Comprador Repression in Kenya: Kenyan government offers Red carpet for colonizers and a bloody nose for Anti-Imperialists

Kenyan government offers Red carpet for colonizers and a bloody nose for Anti-Imperialists

The Kenyan state has demonstrated a consistent and brutal willingness to deploy state terror against organized political dissent, targeting revolutionary leaders, working-class organizers, and anti-colonial voices with impunity. Past cases have laid bare the state’s methods: the violent abduction, torture, and illegal detention of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya, followed by the grotesque inversion of reality in which the victim of state torture was framed with fabricated assault charges. Today, as French President Emmanuel Macron co-hosts the France Africa  Summit, rebranded as "Africa Forward 2026" in Nairobi with President William Ruto—announcing €23 billion in “investments” while seeking a permanent French military presence—the Ruto regime has exposed its true character as a neocolonial and comprador administration acting in defence of imperialist interests against the democratic rights of the people. 

The regime has chosen to criminalise anti-imperialist solidarity while rolling out the red carpet for foreign exploiters and agents of monopoly capital. Among those arrested in the ongoing crackdown are distinguished anti-imperialist and revolutionary activists, intellectuals, and organisers from across the globe. Their only crime is standing with the oppressed. Their only crime is rejecting imperialist domination. Their only crime is declaring that Africa is not for sale.

The arrest of international delegates, who were in Kenya for the Pan-African Summit Against Imperialism, a parallel counter summit,  further demonstrates the growing panic and hypocrisy within imperialist and comprador circles who on one hand claim a “Pan-African Mandate” to send  its police forces as the Black faces of white supremacy in the U.S.-led occupation of Haiti and in another, physically attack international Pan-African delegates on its own soil. The source of this contradiction? They fear the unity of revolutionary and progressive forces across continents, international solidarity against imperialism, they fear a politically conscious people. But repression has never defeated the people’s struggle. Colonial detention camps did not defeat the liberation movement. Moi’s anti-communist repression did not defeat the struggle for democratic rights. Fascist laws and police terror will not silence the masses today.

The independence of Africa is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of the continent from imperialism and neocolonialism. The Communist Party Marxist Kenya and the Black Alliance for Peace therefore demand:

1) The immediate and unconditional release of all arrested comrades

2) An end to police harassment, abductions, and repression against activists, organisers, and progressive movements

3) The immediate halt to all imperialist military, political, and economic agreements being imposed upon Kenya and Africa

4) Respect for the democratic rights of all participants attending anti-imperialist and Pan-African gatherings.

In line with the Black Alliance for Peace's "U.S. and NATO Out of Africa" campaign, we further demand the closure of all foreign military bases on the continent, an end to AFRICOM and its proxy operations, and the full withdrawal of U.S., French, and NATO forces from African soil—from Kenya to Haiti, no more occupations under any banner. The struggle against imperialism is international, and no amount of repression shall defeat the organised masses of the people.

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El gobierno keniano ofrece alfombra roja a los colonizadores y una dura reprimenda a los antiimperialistas.

El Estado keniano ha demostrado una voluntad constante y brutal de emplear el terror de Estado contra la disidencia política organizada, atacando con impunidad a líderes revolucionarios, organizadores de la clase trabajadora y voces anticoloniales. Casos anteriores han puesto al descubierto los métodos del Estado: el secuestro violento, la tortura y la detención ilegal del camarada Booker Ngesa Omole, secretario general del Partido Comunista Marxista de Kenia, seguidos de la grotesca inversión de la realidad en la que la víctima de la tortura estatal fue acusada falsamente de agresión. Hoy, mientras el presidente francés Emmanuel Macron copreside la Cumbre Francia-África, rebautizada como "África Adelante 2026", en Nairobi con el presidente William Ruto —anunciando 23.000 millones de euros en "inversiones" y buscando una presencia militar francesa permanente—, el régimen de Ruto ha revelado su verdadera naturaleza como una administración neocolonial y compradora que actúa en defensa de los intereses imperialistas contra los derechos democráticos del pueblo.

El régimen ha optado por criminalizar la solidaridad antiimperialista mientras extiende la alfombra roja a los explotadores extranjeros y agentes del capital monopolista. Entre los arrestados en la represión actual se encuentran destacados activistas, intelectuales y organizadores antiimperialistas y revolucionarios de todo el mundo. Su único delito es solidarizarse con los oprimidos. Su único delito es rechazar la dominación imperialista. Su único delito es declarar que África no está en venta.

La detención de delegados internacionales, que se encontraban en Kenia para la Cumbre Panafricana contra el Imperialismo, una cumbre paralela, evidencia aún más el creciente pánico y la hipocresía dentro de los círculos imperialistas y compradores que, por un lado, reclaman un “mandato panafricano” para enviar a sus fuerzas policiales como la cara negra de la supremacía blanca en la ocupación de Haití liderada por Estados Unidos y, por otro, atacan físicamente a delegados panafricanos internacionales en su propio territorio. ¿Cuál es la raíz de esta contradicción? Temen la unidad de las fuerzas revolucionarias y progresistas de todos los continentes, la solidaridad internacional contra el imperialismo, temen a un pueblo políticamente consciente. Pero la represión jamás ha vencido la lucha popular. Los campos de detención coloniales no vencieron al movimiento de liberación. La represión anticomunista de Moi no venció la lucha por los derechos democráticos. Las leyes fascistas y el terror policial no silenciarán a las masas hoy.

La independencia de África carece de sentido a menos que esté vinculada a la liberación total del continente del imperialismo y el neocolonialismo. Por lo tanto, el Partido Comunista Marxista de Kenia y la Alianza Negra por la Paz exigen:

1) La liberación inmediata e incondicional de todos los compañeros detenidos.

2) Poner fin al acoso policial, los secuestros y la represión contra activistas, organizadores y movimientos progresistas.

3) El cese inmediato de todos los acuerdos militares, políticos y económicos imperialistas que se imponen a Kenia y África.

4) Respeto por los derechos democráticos de todos los participantes que asistan a encuentros antiimperialistas y panafricanistas.

En consonancia con la campaña de la Alianza Negra por la Paz “«Fuera EE. UU. y la OTAN de África”, exigimos además el cierre de todas las bases militares extranjeras en el continente, el fin de AFRICOM y sus operaciones interpuestas, y la retirada total de las fuerzas estadounidenses, francesas y de la OTAN de territorio africano, desde Kenia hasta Haití; no más ocupaciones bajo ninguna bandera. La lucha contra el imperialismo es internacional, y ninguna represión logrará doblegar a las masas organizadas del pueblo.

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

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

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns the imperialist-backed terrorist and separatist attacks against the Transition Government of Mali on April 25, 2026. This was a major attack that terrorized the population in several towns, resulting in casualties, among whom the minister of defense, General Sadio Camara, his wife, and grandchildren were killed. The Black Alliance for Peace offers our condolences to the family and comrades in the Malian transition government, as well as the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). 

Consistent with our principles, BAP stands in unity with all anti-imperialist fighting forces. We therefore stand in solidarity with the transition government of Mali, as well as the AES generally, which have been at the forefront of fighting imperialist forces in Africa. In this case, imperialism in the form of its former colonizer and NATO member, France, was reportedly providing intelligence to the terrorists even four years ago. We also add its opportunistic partner, Ukraine, which admitted only two years ago to supplying heavy weaponry in the form of drones to proxy terrorist forces JNIM and FLA as a counter to Russian forces contracted by the Malian government to help them in this battle.

We will not be silent while the forces actually responsible for the symptoms of terrorism in Africa posture as the remedy for it. The prevalence of terrorism in Africa was born from NATO’s destruction of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 2011, a vile crime against humanity that unleashed and scattered the reactionary terrorist forces across the Sahel and beyond. The Western world’s continued neocolonial plunder of Africa depends on keeping the continent destabilized. Because no truly liberated people would tolerate the paternalistic, militarist, extractive relationship that is the mission of NATO and its member countries.

The transition government of Mali has forced the French out, accusing them of assisting the terrorists. We are convinced -- based on history -- that France has not totally discontinued their efforts to destabilize and balkanize Mali and the AES by proxy in order to continue its long history of colonial domination and exploitation. The numerous assassination and coup attempts against Ibrahim Traore in Burkina Faso originating from the Ivory Coast are a testament to this. Ivory Coast has been one of France’s primary proxies in Africa since the days of Houphet Boigny, who was famously called the French traveling salesman by Frantz Fanon.

BAP understands that Africa will only be sovereign and free when it is able to develop a path reflective of a People’s Centered Human Rights. This requires freeing itself from the imperialist hybrid war perpetrated by NATO, AFRICOM, IMF/World Bank forces, and their neocolonial proxies. 

BAP’s Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network Endorse and Support the Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa April 24–26, 2026

BAP’s Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network Endorse and Support the Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa April 24–26, 2026

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network stand in full support of the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa’s Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa, taking place April 24–26, 2026.

We call on all anti-imperialist, Pan-Africanist, pro-Palestine, and peace-loving organizations and individuals to use this weekend to expose and oppose the expanding Zionist and “Israeli” role on the African continent and its links to the broader architecture of U.S.-led imperialism.

The political basis for this action is clear. The Zionist entity is not an isolated state pursuing narrow regional interests. It is a colonial and imperial project that has functioned for decades as a strategic outpost of Western domination. Its genocide against the Palestinian people is inseparable from its role in Africa, where it has armed reactionary forces, deepened surveillance and repression, strengthened neocolonial regimes, extracted resources, and helped consolidate the political and military infrastructure of imperial control.

For African people, this is not an abstract question of foreign policy. It is a matter of sovereignty, self-determination, and liberation.

From military and intelligence cooperation with comprador regimes, to spyware and cyber-surveillance targeting organizers and movements, to the ideological warfare of Christian Zionism and the deepening of sectarian divisions, the Zionist entity has worked hand in glove with U.S. and European imperialism to undermine African liberation. “Israeli” penetration of Africa is one more mechanism through which the U.S./EU/NATO axis of domination seeks to maintain neocolonial control of the continent.

That is why the struggle against Zionism in Africa is inseparable from the struggle to shut down AFRICOM and defeat the broader war on African people.

The forces arming and funding genocide in Palestine are the same forces that destabilize the Sahel, occupy Haiti, surveil and repress African people in the diaspora, and militarize the African continent under the fraudulent banner of “security cooperation.” Their role extends across multiple fronts on the continent, including support for militarized arrangements and proxy dynamics in places like Sudan, the Horn of Africa, including the destabilizing implications of “Israel’s” recognition of  Somaliland, and resource-driven conflicts in the Congo. These interventions have contributed to mass displacement, mass death, and deepening humanitarian crises affecting millions. The underlying logic is consistent with what we are witnessing in Palestine and Lebanon: a system that governs through force, dispossession, and the devaluation of human life. “Israel’s” role in Africa strengthens the same imperial system that treats African land, labor, and life as disposable.

The Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa provides an important opportunity to deepen political consciousness, strengthen solidarity between African and Palestinian liberation struggles, and demand that African states sever all diplomatic, military, and intelligence ties with the Zionist entity.

We encourage organizations and communities to participate in ways that reflect their local conditions and capacities. 

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network affirm that African liberation requires opposition to all forms of imperial domination, including Zionism and its presence on the continent. Palestine and Africa share a common enemy and common objectives: true sovereignty and emancipation from the violence of Western imperialism. Our solidarity must therefore be political, strategic, and uncompromising.

No Compromise. No Retreat.

BAP Condemns Kidnapping and Torture of Kenyan Revolutionary Leader

BAP Condemns Kidnapping and Torture of Kenyan Revolutionary Leader

By: Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network stand in revolutionary solidarity with our Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K), and we demand his immediate release, access to emergency medical care, and the immediate withdrawal of all fabricated charges against him.

As of this writing, we have learned that Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole was violently abducted and tortured on the evening of February 23rd and is being held at Mlolongo Police Station. He was scheduled to appear in court on February 26th, where the state intends to charge him with assault, a grotesque and cynical inversion of reality in which the victim of state torture is accused of being the aggressor. We are monitoring the outcome of that hearing and await further reporting from our comrades on the ground in Kenya.

Comrade Omole was beaten severely. He was tortured throughout the night. His tooth was broken. His finger was cut with a pen knife. He was brutalized to near death by officers of the Kenya Police Service. To charge him with assault is a continuation of the torture by other means. It is the state attempting to give its criminal violence the veneer of legality.

The physical assaults and denial of medical care are crimes. The Kenyan state is known for its willingness to commit acts of brutality and we have no doubt that it is willing to let Comrade Omale die in custody from his injuries. The international community must act now to prevent another state murder disguised as “detention.”

Comrade Omole is being targeted because he is a leader of the organized working class. He was abducted, tortured, and now framed because he represents a threat to a neocolonial system that cannot tolerate revolutionary ideas. Because the Kenyan state, with the backing of its U.S. and European imperial masters, has decided that the price of resisting exploitation is state terror.

This is the same Kenyan state that has volunteered its police forces to serve as the Black face of white supremacy in the U.S.-led occupation of Haiti. This is the same state that receives millions in military and police aid from the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and the U.S. Department of State. The guns, the training, the ideology of repression, all of it flows from the empire to its local enforcers.

Free Booker Ngesa Omole Now!
Medical Care Now!
Drop the Bogus Charges!
U.S. Out of Africa! Shut Down AFRICOM!
No Compromise, No Retreat!

BAP Africa Team Condemns the Israeli/U.S. Effort to Destabilize Somalia with the Recognition of Somaliland

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team Condemns the Israeli/U.S. Effort to Destabilize Somalia with the Recognition of Somaliland

January 5, 2026 - The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) Africa Team declares that Israel’s recognition of the Somaliland region of Somalia as an independent state is a clear attack on that nation’s sovereignty, but also on all of Africa. Not only has Somalia vehemently objected to this interference in its affairs and to the clear violation of international law, but the African Union has also voiced unequivocal condemnation. As always, Israel works hand in hand with the United States. This Israeli action, like all others, is conducted in full cooperation with Washington. 

Somalia, located strategically in the Horn of Africa, has been under U.S. assault for decades, with a succession of U.S. presidents destabilizing that country under the guise of fighting a “war on terror.” The first Trump administration continued the drone strikes of its predecessors, but carried out more than Bush, Obama, and Biden combined. In 2025 the second Trump regime conducted more than 100 attacks, again an outlier as compared to other administrations.

The military attacks and Israel’s recognition of Somaliland were coordinated with racist demonization of the Somali population in the United States, whose presence is the result of decades of U.S. violence against their homeland and the displacement of thousands of people. Trump’s racist invective against congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and denunciation of all Somalis as “garbage” were not coincidental to Israel’s recognition of Somaliland.

Israel’s goal is to gain a foothold in the Horn of Africa on the Bab-al-Mandeb strait bordering Yemen and the Ansar Allah forces who have succeeded in waging attacks on Israel. In addition, Israeli officials have expressed a desire to remove Palestinians from Gaza and send them to Somaliland. Currently, they are denying these past statements due to international condemnation, but no one should believe they have suddenly rejected what they have long sought.

Apartheid Israel is a global pariah whose leaders have escaped judgment from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The U.S. and Israel concocted a phony ceasefire that allows the Gaza genocide to continue under the cover of approval from a world community unwilling to fight against U.S. hegemony and its war crimes. There is no nation less qualified to make decisions about others’ legitimacy than Israel.

The people of all Somalia, including in Somaliland, have protested this aggressive intrusion into their affairs. There is no support for this move outside of Washington, Tel Aviv, and puppets such as those in Taiwan who ally themselves with the U.S. against their government in Beijing.

If successful, Israel’s action will destabilize the entire Horn of Africa, incite long-standing grievances within fractured Somali society, which is governed by a comprador state, and continue the destabilization of that country. Israel’s ally the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has brought about the destruction of Sudan and given zionists and their allies dangerous influence in the region. The existence of an Israeli puppet state would be a threat to millions of people in Somaliland and one more weapon used against a continent which still struggles for self-determination.

The BAP Africa Team amplifies the work of the U.S. Out of Africa Shutdown AFRICOM campaign and calls for the end of all U.S./NATO/Israeli interference in the affairs of African peoples. The US Out of Africa Network (USOAN) is the campaign organizing arm and an active mobilization space for anti-imperialist forces. The Black Alliance for Peace is firm in its opposition to a U.S./Israeli created entity carved out of a sovereign nation.

Israel Out of Africa!
U.S. Out of Africa!
Shut Down AFRICOM!

Banner photo: Somalia representative to the UN, Abukar Dahir Osman.

Don’t Believe The Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau

Don’t Believe The Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau

BAP’s U.S. Out of African Network & Africa Team co-sign the positions of our comrade, member organizations A-APRP & PAIGC

It is important that African (Black) people around the world not fall for the latest amateurish attempt by the neo-colonialist puppet government in Guinea-Bissau, led by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, to subvert the democratic will of the Bissau-Guinean people. Before completing the country’s November 23rd election process, military leaders loyal to Embaló suspended it and seized “total control” of the country, claiming to have done so to prevent election manipulation.

The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unite with the assessments and positions of our member organization, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), and the African Party of Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) that holds representation on the USOAN Steering Committee:

“Upon completion of voting, official reports to the Regional Electoral Commissions (CRE) from the 10 Regions indicate that Fernando Dias da Costa won the election with a confirmed vote tally of 54%, while Embaló Sissoco, the illegitimate president seeking re-election, garnered 44% of the vote.”

This declaration was backed up by both domestic and international observers who reportedly agreed that Embaló was voted out of the presidency and that the National Electoral Commission (CNE) was about to publish the results that opposition candidate Fernando Dias won.

Embaló then claimed that he was arrested by the military, yet was still able to make the declaration in interviews with media outlets RFI, France 24 and Jeune Afrique. Meanwhile, the armed forces installed as the new head of state one of Sissoco Embaló’s own appointees, Major General Horta Inta-A. Embaló was able to leave for Dakar, Senegal, and then on to Congo Brazzaville, while his opponents were held in custody. On November 29th, armed masked men raided the headquarters of the PAIGC.

As far as BAP and USOAN are concerned, the Umaro Sissoco Embaló government was already an illegitimate one, having circumvented the 2023 electoral victory of PAIGC candidate Domingos Simões Pereira. In February of 2024, BAP mobilized a demonstration on the African Union (AU) Representational Mission to the USA in Washington, DC to protest the acquiescence of this crime by the AU and bodies such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations.

BAP is under no illusions that a people(s)-centered democratic process for Guinea-Bissau in particular and Africa in general spells the beginning of the end for Western plunder of the continent. The ex-president of Guinea-Bissau was one of five “Atlantic-facing West African” nations hosted last July by U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-level summit in Washington.  Guinea-Bissau forces have participated in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) led training programs beginning in 2023 and signed a defense cooperation agreement with Washington that same year, providing a legal framework for training, military assistance, and so-called security collaboration.

It must be perfectly understood that the neo-colonialist repression in Guinea-Bissau emanates from the same general policy as the U.S. war on Venezuela, the zionist genocide against Palestine, or the militarized domestic repression of African and non-white communities within the bowels of the U.S settler colonialist state.

The Trump administration's closure of Venezuela’s airspace is essentially a “no-fly zone," a standard imperialist precursor to an outright military attack on a country. BAP and the USOAN understand that the masses must not simply be spectators of these acts. From the streets of all the major cities in the U.S. to Palestine, throughout Latin America/Caribbean, war is being waged on us! It is in the interest of imperialism to dismantle Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolutionary project, just as it is in its interest to prevent a PAIGC-led revolutionary process in Guinea-Bissau. 

We demand:

1. The immediate release of Domingos Simões Pereira and all citizens who have been illegally detained;

2. The cessation of military hostility and harm to the people. HARM NO ONE!

3. That all military troops return to the barracks and cede civilian control;

4. That the electoral process be allowed to go forward with the official proclamation of the vote count and announcement of the winners of the presidential elections of 23 November 2025.

No compromise! No retreat!

BAP Africa Team & U.S. Out of Africa Network

BAP SOURCES:

• Urgent Message: Military Attempting To Stop Electoral Process In Guinea-Bissau, November 27, 2025

• Open Peoples National Assembly (ANP) in Guinea-Bissau, Monday, February 26, 2024

• Attack on Democracy in Guinea-Bissau, The House of African Independence (webinar video),  January 4, 2024

• AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #22, February 25, 2021

NEWS STORIES:

Guinea-Bissau: Manufactured coup or real military takeover? | The Africa Report

Pan-African Progressive Front’s commemoration of 80 years of the historic 5th Pan-African Congress | People’s Dispatch

Guinea-Bissau: A coup staged to protect the neocolonial order? | People’s Dispatch
Claiming to be under arrest, President Embaló has left the country while his opponents remain in custody after a military coup a day ahead of the announcement of the final results

Deposed Guinea-Bissau President Embaló arrives in neighboring Senegal as soldiers name junta leader | Associated Press (AP)

Image: Patrick MEINHARDT / AFP

Exporting Repression: Haitians And Kenyans Are Both Fighting Neo-colonial Representatives of U.S.-led Imperialism

Exporting Repression: Haitians And Kenyans Are Both Fighting Neo-colonial Representatives of U.S.-led Imperialism

Since 2021, the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team has tracked the deepening crisis of imperialism in Haiti, in particular how imperialist forces and neocolonial puppets have worked to suppress and eliminate the organizing of popular movements and the will of the Haitian people. Over the last four years, this crisis has impacted nations around the globe, in particular Kenya. 

This summer marks the one-year anniversary of Kenya’s youth-led uprising against the IMF-backed Finance Bill of 2024. Instead of reckoning with the demands of a generation that has endured skyrocketing inflation, police violence, and mass unemployment, President William Ruto has once again unleashed the full force of state repression. Live ammunition, abductions, and curfews have become routine tactics to crush dissent and left at least 50 protesters dead. As BAP’s Africa Team stated last week, these protests are not isolated and reflect a broader generational rejection of IMF-dictated austerity and repressive consolidation by neocolonial governance. 

Thousands of miles away in revolutionary Haiti, Kenyan boots are still on the ground. Following the July 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moïise and installment of Ariel Henry, by the Core Group, troops were dispatched under the so-called Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, which was renewed in October 2024 despite consistent opposition from civil society and popular movements throughout the Americas. These same violent police were sent to “restore order” in a country ravaged by decades of foreign intervention and neocolonial policies. The order that these forces represent is not one of peace, but of the continuation of imperialist domination and neocolonial subversion. The same regime that brutalizes its youth domestically claims to bring “security” to Haitians abroad.  These militarized responses do not provide security for the majority of people in Haiti or Kenya, but for the multinational corporations, imperialist bureaucrats, and neocolonial oligarchs and elites.

Neocolonialism in Haiti: Outsourcing Imperialist Occupation

The MSS has failed to curb violence, but not because it lacks force, but because it was never designed to resolve the root causes. Since the Kenya-led MSS mission was formally launched in 2024 under U.S. sponsorship, it has remained strategically vague, militarily ineffective, and politically illegitimate. As grassroots activists have recently shared, the MSS and their masters in the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) have not been publicizing their activities because the paramilitary armed groups they were dispatched to combat have only continued to gain ground in and outside of Port-au-Prince. This includes the towns of La Chapelle, Artibonite, and Lascaobas in the Centre department

This is not because the intervention isn’t strong enough, it is by design. The MSS’s presence functions as a placeholder for deeper U.S. reoccupation and a justification for the continual militarization of Haiti’s political crisis, which has been, and remains, a crisis of imperialism. The failures of the MSS showcase, not just the failure of foreign intervention to resolve the crisis in Haiti, but exposes these interventions as tools to keep Haiti trapped under a neocolonial subjugation.

Life, Culture, and Sovereignty Under Siege

Earlier this week, paramilitary armed groups set arson to Hotel Oloffson, a historic site in Port-au-Prince known for its significance to Haitian art, journalism, refuge, and resistance. This was not just an attack on infrastructure, but an assault on the cultural memory and political soul of Haiti. At the same time, government forces under the illegitimate Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) increase ‘kamikaze drone’ attacks that have already resulted in the murder of at least 300 people in poor and working class neighborhoods, under the justification of striking at “terrorist gangs”. Now with the agreement between the CPT and Erik Prince’s U.S.-backed mercenaries, the militarization and violence only promises to deepen. As violence spreads beyond Port-au-Prince, both lives and symbolic spaces of Haitian resistance are being engulfed in the imperialist-fueled violence.

However, this month has also brought signs of resistance and solidarity. On July 13, displaced residents from the neighborhood of Solino in Port-au-Prince mobilized in the streets to protest for their survival and against the oligarchs and neocolonial state that are destroying their lives and livelihoods. On July 6, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) sent a delegation to Haiti in a clear rejection of U.S.-backed intervention. The delegation, comprising representatives from Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina, denounced foreign interventionism and called for “respect for Haiti’s sovereignty, urging solutions based on mutual cooperation, not military occupation…Behind the violence, corruption, and food shortages, is the same United States imperialism that oppresses all the peoples of the Global South.”  

In stark contrast to Kenya’s role as a proxy enforcer for the U.S.-led Core Group politically and SOUTHCOM militarily, ALBA’s statement reframes possible solutions to the crisis in Haiti through regional solidarity, not Western mandates. This focus on solidarity is a core function of the development of the Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, which has as a primary objective ending military intervention into Haiti and supporting peoples-centered movements that emphasize self-determination and dignity for the Haitian masses.

As anti-imperialists in solidarity with the masses of Haitians and Kenyans, we must remain clear. Whether in Nairobi or Port-au-Prince, the playbook is the same: suppress resistance at home, legitimize occupation abroad. But today’s African youth are not confused. They see the global connections. The same forces imposing debt and repression in Kenya are funding foreign domination in Haiti. The violence is not an accident, it is the enforcement arm of a neocolonial system. As the MSS flounders in Haiti and Kenyan youth continue to rise against domestic repression, the crumbling empire behind both is in much clearer focus. 

The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with those surviving and resisting both of the comprador regimes in Kenya and Haiti as they collaborate with U.S.-led Western imperialism to oppress and exploit Africans in both nations.

Hands Off Haiti!

U.S. Out of Africa!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

References: 

Fighting Words, “Kenyan Police Attack Youth-Led Demonstrations Against Brutality”

Haitian Times, “Port-au-Prince mourns Hotel Oloffson, LGBTQ+ refuge and majestic landmark, lost to criminal fire”

HaitiLibre, “Haiti - Politic : ALBA stands in solidarity with Haiti faced with foreign interference”: 

TeleSUR English-Haiti, “Militant members of ALBA met with Haitian organizations to reaffirm solidarity”

Al Jazeera, ‘Kenya is not asleep anymore’: Why young protesters are not backing down

Banner photo: Kenya and Haiti sign agreement on the deployment of 1,000 police officers to the Multi-National Security Support Mission in Haiti

Exportando represión: Haitianos y kenianos luchan contra los representantes neocoloniales del imperialismo liderado por EE.UU.

Desde 2021, el equipo Haití/Américas de la Alianza Negra por la Paz ha documentado la profundización de la crisis del imperialismo en Haití, en particular cómo las fuerzas imperialistas y sus títeres neocoloniales han trabajado para suprimir y eliminar la organización de los movimientos populares y la voluntad del pueblo haitiano. En los últimos cuatro años, esta crisis ha impactado a naciones de todo el mundo, especialmente a Kenia.

Este verano se cumple un año del levantamiento liderado por la juventud keniana contra la Ley Financiera de 2024, respaldada por el FMI. En lugar de atender las demandas de una generación que ha sufrido una inflación descontrolada, violencia policial y desempleo masivo, el presidente William Ruto ha desatado una vez más toda la fuerza represiva del Estado. Balas reales, secuestros y toques de queda se han convertido en tácticas rutinarias para aplastar la disidencia, dejando al menos 50 manifestantes muertos. Como señaló el equipo de África de BAP la semana pasada, estas protestas no son aisladas, sino que reflejan un rechazo generacional más amplio a la austeridad impuesta por el FMI y a la consolidación represiva de un gobierno neocolonial.

A millas de distancia, en Haití revolucionaria, las botas kenianas siguen pisando su suelo. Tras el asesinato de Jovenel Moïse en julio de 2021 y la imposición de Ariel Henry por parte del Core Group, tropas fueron desplegadas bajo la misión denominada Apoyo Multinacional de Seguridad (MSS), renovada en octubre de 2024 pese a la oposición constante de la sociedad civil y los movimientos populares en las Américas. Los mismos policías violentos que reprimen en Kenia fueron enviados a "restablecer el orden" en un país devastado por décadas de intervención extranjera y políticas neocoloniales.

El "orden" que representan estas fuerzas no es el de la paz, sino el de la continuidad de la dominación imperialista y la subversión neocolonial. El mismo régimen que brutaliza a su juventud en casa ahora pretende llevar "seguridad" a los haitianos en el extranjero. Estas respuestas militarizadas no protegen a la mayoría del pueblo en Haití o Kenia, sino a las corporaciones multinacionales, los burócratas imperialistas y las oligarquías y élites neocoloniales.

Neocolonialismo en Haití: La externalización de la ocupación imperialista

La MSS no ha logrado frenar la violencia, pero no por falta de fuerza, sino porque nunca fue diseñada para resolver las causas profundas del conflicto. Desde que la misión liderada por Kenia se lanzó formalmente en 2024 bajo el patrocinio de EE.UU., ha sido estratégicamente ambigua, militarmente ineficaz y políticamente ilegítima.

Como han denunciado recientemente activistas de base, la MSS y sus amos del Comando Sur de EE.UU. (Southcom) ocultan sus actividades, pues los grupos paramilitares que supuestamente debían combatir no han hecho más que expandir su control dentro y fuera de Puerto Príncipe. Esto incluye localidades como La Chapelle, Artibonite y Lascaobas, en el departamento del Centro.

Esto no se debe a que la intervención sea "débil", sino que está planeado así. La presencia de la MSS funciona como un escalón para una reocupación estadounidense más profunda y como excusa para militarizar aún más la crisis política de Haití, que siempre ha sido —y sigue siendo— una crisis del imperialismo.

El fracaso de la MSS no solo demuestra la inutilidad de la intervención extranjera para resolver la crisis haitiana, sino que revela su verdadero propósito: mantener a Haití bajo un yugo neocolonial.

Vida, cultura y soberanía bajo asedio

A principios de esta semana, grupos armados paramilitares incendiaron el Hotel Oloffson, un sitio histórico en Puerto Príncipe conocido por su importancia para el arte, el periodismo, el refugio y la resistencia haitianos. Esto no fue solo un ataque a la infraestructura, sino un asalto a la memoria cultural y al alma política de Haití. Al mismo tiempo, las fuerzas gubernamentales bajo el ilegítimo Consejo Presidencial de Transición (CPT) intensifican los ataques con "drones kamikaze" que ya han resultado en el asesinato de al menos 300 personas en barrios pobres y de clase trabajadora, bajo la justificación de atacar a "pandillas terroristas". Ahora, con el acuerdo entre el CPT y los mercenarios respaldados por Estados Unidos de Erik Prince, la militarización y la violencia solo prometen profundizarse. A medida que la violencia se extiende más allá de Puerto Príncipe, tanto vidas como espacios simbólicos de resistencia haitiana están siendo consumidos por la violencia alimentada por el imperialismo.

Sin embargo, este mes también ha traído signos de resistencia y solidaridad. El 13 de julio, residentes desplazados del barrio de Solino en Puerto Príncipe se movilizaron en las calles para protestar por su supervivencia y contra los oligarcas y el estado neocolonial que están destruyendo sus vidas y medios de subsistencia. El 6 de julio, la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) envió una delegación a Haití en un claro rechazo a la intervención respaldada por Estados Unidos. La delegación, compuesta por representantes de Venezuela, Brasil y Argentina, denunció el intervencionismo extranjero y pidió "respeto a la soberanía de Haití, instando a soluciones basadas en la cooperación mutua, no en la ocupación militar... Detrás de la violencia, la corrupción y la escasez de alimentos, está el mismo imperialismo de Estados Unidos que oprime a todos los pueblos del Sur Global".

En marcado contraste con el papel de Kenia como ejecutor proxy del Core Group liderado por Estados Unidos políticamente y del Comando Sur militarmente, la declaración de ALBA replantea posibles soluciones a la crisis en Haití a través de la solidaridad regional, no de mandatos occidentales. Este enfoque en la solidaridad es una función central del desarrollo de la Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América, que tiene como objetivo principal terminar con la intervención militar en Haití y apoyar movimientos centrados en los pueblos que enfatizan la autodeterminación y la dignidad para las masas haitianas.

Como antiimperialistas en solidaridad con las masas de haitianos y kenianos, debemos mantenernos claros. Ya sea en Nairobi o en Puerto Príncipe, el manual es el mismo: suprimir la resistencia en casa, legitimar la ocupación en el extranjero. Pero la juventud africana de hoy no está confundida. Ellos ven las conexiones globales. Las mismas fuerzas que imponen deuda y represión en Kenia están financiando la dominación extranjera en Haití. La violencia no es un accidente, es el brazo ejecutor de un sistema neocolonial. Mientras la MSS fracasa en Haití y la juventud keniana sigue alzándose contra la represión doméstica, el imperio en decadencia detrás de ambos está mucho más claro.

La Alianza Negra por la Paz se solidariza con aquellos que sobreviven y resisten a ambos regímenes compradores en Kenia y Haití mientras colaboran con el imperialismo occidental liderado por Estados Unidos para oprimir y explotar a los africanos en ambas naciones.

¡Fuera las manos de Haití!

¡EE.UU. fuera de África!

¡Hagamos de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz!

References: 

Fighting Words, “Kenyan Police Attack Youth-Led Demonstrations Against Brutality”

Haitian Times, “Port-au-Prince mourns Hotel Oloffson, LGBTQ+ refuge and majestic landmark, lost to criminal fire”

HaitiLibre, “Haiti - Politic : ALBA stands in solidarity with Haiti faced with foreign interference”: 

TeleSUR English-Haiti, “Militant members of ALBA met with Haitian organizations to reaffirm solidarity”

Al Jazeera, ‘Kenya is not asleep anymore’: Why young protesters are not backing down

The Black Alliance for Peace Stands Unequivocally Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism and Neo-Liberalism

The Black Alliance for Peace Stands Unequivocally Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism and Neo-Liberalism

In June 2024, Kenya was racked by youth mobilizations, referred to as the Gen Z Movement protests, as that nation’s young people rose up against the neo-liberal austerity measures enacted by the U.S. lackey president William Ruto. In typical fashion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had demanded increased taxation and funding cuts to a country whose leadership has privileged the dictates of imperialism over its own people. Kenya’s police killed 60 people during those 2024 actions but the popular struggle resulted in the plans for taxation being cancelled.

On the first anniversary of these actions, the young people rose up again in opposition to the Ruto government, which sent its troops to Haiti at the behest of the U.S. government, and which was designated a major non-NATO ally in gratitude for its posture as a vassal state. Kenya’s police state is again killing those who oppose, including journalist Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody, and more recently Boniface Kariuki, ostensibly for protesting Ojwang’s assassination.

The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the organizing arm of the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) once again stands in solidarity with the masses of Kenyans fighting against the neo-liberal austerity schemes and obedience to U.S. imperialism. Despite the fascist repression, the youth of Kenya are fearless in their resolve and persist in declaring and exposing the illegitimacy of the compradors of neo-colonialism.

The Gen-Z Movement represents the offspring or torch bearers of the unfinished revolution of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), known also as the Mau Mau, whose valiant fight paved the path toward the defeat of their British colonizers in 1960. Gen-Z are the political cubs of their predecessors: Comrades Dedan Kimathi, Mzalendo Bildad Kaggia, Wasonga Sijeyo, Pio Gama Pinto, and Mzalendo Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, true revolutionary heroes who stood firm in the fight for the genuine independence of Kenya.

BAP and the USOAN are clear that for the movement to decolonize Kenya to be complete, the running dogs of imperialism must be driven from office and the neo-colonial economic structures must be dismantled, allowing a truly sovereign Kenya to be established, untethered to the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination.

BAP remains unequivocal in the demand for U.S. imperialism to cease propping up the Ruto regime, for the unconditional and immediate release of our Kenyan family detained and jailed during these protests, and for reparations to be dispensed to the family and loved ones of those killed by the state and their goons.

Forward to expelling AFRICOM from the entire continent!

Forward to dethroning the comprador class in Africa!

Forward to one united, socialist Africa!

No Compromise!

No Retreat!

Banner photo: Kenyan youths carry flags during the candle light vigil in memory of dead protesters on June 30, 2024, (courtesy. SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)

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

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

It is no surprise to the Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) that aggression is stepping up against the countries in the anti-imperialist Alliance of Sahel States. This was reflected in the flagrantly baseless accusations against Burkina Faso’s leader Ibrahim Traoré. On April 3, 2025, U.S. AFRICOM Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee and claimed without evidence that interim President Traoré is misusing the country's gold mineral wealth in exchange for protection. Langley provided no details on how these supposed exchanges are carried out or from what Traoré needs protection.

The imperialist modus operandi is at play here and starts with demonizing and criminalizing the leader of a country as the war propaganda pretext for more direct intervention. We have seen this script before. Commander-In-Chief of Economic Fighters League of Ghana and Steering Committee member of the USOAN, Ernesto Yeboah refutes the liberal framing meant to arrest dissent against what is at stake:

“This is not about military vs. civilian rule. This is about imperialism vs. liberation. This is about Africans standing up — finally — and saying: Hands off Africa." 

The BAP Africa Team and USOAN are heeding the call emanating across Africa to unite in defense of Burkina Faso. And we further call on all anti-imperialist forces around the world, especially Black forces, to sound the alarm and publicly denounce these designs before this all too familiar strategy takes root. In 2011, Black anti-imperialist forces were unable to effectively counter the heinous plan of the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination to destroy the revolutionary Pan-Africanist nation of Libya. BAP’s USOAN refuses to allow this fatal mistake to be repeated.

This time the complicity of silence by ECOWAS, the African Union, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the African (Black) comprador class around the world must be exposed.

This is a pivotal time for the struggle against imperialism in Africa. The emergence of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and the revolutionary example of self-determination being set by the people of Burkina Faso represents a historic breakthrough for Pan-Africanism that the U.S. and NATO have been eager to eliminate. The U.S./EU/NATO axis is desperate to re-colonize Burkina Faso and to halt any further influence across Africa set by the example of the Alliance of Sahel States. What the U.S is angling to undermine is a popular process of decolonization.

Under President Traoré’s leadership, Burkina Faso has advanced toward food sovereignty, established a national gold refinery, and taken critical steps to reclaim its resources for the benefit of its people. The vague and opportunistic accusations issued by AFRICOM are designed to undermine these gains and set the stage for imperialist subversion. When U.S. officials speak of “strategic interests,” they mean the unfettered right to plunder Africa’s mineral wealth, dominate markets, and exploit African labor, all without the consent of African peoples. We must not allow the absurdity of the U.S. and NATO, currently complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, to pose as moral arbiters in Africa.

BAP and USOAN call on all anti-imperialist forces to join in active defense of Burkina Faso, demand the expulsion of AFRICOM from the continent, and ensure that no African nation suffers the fate that befell Libya in 2011.

The time to act is now!

Le moment est venu pour tous les anti-impérialistes et toutes les personnes éprises de justice défendre sans équivoque le Burkina Faso

L'equipe Afrique de l'Alliance Noire Pour la Paix (Black Alliance for Peace-BAP) ainsi que la coalition USA Hors d'Afrique! (USOAN) ne sont pas surpris de constater que l'agression s'intensifie contre les pays de l'Alliance anti-impérialiste des États du Sahel. Cela s'est traduit par des accusations flagrantes et sans fondement contre le dirigeant du Burkina Faso, le capitaine Ibrahim Traoré. En effet, le 3 avril 2025, Michael Langley, chef du commandement américain pour l'Afrique (AFRICOM) livrait devant la commission des forces armées du Sénat américain un témoignage dans lequel il affirmait, sans fournir la moindre preuve, que le président par intérim du Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, utilisait abusivement les richesses en or du pays en échange de protection. M. Langley n'a fourni aucun détail sur la manière dont ces prétendus échanges sont effectués ni sur les raisons pour lesquelles M. Traoré a besoin de protection.

Ce faisant, Langley reproduit le modus operandi classique des impérialistes: la diabolisation et la criminalisation d'un dirigeant étranger s'inscrit dans la campagne de propagande de guerre visant à justifier une intervention plus directe. 

Ce scénario, c'est du déjà-vu. Comme l'explique Ernesto Yeboah, président de la Ligue des combattants économiques (League of Economic Fighters) du Ghana, et membre du comité directeur de la coalition USA Hors d'Afrique! :

"Ce qui est en jeu, ce n'est pas l'opposition entre un régime militaire et un régime civil. Il s'agit d'une lutte de libération contre l'impérialisme. Il s'agit, pour les Africains, de se lever - enfin - et de dire : "Ne touchez pas à l'Afrique!"

L'équipe Afrique de la BAP et l'USOAN entendent l'appel émanant de toute l'Afrique à s'unir pour défendre le Burkina Faso. Nous appelons également toutes les forces anti-impérialistes dans le monde, en particulier les forces noires, à tirer la sonnette d'alarme et à dénoncer publiquement ces projets avant que cette stratégie trop familière ne prenne racine. En 2011, les forces anti-impérialistes noires ont été incapables de contrer efficacement l'odieux plan de l'Axe de domination États-Unis/UE/OTAN visant à détruire la nation révolutionnaire panafricaniste de Libye. L'USOAN et BAP refusent que cette erreur fatale se répète.

Cette fois-ci, la complicité, par le silence, de la CEDEAO, de l'Union africaine, du Caucus noir du congrès américain et de la classe compradore africaine (noire) dans le monde entier, doit être exposée.

La lutte contre l'impérialisme en Afrique se trouve à une période charnière. L'émergence de l'Alliance des États du Sahel (AES) et l'exemple révolutionnaire d'autodétermination donné par le peuple du Burkina Faso représentent une avancée historique pour le panafricanisme que les États-Unis et l'OTAN cherchent à éliminer. L'axe États-Unis/UE/OTAN cherche désespérément à recoloniser le Burkina Faso et à mettre un terme à l'influence exercée par l'Alliance des États du Sahel sur l'ensemble de l'Afrique. Ce que les États-Unis cherchent à saper, c'est un processus populaire de décolonisation.

Sous la direction du président Traoré, le Burkina Faso a progressé vers la souveraineté alimentaire, a créé une raffinerie nationale d'or et a pris des mesures cruciales pour récupérer ses ressources au profit de son peuple. Les accusations vagues et opportunistes lancées par l'AFRICOM visent à saper ces progrès et à préparer le terrain pour la subversion impérialiste. Lorsque les responsables américains parlent d'"intérêts stratégiques", ils entendent par là le droit absolu de piller les richesses minérales de l'Afrique, de dominer les marchés et d'exploiter la main-d'œuvre africaine; le tout sans le consentement des peuples africains. Nous ne devons pas permettre l'absurdité des Etats-Unis et de l'OTAN, actuellement complices du génocide des Palestiniens, de se poser en arbitres moraux en Afrique.

La BAP et l'USOAN appellent toutes les forces anti-impérialistes à se joindre à la défense active du Burkina Faso, à exiger l'expulsion de l'AFRICOM du continent, et à s'assurer qu'aucune nation africaine ne subisse le sort qui a frappé la Libye en 2011.

Il est temps d'agir, maintenant !

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Banner photo: BAP demonstration in Washington DC gathered outside the Embassy of Burkina Faso, in defense of the Alliance for Sahel States, October 2024.

U.S. War on Africa Rages on with Somalia in the Crosshairs

U.S. War on Africa Rages on with Somalia in the Crosshairs

February 10, 2025 — The new Trump administration has wasted no time continuing the U.S. war on Africa. Just one month into his second term, the U.S. has launched at least six airstrikes in Somalia’s Puntland region. While AFRICOM and the Somali government claim these strikes are “authorized” and therefore legal under international law, this so-called authorization is nothing more than a hallmark of neo-colonial governance. Comprador regimes installed and maintained by Western imperialism do not exercise genuine sovereignty but instead serve as facilitators of foreign domination.

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unequivocally condemn this renewed aggression. These strikes, backed by the Puntland regional government, have nothing to do with “security.” They serve U.S. neo-colonial domination, enforcing foreign control and keeping Somalia divided.

Under Trump’s first term, the U.S. launched over 200 airstrikes in Somalia—more than Bush, Obama, and Biden combined—fueling instability and strengthening al-Shabaab. The 2020 troop withdrawal was a reorganization of imperial strategy, ensuring AFRICOM continued operations through drone warfare and proxies.

For decades, the U.S. has worked to keep Somalia in crisis. It has exploited divisions between Somalia and Somaliland, manipulated conflicts in the Horn, and propped up corrupt regimes. The Somali government, like all comprador regimes, trades sovereignty for military aid, including its recent $600,000 contract with BGR Group, a Washington lobbying firm.

BAP previously warned that Trump’s second term would bring a more aggressive U.S. posture in Africa. As BAP Africa Team Co-Coordinator Netfa Freeman stated:

“The Trump administration enters office at a time when China and Russia have significantly deepened their strategic partnerships across the continent and with the continent no longer in the same position of weakness as before. The rise of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) has shown the world that African nations can reject Western domination and military occupation. These factors mean that the U.S. will likely pursue a much more aggressive military strategy in Africa, being that all they know is drone warfare, proxy militias, and strategic partnerships with neo-colonial regimes to maintain its grip.” 

This attack is part of a broader U.S. offensive against the growing movement in Africa for self-determination. Trump has already moved against South Africa, cutting aid under the racist pretext of defending white Afrikaners while punishing the country for challenging U.S. and Israeli settler-colonialism. The same empire that protects apartheid landowners in South Africa continues to wage war on Somalia and militarize the continent. Meanwhile, AFRICOM’s role in destabilizing Africa extends beyond Somalia. In Libya, U.S. military forces are deepening their partnership with the comprador regime in Tripoli, strengthening military ties under the tired pretext of “security cooperation.” AFRICOM’s continued presence in Libya, where U.S. and NATO forces devastated a prosperous country in 2011, ensures that Libya remains fractured, occupied by competing factions, and is a staging ground for imperialist military operations across North Africa and the Sahel.

The U.S. and its allies have turned Somalia into a perpetual warzone, a playground for private mercenaries, and a military testing ground for AFRICOM’s latest weapons and drone technology. They have done so under the guise of “fighting terrorism,” when in reality, they have created the very conditions that allow groups like al-Shabaab to thrive. BAP rejects the false choice between U.S. military occupation and endless war. The Somali people have the right to build their own future, without Washington’s bombs, without AFRICOM’s presence, and without the interference of Gulf States acting as Western proxies.

Shutdown AFRICOM!

U.S. Out of Africa!

No Compromise! No Retreat!

Banner image: photo of Trump pointing up superimposed on photo of military aircraft and pilot with jihadist rebels in background; courtesy @middayindia.

U.S.-led Imperialism Is Directly Responsible for Turmoil in the Democratic Republic of Congo

U.S.-led Imperialism Is Directly Responsible for Turmoil in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team (BAP) and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) stands in unwavering solidarity with the Congolese People as they endure yet another chapter of violence, exploitation, and masked imperialist aggression in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The ongoing conflict, fueled by Rwanda’s role as an imperialist foot soldier, is not merely a regional dispute but a manifestation of global capitalism’s insatiable desire for Africa’s resources. As the transnational capitalist class fight for dominance in the global clean energy, artificial intelligence, and technology markets, the Congo has been and stands to remain the battleground as a cornerstone of systemic plunder for over a century.

Rwanda, backed by Western powers such as the United States, the European Union (EU), Canada, Israel, etc, has consistently acted as a destabilizing force in the region, providing material support to proxy militias like the M23 to undermine Congolese sovereignty and facilitate the extraction of resources. Much like the sub-imperialist relationship between the United Arab Emirates and Sudan, Rwanda has no significant mineral reserves of its own yet has become one of the world’s leading exporters of critical minerals like coltan. The recent escalation in Goma, where Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) and M23 have seized strategic areas, is a direct result of this imperialist agenda.

In stark and revolting contrast to what is professed by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to serve as the “Conscience of the Congress,” by “uplifting the voices of the voiceless and fighting for the most vulnerable… ” there is always a deafening silence concerning the role of U.S. imperialism in the Congo and in Africa at large. In fact CBC members have more so served as lap dogs for U.S. imperialism and willing servants for its policies of intervention.

The responsibility of those outside of the DRC is to heed the acts of the People reflecting the unheard, to unconditionally support their path toward self-determination and right to defend their land and sovereignty. This is the only way to sustainable peace in the Congo.

The conflict in the DRC is not an isolated event but a direct consequence of the global capitalist system in crisis. The so-called “Green Corridor” initiative, promoted by President Felix Tshisekedi at the World Economic Forum in Davos, is a stark example of how imperialist powers and their local compradors, seek to legitimize their pillaging under the guise of development. This initiative, funded primarily by the United States and EU, aims to secure access to the Congo’s cobalt, copper, and lithium — resources essential for the global transition to renewable energy and digital technologies. Yet, this so-called “development” comes at the direct expense of the Congolese People, who continue to suffer from violence, displacement, and poverty. 

The Congolese people, however, continue to resist valiantly. The recent attacks on the embassies of Belgium, France, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the United States, chanting “down with imperialism” and widespread protests across the DRC, from Goma to Kinshasa, make clear the frustration of the Congolese with a government that has failed to protect them, and a global system that exploits them. The uprising reflects a growing consciousness among the Congolese masses, who are demanding accountability, liberation, and an end to decades of suffering. The Black Alliance for Peace recognizes these protests as part of a broader struggle across the African continent. As Che Guevara said, “all free people of the world be prepared to avenge the crime of the Congo.”

We understand that the liberation of the Congo is inseparable from the liberation of Africa as a whole. The Congo’s land, energy, and resources have fueled the wealth of imperialist powers for generations, while its people have been subjected to unimaginable violence and exploitation. The current crisis is a stark reminder that the struggle for African sovereignty is a struggle against the global capitalist system. We must reject the false narratives that frame this conflict as a regional or ethnic issue and instead recognize it as a fight against imperialism and for self-determination. 

The Black Alliance for Peace calls on all progressive forces, both across the African continent and around the world, to stand in solidarity with the Congolese People. Demand an immediate end to Rwanda’s aggression and the withdrawal of all foreign forces from the DRC. We call for Congo’s resources to be under the democratic control of its People. We call on all anti-imperialist forces across the world to expose the puppeteer role of the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination in fueling this crisis and to support the Congolese People’s right to life.

The struggle of the Congolese People is our struggle. Their victory is our victory. Let us unite in solidarity to end the centuries-long suffering in the Congo and to build a world free from imperialism, capitalism, and exploitation. The Congo is not for sale—it belongs to its People.

Free the Congo! 

Patrice Lumumba Lives!

Unite Africa under Socialism!

No Compromise!

No Retreat!

Banner photo: Security forces clash with protesters attacking the French embassy in Kinshasa, DR Congo, on January 28, 2025. (Courtesy Reuters)

Organizations Globally Condemn the Fascism of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM): Launch of A Month of Action

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Organizations Globally Condemn the Fascism of the 

U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) 

Launch Annual Month of Action to Shut Down AFRICOM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024 — October 1, 2024, marks the start of the 4th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command), organized by the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP). Every year, hundreds of organizations around the world endorse and participate in this Month of Action, standing united against the United States’ ongoing military presence in African nations across the continent.

International Month of Action Against AFRICOM will kick off with an international webinar featuring voices from the African continent and diaspora expressing the need for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and a complete end to the combatant command. Following the webinar individuals and organizations will engage in a month of autonomous and semi-autonomous actions and events designed to elevate this issue in the public consciousness around the world and encourage the continuation of the resistance against U.S. imperialism.

AFRICOM is the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, the think tank also known for the creation of Project 2025. The plan was incubated twenty-one years ago, with an eye towards low-priced natural resources and control over African security affairs under the guise of the “Global War on Terror.” Launched by the George W. Bush administration and brought to full operation by the Barack Obama administration, AFRICOM is most known for the destruction of Libya resulting in tens of thousands dead, and millions displaced. The U.S. continues to refine and expand the tactics employed in Libya across the continent.

This year’s Month of Action Against AFRICOM comes at a pivotal geopolitical moment for Africa. The continent is experiencing widespread anti-neocolonialist movements including: (1) the successful expelling of AFRICOM from Niger, (2) admission and evidence that U.S. ally Ukraine has supported terrorism in Mali, and (3) popular mass mobilizations against governments propped up by the U.S. that are facing state repression, ie. Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda etc.

The Month of Action Against AFRICOM does not represent the full extent of BAP’s work against the neocolonial occupation of Africa. BAP continues to call for the dismantling of NATO, AFRICOM and all imperialist structures. Africa and the rest of the world cannot be free until all Peoples can exercise their sovereignty and the right to live free of domination.

BAP’s Demands include:

• The complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Africa;

• The demilitarization of the African Continent;

• The closure of U.S. bases throughout the world; and

• The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) oppose the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and conduct hearings on AFRICOM’s impact on the African continent, with the full participation of members of U.S. and African civil society.

To learn more about BAP’s International Month of Action Against AFRICOM, please visit our web page. You can also see informational materials about the Month of Action in our media kit.

Responsibility for the Kenya Crisis Lies At the Feet of US Neo-Colonialism

Responsibility for the Kenya Crisis Lies At the Feet of US Neo-Colonialism

The excessive support and public adoration the U.S. government has given to Kenya’s President William Ruto represents the racist contempt this settler state has for all of Africa and for the domestic population of descendants from the continent. Two days before African Liberation Day on May 25th and one month before the Kenyan police’s brutal crackdown on protests against the US-IMF backed Finance Act that increases taxes up to 35% on essential goods, U.S. President Biden rolled out a red carpet for Ruto at a White House state dinner.

The debt that this bill is supposed to address only exists because of the incessant and indiscriminate borrowing by the previous government of Kenya, for which Ruto was vice-president. Ruto is a Grade A lackey for U.S. interests reminiscent of the dictator Mobutu of the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) who U.S. imperialism supported for 32 years in order to plunder the Congo.

U.S. neo-colonialism praised as an “endearing” and “enduring” democracy, the Ruto presidency, a puppet government that unleashed its notoriously vicious police to reportedly arrest more than 300, kill as many as 23 and injure dozens of Kenyan citizens in the demonstrations over the past week. These police are the same force U.S. imperialism has maneuvered into being dispatched to Haiti to contain the people’s resistance against imperialism in that Caribbean nation.

An elevation in the parlance of U.S. statecraft is the paternalistic promise of granting Kenya the status of a “Major Non-NATO Ally,” a role granted to the African Union’s African Standby Force. This designation is in sharp contrast to the Alliance of Sahel States newly formed confederation which is a declaration of African self-determination.

The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the organizing arm U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) stands in uncompromising solidarity with the masses of Kenyans fighting against the proposed Finance Bill 2024. We denounce in the strongest terms the complicity of the U.S., especially its Black misleaders in Congress, in passing this legislation. In fact the day the bill was introduced in the Kenyan parliament, members of the  U.S congress were present including Barbara Lee. 

Ruto must go! U.S. Out of Africa! BAP and USOAN salute the courage and determination of the masses of youth throughout Kenya "Gen Z"! The blood spilled will not be in vain. Our martyrs are alive along-side of the living. We stand unwaveringly with the Gen Z Movement, our people of Kenya!

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Banner photo: A police officer with a walkie-talkie confronting a protest against the Finance Bill 2024. courtesy: Mathare Justice Center

The Facts about ECOWAS by The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team

The US and EU states work with intergovernmental regional organizations like the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a geo-strategy to give cover for neo-colonialist interests. As developments in Africa have reached a crucial point, it becomes more important to critically understanding the origin of ECOWAS and its current essential function.

The people have protested against ECOWAS sanctions in response to the military transitional governments in the new Alliance of Sahelian States (AES) viewed by many as a step towards African self-determination. In turn, the leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have decided to leave ECOWAS, declaring that it has deviated from its original purpose and is now an impediment to their sovereignty.

In the interest of advancing a political education around the history and current role of ECOWAS the Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace has published this comprehensive FACT SHEET on ECOWAS.