“It is Venezuela today. It will be South Africa tomorrow,” warns its largest trade union
Marching to the US consulate in Johannesburg, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) protested against US aggression on Venezuela on January 24.
Sudan civil war spills over into neighboring Chad
Pursuing armed groups affiliated to the army into Chad, Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning.”
UAE loses bases in Somalia over dealings with pro-Israel separatist group
Somalia’s federal government has banned UAE’s military and cargo aircraft and cancelled all agreements with the Gulf power to protect “the nation’s unity, territorial integrity, and constitutional order.”
“Rogue State”: South Africans protest outside US embassy, denounce abduction of Maduro
Waving the Venezuelan colors alongside the red hammer-and-sickle flags, hundreds marched to the US embassy in Pretoria, protesting US aggression on Venezuela.
Assassination plot against President Ibrahim Traore foiled in Burkina Faso
A plot to kill Burkina Faso’s president, Ibrahim Traoré, and disable a drone base, ahead of a planned foreign military intervention, was thwarted by security forces, while Burkinabes took to the streets sloganeering in support of Traoré.
65,000 displaced as fighting intensifies in Sudan’s Kordofan region
The paramilitary RSF continues its eastward advance after consolidating control over Darfur, closing in South Kordofan’s state’s capital Kadugli and its second largest city Dilling, whose supplies it has cut off with a siege, starving its population of food and medicines.
Global outcry against Israel’s recognition of Somaliland
By recognizing as a sovereign entity the separatist enclave in northern Somalia along the Red Sea coast, Israel seeks a forward base against Yemen, while fears also abound that Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza might be relocated to this territory.
The war in Sudan is “between two wings of a comprador parasitic capitalist class”
The war in Sudan is not simply “between two generals, but between two wings of a comprador parasitic capitalist class,” fighting each other against the backdrop of a regional and global contest over Sudan’s land, resources, and geostrategic location on the Red Sea, argues Sidgi Kaballo of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP).