Will Chad deal the final blow against French military presence in Africa’s Sahel?
Popular forces struggling against French neocolonialism in Chad explain to Peoples Dispatch the conjuncture that brought the Chadian president to end military ties with former colonizer France.
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu enforced violent crackdown on hunger protests to satisfy IMF demands
Nigerian President and alleged CIA asset Bola Tinubu implemented a nation-wide crackdown on protests against hunger and the cost-of-living crisis, resulting in dozens of deaths
Proposed electricity tariff hikes in South Africa met with widespread opposition
Privatization, which is only increasing under the current Government of National Unity (GNU), has caused the rising electricity prices, according to NUMSA.
The second struggle for African independence has begun in the Sahel
“Many people outside think we are living under a military dictatorship. But the delegates who have come to attend the conference are seeing that we are free” and exerting independence like never before, said a Nigerien leader, addressing the conference in Niamey in solidarity with the people of Sahel.
Niger hosts historic conference on the fight against neocolonialism in the Sahel
Ahead of the “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel” in Niamey, Peoples Dispatch brings forth stories of resilience and resistance of the people of Niger whose success in forcing their former colonizer France on the retreat has inspired Pan-African movements across the continent.
Niger resists in the crosshairs of sanctions and climate catastrophe
Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that devastated their economy already crippled by sanctions.
Las masacres militares en la región agrícola de Sudán están generando una hambruna sin precedentes
Empeora la mayor crisis de desplazados del mundo debido a los ataques de las RSF, que ya han causado centenares de muertos, y que afectan hoy a 120 aldeas de al-Gezira, obligando a huir a otras 135.000 personas.
UN decries “systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war” in Sudan’s agricultural heartland
Widespread rapes, sexual slavery and forced marriages under torture have been reported in Sudan’s Gezira state, amid the ongoing depopulation campaign unleashed by the paramilitary RSF last month.