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>>2337546>Why should there be an /africa/ thread? There's no /Asia/ thread, there's no /Americas/ thread.There is /SEA/. There is at times the indian subcontinent general. There is /latam/.
Fuck off back wherever you came from.
>>2337591Chill out dude, is south east asia all of asia? Is the indian subcontinent all of asia? Does latin america refer to just south america?
No, they refer to specific geopolitical regions
Im saying it's a disservice to africa to lump them all together like this when we dont do that to other continents. Why not have a /northafrica/, /sahel/, /east/westafrica/,etc instead?
>>2337591>>2337798 (me)
Thanks for the vid btw, even tho you were rude to me lol. It's very nice
>>2337798Okay fair enough.
>Im saying it's a disservice to africa to lump them all together like this when we dont do that to other continents. Why not have a /northafrica/, /sahel/, /east/westafrica/,etc instead?Because they won't get enough posts and quickly fall off. This was already an issue with previous threads despite it being a thread several have interest in.
Protests are heating up in Kenya. a shooting yesterday and roaming armed gangs:
Kenya protesters clash with men wielding clubs
Kenyan protesters have clashed with club-carrying young men, believed to be loyal to the government, in the centre of the capital, Nairobi.
The demonstration, held in the wake of the death in custody 10 days ago of blogger and teacher Albert Ojwang, was called to demand the sacking of a top police officer.
Police initially said that Mr Ojwang died of self-inflicted wounds, but were forced to retract the statement after an autopsy found that it was likely he died after being assaulted. Two policemen have been arrested in connection with the death.
The protest comes amid simmering tension ahead of next week's first anniversary of the storming of parliament by demonstrators.
Earlier on Tuesday, there were pockets of violence in the capital's central business district when groups of young men riding motorbikes, armed with whips and clubs, attacked protesters.
Videos show the men - described locally as "goons" - seemingly working side-by-side with police, who fired teargas to try and disrupt the demonstrations.
The police have denied any link saying that it has "noted a group of goons armed with crude weapons, in today's protests… The service takes great exception and does not condone such unlawful groupings."
>Why the death of a blogger has put Kenya's police on trial
A vendor was shot during Tuesday's demonstration, sparking renewed outrage from Kenyans who accuse police of using excessive force against protesters.
Boniface Kariuki was reportedly selling masks when a uniformed police officer fired a bullet at close range, critically injuring him.
His father, John Kariuki, told local media that the bullet went through his head, just above the ear.
The 22-year-old vendor is now under medical observation after successful surgery, his father said.
In a statement, the police said it was aware of "an incident involving [the] shooting of an unarmed civilian by a police officer using an anti-riot shotgun". The policeman allegedly responsible has since been arrested, it added.
Officers had been deployed across key parts of the city, in an attempt to block protesters from accessing major intersections and government buildings.
Deputy police chief Eliud Lagat has stepped aside as an investigation into Mr Ojwang's death is under way.
But activists want him removed from office as it was his complaint against the blogger that led to the young man's arrest. The 31-year-old was accused of defaming Mr Lagat on social media.
"We shall not be intimidated. We shall remain unbowed. We want Lagat to step aside," one protester told the BBC.
"We want the guy to resign and we want the guy to be arrested. We want him to sit there and answer questions, you know. [He is] still on the payroll, still enjoying taxpayers' money," another said.
The situation in Nairobi remains tense. Most businesses in the city centre are shut and there are visibly fewer people than usual on the streets.
Last year's protests, led by young Kenyans, were against an unpopular finance bill which sought to introduce new taxes. It culminated in the protesters entering parliament on 25 June and forced the government to drop the controversial proposals.
There are no contentious tax measures this year, but activists plan to build up momentum to what they are calling "a total shutdown" of business next Wednesday.
Two killed today.
Two protesters die from gunshot woundsTwo protesters died from gunshot wounds and at least eight were injured in a town outside Nairobi on Wednesday as demonstrators marked one year since mass anti-government protests in Kenya, a hospital official told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
>>2337872CPK on the streets during the current outbursts.
Two people killed.
omrade Sebby Apudo and Comrade Derick Munyiri are being illegally detained at Ruaraka Police Station. Comrade Gloria Gakuru has been assaulted by the same police and left for dead. (picrels)
>>2354503They're technically Communist Party Marxist – Kenya (CPMK), they're usually who you see.
<vid from todayCops beating and whipping people before being ran off by a bunch of guys in red. topkek.
>>2354829>Perhaps this is premature, but it looks like Kenya is popping off with protests and riots still gaining strength. Do we have a happening on our hands?Last year they stormed the parliment and the state shot and killed/disappeared 60 people.
We will have to see. There have been a few killed, two on the protests, a videoblogger whilst in police custody a few weeks back and a man was shot in the head by police when protesting the killing of the blogger (
>>2337872 ).
>>2357997True, and its unfortunate.
At least people recognize the value of it existing on the board though.
It's still going down in Kenya, the government has doubled down on ordering the cops to shoot. They've banned all reporting on the protests by the media, i think having shut some down.
Breakthrough had Booker on today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgym5QNci4>>2358067If you haven't seen it Evita also does Joe Slovo which is also very fun.
I guess the HTS operation in Syria was so successful that nato is exporting it to Africa
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/jihadist-ghost-enemy-jnim-sahel
>JNIM and other militants have exploited the vacuum that has opened up, offering protection and some basic services as well as coercing communities into accepting their authority and strict Islamically inspired rules. Expansion also means resources. Control of roads means traffic can be taxed, for example.
>“JNIM are becoming a force that is well beyond just military … Villagers see no other option. JNIM run courts, schools, informal goldmines. They are very pragmatic, and not corrupt,” said Laessing.
>The group may have other ambitions, too. A leader and spokesperson recently boasted that the group had launched a “second phase” of its war against local states and would be hunting its enemies “in the big cities … in your last refuges”.
>One possibility, analysts said, is that JNIM is preparing a radical shift, inspired by the success of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which seized power in Syria after Ahmed al-Sharaa, its leader, moderated his organisation’s ideology and focused on governance rather than holy war.>>2337872So the guy from that video who was shot in the head just died his family have announced.
Boniface Kariuki: Nairobi hawker who was shot in the head by police is deadBoniface Kariuki, the hawker who was shot by police in the head in Nairobi during protests on June 17, 2025, is dead, the family has said.
The family spokesperson Emily Wanjira confirmed to NTV that Kariuki died on Monday.
Kariuki, a mask vendor, was shot in the head at point-blank range by a police officer during the protests that turned violent as the protesters engaged police officers in day-long running battles.
The demonstration was part of a growing call for justice for Albert Ojwang, the teacher and blogger who was taken from his home in Homa Bay and killed in police custody in Nairobi.
Kariuki has undergone two surgeries at Kenyatta National Hospital where he is admitted in ICU.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/african-stream-removed-us-accusations/290109/Blinken Ordered the Hit. Big Tech Carried It Out. African Stream Is Dead.
>On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, African Stream published its final video, a defiant farewell message. With that, the once-thriving pan-African media outlet confirmed it was shutting down for good. Not because it broke the law. Not because it spread disinformation or incited violence. But because it told the wrong story, one that challenged U.S. power in Africa and resonated too deeply with Black audiences around the world. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused it of being a Kremlin front, Big Tech didn’t hesitate, and within hours, the platform was erased from nearly every major social media site.
>In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the call and announced an all-out war against the organization, claiming, without evidence, that it was a Russian front group. “Russian state-funded media outlet RT secretly runs the online platform, African Stream, across a wide range of social media platforms,” he said, adding:
<According to the outlet’s website, ‘African Stream is’ – and I quote ‘a pan-African digital media organization based exclusively on social media platforms, focused on giving a voice to all Africans, both at home and abroad.’ In reality, the only voice it gives is to Kremlin propagandists.”
>Within hours, big social media platforms jumped into action. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all deleted African Stream’s accounts, while Twitter demonetized the organization.
>African Stream attempted to continue, but it finally ceased operations this week. MintPress News spoke with the company’s founder and CEO, Ahmed Kaballo, who told us that, with just one statement, Washington was able to destroy their entire operation, stating:
< We are shutting down because the business has become untenable. After we got attacked by Antony Blinken, we really tried to continue, but without a platform on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and being demonetized on X, it just meant the ability to generate income became damn near impossible.”
>The news has disappointed the Nairobi, Kenya-based outlet’s large and rapidly growing follower base. At the time of the coordinated operation against it, the account boasted almost one million followers on TikTok, almost 880,000 on Instagram, and almost half a million on YouTube, reaching 30-40 million people per month. Growing from nothing in 2022, it expanded rapidly, offering a pan-African perspective on global events, and worked to expose the role of imperialism on the continent.
>African Stream cultivated a large and committed audience among African Americans, with celebrities, rappers, and NBA basketball stars regularly sharing their content. It was this combination of anti-imperialist messaging and influence with Black America that Kaballo believes triggered the State Department smears, explaining that:
< We criticized the Republicans and the Democrats. We followed the pan-African tradition of Malcolm X, who said that there is no difference between the fox and the wolf, you get bitten either way. And because we had so much influence on the Black community in the U.S., we were seen to be a threat to the Democratic Party. That’s why we feel like it was a partisan attack.”
>Blinken’s attack was not the first African Stream had received. Last June, NBC News claimed (without providing examples) that African Stream sought to undermine the 2024 elections by spreading disinformation. Then, in August, U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America wrote that Kaballo’s organization “distorts the U.S. military’s mission in Somalia,” insisting that the U.S. is bombing one of the continent’s poorest countries to “protect civilians.” Leaked documents also show that the British Foreign Office plotted to run a smear campaign against them.
>Kaballo told MintPress that he expected the attacks. “It’s no real surprise,” he said. “The surprise was that big tech, with no evidence whatsoever, decided to take us down.”
>However, given the extremely close ties between Silicon Valley and the U.S. national security state – something that MintPress has consistently reported on – Kaballo should perhaps have been more prepared for this outcome.
>Google’s Director of Security and Public Trust, Ben Randa, for example, was formerly NATO’s Strategic Planning and Information Officer. Meanwhile, Facebook’s Senior Misinformation Policy Manager, Aaron Berman, the individual most responsible for determining the platform’s political direction, is a former high-ranking CIA agent. Like other platforms, TikTok has also hired dozens of former officials from the FBI, CIA, and State Department to oversee its most sensitive internal affairs.
>If Blinken genuinely wanted to unearth a government-sponsored influence operation, he would not have to look far. Earlier this year, a funding freeze at the U.S. government agency USAID exposed a global network of supposedly “independent” media outlets that Washington secretly bankrolled. The scale of this operation was vast: more than 6,200 journalists at nearly 1,000 organizations across five continents had their salaries secretly paid in whole or in part by the U.S. government.
>While the outlooks of these media groups differed, they all shared one similarity: an unwavering commitment to promoting Washington’s interests.
>The pause in funding was keenly felt in Ukraine. Oksana Romanyuk, the director of the country’s Institute for Mass Information, lamented that almost 90% of local media outlets were funded by USAID, including many with no other source of income.
>In neighboring Belarus, a survey of 20 leading outlets found that 60% of their budgets came directly from Washington.
>Following the freeze, anti-government Cuban media were plunged into an existential crisis. Miami-based CubaNet, for instance, published an editorial soliciting donations from its readers. “We are facing an unexpected challenge: the suspension of key funding that sustained part of our work,” they wrote; “If you value our work and believe in keeping the truth alive, we ask for your support.”
>In 2024, CubaNet received around half a million dollars from USAID alone. U.S.-backed Iranian media, meanwhile, resorted to mass layoffs of their staff.
>The African Stream story highlights the sorry state of global communications, where the United States has the power to choke, and even simply delete, media outlets that stand for an alternative vision of the world. Washington both funds thousands of journalists around the planet to produce pro-U.S. propaganda, and, through its close connections to Silicon Valley, has the power to destroy those that do not toe the line.
>African Stream is far from the first independent, anti-imperialist news organization to have been targeted by Washington. MintPress itself has been repeatedly attacked and smeared as a secret Iranian, Chinese, Russian, Syrian, or even Venezuelan operation. Our reach on social media has been throttled, and we have been debanked by PayPal. Other leading alternative media outlets tell a similar story.
>It is a similar story in Europe, where the region’s support for Israeli actions in Palestine has sparked a crackdown on independent journalism. British journalists Richard Medhurst and Asa Winstanley have had their homes raided by police, while the European Union has sanctioned Hüseyin Dogru for his coverage of pro-Palestine protests.
>In what may prove to be their final post, on Tuesday, July 1, African Stream released a video of their staff dancing, accompanied by the words:
< It’s tough to accept that we had to shut down over baseless accusations by the U.S. government. But instead of bowing out in silence, the team chose to resist, just as our ancestors often did, through dance. You can deplatform us. You can smear us. But you can’t stop us dancing.”
>On the surface, the overt censorship of a Kenyan media outlet by the U.S. government may be a depressing story. Yet Kaballo remained upbeat about the situation, noting that the state of radical African media has drastically improved since 2022, with many channels taking up a pan-African, anti-imperialist message. “In the next few years, hopefully there will be 20 or 30 different versions of African Stream, hitting people with high-quality content,” he said. >>2337591Ultra based!
Who is the whitey along him?
>>2371891>Who is the whitey along him?Joe Slovo
>>2371455Back to /pol/, faggot.
>>2362433>Interesting video bout TraoreAnon these are all just clones, one really popular african creator did it and now everyone is doing it. it's not going to be any good because they don't care about any of this stuff, they're just trying to superficially copy what did well for someone else.
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1882485386217144793ARE ISRAEL & U.S. PLANNING REGIME CHANGE IN ERITREA?
Is Israel manufacturing consent for regime change in Eritrea? In a 16 January article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, author Habtom Ghebrezghiabher argues Asmara poses a threat to Israel and the US due to its warm relations with Iran, China and Russia.
The Haaretz article argues that Asmara is an Iranian proxy used to disrupt the maritime routes used by Israel's allies, citing the detention of a vessel of Azerbaijan, an Israeli ally. The author argues Eritrea and Yemen effectively grant Iran control over both sides of the southern Red Sea. Iranian vessels using Eritrean territorial waters is another sticking point, with the author taking issue that Eritrea accused Israel of violating Eritrean sovereignty when Tel Aviv attacked an Iranian vessel.
Eritrea’s anti-Zi*nist stance has been a headache for Israel. Asmara has consistently voted against Israel at the UN, rejected an Israeli ambassador, opposed Israeli presence in the African Union, downgraded its embassy in Israel, and expressed solidarity with Ansar Allah (colloquially known as the Houthis) attacks against Israeli-linked ships in response to Israeli massacres of Palestinians.
For the US, Eritrea’s China-Russia ties could explain the hostility. China has helped develop Eritrea’s infrastructure, such as in healthcare. Eritrea has also benefited from China cancelling debt and imposing zero tariffs on Eritrean exports to China.
The author also cites Eritrea’s cordial relations with Russia as a point of contention. With Eritrea voting in favour of Russia at the UN during a 2022 vote on withdrawing Russian forces from Ukraine, and recent high-level visits between officials in the two countries, it makes sense why the West would be increasingly hostile. In 2019, negotiations began for Russia to establish a logistic centre in Eritrea to bolster military and logistical capabilities in the Horn of Africa region. Eritrea is also interested in attracting investment, particularly in the face of Western sanctions against the country.
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