/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2585297

Ugandan memes aside, my experience is that the title is generally. A large segment of Africans may not like lgbtetc, but it is not at all preoccupation. There are just many other major issues in their lives.

why did nigeria intervene in benin but not in niger during the recent coups?

Tanzania crackdown on planned protest leaves streets deserted

Security was tightened across Tanzania on Tuesday with police and military seen patrolling major cities ahead of anticipated anti-government protests called to coincide with independence day.

By sunset, however, no major demonstrations had taken place.

The demonstrations were called to demand political reforms in the wake of October's post-election unrest which left an unknown number of people dead.

The authorities have admitted using force against protesters, claiming that some groups were attempting to overthrow the regime.

Security vehicles were seen driving along major roads and intersections, while officers took up positions at strategic locations, including around key public infrastructure.

Public transport stopped operating entirely, the AFP news agency reported.

On social media, activists and campaigners urged supporters to stay alert, suggesting any demonstrations were unlikely to begin until the afternoon. The messaging echoed previous protest calls in Tanzania, when turnout increased later in the day.

"We will move out, it is our right to protest… I know police are everywhere in the town and even in the street where I live… we have plans so wait, you will see what will happen," a resident of Arusha told the BBC earlier on Tuesday.

"I am scared for my children, if these protests happen, it will create a bad atmosphere. Like now my husband is hospitalised, how am I going to attend to him? I feel protesters should call off plans to move to the streets, we need to live in peace," said a resident of Mwanza in northern Tanzania.

Tanzanian authorities have banned the planned protests and cancelled independence day celebrations, urging citizens to stay indoors.

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Kenya several activists were arrested on Tuesday as they were holding a solidarity protest outside the Tanzanian high commission in the capital, Nairobi.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2e3j819eqo

Girls and women fleeing Mali describe sexual violence by Russian forces

The girl lay in a makeshift health clinic, her eyes glazed over and her mouth open, flies resting on her lips. Her chest barely moved. Drops of fevered sweat trickled down her forehead as medical workers hurried around her, attaching an IV drip.

It was the last moment to save her life, said Bethsabee Djoman Elidje, the women’s health manager, who led the clinic’s effort as the heart monitor beeped rapidly. The girl had an infection after a sexual assault, Elidje said, and had been in shock, untreated, for days.

Her family said the 14-year-old had been raped by Russian fighters who burst into their tent in Mali two weeks earlier. The Russians were members of Africa Corps, a new military unit under Russia’s defense ministry that replaced the Wagner mercenary group six months ago.

The AP learned of the alleged rape and four other alleged cases of sexual violence blamed on Africa Corps fighters, commonly described by Malians as the “white men,” while interviewing dozens of refugees at the border about other abuses such as beheadings and abductions.

Other combatants in Mali have been blamed for sexual assaults. The head of a women’s health clinic in the Mopti area told the AP it had treated 28 women in the last six months who said they had been assaulted by militants with the al-Qaida affiliated JNIM, the most powerful armed group in Mali.

>Speechless after an assault

The aunt of the 14-year-old girl said the Africa Corps fighters marched everyone outside at gunpoint. The family couldn’t understand what they wanted. The men made them watch as they tied up the girl’s uncle and cut off his head.

Then two of the men took the 14-year-old into the tent as she tried to defend herself, and raped her. The family waited outside, unable to move.

“We were so scared that we were not even able to scream anymore,” the aunt recalled, as her mother sobbed quietly next to her. She, like other women, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

The girl emerged over a half-hour later, looking terrified. Then she saw her uncle’s body and screamed. She fainted. When she woke up, she had the eyes of someone “who was no longer there,” the aunt said.

The next morning, JNIM militants came and ordered the family to leave. They piled onto a donkey cart and set off toward the border. At any sound, they hid in the bushes, holding their breath.

The girl’s condition deteriorated during the three-day journey. When they arrived in Mauritania, she collapsed.

The AP came across her lying on the ground in the courtyard of a local family. Her family said they had not taken her to a clinic because they had no money.

“If you have nothing, how can you bring someone to a doctor?” the girl’s grandmother said between sobs. The AP took the family to a free clinic run by MSF. A doctor said the girl had signs of being raped.

The clinic had been functioning for barely a month and had seen three survivors of sexual violence, manager Elidje said.

As Elidje tried to save the girl’s life, she asked the family to describe the incident. She did not speak Arabic and asked the local nurse to find out how many men carried out the assault. But the nurse was too ashamed to ask.

>Scratch marks are part of story she could not tell

Thousands of new refugees from Mali, mostly women and children, have settled just inside Mauritania in recent weeks, in shelters made of fabric and branches. The nearest refugee camp is full, complicating efforts to treat and report sexual assaults.

Two recently arrived women discreetly pulled AP journalists aside, adjusting scarves over their faces. They said they had arrived a week ago after armed white men came to their village.

“They took everything from us. They burned our houses. They killed our husbands,” one said. “But that’s not all they did. They tried to rape us.”

The men entered the house where she was by herself and undressed her, she said, adding that she defended herself “by the grace of Allah.”

As she spoke, the second woman started crying and trembling. She had scratch marks on her neck. She was not capable of telling her story.

“We are still terrified by what we went through,” she said.

Separately, a third woman said that what the white men did to her in Mali last month when she was alone at home “stays between God and me.”

A fourth said she watched several armed white men drag her 18-year-old daughter into their house. She fled and has not seen her daughter again.

>Wagner has a legacy of sexual abuse

Allegations of rapes and other sexual assaults were already occurring before Wagner transformed into Africa Corps.

One refugee told the AP she witnessed a mass rape in her village in March 2024.

“The Wagner group burned seven men alive in front of us with gasoline.” she said. Then they gathered the women and raped them, she said, including her 70-year-old mother.

“After my mother was raped, she couldn’t bear to live,” she said. Her mother died a month later.

In the worst-known case of sexual assault involving Russian fighters in Africa, the U.N. in a 2023 report said at least 58 women and girls had been raped or sexually assaulted in an attack on Moura village by Malian troops and others that witnesses described as “armed white men.”

In response, Mali’s government expelled the U.N. peacekeeping mission. Since then, gathering accurate data on the ground about conflict-related sexual violence has become nearly impossible.

The AP interviewed five of the women from Moura, who now stay in a displacement camp. They said they had been blindfolded and raped for hours by several men.

Three of the women said they hadn’t spoken about it to anyone apart from aid workers. The other two dared to tell their husbands, months later.

“I kept silent with my family for fear of being rejected or looked at differently. It’s shameful,” one said.

The 14-year-old whose family fled to Mauritania is recovering. She said she cannot remember anything since the attack. Her family and MSF said she is speaking to a psychiatrist — one of just six working in the country.

“It seems that conflict over the years gets worse and worse and worse. There is less regard for human life, whether it’s men, women or children,” said MSF’s Molenaar, and broke into tears. “It’s a battle.”

https://apnews.com/article/mali-russia-africa-corps-refugees-rape-assault-28f34205d837dad8a323c3a034f96636

>>2597249
On the one hand it's not like mercenaries are above rape, but on the other this story coming from AP makes me deeply skeptical.

>>2598527
unc just destroyed the youth on god, frfr

>>2599606
Malema is a moron.

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Kenya Is Betting Its Economy on Women Willing to Risk It All

>Betty Awino said her boss had beaten and raped her.
>Bigeni Maina worked to provide for her ailing father. When she complained about her 20-hour workdays, her recruiter responded, “That employer bought you.”
>Roselida Salisi said her boss had had the same message, brandishing a pistol and declaring, “I bought you.”
>Amina Mwaita left behind her grocery stand in Kenya. She said she had endured abuse and being called “dog” because she needed the money.
>Winfred Lochio escaped after her boss had raped and threatened to kill her. “No one will even know you existed,” she said he had told her.
>Brenda Odhiambo fled to the Kenyan Embassy but said diplomats there had insulted her and sent her away.
>Pauline Kariuki said her boss had raped and impregnated her. Her family sold land to pay her way home. She gave birth the day she returned.
>Hannah Ngugi’s cesarean-section incision reopened while cleaning. She turned to social media for medical care and a ticket home. Her recruiter blamed her, calling her lazy.

To revive his country’s struggling economy, Kenya’s president, William Ruto, wants to send one million workers abroad each year. He portrays this labor migration as a national service.

Everywhere we looked, people who were supposed to protect workers were instead profiting off them. A top lawmaker on Kenya’s parliamentary labor committee. Members of Mr. Ruto’s government. His political allies. Even his wife and his daughter, whose records show are the largest shareholders in the staffing industry’s dominant insurance company.

Mr. Ruto’s government has made it faster, cheaper and easier to send women abroad. Kenya has a labor deal with Saudi Arabia that keeps wages low and worker protections at a minimum. All of this makes the business more profitable for the staffing companies and the politicians who own them.

When we asked about specific cases of abuse, industry leaders and even members of Mr. Ruto’s government blamed the women. 'Kenya’s most prominent staffing-industry lobbyist compared women to dogs. Alfred N. Mutua, Kenya’s labor secretary, told us that Kenyan women had been beaten because they had bad attitudes.'

Hundreds of Kenyan single mothers are stranded in Saudi Arabia, unable to return home because their children cannot obtain birth certificates. Giving birth outside marriage is effectively illegal, and the Saudi authorities offer no public path for single mothers to get birth certificates for their children. Saudi officials say the Kenyan Embassy is responsible.

Many mothers told us that Kenyan diplomats had insulted them or turned them away. Women told us that one embassy official had demanded money and sex. We found out that, despite years of complaints, the government kept him in a job working with migrant women in distress.

Unlike the Philippines, which has secured better protections for its workers abroad, Kenya has made little progress. Government officials and recruitment agencies argue that if they demanded higher wages for their workers, employers would simply shift to other countries.

https://archive.is/sJrq0

>>2599790
You're a moron.

Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher

>Only days before El Fasher fell to the R.S.F., Manahil Ishaq, 35, sent her 14-year-old son, Rami, out to look for some food. Rami was not gone long before he was critically wounded in an explosion, his mother said. Neighbors brought him back to the family home.

>“He couldn’t speak or say anything,” Ms. Ishaq recalled. “His belly was out and his bones were fractured.”

>As more fighting erupted, Ms. Ishaq, who was three months pregnant at the time, prepared to flee. Rami was still alive, she said, but she knew he would not survive his wounds.

>“I told him that I wished him forgiveness and well-being, in this life and the hereafter,” she recalled telling him.

>Then she left.

The capture of the city of El Fasher in late October marked a bloody milestone in the nearly three-year conflict in Sudan. The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group battling the Sudanese Army in a catastrophic civil war, took control of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan, handing the R.S.F. almost total control of the region.

As it tore through the city, the R.S.F. embarked on a killing spree. Aid groups reported widespread accounts of rape and sexual violence.

The United Nations’ migration agency estimates that 100,000 people have fled El Fasher since its collapse. That would leave more than 150,000 people still unaccounted for.

No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains closed to the outside world, although some aid has started to reach other parts of Darfur. One of the few ways to report on the siege is by traveling to refugee camps in eastern Chad, now home to about 900,000 displaced Sudanese from Darfur and other parts of the country.

While sitting outside the dusty, rundown hospital of Oure Cassoni refugee camp in eastern Chad, Ms. Ishaq said her brother was killed as the family fled. Ms. Ishaq said she was shot in the back by a sniper.

Miraculously, the baby she is carrying survived, and she reached the camp with her other children.

Adjusting to the harsh conditions of the camp has not offered her much relief. Oure Cassoni is one of the most remote camps in Chad. It was founded by the government of Chad in 2004, when tens of thousands of people fled Darfur to escape mass killings led by the Janjaweed, the militia that became the precursor to the Rapid Support Forces.

The camp has doubled in size over the past year, but support from Chad and international aid have not kept pace with its needs.

Mustafa said he and four of his friends, all in their late teens and twenties, knew they had to leave El Fasher.

He recalled watching four members of his neighbor’s family be executed by R.S.F. fighters as the group took over the city. He requested that only his first name be used for fear of his safety.

Mustafa and his friends made a plan to leave under cover of darkness. But they did not get far before they were captured by R.S.F. troops near the village of Qarni, he said. He and his friends were lined up and questioned.

Two of his friends asked for food and water. Instead, their captors shot and killed them, Mustafa said.

“We were frightened,” he said. “They told us, ‘Calm down, we are not going to kill you.’”

He and his friends were tied to a tree and left there for two days until local villagers untied them and told them to run. Three survived and made it to the camp. Mustafa stayed in Oure Cassoni. His two friends went on to Libya.

Hussam Altaher grimaced as doctors at the small hospital in Oure Cassoni cleaned the wound on his leg. While sitting at home with his father and cousins in El Fasher in late August, Mr. Altaher suddenly heard a drone overhead.

“I recognized it because we had heard the sound many times before. Moments later, the bomb fell directly on our house,” he said. His father and cousins were killed instantly, and Mr. Altaher was badly injured.

He spent the next two months in Al Saudi maternity hospital, the last functioning hospital in El Fasher. Doctors struggled to give him proper care because they lacked basic medicine.

Mr. Altaher was still unable to walk by the time El Fasher fell to the paramilitary group. His mother, who had been by his side at the hospital, secured a donkey cart to help them escape on Oct. 26.

‘’’Two days later, more than 400 patients were reportedly massacred at Al Saudi by R.S.F. troops, according to the World Health Organization.’’’

Mr. Altaher and his mother were detained by R.S.F. fighters as they fled. “They demanded 20 million Sudanese pounds to let us go,” he said.

Relatives outside of Sudan paid the steep ransom, roughly $5,600.

Before reaching permanent camps like Oure Cassoni, many Sudanese pass through Tine, a small border town about 100 miles south in Chad.

Several hundred refugees gathered in Tine in late November. Among them were two young men: Ali Ishag, in a wheelchair, and his friend Yahia Rizig.

Mr. Ishag had lost a leg in an airstrike on his family home in El Fasher last year, he said. The same attack killed his entire family.

When it became clear that the city would fall, Mr. Ishag and Mr. Rizig looked for a way out. They decided to leave at night, only days before the city was captured.

“We’re like bats, have to move only at night. If they find you in the morning, they will cut you,” said Mr. Rizig, recalling their escape. Mr. Ishag was unable to walk quickly enough on crutches, so Mr. Rizig carried his friend out of the city on his back.

Having reached Chad, they planned to pass through Tine to a more permanent camp farther west. As a convoy of trucks prepared to depart, Mr. Rizig once again lifted his friend to embark on the next part of their journey away from Darfur.

https://archive.is/lJOet

Over 1,000 Were Killed in Attack on Famine-Stricken Camp in Sudan, U.N. Says

Paramilitaries in Sudan killed over 1,000 people, one-third of them in summary executions, in an attack in April against a famine-stricken camp for displaced people, the United Nations human rights body said on Thursday.

The revised toll was over three times as great as earlier estimates from one of the most notorious episodes of Sudan’s atrocity-filled civil war.

The slaughter occurred over three days in April in the western region of Darfur as R.S.F. fighters seized control of the sprawling Zamzam camp, the largest in Sudan. At the time, about 500,000 people were estimated to live in the camp.

Most residents fled. In the report published on Thursday, the United Nations said its investigators had since documented the killing of 1,013 people, 319 of whom were summarily executed. In one incident, fighters killed the entire staff of the largest medical clinic in the camp. They also set homes on fire and carried out widespread sexual violence.

The United Nations said in its report that it had documented 104 cases of sexual assault — against 75 women, 26 girls and three boys, mostly from the Zaghawa ethnic group.

The United Arab Emirates has ramped up its support for the R.S.F. even as it has repeatedly denied providing any assistance to the group, according to Western officials and analysts who follow the crisis. At the same time, Emirati officials are stepping up efforts to present themselves as peace brokers in Sudan, meeting and posing for photos with the same American, European and United Nations officials who have decried R.S.F. atrocities.

Advanced Chinese-made drones, most likely supplied by the Emirates, are playing a significant role in those gains, Western officials and military analysts say.

https://archive.is/Sj1Y3

<btw the current president of chad is aslo from the zaghawa ethnicity
<back in 2023 the uae offered him a billion dollars for his cooperation and afterwards the chadian city of amdjarass became the connecting stop over of emirati flights smuggling weapons to sudan from uganda

Merry Christmas my fellow Africans ♡

why is djibouti so poor and undeveloped despite all the money it gets from hosting military bases and serving as a port for ethiopia?

>>2612628
Um sweaty, we celebrate Ganna and it's on Jan 7.

Congo man pays tribute to Patrice Lumumba by dressing like him and standing motionless as a statue throughout the entire football match, every time.

Guinea junta chief wins presidential election by landslide

Guinea's junta chief Gen Mamady Doumbouya has won the presidential election by a landslide, getting 86.7% of the vote, according to provisional results published by the election commission.

A civil society group calling for the return of civilian rule has condemned the election as a "charade" after Gen Doumbouya's main rivals were barred from contesting, while opposition candidates said the poll was marred by irregularities.

On Monday, internet monitoring group NetBlocks reported that access to social media platforms TikTok, YouTube and Facebook had been restricted as Guineans waited for the full results.

The 41-year-old general's victory gives him a seven-year mandate. Should the results be challenged, the Supreme Court has eight days to validate them.

After overthrowing then-83-year-old President Alpha Condé in 2021, Gen Doumbouya promised not to seek election and to hand power to a civilian.

"Neither I nor any member of this transition will be a candidate for anything… As soldiers, we value our word very much," he said at the time.

The junta leader broke his promise by putting his name on the ballot after a new constitution, implemented in September, permitted him to run for office.

However, a civil society group, the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution, said in a statement on Monday that the turnout was low.

"A huge majority of Guineans chose to boycott the electoral charade," the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

Although he is popular with many of Guinea's youth, Gen Doumbouya has been criticised for restricting opposition activities, banning protests and stifling press freedom in the run-up to the elections.

The general justified deposing Condé on similar charges - including rampant corruption, disregard for human rights and economic mismanagement.

Guinea has the world's largest bauxite reserves and some of its richest iron ore. Last month, authorities launched the gigantic Simandou iron-ore mine to widespread anticipation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2520nyp8yo

What do you think of Ishowspeed's tour in Africa?

[Long Read]

The emerging sub-imperial role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa

>Over the past decades, the UAE has invested close to $60 billion in African countries, making it the fourth-largest foreign direct investor on the continent, after China, the European Union (EU) and the United States. In the last two years alone, the UAE has pledged $97 billion in new investments in Africa, which is three times more than China’s commitments.

>At the core of the UAE’s geopolitical strategy is its focus on acquiring port concessions that encircle the African continent, positioning the UAE to dominate global trade routes around Africa. Along with these port developments, the UAE is building logistical hubs and supply chain infrastructures deep within Africa. The two major players in this strategy are AD Ports Group, whose majority shareholder is the Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (ADQ), a sovereign wealth fund (SWF), and DP World, which is fully owned by the Dubai government through its parent company, Port and Free Zone World FZE.

>The UAE has acquired agricultural land in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. These investments, often extractive in nature, have significant impacts on local populations and ecosystems. In many cases, water-intensive crops such as alfalfa are grown to feed livestock in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, illustrating that these activities constitute not only landgrabs but also water grabs. The large-scale production of crops, fruits, vegetables and livestock often results in the depletion of local resources, leading to food insecurity and environmental degradation for the host countries.

>The UAE has also acquired vast tracts of land in Africa for use in the emerging carbon economy. After purchasing carbon credits, ostensibly generated from preserving forests, the UAE sells these credits to companies seeking to offset their emissions.

>In recent years, the UAE has become increasingly active in securing mining deals across various African countries, particularly in Angola, DRC, Zambia and Zimbabwe. These investments have focused on critical minerals such as cobalt, copper, graphite, lithium and nickel.

>The UAE’s involvement in the gold trade has raised significant concerns. Dubai, in particular, serves as the world’s second-largest gold importer and the main destination for gold mined in African countries. Notably, Dubai imports more gold from countries that produce relatively small amounts of the metal, such as Rwanda and Uganda, and reports higher gold import values than are declared as exports by these countries. This discrepancy has led to allegations that Dubai has become a hub for gold smuggling and money laundering through its gold markets and refineries.

https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa

from newsanon's thread

UN team enters Sudanese city of El Fasher after paramilitary massacre: ‘It’s like a ghost town’

The UN team members were the first external witnesses to arrive at the epicenter of the tragedy. What they found was a destroyed and deserted city as well as abandoned villages nearby, triggering serious concerns for the civilians who remain there and for those missing. In August, the UN estimated the town’s population at around 260,000 people, of whom about 100,000 fled after the RSF seized the site. So far, no one has been able to confirm the whereabouts or wellbeing of tens of thousands of missing residents.

The situation witnessed on the ground is consistent with what has been indicated by the satellite imagery. In November, HRL did not identify activities that suggested a significant civilian presence in El Fasher. There were no signs of daily life, such as transport, commercial movement or people gathering for water. In the city’s markets, weeds had sprung up.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-05/un-team-enters-sudanese-city-of-el-fasher-after-paramilitary-massacre-its-like-a-ghost-town.html

>>2621935
kkkringe

>>2634716
Explain please

>>2634748
iShowspeed love is forced af. He is retarded and he is making a whole generation retarded.

Is Africa unironically the region with the most revolutionary potential?

Senegal's oil production exceeds initial projections in 2025

Senegal's oil production reached 36.1 million barrels of crude oil in 2025, exceeding the initial targets set for the year, the Ministry of Energy, Petroleum and Mines announced on Wednesday.

https://english.news.cn/africa/20260108/ffb3e752746243db8f1f26d26ac9e07b/c.html

How Djibouti Became a Battleground Between the UAE and National Sovereignty

In a series of unusually candid remarks, Guelleh leveled direct accusations at Abu Dhabi, claiming it is seeking to assert control over his country’s resources through financial leverage and strategic contracts, describing the Emirati approach as a form of “disguised colonialism.”

The dispute over the Doraleh port, Guelleh suggested, is merely one piece of a far broader project — a campaign aimed at dominating ports and maritime corridors across East Africa.

https://www.alestiklal.net/en/article/how-djibouti-became-a-battleground-between-the-uae-and-national-sovereignty

DP World setback in Djibouti port saga

The Dubai logistics company’s claim against Port de Djibouti has been rejected, but its billion-dollar battle over control of the Doraleh Container Port continues against the state and its Chinese business partner.

https://www.africanlawbusiness.com/news/dp-world-setback-in-djibouti-port-saga/

>>2637143
Unfortunately, no.

did you guys know the parliament of ghana has this cool golden mace with an eagle and adinkra symbols on it as the embodiment of parliament's authority?

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Sankofa-series-The-Mace-parliament-s-symbol-of-authority-which-is-kept-in-BoG-s-custody-upon-House-s-dissolution-1919708

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Africa growing strong but Sudan predictions seem strange considering the civil war.

"Communists" (tankies) are bemoaning shithole sewer river slums being razed for middle class social housing as "inhumane" instead of mobilising agitated reserveless poors to struggle collectively for higher wages to access better living conditions for themselves. Shauri Moyos, Umojas and Donholms down, no one wants to see that shit uygha.

>>2641721
UK does this but cringe.

>>2668972
I should ask somewhere else but what's up with Guyana? I know their economy has grown a lot recently. Are the people their much better off there than before or what?

>>2672358
This is the equivalent of liberals posting the one paved road in Iraq to defend the invasion

How is CPM-K so based?

>>2672126
Based and demcent pilled

>>2672358
I know capitalism does wonders, I read the Communist Manifesto already.

>>2675411
Speech on the Peasant Women Day, 15th October, 2025.
Comrades, sisters, and fellow workers!
Today, the representatives of global capital in their glass palace tells us to celebrate. The United Nations, that grand committee for managing the common affairs of the global bourgeoisie, has declared this day the “International Day of the Rural Woman.”

They will speak of our “resilience.”
They will praise our “vital role in the economy.”
They will hand microphones to a few so-called “successful” women and
They will distribute branded T-shirts, buckets, and packets of hybrid seeds.
But we say: No!

We will not be pacified with platitudes and trinkets.
We reject this celebration that masks our exploitation.
We are not here to be celebrated—we are here to be liberated.

Let us examine the reality of the rural woman in Kenya—not through the rose-tinted glasses of the UN, but through the sharp, scientific lens of class analysis.
We are the backbone of this nation, yet we are the most crushed by its weight. We till the land. We plant the seeds, we harvest the tea, the coffee, the flowers that earn billions in foreign exchange.

<But where does this wealth go?
It does not remain in our blistered hands. It flows into the coffers of multinational corporations - plantation owners, export companies, agrochemical cartels.
It lines the pockets of the local comprador bourgeoisie - landlords, corrupt politicians, and middlemen who grow fat off our sweat.

<Systemic Exploitation
This is no accident. It is the very logic of capitalism.
We are not merely “rural women.” We are the proletariat of the countryside.
Our hands are the means of production.
Our labor is the commodity ruthlessly exploited.
They speak of “empowerment” which means;
Loans from microfinance institutions that enslave us with 30% interest, being integrated into global supply chains that dictate the price of our sweat.
Being told to be “entrepreneurs” on half-acre plots of barren land while vast fertile tracts are owned by absentee landlords, churches, corrupt politicians, and foreign agribusiness.
They speak of “land rights” while daughters of Mau Mau freedom fighters remain landless.
While community land is grabbed, titled, and sold to the highest bidder.
The legacy of colonialism - the concentration of land in the hands of a few - has not been broken. It has been perfected by the neo-colonial Kenyan state.

<Who bears the triple burden of this exploitation?
As workers, our labor is super-exploited and paid in pennies—not paid at all.
As women, patriarchy ensures we do all the unpaid domestic labor—fetching water, gathering firewood, cooking, caring for children and elders—on top of our fieldwork.
As peasants, we are perpetually indebted, at the mercy of erratic markets and climate disasters we did not create.
Even “World Food Day” is a mockery—where the rich feast while the poor languish in poverty.

<False Solutions
The UN and its NGO partners offer “training” and “sensitization” teaching us how to better cope with our oppression while we do not need to learn how to bear our chains. We need to learn how to break them!

<Call to Action
So, what is to be done, comrades?
First, we must recognize: Our struggle is not isolated.
The struggle of the rural woman is inseparable from that of the landless peasant, the unemployed youth in Mathare, and the exploited worker in the EPZ.
Our enemy is the same: The capitalist class and its state apparatus.
Second, we must reject the harmless “women’s groups” used to distribute donor funds and sow division.
We must organize into militant, class-conscious unions and cooperatives, form alliances with the urban working class.

Our power lies not in begging for rights from the county governor, but in our collective strength:
The power to withhold labor, to occupy land that is rightfully ours and to block the roads that carry our produce to the exploiters.
Third, we must fight for a revolutionary alternative - Not “inclusion” in a system designed to exclude us - But the overthrow of that system.

Down with the blood-soaked government!
Down with the big landowners!

We demand:
Nationalization of all large-scale farms and plantations under workers’ and peasants’ control
Genuine land reform—redistributing land freely to those who work it
Cancellation of all odious debts to microfinance institutions and banks
Free, collective childcare and socialised domestic labor to liberate women from the double burden
Collectivisation of agriculture to serve human need—not profit

Comrades,
They call us “resilient” because we have survived their exploitation but we are more than survivors.
We are the grave-diggers of this rotten system from the slopes of Mount Kenya to the shores of Lake Victoria, from the arid plains of the North to the coast.

We will unite to show them:
We are not “resilient” We are the destroyers of patriarchal norms and their mother—capitalism.
Let us turn their day of empty celebration into a day of revolutionary resolve.
Let us build a Kenya where the rural woman is not a beast of burden but a free and equal architect of a socialist society.
A society where the wealth we create is owned and controlled by us, the producers.
The emancipation of the rural woman is the emancipation of all the oppressed.

Aluta Continua!
Komboa Wamama Mashambani!
Long Live the CPM-K Vanguard!
More Power to the Peasants!

Liberate the Rural Woman!

<Written by Leon Munala
<Secretary of The Peasants and Peasant Organization
<Delivered by Comrade Karimi Wa Kagendo
<National Organising Secretary, Revolutionary Youth League

is this true?

>>2672380
>Are the people their much better off there than before or what?
Not really and only corrupt officials and foreign businessmen are seeing a rise. The working class of Guyana are not seeing the benefits that the multinational companies and this is a constant complaint as new gated and secured communities are formed away from the masses. This is not regular for Guyanese life. They are taking advantage of the racial divide of Guyana between the predominantly Indian PPP and the predominantly Black PNC. A beef that goes back in the 1950s from a split between Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham. This was promoted by Churchill,MI6 and the CIA because Guyana was one of the colonies rapidly going socialist. Not going to go on a lecture about How Jagan and Burnham split or their attempts at socialism like Burnham being inspired by Juche. What is important that Guyana will have a socialist figure who will unify Guyana's founding fathers as Jagan and Burnham to heal the divide. This period the next five to ten years will build a lot of infrastructure before this inevitably happens and the incompetence of the government to handle the staggering wealth inequality

How Trump Took Up the ‘Christian Genocide’ Cause in Nigeria

Top advisers from the Trump Administration sat at the head of a giant wooden table in an office near the White House in late October listening as religious activists described attacks on Christian churches and pastors in Nigeria. The activists wanted President Trump to do something about it.

Three days later, the president threatened to enter Nigeria “guns-a-blazing” to avenge what he has called a “Christian genocide.” Then, on Christmas Day, Mr. Trump launched Tomahawk missiles at “terrorist scum” he said were responsible for killing Nigerian Christians.

Now, the activists have seized on his support to orchestrate a rapid shift in American foreign policy toward Nigeria, with major consequences for the West African nation, including the threat of more bombings. “Our challenge,” said Nina Shea, an activist and the former commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, “was to break through the narrative that this was not religious based.”

Mr. Trump told The New York Times recently that he would approve more strikes if Christians continued to be killed, and last month, senior U.S. leaders were in Nigeria’s capital to announce a new, closer military partnership between the two nations.

>A Shocking Massacre

For years, the Christian activists had tried to get the Biden administration to re-designate Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern, a category reserved for nations where religious freedom is threatened, making them vulnerable to sanctions.

Mr. Trump had put Nigeria on the list during his first term, but the Biden administration lifted the designation in 2021. The State Department’s report on religious freedom in Nigeria that year said there were mass killings of both Christians and Muslims, but it did not single out Christians as a singular target.

Armed with gruesome anecdotes and shocking but in some cases unreliable data on the number of Nigerian Christians killed for their faith, two dozen activists from groups dedicated to exposing Christian persecution around the world, such as the international organization Aid to the Church in Need, pursued various Trump officials.

In June, one of Nigeria’s worst incidents of violence in years broke out in Benue. Gunmen overran the largely Christian community of Yelwata, hacking, shooting and burning residents in a horrific, bloody massacre. In all, about 200 civilians were killed.

Such brutal attacks are also perpetrated against Muslims, including herders who are often nomadic and don’t have political representation, said Matthew Page, a former diplomat and a Nigeria expert. “The extent to which they are victims is just never revealed,” he said.

Religious groups on Capitol Hill circulated stories about the Yelwata attack to get lawmakers’ attention. One that resonated, lawmakers said, was an article in The Free Press, founded by media executive Bari Weiss. The article focused heavily on the killing of Christians.

Representative Riley Moore, a West Virginia Republican, cited the Yelwata attacks in July when he introduced a House Resolution condemning the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries. By the fall, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, had introduced a measure calling for sanctions against Nigeria.

>A White House Meeting

Sitting at the grand wooden table, they outlined their concerns to Sebastian Gorka, the National Security Council’s senior director for counterterrorism, who has falsely argued that violence is a fundamental part of Islam.

Nigerian officials tried to counter the notion of a Christian genocide. Mohammed Idris, Nigeria’s information minister, described Mr. Trump’s claims as “false, baseless, despicable and divisive,” and the foreign minister, Yusuf Tuggar, implied that the true goal was to destabilize Nigeria, take its resources and turn the African nation into a failed state.

>‘Why Are You Punishing Us?’

In response to the Country of Particular Concern designation, a Nigerian delegation traveled to Washington to convince U.S. officials of their efforts to bolster security.

Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican and chairman of the Africa subcommittee, said the meeting did not satisfy him that the Nigerians were taking the issue seriously.

“‘Why are you punishing us?’” Mr. Smith said one of the Nigerian officials asked. The congressman said he told the official, “This is about helping you to help your own people.”

The television host Piers Morgan interviewed Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, a Nigerian who had filmed himself jumping into graves to protest Christian murders. The rapper Nicki Minaj was invited to speak about Christian persecution in Nigeria at the United Nations after she posted about it on social media. Dozens of current and retired N.F.L. players signed an open letter calling on Mr. Trump to do more to confront “religious persecution in Nigeria.”

The U.S. military had already begun assessing strike options for Mr. Trump, according to two American officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military planning. The military could use planes or drones to attack militants.

But the Pentagon decided on a much more modest first step: The U.S. military would offer intelligence to help Nigeria carry out its own airstrikes against targets in early December, according to one of the officials. But Mr. Trump wanted to send an even stronger message, the official said.

In early December, Mr. Moore led a delegation to the Middle Belt to meet with Christian leaders. “I don’t think these things happen by accident,” Mr. Moore said in an interview with The Times. “God has put me here to save these people’s lives.”

Not long after the delegation returned from their trip, a law firm that said it was representing the Nigerian government signed a $9 million contract with a Washington lobbying outfit for help “communicating its actions to protect Nigerian’s Christian communities” and countering jihadist groups.

Two days later, the State Department announced spending to expand health services in Nigeria, including “significant dedicated funding to support Christian health care facilities” after Nigerian officials had agreed to prioritize protecting Christians.

>‘The Partnership Is Working’

Orders from the Pentagon arrived at Africa Command in mid-December to dispatch a Navy destroyer to the Gulf of Guinea on a secret mission.

Its crew members had prepared to spend Christmas at their home port in Spain, but they were summoned on short notice to the ship, steaming at top speed to waters off Nigeria.

By Dec. 24, the destroyer was in place and ready to fire its Tomahawk missiles. Targets had been selected and vetted through a joint U.S.-Nigerian intelligence cooperation. But Mr. Trump decided to delay the strikes by one day so they would happen on Christmas, one of the U.S. officials said.

On Christmas Day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio phoned Mr. Tuggar, Nigeria’s foreign minister, for permission from Nigeria’s president to launch.

The missiles, valued at about $32 million, hit northwest Nigeria, an overwhelmingly Muslim area hundreds of miles from the Middle Belt. American military officials are still assessing damage but said that more than three dozen Islamic State-affiliated terrorists were flushed out and later arrested by Nigerian authorities.

Residents have said the missiles hit empty fields and vacant militant hide-outs.

Faced with American pressure, Nigerian officials have stopped arguing with the Trump administration.

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