Saturday, October 24, 2026

BAP: U.S. Hands off Mali, U.S. Hands off the AES, U.S. Out of Africa, and Shut Down AFRICOM

A Black Alliance for Peace webinar October 25th at 11am: 


Popular Uprisings in France:  Towards the Disintegration of the Axis of Domination? – Report from the Frontlines


"An underreported reality that this webinar will expose is the role that African, Arab, and Muslim students from the suburbs of Paris and colonized /overseas' territories played in sparking the uprising in France and the weaponization of this fact by the right-wing in France and across Europe in order to build support for a Europe-wide racist campaign of ethnic cleansing.


The North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights invites you to a webinar featuring a report from the frontlines.  


Join the conversation to deconstruct the realities of the popular uprising in France and its implications for Europe and the global struggle for radical People(s)-Centered Human Rights and Social Justice." –


us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/aQFtqyebR6-bQlu3v50K9g#/registration

 


Not in much of an order –



ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-heart-of-the-f90


isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/ukrainian-drone-teams-reported-in


thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-trying-to-sabotage-the most successful decolonial project in Africa, why?


rt-english.com/africa/647125-us-boulos-plan-risks-splitting-sudan/


www.rt.com/africa/623165-france-confirms-identity-national-arrested-mali-coup-plot/


www.rt.com/africa/632046-neo-colonial-operations-of-paris/


www.rt.com/africa/644249-mali-pardons-french-national-convicted-coup-plot/


www.rt.com/africa/613396-africa-close-fren%D1%81h-military-bases/


www.rt.com/africa/618737-sahel-alliance-freedom-fight/


jeremykuzmarov.substack.com/p/the-cia-and-mossad-helped-bring-idi


www.kitklarenberg.com/p/ukraines-secret-al-qaeda-invasion


www.rt.com/africa/639115-mali-terrorist-attack-western-involvement/


diario-octubre.com/2026/06/23/ataques-terroristas-en-mali-y-la-desestabilizacion-imperialista-del-sahel/


May 4, 2026 – "Islamist offensive tacitly backed by Paris shakes Mali" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/05/scwl-m05


"Mali’s defense minister killed in suspected Western-backed terrorist coup attempt – Russian forces helped Bamako repel coordinated militant raids on key cities and military sites" – www.rt.com/africa/639133-mali-defense-minister-killed/ \


General Sadio Camara (March 22, 1979 – April 25, 2026, both in Kati, Koulikoro Region, Mali) – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadio_Camara 


ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/sahel-alliance-inflicts-defeat-on 


www.dropsitenews.com/p/mali-attacks-jnim-tuareg-france-bamako-kati-kidal


www.rt.com/africa/639146-over-200-terrorists-neutralized-mali/


www.rt.com/africa/639209-terrorists-attempted-mali-military-government-overthrow/


www.rt.com/africa/639292-malian-forces-regain-control-strategic-city/


www.rt.com/africa/639455-mali-leader-takes-defense-ministry-role/


www.rt.com/africa/639980-why-young-africa-rejects-france-rebranding/


www.rt.com/africa/640575-struggle-for-sovereignty-not-complete/


June 19, 2026 – Dozens die in Niger airport attack – www.rt.com/africa/641819-dozens-die-niger-airport-militant-attack/


October 14, 2021 – "Malian president accuses Paris of secretly arming terrorist groups to provoke war" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/14/mali-o14.html


September 19, 2023 – "Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso form alliance against French invasion threat" –www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/20/oqeb-s20.html


www.rt.com/africa/642252-burkina-faso-france-diplomatic-relations/


mpr21.info/burkina-faso-rompe-relaciones-diplomaticas-con-francia-y-denuncia-sus-pretensiones-neocoloniales/


mpr21.info/la-fiscalia-militar-de-mali-investiga-las-complicidades-internas-del-levantamiento/


mpr21.info/el-presidente-argelino-tiende-la-mano-a-mali/


diario-octubre.com/2026/06/26/niger-abandona-oficialmente-el-tribunal-penal-internacional/


diario-octubre.com/2026/06/08/las-motos-como-armas-de-guerra-en-el-sahel/


diario-octubre.com/2026/05/23/niger-asume-el-control-total-de-la-extraccion-de-uranio/


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi 


www.rt.com/africa/606790-gaddafi-died-leader-libya


www.rt.com/africa/582981-un-libya-flood-deaths-comment


/www.rt.com/africa/583462-libya-flood-nato-bombing/


www.rt.com/africa/589579-libya-gaddafi-nato-occupation/


www.rt.com/africa/594471-nato-libya-muammar-gaddafi/


www.rt.com/africa/603205-nato-denies-killing-civilians-libya/


May 7th:  blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/attack-mali-aes


durhamspark.blogspot.com/search/label/Sahel



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_Sahel_States


JNIM – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jama%27at_Nusrat_al-Islam_wal-Muslimin


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azawad_Liberation_Front


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azawad




Originally posted, September 16th, at:  blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/hands-off-aes 



The Culprit of the Attack on the Transition Government in Mali & the AES is NATO Imperialism


It is with grave concern that the Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team (BAP) and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) view the latest maneuvers by the U.S. against Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, countries that form the anti-imperialist Alliance of Sahel States (AES).


Over the last three months, the Trump administration has declared they are considering a drone strike campaign in Mali to target the terrorist organization JNIM without the consent of that sovereign country. U.S. Congressman James P. McGovern has called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to impose sanctions on Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, and U.S. Congressman Jimmy Panetta has introduced the bipartisan legislation “Mali Security Partnership and Counterterrorism Act” as ostensibly “counterterrorism” measures in Mali and the AES.


Regardless of what guise U.S. policymakers drape over their interventive policies toward the AES countries, they are merely a pretext to regain neo-colonial control over those countries, seize their minerals and markets for finance capital, and dictate their political direction. The U.S. is an imperialist settler state that has utterly no regard for the lives of poor and working class people of the Global South. As a spawn of Western Europe, it only sees Africa as a host for its parasitic role in the global economy. Any attempt of the host to shrug off the parasite is deemed a threat. They are incapable of recognizing the rights to sovereignty and self-determination.


Any concerns the U.S. professes to have about terrorism in Africa are wholly without merit and must be discredited. The U.S. government is directly culpable for the spread of terrorism across Africa that it now professes to be fighting. Their 2011 destruction of the state of Libya made it possible for their proxy terrorist forces to infiltrate the armory of that country, feeding the terrorism that has extended across the Sahel.


African people in the U.S., African people around the world, and all of global humanity should beware that the latest U.S. posture and maneuvers toward Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are pretexts to eventually attack the Alliance of Sahel States. The allegiance that the Congressional Black Caucus pledges to the settler imperialist flag prohibits them from contesting the U.S. threat to Mali and the AES, a beacon of hope in Africa, and instead beholdens them to give cover for inhumane atrocities such as the Zionist genocide in Gaza, Palestine.


The BAP Africa Team and USOAN say it is time for a sustained international people’s defense of the Alliance of Sahel States against the diabolic agenda of U.S. imperialism. We would do well to remember the international outcry in defense of Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré in spring 2025 after an attempted demonization by AFRICOM Commander Michael Langley as he testified to his master — the Senate Armed Services Committee.  Unfortunately, that defense of Traoré was a fleeting response limited to a highly regarded personality that couldn’t be turned into a sustained movement to embrace the entire AES.  


Next month’s 6th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM must serve as a catalyst for a protracted, encompassing movement in defense of the AES. This year’s theme is “Oppression Breeds Resistance: Escalations in the Perpetual War on Africa and The Struggles Against it.”


The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network call on all forces against U.S. intervention and for the sovereignty and self-determination of African countries to remain alert to the overt and covert agenda against the AES countries. Stand ready to oppose and expose the manufacturing of consent to an attack on the AES. Demand the expulsion of AFRICOM from the continent!  Ensure that no African nation suffers the fate that befell Libya in 2011!


U.S. Imperialism Out of Africa!


RELEVANT RESOURCES:


Now is the Time for All Anti-Imperialists and Justice Loving People to Stand Unequivocally in Defense of Burkina Faso - May 5, 2025

Black Alliance for Peace’s U.S. Out of Africa Network Deplores Plans to Expand U.S. Drone Atrocities in West Africa - February 5, 2024

All Africans Should Condemn the Call for an ECOWAS-led Military Invasion of Niger - August 7, 2023


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