upcoming months.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/04/can-a-movement-leader-solve-argentinas-problems/

🇨🇴 The Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), the country’s largest left-wing guerrilla group, on Thursday, August 3, began a 180-day bilateral ceasefire.
The development marked the most concrete progress to date for leftist president Gustavo Petro and his government’s plan to bring “total peace” to the country and end over 60 years of internal armed conflict, during which more than 450,000 people were killed.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/05/colombia-achieves-milestone-in-peace-process-as-right-wing-intensifies-destabilization-campaign/

New York City is a bastion of extreme wealth. It is the city with the most billionaires, with a net worth totalling USD 616 billion. There are 737 residents with over one hundred million dollars to their names, and 345,600 millionaires.

Some point to the massive amount of housing vacancies to show that the resources are already there. In New York City, there are no laws regulating how long an apartment can be vacant for, despite the concurrent housing and migrant crises. In 2021, roughly one in ten of the city’s massive rent stabilized housing stock was vacant, constituting 88,830 apartments. As of 2021, there were 456,600 vacant units in the city. Far more than enough to house the 100,000 people sleeping in shelters.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/05/worlds-richest-city-says-no-more-room-left-for-desperate-migrants/

🇵🇸 According to the Israeli human rights group, HaMoked, 99% of those being detained under the policy are Palestinians. Israeli authorities have labeled them as “dangerous militants” and justified their detention based on secret evidence which is not shared with them or their lawyers.

The detainees are officially not charged with any specific crime or tried before a court of law. The detention orders extend for periods between three to six months and can be indefinitely renewed. Detainees have often been kept in prison for extended periods, in some cases several years, without any legal or other recourse.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/07/1200-palestinians-are-in-administrative-detention-the-highest-in-34-years/

🇳🇪 Approximately 30,000 people gathered in Niger’s capital of Niamey on August 6, as the country faced a looming threat of military intervention led by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc.

Importantly, hundreds of people also took to the streets in the city of Arlit, where the French company Orano (the successor of the colonial, state-owned mining company Areva) has been mining uranium for decades, and a clear representation of the neocolonial extraction that France has continued to impose on countries such as Niger.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/07/mass-rally-in-niamey-backs-nigers-military-leaders-as-ecowas-led-intervention-looms/

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🇿🇲 The leader and veteran journalist was charged with the offense of libel, after he was summoned for questioning at the Woodlands Police Station in Lusaka on Tuesday.

As M’membe arrived at the police station, members of the SP and supporters gathered in the area in solidarity, carrying the banner of the Student Socialist Movement, the flags of the SP, and placards with slogans that read “Hands Off Our President!”

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/08/socialist-party-of-zambia-condemns-arrest-of-dr-fred-mmembe/