The widened scope and quickened pace of the Islamic State’s military operations in the Sahel region — just below North Africa, roughly from Senegal to Sudan — threatens to alter the strategic orientation of the African continent. Efforts at countering terrorist operations in the Sahel, such as they were, have evidently failed. As all roads to Mali’s capital of Bamoko are now blocked, that country might be the first state to “go under.”
Al-Qaeda’s branch in Africa’s Sahel region has been laying siege to Mali’s capital city, as well as other areas of the country. The Algerian-based Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its affiliated Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (Support Group for Islam and Muslims, JNIM) are cutting a wide swath of terrorist operations across West Africa’s Sahel region. This coalition of Jihadist groups now threatens the sovereignty of Mali and several other Sahelian states.
“What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community… [J]ihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa…. It’s very dangerous for the national security of the United States…. Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.” — Alberto Miguel Fernandez, geopolitical analyst and former U.S. diplomat, Fox News, August 7, 2025, Mozambique.
Africa has joined a campaign to claim reparations from Britain for “historic crimes”.
The African Union called for “meaningful reparations” from “former colonial powers” for exploiting the people, land and resources of the continent.
The bloc blamed “systemic injustice” ongoing in the continent on imperialism in the 19th century.
OK Africa but let’s start with making your African Slave Trading Tribes pony up their share and then we’ll do a tally of all the foreign aid your sinkhole of a continent will be paying back.
Africa’s four richest people hold more wealth than half the continent’s population combined, the charity Oxfam reported, warning that skewed policies are fuelling deepening poverty and the soaring fortunes of a few.
Africa had no billionaires in 2000, but now it has 23 with an estimated shared wealth that has rocketed by 56 per cent in the last five years, with the richest recording even bigger gains, Oxfam said.
Here’s a story you won’t see the mainstream media cover, ever: the white African farmers once demonized and stripped of their land and livelihoods under Robert Mugabe’s Marxist dictatorship in Zimbabwe didn’t just vanish into thin air. These fighters packed up, crossed the border, and rebuilt. And guess what? They’re doing amazing.
With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.
TUMU, Ghana — In the space of just a few months, the al-Qaeda affiliate has overrun major cities in Burkina Faso and Mali, carried out the deadliest-ever attack on soldiers in Benin and expanded its hard-line Islamist rule across the region. No one knows when its fighters will strike next — or where they plan to stop.
After years spent quietly gaining strength, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is now the most well-armed militant force in West Africa and among the most powerful in the world, according to regional and Western officials, with as many as 6,000 fighters under its command. Local strategies employed to combat JNIM are accelerating its rise, officials and experts say, as atrocities by West African forces have allowed the group to claim the moral high ground and legitimize its growing authority.
A Canadian diplomat who was held captive by al-Qaida terrorists in the Sahara Desert for 130 days says Canada’s promised boost to defence should include commitments to combatting the growing Islamic terrorism threat in Africa — a threat he says isn’t getting the attention it deserves.
Robert Fowler says it would take “a very large and serious effort to eradicate” the groups that have taken root in West Africa’s Sahel region — particularly Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali — and that U.S. military officials say are fighting to gain access to the western coast, which would increase their ability to attack North America.
“Canada” will not do anything to offend the LPC’s Muslim vote bloc. It’s a waste of time to even have this sort of conversation given Canada is not a serious nation.
Jihadists are murdering, raping, torturing, kidnapping, enslaving, and, in some instances, burning people alive — across Africa, and now in Syria. Recent videos posted on X show that Syrian Islamists are doing to Alawites what Hamas did to Jews living near Gaza. Christians, Druze and Yazidis in Syria — like their non-Muslim or non-Arabized counterparts in Africa— fear they may be next.
European defence hawks and African public health experts are not known for speaking the same language, but in recent weeks Donald Trump has forced them to take the same line.
Just as Europe has realised it must stand on its own and pay up to defend itself without American muscle, African countries are realising they cannot rely on US generosity to provide health care to their people.
Steep aid cuts from some of the world’s biggest donors, particularly America, are blowing holes in African health budgets as Washington, London, Paris and others slash their assistance spending.
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Ian Lee on CBC this AM, watch all of this!
“Trump is the symptom of our problems. I know most Canadians, starting with our national leadership say Trump is our problem.”
“Trump has exposed fundamental problems in our economy of rapid declines in productivity.”
“We’re avoiding… pic.twitter.com/KnBO1rGwX0
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) March 28, 2025
OTTAWA – A Liberal MP who has long advocated for closer ties with Africa fears her government is on the verge of releasing an Africa strategy with no significant spending attached, years after the government promised a plan.
Ontario MP Arielle Kayabaga has helped the government craft its Africa strategy since it announced a plan was in the works in early 2022.
4 Billion wasn’t enough???
Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly says Canada sent $4 billion to dictators in Africa and uses it as an opportunity to take a shot at America.
“Contrary to certain countries, we believe that international aid is important”
She certainly doesn’t speak for me, I don’t want… pic.twitter.com/7Ssgk4JAAD
— Bret (@Bret_Sears) February 18, 2025
The media won’t tell you this, but here’s the REAL reason @JoeBiden is in Africa. He’s building rail lines that connect mines so African kids can dig up the minerals we need for the Green New Deal. All so we can have windmills that pockmark our coastlines and subsidize electric… pic.twitter.com/Aequ25QgzI
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) December 4, 2024
While much of the world media and human rights groups are fixated on the war being waged on Israel by Iran and its Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthi proxies, Islamic jihadist terrorists continue to ravage Africa.
JOHANNESBURG—China has started to build factories across Africa to manufacture electric vehicles, a strategy market analysts say will likely flood the world with cheap EVs and allow Chinese companies to dominate the global automobile industry far into the future.
Automakers under the communist regime are already benefiting from huge subsidies, resulting in dramatic increases in production and allowing China to severely undercut prices of EVs made elsewhere, including in the United States.
One study shows Beijing has given China’s EV manufacturers at least $231 billion in state aid over 15 years, from 2009 until the end of 2023.
Six African cities will have more than 10 million people by 2035, with the continent’s booming young population making it the world’s fastest urbanising region, according to a report.
Angola’s capital, Luanda, and Tanzania’s commercial hub, Dar es Salaam, will join the metropolises of Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos and Greater Johannesburg with populations of more than 10 million, the Economist Intelligence Unit said in a report on African cities.
