Somalia

Seed Freedom! A last chance to thwart the great African seed grab

Seed Freedom! A last chance to thwart the great African seed grab

By | June 29, 2015 at 2:06 pm | No comments

Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah, 29th June 2015 Nineteen African nations meet today in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their...

Posted in: Africa, Gambia, Ghana, International Solidarity, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Networking, News, OUR CAMPAIGNS, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

East African Oil – Maps and Prospects

East African Oil – Maps and Prospects

By | May 8, 2012 at 3:04 pm | No comments

East Africa's Great Rift includes four rift systems that promise to hold significant deposits of oil. Africa Oil Corporation has been exploring and drilling here, and prepared a report that includes a number of excellent maps and graphics of seismic data. I've selected a few...

Posted in: Africa, Ethiopia, General, International Solidarity, Kenya, Mali, Networking, News, Situational Awareness, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda

PACM STATEMENT ON THE PROPOSED DEPLOYMENT OF SALONE TROOPS TO SOMALIA

PACM STATEMENT ON THE PROPOSED DEPLOYMENT OF SALONE TROOPS TO SOMALIA

By | May 3, 2012 at 6:46 pm | One comment

Pan-Afrikan CommUnity Movement – PACM Motto: Organising Communities for Afrikan Liberation & Social Change. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PACM STATEMENT ON THE PROPOSED DEPLOYMENT OF SALONE...

Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, Networking, News, OUR CAMPAIGNS, Self-Mobilisation, Sierra Leone, Situational Awareness, Somalia, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives

Escalating Proxy War In Africa

Escalating Proxy War In Africa

By | February 9, 2012 at 1:46 am | 3 comments

[T]he United States must employ its soft power to persuade African nations to work with it. The time to do so is now, before China’s inroads in African states become insurmountable. If the United States is to secure its resource needs from Africa in the future, it must be...

Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, Kenya, News, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan

Bombing The Starving For Target Practice In Somalia

Bombing The Starving For Target Practice In Somalia

By | November 28, 2011 at 12:23 am | No comments

"Somalia is a counterterrorism planner`s dream … It`s far, far harder to do counterterrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan than in Somalia" (NYT) Anyone who thinks the US is "surgically striking" only hardcore badguys in Somalia is living in a western corporate media induced...

Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, News, Somalia

The Crab’s Handshake – AFRICOM Partnering In Africa

The Crab’s Handshake – AFRICOM Partnering In Africa

By | July 23, 2011 at 2:10 am | No comments

The crab does not bite, it is the handshake that hurts. - Proverb Somalia belongs to HOA Phase Zero of AFRICOM's activities across Africa according to a CJTF-HOA slideshow. You don't see any mention of partnerships or listening to African partners on this list of Phases from...

Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, Libya, News, Situational Awareness, Somalia, Sudan