African Stream

Since the return of Donald Trump to the White House in January, there has been an upsurge in right-wing propaganda against the government of South Africa - from claims that Pretoria is discriminating against White people to allegations it’s perpetrating a 'genocide' against them. The Trump administration has not been an innocent bystander: the president himself and his sidekick, Elon Musk, have be...

Join @AuthenticAfrican CEO Joe Hotagua, @AfricanStream journalist Inem Richardson, and special guest Maud-Salomé Ekila Bofunda—Congolese journalist, Pan-Africanist, and spokesperson for Urgences Panafricanistes—for a critical deep dive into Africa’s most urgent issues. In this livestream, we’ll explore the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and give you key updates from the Allianc...

For some, Israel’s attacks in West Asia and the Syrian government takeover are none of Africa’s business. Apart from the fact that solidarity is not transactional, events in Palestine carry a warning of precisely what the current global order thinks of the global majority: We are disposable. Additionally, Africa could have been where Z*onists established the state of Israel had the early-20th cent...

While more than 60% of the world's cobalt (used to power smartphones, laptops and e-cars) comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country remains one of the world's poorest, with over 73% of Congolese people living on less than $2.15 a day. A three-decade mineral war has fuelled the destruction of the DRC, with little accountability - despite mounting evidence that Western-backed neighbou...

Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Kaballo sat down with his father, Sidgi Kaballo, who is an economist, academic and Central Committee member of Sudan's Communist Party, to discuss the proxy war in Sudan. In this insightful interview, Sidgi Kaballo, who spent seven months inside Sudan from the onset of the war, walked us through his two-fold experience. He relayed his experience as a civilian witnessing the w...

There is a pretty straight line from colonial exploitation to modern-day neocolonialism. Few African countries process their own raw materials - rather, the value is added elsewhere, and the finished products reimported, much to the benefit of foreign-owned companies. Multinational companies hold enormous economic and political power in post-independence African countries, a colonial hangover that...

Britain’s racist underbelly was revealed to the world two weeks ago, when far-right riots spread across England and Northern Ireland - in response to misinformation about the identity of a triple child murder suspect, falsely claimed to be a Muslim asylum seeker. This led to over a week of racially-motivated violence, arson, looting and attacks on mosques and refugee hotels. In this video, we reac...

The UK is in crisis right now, with Black and Brown people attacked on the street, hotels housing asylum seekers set alight and attacked, Muslim women being attacked with acid and even graves of Muslims being attacked by mobs of the far-right. Oh, and we forgot to mention a small child on the streets of Belfast in the Occupied North of Ireland is heard shouting “P*kis out” “P*kis out” as she walks...

Venezuela has long been subject to foreign interference and meddling in its political process ever since socialist president Hugo Chavez came to power on 2 February 1999. There have been several coups, one in 2002 against Hugo Chavez and one in 2019 against the incumbent president Nicolas Maduro. Maduro's supporters argue that this is also happening again today, with U.S.-backed opposition forces...

Four Africans who grew up in the US/Canada recently travelled together around Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger to meet with grassroots organisations and ministries in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) - to figure out what is going on and what the mood is in the Sahel region. The Thomas Sankara Centre organised the delegation in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, together with the Coalition for the Eliminati...

Join African Stream’s discussion with investigative reporter Max Blumenthal on the power and scourge of misinformation in the mainstream media. He’s been smeared by major outlets over his coverage of the October 7th attacks against Israelis, while we’ve faced unfounded claims of peddling falsehoods by NBC. It referenced an Onyx Impact report that doesn’t even mention African Stream in its executiv...

For this episode, we will examine the war in Sudan—what many call a proxy war—and how we got into this mess. Sudan is facing horror “beyond imagination” 25.6 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity or worse. But according to, the outgoing UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, 750,000 people are under imminent threat of famine and with conditions in danger of worsening even further. Th...

Join us for our 11th episode of Pan-African Attitude podcast. We discuss the second week since Kenyans poured onto the streets protesting against the IMF-backed Finance Bill. We host two participants, Booker Omole, Vice Chair the Communist Party of Kenya and Wanjira Wanjiru, a co-founder of the Mathare Social Justice Center, who you might remember from 'We Lose Our Fear We Lose Our Power'. They ar...

Conflict has been simmering in eastern Congo since the mid-1990s in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, exploding into two wars that left millions of people dead. The fighting, which intensified in late 2021 and involved dozens of armed groups, long-running ethnic tensions and at least five national armies, has now reached a peak not seen in at least a decade. African Stream is hosting two gues...

The world is on the brink of war, following an uneasy, punctuated peace 79 years ago with the end of WW2. Decades of indirect confrontation between Middle Eastern bitter foes Israel and Iran culminated in a 14th April Iranian retaliation to Israel's bombing of its consulate in Syria on April 1st that killed 16 people. Israel is mulling over a response but had initially stated that Iran crossed a r...

Brutal armed conflict has ravaged the eastern region of the Democratic of Congo since the late 1990s. Millions have been killed and displaced, with some blaming the West’s desire to get its hands on the country’s resources. It’s argued they work with neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda, to support rebels in DRC who extract minerals then sold on international markets. Despite mounting evidence, Rwanda d...

It's been more than three decades of unrelenting violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mineral-rich east. So much so that the UN recently raised the alarm about 'grave violations' against children in the conflict-ravaged country. Since January, paramilitary attacks have not only left many dozens dead and hundreds of thousands internally displaced. Reports are also mounting of armed gr...

Muammar Gaddafi's spokesperson during NATO's bombardment of Libya, Moussa Ibrahim, joined us for a special podcast to discuss the 13th anniversary of the Western-backed Libya War. This is a story of how a former playground for imperial powers took back its sovereignty, the process of nation building, and betrayal of the revolution in an event that saw the West turn what was once Africa's highest r...

African Stream sat down with Ezayi Jules, a Haitian from the organisation MOLEGHAF (National Movement for Liberty and Equality of Haitians for Fraternity) - to discuss the recent events surrounding the Caribbean island. In particular, we talked about the Kenyan government's push to deploy police officers on a US-funded (and US-proposed) security mission to Port-au-Prince. Analysing the geopolitica...

British-Iraqi rapper, and journalist Lowkey joined us for a special episode of Pan African Attitude Ep. 5. We will be discussing the Israel lobby, South Africa's case at the ICJ, Israel's threat to Africa and of course Galloway's stunning victory in Rochdale and what lessons we can learn as Africans and anti-imperialists.

In 2018-2019, the people of Sudan took to the streets to fight for their democratic rights and demand that longtime Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir step down from power. He was then removed in a coup orchestrated by the joint efforts of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary. But what initially looked like a victory for the people soon spiralled into a pow...

African Stream has reacted to videos of Donald Trump, King Charles, Elon Musk, among others, but the one that took the cake was our reaction to CNN's expert on the coup in Niger. Shortly after July 26 it was evident that the overthrow of Western-aligned president Mohamed Bazoum by the military had popular support. For Nigeriens, here at last was a chance to kick out the exploitative French - and t...

Violence has escalated in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between M23 militants and the DRC army. Unfortunately, rockets and bombs have landed on universities, markets and villages, killing some civilians while others run for their lives. Many fear the conflict and the humanitarian crisis will cycle out of control as Goma, North Kivu province's largest city—home to 2 milli...

There's a new wave of people of African descent being given platforms to say stuff some White people want to say but won’t, for fear of being called racist. And here’s a perfect example. Senegal-born entrepreneur, Magatte Wade, reckons Africans should stop blaming their economic struggles on their colonial past. And she was happy to make her case to right-wing commentator Jordan Peterson who just...

Kenya's plan to deploy police officers to Haiti does not enjoy support among ordinary people. So, you can imagine African Stream's surprise at seeing a group of Kenyans donning 'Africa4Haiti' T-shirts at a 24 January event dubbed 'Hands Off Haiti.' The group's inability to articulate reasons for supporting the Haiti mission confirmed our suspicion that they were a crowd-for-hire lot. The phenomeno...