(2021-08-22). Sports Boycotts & Apartheid. counterpunch.org 
During this summer's Tokyo Olympics, Algerian Fethi Nourine was slated to battle Israeli Tohar Butbul in judo. Before the bout, Nourine withdrew in protest of Israeli policies, expressing support for Palestinians. "We worked a lot to reach the Olympics but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all of this," Days later a…
(2021-08-22). Israel, a Settler-Colonialist and Apartheid State, is Joining the AU as an "Observer Member" orinocotribune.com By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza — Jul 31, 2021 | In 2016, Netanyahu was the first Israeli PM in decades to step on the African continent. | After a strenuous stretch of diplomatic offensives that has lasted about 20 years, Israel will finally join the African Union (AU) as an observer state. Israel secured observer status at the AU when its Ambassador to Ethiopia, Burundi, and Chad Aleli Admasu last week presented the country's credentials to Moussa Faki Mahamat (chairman of the African Union Commission) at the AU's headquarters in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. | The presentation of Israel's charter as…
(2021-08-21). The Crimes Of The West In Afghanistan. popularresistance.org As in Iraq, as in Libya, as in Mali. It is time to finally bury the doctrine of the so-called "responsibility to protect", which was coined at the time of the beginning of the Afghan war, and to brand it as what it was from the beginning: a neocolonial project.
(2021-08-21). [World Report] West Africa on alert for haemorrhagic fevers. thelancet.com Cases of Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease have prompted national and regional emergency responses. Paul Adepoju reports.
(2021-08-21). Africa's Sahel Bleeding Out In Terrorist Attacks. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | On August 19th, at least 11 Malian soldiers were killed and 10 more were injured as a result of an ambush attack on the convoy of the operation "Malika Theater Center" in the Mopti district in central Mali. The reports were confirmed by the Armed Forces of Mali (FAM)."The FAM convoy was ambushed today, August 19, 2021, in the late morning. At 12: 45, a car bomb exploded on its way, after which the convoy was subjected to heavy shelling. According to preliminary data, 11 people were killed, and ten more we…
(2021-08-21). Ambassador Alex Saab Letter to the Venezuelan People: "No Retreat, No Surrender" orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan Special Envoy to Iran, Alex Saab, reiterated his call for justice, through a letter received through his lawyers, one day before the case is to be heard again in the Constitutional Court of Cape Verde on August 13. | NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER! | My fellow Venezuelans; | Today, one day before the hearing before the Constitutional Court which I was not allowed to attend, it is 427 days since I was kidnapped in the Republic of Cape Verde under direct instructions from the United States. | At that time I was as a Special Envoy at the service of the State, ever since April 2018, always on special peacefu…
(2021-08-21). Climate change and hunger in Madagascar: a UN Resident Coordinator blog. news.un.org In the south of Madagascar, known as the Grand Sud, hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from one of the worst droughts in the region in 40 years, the most senior UN official in the country has said, warning that the population is facing a severe humanitarian crisis.
(2021-08-21). In Somalia, the U.S. is bombing the very 'terrorists' it created. mronline.org 
This July, the Biden administration picked up where Trump left off and began bombing Somalia, a country with a gross domestic product of less than $6 billion and a poverty rate of 70 percent. But why?>
(2021-08-21). 60 people kidnapped in Nigeria. en.mehrnews.com Gunmen have kidnapped at least 60 people in a fresh attack on a community in Zamfara State, an official has said.