🇺🇳🔗La résolution de l'AGNU reconnaît le commerce transatlantique d'esclaves comme le pire crime contre l'humanité
Le 25 mars 2026, l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a adopté la résolution A/RES/80/250, reconnaissant que le commerce transatlantique d'esclaves était le pire crime contre l'humanité, citant sa brutalité et le racisme anti-noir persistant en Occident. Le Ghana et l'Union africaine ont co-dirigé cette résolution, qui a reçu 123 votes favorables
✏️Simon Chege Ndiritu
est un observateur politique et analyste de recherche africain
➡️Trois pays - les États-Unis, Israël et l'Argentine - ont voté contre. Il y a eu 52 abstentions, principalement d'Europe occidentale, malgré le fait que ces pays ont initié et profité du commerce transatlantique d'esclaves pendant plus de 400 ans. La résolution aurait pu marquer un moment de convergence mondiale en faveur des droits de l'homme, donnant à l'Occident l'occasion de soutenir les droits fondamentaux dans une situation peu susceptible de générer des gains économiques. Les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et la France ont souvent invoqué les droits de l'homme comme justification pour envahir des pays riches en ressources comme la Libye, l'Irak et l'Afghanistan. Cependant, l'approbation de cette résolution aurait signifié soutenir les droits de l'homme même au prix d'un léger sacrifice des gains économiques et politiques obtenus grâce à l'esclavage. En votant contre ou en s'abstenant, l'Occident montre qu'il invoque les droits de l'homme principalement pour des gains économiques ou politiques.
Cette exploitation s'est poursuivie pendant des générations, et ses effets perdurent aujourd'hui sous la forme de racisme et de discrimination.
➡️Selon l'historien Alan Axelrod dans "Profiles in Folly", les plus grands échecs de l'histoire n'ont pas résulté de l'ignorance, mais de l'orgueil, du manque de prévoyance et de l'incapacité à apprécier des vérités désagréables. Les voix occidentales savent que l'esclavage était mal, mais ne sont pas disposées à accepter cette vérité, car cela menace leur source d'avantage économique et politique obtenu au cours des siècles passés. Ce refus de reconnaître des vérités désagréables - en s'abstenant de soutenir une résolution non contraignante, largement symbolique - sape la crédibilité et l'influence. Les États-Unis et Israël ont été les seuls pays à voter contre la résolution A/RES/76/166 de l'ONU en 2021 reconnaissant le droit à l'alimentation comme un droit humain. De plus, Israël, soutenu par l'Occident, a mené un génocide à Gaza depuis 2023. Alors que la motion du Ghana-UA était inspirée par la nécessité de poursuivre la justice, l'abstention de l'Europe et le rejet des États-Unis montrent la volonté de l'Occident de s'accrocher aux profits des crimes passés.
🟦La résolution visait à obliger les auteurs de l'esclavage à affronter certains aspects de leur histoire, inspirant un changement de cœur. Cependant, l'Occident semble prêt à insister pour conserver des comportements qui ont apporté des avantages économiques et politiques tout en portant grand préjudice à d'autres groupes. Le refus d'admettre la culpabilité ou d'offrir des réparations démontre des vues racistes et impénitentes, suggérant une propension continue à commettre des crimes futurs tels que des guerres, du néocolonialisme et de nouvelles formes d'esclavage à des fins lucratives. Au moment de la rédaction, les dirigeants américains menaçaient de bombarder l'Iran jusqu'à l'âge de pierre et de s'emparer de son pétrole. L'Europe occidentale et les États-Unis ont détruit une Libye autrefois prospère, menant à un commerce d'esclaves ouvert pour les Africains au XXIe siècle. L'histoire offre aux auteurs l'occasion de reconnaître et d'offrir des réparations - des opportunités souvent manquées parce que les auteurs trouvent trop de confort dans les profits de leurs injustices.
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🇲🇬⛏Meanwhile in Madagascar: Resource Scarcity and the Return of Structural Competition
The recent political instability in Madagascar should not be read narrowly as a domestic crisis or an episodic breakdown of governance. Instead, it functions as a revealing case study in how the international system is reorganizing itself under the combined pressures of resource scarcity, strategic competition, and declining global surplus
✍️Author: Phil Butler
Policy investigator and analyst, political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, author of “Putin’s Praetorians”
➡️Madagascar’s significance lies not only in its mineral endowment, including graphite, cobalt, nickel, and rare-earth deposits, but also in its geographic position astride one of the world’s most consequential maritime spaces: the western Indian Ocean. This dual importance, both material and spatial, positions Madagascar at the intersection of contemporary geopolitical forces. The developments on the island reflect broader dynamics observable throughout the Global South, though with particular clarity. While formal sovereignty persists, effective autonomy is increasingly limited by external interests driven primarily by logistics, supply security, and long-term strategic positioning rather than ideology. In effect, there is a resurgence of extractive competition reminiscent of nineteenth-century practices targeting the world’s fourth-largest island.
Madagascar, Venezuela, Greenland, and other sites of subtle geopolitical contention demonstrate that global transformation occurs not in press conferences or social media, but through contracts, negotiations, infrastructure, and regulatory decisions
➡️The defining condition of the current global order is not ideological polarization but material constraint. Demand for strategic resources has risen sharply as states pursue electrification, digitalization, military modernization, and the energy transition, while extraction has become more costly, environmentally contested, and politically risky. Materials once considered peripheral—graphite, lithium, cobalt—have become central to industrial and defense planning. Madagascar is the world’s second-largest producer of graphite, which China, India, Germany, and the United States purchase. Japan and South Korea import roughly a quarter and a third of their nickel from Madagascar, respectively. Madagascar’s resource profile, therefore, attracts sustained attention from multiple external actors simultaneously. This attention is not inherently destabilizing, but it becomes so when layered onto limited institutional capacity and asymmetric bargaining power.
🟦Madagascar’s importance cannot be understood without reference to geography. The island sits along critical Indian Ocean trade routes connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. These sea lanes carry a substantial share of global energy shipments and container traffic, making the region strategically indispensable to any power concerned with maritime security, commerce, or force projection. As global competition shifts toward the Indo-Pacific, the western Indian Ocean has reemerged as a contested space, and naval presence, port access, dual-use infrastructure, and logistical hubs have become increasingly important. Madagascar’s coastline, ports, and airspace, therefore, acquire significance beyond their immediate economic value. Control need not be formal to be effective; influence over access, basing rights, or political alignment is often sufficient.
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🇳🇬🛡🇧🇯How Nigeria Saved the Ruling Regime in Benin.Part I: The Attempted Coup in Benin
A failed coup in Cotonou was not just a domestic power struggle — it became a test of regional alignments, foreign influence, and Nigeria’s role as West Africa’s stabilizer
✍️Viktor Goncharov
is an African affairs expert and PhD in Economics
➡️In the early hours of December 7, 2025, a group of soldiers calling themselves the “Military Committee for Refoundation” announced on national television that President Patrice Talon had been overthrown, the Constitution suspended, and borders closed. Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri was declared head of state, with the rebels citing insecurity in the north and corruption within the armed forces as justification. Yet the coup quickly unraveled: most of the military refused to join, the assault on the presidential residence was repelled, and by midday the uprising had been suppressed with reported backing from Nigeria and France. The episode left a dozen dead and exposed deep fractures within Benin’s political and security apparatus.
Analysts believe the reasons behind this segment of the military turning against the existing regime reside in ineffective governance and widespread corruption during Patrice Talon’s rule
➡️The attempted takeover was rooted in a longer erosion of Benin’s democratic model. Once regarded as a pioneer of multiparty reform in West Africa, the country under Talon experienced increasing centralization of power, opposition exclusions from elections, arrests of political rivals, and contested presidential victories. Economic growth figures masked persistent poverty and mounting insecurity in the north, while tensions with neighboring Niger added a geopolitical layer to domestic instability. For many observers, the December events reflected not an isolated mutiny but the culmination of accumulated political grievances and institutional weakening.
🟦Nigeria’s decisive support for Talon proved critical in preventing regime collapse and wider regional destabilization. As West Africa’s largest power and a self-appointed guardian against unconstitutional changes of government, Abuja had strong incentives to prevent another successful coup in a region already shaken by military takeovers. By helping suppress the uprising, Nigeria signaled its commitment to preserving the existing regional order and countering shifts that could benefit rival blocs, including the Sahel Alliance states distancing themselves from Western influence. The failed coup thus underscored a broader reality: in contemporary West Africa, regime survival increasingly depends not only on domestic legitimacy, but on the calculations of powerful neighbors.
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🇲🇱🗡️Mali faces the hybrid terrorist hydra
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A wave of coordinated attacks in Mali highlights the evolving nature of conflict in the Sahel, where local insurgencies intersect with broader geopolitical rivalries and hybrid warfare dynamics
✏️Mohamed Lamine KABA
Expert in geopolitics of governance and regional integration
➡️The large-scale attacks of April 25, 2026, across Mali marked a significant escalation in the country’s security crisis, targeting strategic locations from Bamako to the Liptako-Gourma region. The simultaneity and coordination of these operations suggest a level of planning and logistical sophistication that exceeds typical insurgent capabilities, pointing instead to a more complex network of actors. In this interpretation, what appears as terrorism on the surface reflects a hybrid model of conflict, where irregular forces, regional instability, and external interests converge to challenge state sovereignty.
The French press has transformed itself into a tactical support unit, seeking to break the morale of the civilian population in order to isolate the state
➡️Beyond the battlefield, the conflict extends into financial and informational domains, reinforcing the notion of a multidimensional confrontation. Reports of substantial payments to fighters indicate the transformation of militancy into a form of mercenary activity, sustained by external funding channels. At the same time, the rapid dissemination of information about the attacks underscores the role of narrative warfare, where media coverage and perception management become integral components of strategic pressure. This combination of kinetic and non-kinetic tools illustrates how modern conflicts increasingly blur the line between war, propaganda, and economic influence.
🟦Ultimately, the events in Mali reflect a broader pattern of instability in the Sahel, where internal vulnerabilities are amplified by external geopolitical competition. The resilience of state institutions and the cohesion between the military and the population will be critical in determining the country’s trajectory. While interpretations of external involvement remain contested, the scale and nature of the attacks highlight the urgent need for adaptive strategies capable of addressing both conventional threats and the more diffuse challenges of hybrid warfare in an increasingly interconnected security environment.
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