2021-11-10: News Headlines

Fra Hughes (2021-11-10). Getting Away With Murder — Britain to Protect its War Criminals. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Nov 8, 2021 | Every Empire is guilty of war crimes. Executing enemy combatants on the battlefield. Destroying hospitals, watercourses, and infrastructure. Carpet bombing cities. Murdering civilians. Torture. Raping men, women, and children. Starving the enemy into submission. Genocide. Mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing. | The British Empire was no different. | From North America to Australia. From New Zealand to Zimbabwe. From Ireland to Palestine, Britain has been accused of heinous war crimes against indigenous populations while extracting the wealth, minerals, and natural resources of th…

John Stanton (2021-11-10). World and Regional Powers Shape the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia Bites the Dust. dissidentvoice.org If the US aspires to protect its long-held vital interests and democratic values in its relations with Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, it is time to reset its ill-consulted policies pushed by the Egyptian and Tigray rebel's paid US lobbyists, organizations that are interested in nothing but the destabilization of the Ethiopian State, and …

Joris Leverink (2021-11-10). Liberian health workers organize amidst the pandemic. roarmag.org Ebola survivor Korlia Bonarwolo leads a training of health workers at a mock Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia, Liberia. November 2014. Photo: Morgana Wingard / Sarah Grile | This essay is published in collaboration with Public Services International | | On October 26, the Liberian government declared that the country no longer had any active COVID-19 cases. Dixon Korveh heard the news and felt good, "no active case is proof of the hard work we did, despite challenges, we did this" he says. | The challenges Dixon talks about are major. During the…

Abayomi Azikiwe (2021-11-09). Ethiopians Mobilize to Halt Western-backed Coup Attempt. globalresearch.ca To receive Global Research's Daily Newsletter (selected articles), Visit …

_____ (2021-11-09). Disastrous –°limate –°onsequences for Africa and the Glasgow Conference. journal-neo.org Recently, various media reports on the manifestation of climate change in the world have become more and more like battlefield reports. These changes are affecting rich countries as well as poorer ones. Climate change in Africa is a growing threat to Africans as Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. According …

Keith Harmon Snow (2021-11-09). The Cult of the Toothpick King: Central Africa Revisited. dissidentvoice.org Review of British journalist Michela Wrong's remarkable new book Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad replete with a survey of some of the more notable reviews and the notorious1 reviewers who reviewed it. Do Not Disturb is a book out some six months now that has catapulted …

Dania Akkad (2021-11-09). Africa's top human rights authority calls on Egypt's Sisi to halt Rabaa executions. middleeasteye.net Africa's top human rights authority calls on Egypt's Sisi to halt Rabaa executions | Egyptian president urged to suspend death penalties against 26 men who stood against the 2013 coup that ousted the country's first democratically elected leader | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 17: 07 | Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Morsi supporters rally around Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque on 1 August, 2013 (Reuters) | Africa's leading huma…

MEE staff (2021-11-09). Syria can re-enter Arab League if certain steps are met, says Egypt's foreign minister. middleeasteye.net Syria can re-enter Arab League if certain steps are met, says Egypt's foreign minister | Sameh Shoukry said Syria must 'play its traditional role in support of Arab national security' | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 19: 32 | Egyptian Foreign Minister visited Washington this week for the Egypt Strategic Dialogue with the Biden administration (AFP) |

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-09). NATO trains Azerbaijani navy to meet NATO standards in Turkish exercise. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com This is an ongoing exercise that includes military observers from Azerbaijan's and Turkey's Three Brothers military axis ally Pakistan as well as Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Nigeria, Oman and Ukraine. Azerbaijani naval sailors took part in NATO assessment exercises As part of the NATO Operational Capabilities Concept at the Eastern Mediterranean-2021 multinational naval exercise in …

Anonymous007 (2021-11-09). Massacres And Lethal Incidents Leave Scores Dead In Niger. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The population of Niger is suffering from increasingly violent terrorist attacks in recent months. | On November 2nd, Islamic extremists have killed 69 people in the latest attack in the volatile border region near Mali. This happened when terrorists ambushed a self-defense brigade in western Niger. | The violence took place earlier this week near Banibangou, about 155 miles (250 kilometers) north of the capital, Niamey. | The town's mayor w…

WSWS (2021-11-09). The Astroworld festival disaster and the normalization of death. wsws.org The disaster is the latest in a series of "mass casualty events" in the United States, including the greatest of them all, the COVID-19 pandemic, that have become shockingly normalized.

Alex Salmon (2021-11-09). Solidarity shown to Sudanese people resisting the coup. greenleft.org.au The United Sudanese Youth of Western Australia and supporters protested against the military coup that toppled Sudan's transitional government. Alex Salmon reports.

MEE, agencies (2021-11-09). Sudan coup: Internet 'must be restored' says court as blackout enters 16th day. middleeasteye.net Sudan coup: Internet 'must be restored' says court as blackout enters 16th day | Judge orders Zain, MTN, and local provider Sudani to restore internet services as blackout continues | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 14: 34 | Youths sit on a street barricade built by anti-coup protesters in Khartoum on 7 November 2021 (AFP) | A Sudanese court ruled on Tuesday that internet services that had been cut duri…

MEE, agencies (2021-11-09). Tunisia police fire tear gas at protesters demanding closure of rubbish dump. middleeasteye.net Tunisia police fire tear gas at protesters demanding closure of rubbish dump | Interior ministry denies report that a young protester was killed during protests in the southern town of Agareb | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 08: 01 | The closing of the controlled landfill in Agareb earlier this year caused thousands of tonnes of household waste to accumulate for about a month in the streets of Sfax (AF…

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