Category Archives: Africa

May 17, 2012

Good Question: Why Did Somalis Locate Here? (Video)

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Over the past 25 years, the United States has admitted about 84,000 Somali refugees. Close to 40 percent live in Minnesota. “The institutions of this state, private or public, have an important place in the mind of Somalis,” Dr. Ahmed Samatar noted.

It is perhaps the least likely place to find tens of thousands of African refugees: the cold, snowy, middle of America. So why are there so many Somalis in Minnesota?

“Maybe someday they will enjoy the ice fishing,” laughed Dr. Ahmed Samatar, dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College. Samatar was born in Somalia.

As far as living in such a cold weather climate, “on the surface it may look bizarre,” said Samatar, however “there is so much goodness in this state.”

The Somalis are here as legal refugees, largely. The Somalis Minnesota story tracks to 1991, when civil war broke out in Somalia. Millions fled to refugee camps, many in Kenya.

Two years later, the first wave of Somali refugees were sent to Minnesota.

“In the beginning the U.S. federal government assigns people,” said Samatar.

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Posted in Africa, Immigration, Multiculturalism

Muslim converts in plot to murder British tourists in Kenya

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A widow of a 7/7 bomber is suspected of being the principal financier of a terror plot to murder hundreds of British tourists in Kenya. Samantha Lewthwaite, 28, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire intended to use a lethal cocktail of bombs to kill tourists in Mombasa, the second-largest city in Kenya, a court was told.

Detectives think Lewthwaite and British co-conspirator Jermaine Grant were primed to carry out their assault before he was arrested.

Muslim convert, Grant, went on trial for his part in the supposed Al Qaeda linked conspiracy on Thursday.

Lewthwaite was travelling in the East African region on a false passport when she was apprehended with Grant five months ago, she first gained notoriety when it was discovered she was seven months’ pregnant when her husband Jermaine Lindsay, also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, discharged a bomb that killed himself and 26 others on a train travelling on the Piccadilly line between the King’s Cross, St.Pancras and Russell Square tube stations on July 7, 2005.

She absconded and is now being hunted by the CIA, Scotland Yard and Kenyan police and is understood to be in hiding in lawless Somalia.

Islamic fundamentalist Grant, 29, from Newham, East London, refutes bomb-making allegations with intent to ‘cause loss of lives to innocent civilians’.

Their targets were thought to be the Serena Beach Hotel, usually packed with British tourists, and a shopping centre in close proximity.

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Posted in Africa, British National Party, Murder, Terrorism

April 22, 2012

War of the Flea (Video)

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In South Africa there are an estimated 38 000 commercial farmers. Since 1991 more than 3000 farmers have been violently murdered in more than 18 000 attacks.Farmers fearing for their lives and their land, feel abandoned by their Government. One farmer dies, and many are left without jobs. One farmer dies, and South Africa has one less food producer.

Since South Africa’s cross-over from Apartheid to democracy in the early-90s, an alarming phenomenon has been sweeping the country’s farmlands. With over 3000 white farmers murdered up until this point, some see it as a systematic racial genocide, others an exageration, and many write it off as a symptom of crime. Finally a documentary has been made to look at this troubling issue.

Farmers fearing for their lives and their land, feel abandoned by the government. Rian van der Walt, an independent filmmaker, explores South Africa’s bloody past and how it has affected modern day society in one of the most violent countries in the world, trying to understand these senseless attacks, where there is little or no relation between the violent murders and the obvious motives for the crimes. In a country where the murder rate is 34.6/100 000 people, compared to the USA rate of 6/100 000 people, violent crime is an everyday occurrence. In this feature length film, Rian will embark on a journey to meet with the victims and those left behind. He stands next to blood splattered walls and bears witness to the multitudes of graves of murdered farmers. Experts who have studied the psychology of murder and violence will share their insights as to why the degree of violence and torture is so different to other violent crimes. As food security becomes an ever-increasing problem, more pressure is placed on Farmers, who are directly responsible for our food production. One farmer dies, and many are left without jobs. One farmer dies, and South Africa has one less food producer. Lack of security on farms, land transformation and unstable, flammable political leadership are aggravators to an already complicated problem. If we lose our farmers, how do we feed our nation? Do we really want to find out?

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Posted in Africa, Culture, Ethnic Cleansing, Multiculturalism

March 7, 2012

Genocide with farm killings in South-Africa: a shocking testimony (Video)

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This is a 10 minutes extract from the stunning documentary ‘War of the Flea’ from director Rian van der Walt published in 2011. It contains shocking information on the genocide that is being carried out under ANC-rule in the ‘new’ South-Africa against the white minority of the ‘Afrikaners’ by farm killings or ‘plaasmoorde’.


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Posted in Africa, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Government

March 2, 2012

US lawmaker accuses Sudan of new ‘ethnic cleansing’

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“Bottom line — Bashir is using food as a weapon. We are quickly reaching a time when mere statements will prove wholly insufficient. If Khartoum persists in barring international access to these regions, there will be devastating consequences,” said Frank Wolf, a Republican from Virginia.


Representative Frank Wolf

A US congressman pleaded Monday for action to bring food to thousands in Sudan’s South Kordofan state, accusing the Khartoum government of new “ethnic cleansing” after a visit to the region.

Representative Frank Wolf said he went last week to the Yida refugee camp across the border in newly independent South Sudan and heard accounts of aerial attacks, arbitrary shootings and severe lack of food in South Kordofan.

Wolf showed to a Washington news conference videotaped interviews he conducted with women at the camp who said that Sudan’s mostly Arab forces targeted them for rape and other abuses because they were black and Christian.

“Clearly, ethnic cleansing is familiar territory for Khartoum,” said Wolf, a longtime critic of President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for alleged war crimes in the separate conflict in Darfur.

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Posted in Africa, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide

February 26, 2012

Libyan army deploys after deadly tribal clashes

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“As of Friday evening, 464 people have been wounded,” Ismail said, adding that the city was gradually returning to normal. Tribal sources said on Wednesday that more than 100 people had been killed in the clashes that pitted Toubu against Zwai tribesmen.

The Libyan army entered the desert city of Kufra on Friday where after ethnic clashes there claimed 63 lives, military and medical sources said.

“The national army is in Kufra along with revolutionary brigades under the authority of the defense ministry,” Colonel Ali Al-Sheiki told AFP, adding that stability had now returned to the area.

Sanusi Ismail, health coordinator for the southeastern city, told AFP that ethnic clashes that erupted on February 12 claimed 63 lives and left 464 people wounded.

“Sixty-three people were killed during over a week of clashes in the city,” according to hospital records, he said.

The death toll was 35 Toubu tribesmen, 21 residents of Kufra of assorted tribal affiliations – the majority of them Zwai – five Chadians and two fighters from a Benghazi brigade.

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Posted in Africa, Military

‘We want out of SA’

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A South African family is desperate to remain in the US, its members claiming they cannot return home because, as Afrikaners, they will be subject to racial discrimination.


The Voortrekker Monument, in Pretoria, a national heritage site – some asylum applicants have said they are targeted in South Africa because they are Afrikaners

The family’s legal representative has been contacting US academics in a bid to get a scholarly opinion that would bolster the asylum application.

The family, described by the law firm as “white Afrikaner farmers”, is among dozens of South Africans who, over the past decade, have applied for asylum abroad for a range of reasons, including fear of persecution and violent crime. Some of the applications have been successful.

When contacted for comment, the family’s lawyer, Rehim Babaoglu, said the family was too afraid to be identified.

“They were shocked to hear that a reporter was seeking information and they have no comment. They definitely don’t want to participate because of privacy and safety concerns,” said Babaoglu.

But Professor Mark Behr, of Rhodes College, in Memphis, Tennessee, and Dr Dennis Laumann, of the University of Memphis, have rejected requests that they help the family.

“I am not interested in assisting Afrikaners claiming discrimination in a non-racial, democratic, post-apartheid South Africa,” wrote Laumann.

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Posted in Africa, Culture, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Multiculturalism

February 6, 2012

Aid groups: 15,000 flee Mali amid Tuareg rebellion

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The Tuaregs, a traditionally nomadic people spread across the Sahara Desert, have risen up against the central government in Mali several times since the country’s independence from France in 1960.

More than 15,000 people including Malian military personnel have fled into neighboring countries since members of the nomadic Tuareg ethnic group launched a new rebellion against the Malian government last month, aid officials say.

Some civilians are fleeing areas where fighting is taking place, while others fear there could be revenge attacks against those believed to be Tuareg. Already at least one Tuareg family’s home has been attacked near the capital of Bamako.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says 10,000 people have crossed into Niger after fighting in towns just across the border, and the ICRC is preparing to provide food and shelter.

“Some of these people have been taken in by villagers, but the local capacity was very quickly overwhelmed,” said Juerg Eglin, head of ICRC delegation for Niger and Mali.

Another 5,000 people have fled to Mauritania, according to an official who works at an international humanitarian organization based in Mauritania’s capital. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to provide figures to the media.

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Posted in Africa, Revolutions/Rebellions

February 5, 2012

Entire young white South African generation has left the country

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Newsweek Magazine: “The most dramatic figures can be found among South African whites, who are leaving at a pace consistent with the advent of ‘widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict,’ according to a report by the South African Institute on Race Relations,” Scott Johnson writes.


December 16 2008, Afrikaner families showed up in their tens of thousands at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria to vote with their feet against ANC rule which allows genocidal attacks against their kin.

The Institute for Race Relations reports that there’s hundreds of thousands of young whites missing in South Africa. Newsweek also reports on the mass exodus of white, skilled families, asking: ‘why are the brightest leaving this most successful state?”

The South African Institute for Race Relations says this week that the young white men — aged 24 to 34 have mostly left the country now, and that there now are many more older white men than younger ones – when the reverse is the case in normal societies without wars.

There are two main reasons for this demographic oddity: the relentless murder campaign waged by heavily-armed, well organised black male gangs against white farmers: the latest murder toll is 3,038; together with the mass exodus of white, working-age families from South Africa ever since 1994 — and which Digital Journal has also often reported about just recently here.

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Posted in Africa, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Multiculturalism

February 4, 2012

SA farmers lodge formal genocide complaint against ANC-regime (Video)

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South African farmers in Transvaal Agricultural Union lodge formal genocide-complaint at International Criminal Court The Hague February 2, 2012.

Interview on European Parliament TV with Henk van de Graaf of TLU-SA:

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outh African farmers represented in the Transvaal Agricultural Union have lodged a formal genocide-complaint against the ANC-government for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, announced TAU deputy-chairman Henk van de Graaf today..

“The farm murders are not ordinary crimes but fit into the context in which the ANC-regime wants to rid itself of especially its Afrikaner- and other white farmers purely for political reasons. This is in other words, a genocide and a crime against humanity.’

This was the shocking message by the South African Henk van de Graaf, the deputy-chairman of the Transvaal Agricultural Union. He was addressing the European parliament’s international conference, attended by more than 50 European parliamentarians and other high-level functionaries from Great-Britain, France, Italy, Flanders and Austria.

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