By Crossed Crocodiles | March 6, 2013 at 12:22 am | No comments
The French left as well as the the right have dreams of imperial expansion. A number of NATO participants share a vision of the Mediterranean as a NATO lake, an internal sea, surrounded by Europe. The dream is to extend Europe around the entire coast of the Mediterranean and...
Posted in: Africa, Algeria, International Solidarity, Mali, Niger
By Crossed Crocodiles | February 26, 2013 at 10:28 pm | No comments
The US has concluded a SOFA, status of forces agreement, with Niger, and is setting up a drone base there. Craig Whitlock writes:
"The base in Niger marks the opening of another far-flung U.S. military front against al-Qaeda and its affiliates, adding to drone combat missions...
Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, Mali, Niger, Situational Awareness
By Emmanuel.K. Bensah Jr. | November 23, 2011 at 1:08 pm | No comments
“The Accidental Ecowas & AU Citizen”:
Aid-Exit Plan Found: Enter ECOWAS...
By E.K.Bensah Jr
Last week, the Business and Financial Times paper covered an all-important story entitled “Wanted:Aid-Exit Plan”. In my view, it brought into sharp relief the absolute...
Posted in: Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, International Solidarity, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Networking, News, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
By Nana Akyea Mensah | August 27, 2011 at 8:24 pm | No comments
AU and the Politics of Recognition of the Libyan Rebels, A Roll Call
A Pan-Africanist Brief - Situational Awareness
Wikipedia is doing a very good job in helping to see clearly what is going on in Africa, so far as the politics of the recognition of the Libyan rebels is...
Posted in: Africa, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, International Solidarity, Ivory Coast, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Situational Awareness, Sudan, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives, Togo