Nigerians demonstrate outside the French military base to demand the withdrawal of French forces from Niger last year (Anatolia)
The contemporary world has not witnessed genocide and ethnic cleansing, which amounted to destruction, the loss of life, the terrorization of people, and the demolition of buildings. All this cruelty is like what is happening today in Gaza, and the free world is watching it, as if it were in a movie theater, affected by the horror of the bloody scenes, but without being pushed by the human conscience. To stop the scenes of horror and death broadcast live.
Gaza - with its resistance to the aircraft, battleships and tanks of the occupation army - dominated events and occupied the major capitals of the world without a challenge. Today, it is an event that is second to none.
However, there are many worlds in whose arenas major, closely related events are taking place, and they are pushing strongly towards rearranging the international stage, which has become imbalanced and destabilized. Because of the dominance of the United States of America at the top of the international system.
The African continent is witnessing a movement that converges with Palestine in the goal of liberation and emancipation from the grip of colonial powers that plundered its resources, deprived its people of a decent life, and left them prey to ignorance, poverty, and bloody conflicts.
After the West robbed it and stripped it of everything, here is the African continent shaking off the dust of years of oppression and exploitation, perhaps finding its way towards decent living, away from functional governments that disavowed its people, and linked its fate to the Western countries that installed it as guardian of the operations of plundering and siphoning off the continent’s wealth. Its people continued to starve and suffer under the lash of poverty and need, and were ravaged by diseases and epidemics, while the bounties and wealth of their countries were enjoyed by foreign countries and benefited by a ruling and corrupt clique.
Despite the negative image that the population of the African continent maintains about military coups, because they did not bring with them security, stability, or a decent living, change and the removal of subordinate authoritarian and authoritarian regimes and the end of their rule have turned, among the general public, into hope for a better tomorrow, in which justice and fairness prevail. Despite awareness of the rugged, twisted, and lonely road.
France is losing its influence in the African continent
The successive military coups that took place in Africa overthrew regimes allied with the West, specifically France, whose president, Emmanuel Macron, did not believe the accelerating events in countries such as: Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Gabon, describing the matter as difficult and blaming the French Foreign Intelligence Service (DGSE), which He failed to reveal what was going on among the armies in terms of preparation and preparation for the coups, especially those that struck President Mohamed Bazoum, an obedient ally of Paris.
It was not easy for France to endure all these successive losses of its old colonies, which were a reserved field that it exploited without supervision or accountability.
The French forces - who forced themselves to leave their military bases, under a barrage of slogans against their presence, which was no longer desirable - fell to the bottom, and their pride was drowned in the pain of the peoples of the African continent, who were laying golden eggs for the new invaders.
The evacuation of military forces and diplomatic missions from some African countries - the most recent of which was the end of the French military withdrawal from Niger and the closure of the embassy - revealed many facts.
These foreign forces have established military bases in a number of countries; Under the pretext of combating terrorism, it became clear over time that it was benefiting from the presence of these terrorist movements and using them to destabilize the Sahel region and West Africa, in order to provide cover for the continued need for them, to ensure the performance of their true role in helping major companies and protecting their plunder of various wealth and precious metals that are smuggled abroad. .
France, which does not have a single gold mine on its territory, is among the countries that possess important reserves of the yellow metal.
The situation is that Western and French companies - in particular - will face an unprecedented crisis. The largest uranium mining company in Niger is French.
France alone benefits from this African country's uranium by about 70% to operate its peaceful nuclear reactors.
The West is for and against democracy!
The hypocrisy of the colonial West has no limits. It defends democracy and human rights when they serve its interests, and ignores them whenever tyranny and corrupt regimes are under its command and only move according to its signals and directives.
It is the same image that appeared in Paris, when one of its loyal followers, Mohamed Bazoum, fell. It demanded his return and respect for the constitutional order, and even threatened military intervention in defense of the “legitimacy” that wasted the rights of the people in Niger, and presented them to the invaders to gain their satisfaction and provide protection for them and their families who were enriched by it. The sweat and blood of children, women and the elderly.
Africa's experience with coups is long, as the number of coups since it gained its formal independence has reached about 200 coups. They were not sufficient to extricate Africa from the civil wars and bloody conflicts that left deep scars on the body of the continent, wracked by the calamities of tyrants and invaders.
The roar of tanks and the difficulty of the transition to civilian rule
However, the series of coups - witnessed by many African countries within the last two years - came in a special context, in which they raise the slogan of the independence of African decision-making from the hegemony of Western countries and return it to popular legitimacy as a reference for establishing a real transition, in which civilian elites exchange power peacefully and through elections. Fair and transparent.
This is because the army’s initiative was not separate and isolated this time, as the people sided with the coup plotters who put an end to corrupt regimes and committed to transitional periods, after which power would be handed over to forces chosen by the people.
Moreover, the political forces in general did not object to the army’s move, but rather saw it as a way out that might help dismantle authoritarian structures. They used money and donations to buy the elites and attract the corrupt, to thwart all attempts aimed at breaking the chains of slavery and dismantling the citadels of authoritarianism.
The transformations that many African countries are witnessing will not be allowed to continue by the colonial West. This West can commit crimes to preserve its interests and positions of influence.
History is still witness to the death squads recruited by Western countries to assassinate African leaders who worked with dedication for Africa’s renaissance and its liberation from the grip of the colonialists.
Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese leader who posed a threat to Belgian colonialism, was shot dead along with a group of his companions.
Likewise, Thomas Sankara, the leader of Burkina Faso, who in turn posed a real threat to the French colonial presence, so the French forces organized a military coup against him, which ended in his death.
In Guinea-Bissau, leader Amilcar Cabral opposed Portuguese colonialism, and was assassinated.
This is the West that plays the tune of freedom and human rights to the earth's wretched, while it hides an ugly face full of terror, killing, and destruction. Despite all this torment that the African continent has endured, today it is rising and rising again.
Thanks to a generation of enlightened youth, it continues on the path of great leaders who sacrificed themselves for the dignity, freedom and independence of Africa from the domination of foreign powers.
In the same vein, African leaders walked in the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly in its 78th session, where their words were terrifying and frightening to the West, which has become besieged by the heinous crimes it committed against humanity in the Global South.
From demanding that the West compensate Africa for the damage caused by the slave trade to calling on it to end its exploitation and stop its racist tendencies, their demands were clear and bold.
Today, Africa is facing a new phase, led by young people from within the army, which some have called the phenomenon of “new sovereigns.”
Although nothing good may come with the roar of the tanks of coups, the success of these people in settling the values of justice and fairness in the lives of peoples and handing over power and transferring it to a place of peaceful and civil competition will enable the African continent to cross the bridge and win the bet of freedom and independence. Has Africa really risen up and hammered the final nail into the coffin of Western blackmail and exploitation?