Latest Global South news: Haiti intervention, Ecuador results, six months of war in Sudan, Gaza sources
Stay up to date on the global news stories the US- and Eurocentric media overlooks, with journalist and author, Tamara Pearson.
In this week’s overlooked, and ignored news about the Global South:
Preparations continue for intervention in Haiti - Earlier this month, the United Nations Security Council authorised a Kenya-led security force to Haiti. Italy, Spain, Mongolia, Senegal, Belize, Suriname, Guatemala, Peru, Bahamas, Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda have pledged to contribute to the intervention. The US is financially backing it, and is the political puppet master pushing for the intervention and controlling its terms and conditions. The soldiers Kenya is sending are specialised armed forces, not humanitarian workers. Source, source.
Important Amazon river in Brazil dries up - The Solimões River, one of the main Amazon rivers, has dried up, and the Negro River has also reached record low water levels. Source.
Ecuador elects big business right wing president - Daniel Noboa, one of the wealthiest people in the country, defeated progressive candidate Luisa González. The third conservative president in a row, Ecuador’s crime rates and poverty have increased drastically during the last two presidential terms. Source.
Six months of war in Sudan - Due to supply issues, Doctors without Borders has had to suspend operations like caesareans and trauma surgeries in a hospital in southern Khartoum. The war in Sudan has been going for over six months, and there is no sign of either side stopping due to weakening. At least 9,000 people have been killed and 4.5 million have been forced out of their homes. Source, source, source, source.
Attacks on Kurdish people in northern Syria - Turkish Forces have been striking infrastructure and military targets in Syrian Kurdistan. At least seven people were killed in early October. The Turkish Armed Forces destroyed water, gas, and electricity stations, thereby making an already vulnerable population even more so. Later strikes hit a refugee camp in northern Iraq, and 48 schools have been destroyed. Source, source.
Johannesburg cutting off water and electricity in poor areas and nursing homes - The water system is in disrepair, with 140 water pipes bursting every day in the city. The city’s privately-run water company has been blocking roads and enforcing payments, though it is public institutions that owe a lot of the money. Source.
Gaza: To counter the Western media coverage and the pathetic stance by so-called Western “leaders", here is some content directly from Gaza or by Palestinians. News: 47 Palestinian families erased. News: Israeli warplanes target bakeries. News: Gaza death toll surges to 3,859. Analysis/statement: No Room for Neutrality. Videos (trigger warning) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Analysis video: air strikes on the hospital. Photos: camps being set up. Analysis: 1,000 Gazan children dead.
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Useful reads:
The Kenyan-led ‘multilateral’ invasion of Haiti is a smokescreen for US imperialism
Decolonizing the South African climate movement
Colonialism Shaped Modern Universities in Africa - How They Can Become Truly African
Haiti: Two neocolonies on an island subject to incessant pillaging (translate to English)