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Jason Arday, Drongo Company and More: White Supremacy, Turkey, and Imperial Competition in Africa
Daley situates the young academic’s tragic death in the recent history of anti-Blackness and marketisation in UK higher education, amidst performative diversity and enduring white supremacy.
Tagged under Global South & Transnational Struggles
The U.S. Army's July 15, 2026 activation of “Drongo Company,” a new Psychological Operations company within the 7th Psychological Operations Battalion, marks an important development in Washington's expanding information and psychological operations capabilities in Africa. The Army describes the unit as part of its effort to conduct psychological operations across “contested environments,” while reporting identifies its mission as supporting U.S. Africa Command.
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This essay examines Türkiye’s two-stage intervention in Somalia since 2012. First came humanitarian involvement during the Somali famine in the early 2010s. Once the immediate crisis waned, Turkish economic and strategic interests came to dominate its relationship with Somalia. It is as if Islamic humanitarianism was the trojan horse for Türkiye’s long-term interests in and exploitation of Somalia.
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The essay explores medical migration across Africa, examining how unequal access to healthcare shapes mobility, citizenship, and belonging, while considering the body as a site where political and economic borders become materially inscribed. Through the stories of Kamau and Dr. David, we come to understand the mid-level health workers who form the actual spine of clinical care in Kenya and the masses of Kenyans that eventually make it to their clinics.
Tagged under Labour & Political Economy
Allowing us to examine how migrants remain excluded even under the guise of inclusion, Uçkan examines the lives of Syrian refugees in Turkey, which demonstrate the structural conditions that render them invisible, stateless, and as a cheap “army of labour” without a pathway for integration and progression in their material conditions.
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Article 25 and Article 26 of the Constitution of Kenya provide full right to life and protection from inhumane treatment, but other legislations such as the 2011 National Police Service Act, serve as the legal basis that shields officers who violate those very rights and protections.
Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization
Bilateral relations between South Africa (SA) and the United States (US) increasingly depict how US coercive power has been less concerned with the veneer of diplomacy since the current Trump administration. In addition to SA’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against genocide in Palestine, the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act and the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act stand contrary to the policies the US administration seeks to see in SA. The article concludes on the constraints SA faces considering asymmetric global relations, and calls for building local capacity to protect autonomous decisions.
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The United States had helped force out Somalia’s most Turkey-aligned minister. He recently came back as Speaker of parliament. The day after his confirmation, he called Ankara - not Washington or the African Union.
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The Global Pan-African Movement, North American Chapter, regards the erection of the statue of Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu at Entebbe Airport as deeply inappropriate and inconsistent with Africa's historic commitment to the principles of national sovereignty, opposition to foreign military intervention, and solidarity with peoples struggling against occupation and domination.
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