2022-03-10: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). US's practice of disseminating disinformation about China on the Ukraine issue is despicable and malicious. ecns.cn Lately, the US has been disseminating disinformation about China on the Ukraine issue, with the attempt to shift blame, stoke confrontation and profit from the issue. The practice is despicable and malicious.

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-10). Gov't welcomes SEACOM's expansion strategy for Uganda. plusnews.ug Government of Uganda has welcomed the regional expansion strategy for the Ugandan and East African markets of SEACOM, the pan-African telecommunications service provider announced at a special networking breakfast event in Kampala on Thursday. The Minister of State for ICT and National Guidance, Godfrey Kabbyanga Baluku who represented government at the event said that the …

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-10). Excitement as SEACOM unveils regional expansion strategy for Uganda. plusnews.ug SEACOM, the pan-African telecommunications service provider, unveiled its regional expansion strategy for the Ugandan and East African markets at a special networking breakfast event in Kampala, Uganda. The event was attended by a cross-section of clients, business partners, staff, representatives of key government ministries and parastatals in Uganda, and SEACOM executives from Uganda, East Africa, …

WSWS (2022-03-10). War in Ukraine and Russia sanctions threaten food supplies in Middle East and North Africa. wsws.org Russia and Ukraine account for nearly one third of the world's grain exports, one fifth of its corn trade and almost 80 percent of sunflower oil production.

Jonathan Cook (2022-03-10). The West's Hands in Ukraine Are as Bloody as Putin's. mintpressnews.com Ukrainians will pay the price to wear down Russia, just as Syrians, Libyans, Iranians, Yemenis, Venezuelans and Palestinians have paid the price as the U.S. has sought to attain the goals of its globe-spanning imperial project.

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-03-10). Protests Continue in Sudan; Resistance Committees Release a key Charter. orinocotribune.com By Pavan Kulkarni — Mar 3, 2022 | On February 28, The Khartoum Coordination Of The Resistance Committees Proposed The "Charter For The Establishment Of The People's Authority", Setting Forth A Militant Roadmap To Democracy. | The long-awaited "Charter for the Establishment of the People's Authority" was proposed by the Khartoum Coordination of Resistance Committees (RCs) in Sudan on Monday, February 28. Mass demonstrations against the military coup were reported from at least 14 cities in Sudan on the same day. | The security forces unleashed a violent crackdown against the protests. Two people were killed,…

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-10). Parliament orders forensic audit on Soroti Fruit Factory, UDC. plusnews.ug Parliament during plenary yesterday March 9, 2022 unanimously ordered for a forensic audit of the government-owned Soroti Fruit Factory and suspension of its Chief Executive Officer. The audit, to be completed within four weeks, will also cover the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC), the supervisor of the US$11.4m factory that processes mainly mangoes and oranges into …

Our Reporter (2022-03-10). 22 ADF rebels killed since inception of Operation Shujja. plusnews.ug At least 22 rebels have been killed since November last year when Uganda People's Defence Forces raided suspected camps of Allied Democratic Front rebels in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Army Spokesperson, Brig Felix Kulayigye, says in the first operation, UPDF and Congolese forces killed three ADF rebels, four were killed in …

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-10). Russian firm to make vehicle trackers in Uganda. plusnews.ug The Russian firm contracted to install tracking devices in motor vehicles and motorcycles will manufacture the devices within Uganda. This was disclosed by Noah Baalessanvu, an official who was part of the team that conducted the due diligence in Russia before Uganda entered into an agreement with the Russian firm, Joint Stock Company Global Security. …

Vijay Prashad (2022-03-09). Ukraine: A Conflict Soaked in Contradictions. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Mar 3, 2022 | There are wars in Africa and Asia and some are rarely commented on in the media, so why is Ukraine different? | Surprise and horror have defined the reaction to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. That's likely because although the intervention has followed the contours of a modern land war, it has also marked a break with the past in a number of ways. | The world has become used to military interventions by the United States. This is, however, not a US intervention. That in itself is a surprise—one that has befuddled reporters and pundits alike. | Even as we…

_____ (2022-03-09). Black Alliance For Peace Statement On International Women's Day. popularresistance.org As the world's eyes are on Ukraine on this International Women's Day, March 8, 2022, we are reminded of the disproportionate impact that war and militarism have on women. This is a reality that the women of the global South are acutely aware of because of the steady assaults on the humanity of peoples in the South executed by the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination. The militarized terror of the Axis of Domination in the service of their economic elites have been even more intensely felt by the women of Africa and the African Diaspora. | The socialist groundings of the day were expressed in its early unfolding. Indee…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-09). US holds talks with President Nicolás Maduro amid energy crisis and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the meeting between Venezuelan President Maduro with US officials, the killing of a leader of South Africa's shack dwellers' movement, and more…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-03-09). Ukraine Recruiting Foreign Soldiers To Fight Russia Triggers Criticism From African Nations. moguldom.com President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has openly called for foreign soldiers who support the Ukrainian cause to join in the fight for his country. As a result, some African governments have received reports that their citizens are willing to heed the call — and it is drawing criticism. On Sunday, Feb. 27, Zelenskyy formed the International Legion …

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-03-09). California Assembly Bill 1655 – Juneteenth Paid Holiday for the State of California. indybay.org One block from Old Sacramento Supreme Court Chambers the auction block of "enslaved" prisoners of war were sold. All along the American River Parkway, in the shadow of the early California State Capitol construction, enslavement of people of African Descent, Genocide of Indigenous Nations, Kanakas, Mexicans, Chileans and anybody with melanin pigmentated skin were not a citizen in 1849. Throughout the State same song…

_____ (2022-03-09). Sanctions: A Sanctimonious Word for Economic Warfare and Outright Theft. popularresistance.org The word "sanctions" emerged in the Middle Ages, meaning ecclesiastical decrees. Today it's a sanctimonious word for economic warfare, including even outright theft. Despite all the terror about what could happen in Ukraine next, Afghans are still facing freezing cold and starvation and the US has seized—not just frozen but seized—their $7 billion in assets on deposit at the Federal Reserve. And Ethiopia and Eritrea face brutal sanctions in House Resolution 6600. | The US has imposed sanctions on roughly a third of the world's population , most famously now on Russia, but more on developing nations th…

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