🌍 Many westerners trying to make sense of the events in the “dark continent” of Africa have many barriers standing in the way of their minds and reality.

This must be the case, for without such filters of spin proclaiming Africa’s problems to be self-induced (or the consequence of Chinese debt slavery), we in the west, might actually feel horrified enough to demand systemic change.

We might come to recognize that the plight of Africa has less to do with Africa and more to do with an intentional program of depopulation, and exploitation of vital resources.

🎙Tim @timkirbyhardcore and Joaquin @NewResistance discuss this issue with Matt Ehret.

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🇺🇦🌍 Why the War in Ukraine Is Dangerous for Africa

In 2018–2020, Africa imported $3.7 billion in wheat (32 per cent of total African wheat imports) from the Russia and another $1.4 billion from Ukraine (12 per cent of total African wheat imports).

A look at specific African countries, including some least developed countries, reveals a far higher degree of dependence for many on wheat imports from Russia and Ukraine than these overall percentages. As many as 25 African countries, including many least developed countries, import more than one third of their wheat from the two countries, and 15 of them import over half.

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🌾🌍 There was much anticipation about getting wheat sent from the Black Sea to Africa to prevent famines.

So why haven’t African governments sent ships there? ⛴

The panic about African countries being starved of wheat seems to have been unjust and perhaps even fake news, Martin Jay writes.

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🇪🇹 Ethiopia is a touchstone for exposing American and European crocodile tears and duplicity over their machination in Ukraine against Russia.

The two-year war in Ethiopia has flared up again in its besieged northern Tigray region where millions of people have been displaced and are suffering from famine. The United States, the European Union, and other Western governments are doing nothing to avert the war in the Horn of Africa.

The scale of suffering and violations in Ethiopia totally overshadows what is happening in Ukraine where the U.S. and its NATO partners are showering billions of dollars in financial aid and military weapons. The indifference among Western governments and media toward Ethiopia’s horror illuminates the rank hypocrisy and cynical political motivations for their purported “concern” about Ukraine.

Concern for Ukraine is a cynical geopolitical game to do with confronting and subduing Russia. We know this because millions of people suffering in Ethiopia register hardly a blip of attention, never mind condemnation, among Western governments and media.

Indeed, the Western lack of concern about Ethiopia is not merely due to apathetic indifference 🤔

💬 Read more by Finian Cunningham

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🌍🦅 American Generosity

The United States has promised an aid package to Africa fearing losing competition for influence in the continent to countries like China and Russia. But this is only a fracture of what has already been spent on the war in Ukraine.

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🇲🇦 There may be questions about whether Russia is winning the war in Ukraine, but there is no doubt it is winning the global war against the West. And it’s starting in Africa 🌍

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🇹🇷🌍 Turkey has around 44 embassies across Africa and so is no stranger to the continent.

In January, the foreign minister went ahead with a five-nation visit to Africa, which took him to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe, where he reassured support for the continent. South Africa was in the news recently with regard to the earthquake.

The spokesperson for the South African Police Service (SAPS), Colonel Athlenda Mathe, said a team in Turkey carried out successful rescue missions, including saving an 80-year-old woman found alive in a collapsed building. South African people have also donated generously to help the victims in southern Turkey, Ankara’s ambassador to Pretoria, Aysegul Kandas said recently.

Kandas explained that South Africans have been sending items such as winter tents, generators, and sleeping bags, transported to Turkey on national carrier Turkish Airlines with more donations still being collected.

Other African countries who have reached out and helped with the earthquake rescue or simply showed their empathy towards Turkey are Cameroon, Togo, Uganda and Central African Republic. Of course the sympathy doesn’t always come in the form of money, as we should always remember how poor some of these countries are and how they are struggling themselves, like Uganda for example.

The “pearl of Africa” as Churchill called this land-locked gem, is a country which knows about suffering. Most of the 60s, 70s and 80s the country was ripped apart by civil war, only for the 90s to kick it when it was down with the plight of AIDS which left entire villages in the country at one point bereft of adults. So who could hold back the tears when Masaka Kids Africana – a Ugandan kids’ choir – made a song for Turkey?

Turks are beginning to turn their minds to who they can count on ☝️, Martin Jay writes.

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🌍 Viewing Africa with double standards is part of why Africans are breaking their ties with Europe, Martin Jay writes.

#Africa #France #Macron #Europe

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🇫🇷🇨🇩 African elites can no longer fake it for Macron or the French.

The days of when they were obliged to humour French presidents that France still wielded its power across the continent in the post-independence period are long gone, which was proved by Macron’s shameful press conference where he spoke down to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s president Felix Tshisekedi.

With France’s decline from the world stage – and in particular Africa – and the emergence of Russia and China as more serious investors in the continent, it was perhaps inevitable that a tantrum of some sort was on the cards. But with the outburst, came a baptism of lies.

The irony of that press conference though is that Macron patronized the DRC president from beginning to end, even suggesting that the African leader could not distinguish between the state and the media due to the DRC’s apparent arrested development of freedom of press.

Even that was a lie 🤥

💬 Martin Jay writes on how France’s president anoints himself in lies, treachery and smear campaigns in the African continent.

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⛱ Countries That Rely on Tourism the Most: Europe, Middle East, and Northern Africa

This infographic shows the countries where international tourism revenue constitutes more than 3% of the GDP. All data is for 2019, the last pre-pandemic year.

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