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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Judicial Sovereignty for Congo and Africa
26 Mar 2025
Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Alliance of Sahel States Forges Ahead
19 Mar 2025
I spoke to Eugene Puryear, who traveled to the November 2024 Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Podcasting Star Mario Nawful Talks to Rwandan President Paul Kagame
12 Mar 2025
High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal recently produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. His team repeatedly asked me to record a six-minute response…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Commemorate Genocide against the People of DR Congo
05 Mar 2025
The Congolese Action Youth Platform (CAYP) is campaigning for the recognition of the Genocide against the people of DR Congo to be commemorated on August 2nd, the anniversary of Rwanda and Uganda’s…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Congo Activists to NBA: Black Lives Matter in DRC, Cut Ties with Rwanda
19 Feb 2025
As Rwandan troops tightened their grip on the capitals of DRC’s Kivu Provinces, activists protested the National Basketball Association’s close collaboration with the Rwandan regime.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor , Dr. Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad
Somaliland Pins Hopes of Recognition on Trump
12 Feb 2025
Somaliland is pinning its hopes of recognition as an independent state on Donald Trump, and Trump has suggested that the breakaway state accept Palestinians exiled from Gaza.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Kagame Did Not Invade DRC to Save Tutsis
05 Feb 2025
Rwandan President Paul Kagame sends troops into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to seize territory and resources, not to save Congolese Tutsis. Rwandan Genocide survivor and human rights…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Why Hasn’t the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC?
29 Jan 2025
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court (ICC), despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda Advances Toward Annexing DRC’s Kivu Provinces with the West’s Tacit Blessing
22 Jan 2025
Rwandan colonization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) proceeds apace.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor , Riva Enteen
Remembering Jamaica in the East/West Crossfire, Part II
15 Jan 2025
Both class and color barriers were broken down during the Michael Manley era, but class barriers re-emerged.