The author writes about Africa for Avante, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party. On August 4, Mali broke off diplomatic relations with Ukraine and accused Kiev of supporting terrorist groups operating in the African country and the Sahel region. A spokesperson for the Malian government

Deploring the “alarming” security situation in the Sahel, with attacks committed by “terrorist groups financed and trained by the West,” the Senegalese organizations expressed solidarity with the Malian armed forces and with the Alliance of Sahel States, a recently created collective defense alliance made up of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, which is fighting against the terrorist groups now aided by Ukraine.

Senegalese diplomacy, meanwhile, severely criticized the publication of the video by the Ukrainian Embassy, considering it “unequivocal and unreserved support for the terrorist attack perpetrated in northern Mali by Tuareg rebels and members of the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims against the Malian armed forces.”

What’s more, Sénégal “rejects terrorism in all its forms and cannot accept, on its territory and in any way whatsoever, comments and gestures that glorify terrorism, especially with the aim of destabilizing a sister country like Mali.”

Similarly, Burkina Faso criticized Ukraine and “called on the international community to assume its responsibility” in the face of Kiev’s choice to collaborate with terrorism “in a global context where there is unanimity on the need to fight this scourge.”

The Burkinabe government called on “peace-loving African countries, in particular, to condemn these subversive actions that threaten the stability of the continent.” And it called on Ukraine to “get its act together” and refrain from aiding the terrorists who “are massacring, killing, raping and pillaging” in northern Mali and throughout the region.

    • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      Why does Isntreal finance fascism in Latin America? Why do South Korean cultists work extensively with Japanese right-wingers? Why does Kenya aid the US in suppressing Haitian uprisings? We’re dealing with a global system here, one where all these different cogs (extensions of the imperialist order and of the AmeriKKKan regime particularly) work together to keep the world under the collective west’s boot.

      The current Ukkkrainian government does not genuinely represent Ukraine; it represents AmeriKKKa, and its Nazis are useful auxiliaries of the Amerikkkan empire, who provide plausible deniability (just like the many PMCs and other vassal states, etc), who don’t come with the political cost of Yankkkee war criminals returning home in bodybags, and who have proven their fanatical, genocidal, racist allegiance.

      It’s not Ukkkraine “financing” terrorism in Africa, if you think about it. Because the Ukrainian government itself, is pretty much entirely financed at this point (and controlled as well) by the west and particularly the US. Ukraine is just the middleman, since France failed to get ECOWAS to do so.

    • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      Dunno, but the Ukr gov outright stated doing so before deleting the tweet and pretenting to be outraged over getting accused of aiding terrorists.