GALLOWAY HAILS AFRICAN STREAM

Who stands to gain from the rise of terrorism in Africa, and who funds the radical factions wreaking havoc across the continent?

In this recent clip, British politician and commentator George Galloway praised African Stream for providing crucial perspectives that Western media deliberately suppress. Ahmed Kaballo, African Stream's founder and CEO, recently laid out how so-called 'global war on t*rror' narratives mask deeper imperial agendas in an insightful video report titled, 'How the West Supports Islamist Extremist Groups.'

In this clip, Galloway pointed to the deliberate failure of Western media to comprehensively cover Ukraine's backing of separatist rebels in northern Mali, who attacked a group of Malian soldiers and their Russian Wagner Group allies in 2024. The Battle of Tinzaouaten k*lled 47 Malian soldiers and 84 Wagner fighters. 

The surge in trrorism and the increasing US military presence in Africa have only worsened instability. A January 2024 report by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a research body linked to the Pentagon, revealed that trrorism in Africa has skyrocketed by an astonishing 100,000 per cent since the onset of the US-led 'War on Terror.'

In 2002-03, only nine t*rror incidents occurred, resulting in 23 deaths. However, two decades later, the situation had exponentially worsened, with fatalities exceeding 20,000, as noted by Responsible Statecraft, an online publication by the US-based think tank Quincy Institute.

Is it merely a coincidence that the rise in violent extremism in Africa coincided with an increased US military footprint on the continent?

It's worth remembering while we've garnered respect from Galloway, we've also caught the eye of imperialists like former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who accused us in September 2024 of spreading Kremlin propaganda, resulting in social media companies deplatforming us. However, we press on, so stay tuned for more Pan-Africanist content!

Video credit: @georgegallowayofficial (IG)

Sources

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2024/08/05/mali-cuts-ukraine-ties-after-wagner-ambush

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/africa-terrorism

https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/the-unfinished-history-between-america-and-the-muslim-brotherhood

https://africacenter.org/spotlight/mig2024-deaths-militant-islamist-violence-africa-rise