China has been playing its part in the neocolonial fight for influence in Africa for years. alternatively of aiming for military presence on the continent, as the United States, for example, did, China became active in the "diplification of the checkbook".
The secret conflict for natural Africa is not over yet, writes James Corbett. In fact, it's just getting started.
What's going on in Africa?
Written by James Corbett
Six years ago I wrote "The Secret conflict of Africa". In this editorial, I drew attention to the degree of the penetration of American peculiar forces in Africa and examined the geopolitical reality underlying this secret invasion:
Even a brief review of the evidence shows that 1 of the crucial reasons why the US sends so many commandos to Africa is precisely to counter Chinese interests on the continent.
And, as I mentioned then, China played its part in this neocolonial fight for influence in Africa. However, alternatively of pursuing a military footprint on the continent, China has engaged in the "diplification of the checkbook", reinvesting its capital from the economical boom of fresh decades in infrastructure projects and another initiatives Belt and Trail Africa.
Well, here we are six years later. How has this fresh conflict for influence on the African continent been going so far? And where is this going?
Today, let us look at any key battlefields in the secret conflict for Africa.
Niger
If you've read my article about "The Secret conflict of Africa"six years ago (or if you have read it again now), remember that the starting point for this investigation was October 2017 article. in which it was revealed that 3 US Army peculiar Forces soldiers in Niger were killed "in a regular patrol with soldiers they trained from West Africa country". The attack was the largest fatal victim of the Americans during the fighting in Africa since the infamous "Black Hawk Down" mission in Somalia in 1993 and served as an emergency signal for Americans who did not even realize that there were American peculiar forces in Africa.
Yes, Mabel, in Africa. are American peculiar Forces. Thousands!
A failed mission in Niger led to a public spectacle of Pentagon arm-breaking, including internal investigation into the incident and A vague promisethat possibly in an unspecified future the withdrawal of commandos in Africa will begin.
How well did the thought of "we'll think about backing out at any point in the future" work? Not really!
Specifically, the issue of American military presence in Africa returned to public opinion last year erstwhile the Nigerian military junta overturned president Mohamed Bazoum, accusing him of "treason". How at that time, it was openly informed, the reason why the United States hesitated to officially announce Overturning coup d'étatIt was not clear how specified a declaration would affect American military presence in this country.
As it turns out, these fears were justified. WOctober last year The United States officially announced the takeover of Niger by assassination conditionand the fresh military government formally withdrew the military agreement with the US March.
United States yet and reluctantly agreed to retreat from the country, but inactive on April 25 American military signaled that No final decision as to when, or how, specified withdrawal.
Regardless of the origin of the congestion, the Nigerian junta does not wait until the US clears itself; they have already invited Russian troops to replace the American presence. In April Russia moved any of their troops to the Niger Air Base, where American forces are inactive stationed.
This does not, of course, mean the end of American military presence in Africa. Pentagon plans for Africa are inactive represented by the United States African Command (AFRICOM) which danger working with their African "partners" (read: hostages) to "realise US national interests and advance regional security, stableness and prosperity".
Pentagon Press Secretary General Pat Ryder, explained at a fresh press briefing that US troops inactive stationed in Niger and Chad will not be completely withdrawn from Africa, but only temporarily relocated to proceed their work on securing the continent for US interests:
While talks with Chad's representatives are ongoing, US AFRICOM is presently planning to regroup any of the American armed forces from Chad, any of which were about to come out. This is simply a temporary step in the ongoing review of our safety cooperation, which will resume after the Chad presidential election on 6 May.
The communicative is not over, of course. A fresh Russian think tank study based on interior papers of the Russian government saysthat the Russian African Corps plans to offer Niger's military government "the endurance package of the regime". It will include military and diplomatic support in exchange for access to Niger's resources, specified as lucrative uranium mines. If these reports are true, it confirms that the Secret conflict of Africa not only continues, but actually escalates.
Regardless of the results, don't be amazed if you hear reports of the engagement of American peculiar forces in the region... Assuming that these reports will come to the surface of mainstream reports at all.
Zimbabwe
Speaking of lucrative mining deals, here's a communicative for you: "China's investments in African lithium mines are starting to pay off by creating fresh mineral supply chains".
According to the above-linked article, lithium is an essential resource for the production of lithium-ion batteries that supply electrical vehicles, solar panels and many another net fraud accessories. Access to this natural resource is precisely the reason why China invests so heavy in Zimbabwe, a country that happens to be arrogant of any of the largest lithium reserves in the world.
Last year China opened a $300 million lithium processing plant in Kamativi, a tiny mining town in the state of Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. The first phase of the plant is already in operation and produces 300,000 tonnes per year of natural ore of subrumen, a mineral processed to extract lithium. The second phase of the task to start next period is to increase the production rate to 2.3 million tonnes of natural ore per year.
Although China's decision to open a lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe may not seem like a large problem at first glance, in fact it is A very large deal.. Lithium is an essential resource in the Green fresh planet Order agenda, and the increasing part of planet supply is under Chinese control. China is expected as third largest lithium manufacturer worldwide, they will share 24% of the full lithium production up to 33% next year. The Chinese besides control 60% of the world's battery class lithium refining capacity.
No wonder Uncle Sam sees it as a direct threat. Last year the Biden administration referred to the Defence Production Act in 2022 "to safe American production of critical materials for electrical vehicles and stationary batteries", including of course lithium. For those who follow at home, the Defence Production Act is the same national safety law for which created be emperor MEGA Trump in 2020 to guarantee these
So, yes, a Chinese investment in lithium mines in Zimbabwe is indeed A very large deal.. In fact, in a way, that's what the Secret conflict of Africa is all about.
Angola
As I mentioned above, China is not just a spectator in the secret conflict for Africa. On the contrary. While the United States threatens the continent with their peculiar forces and uses AFRICOM to intimidate African leaders into submission, China is busy developing its own model of extracting African resources.
Remember the military junta that threw Uncle Sam out of Niger? Well, the same junta. She signed the contract.Under which the China National Petroleum Company ("CNPC") lends $400 million to the Niger government. In turn, the government will repay CNPC not with money, but with oil supplies.
Meanwhile, in Ghana, the Chinese state-owned hydroelectric company Sinohydro invest $2 billion in infrastructure development in exchange for refined boxing in 15 years.
In fresh decades, many akin infrastructure resource agreements have been concluded between Chinese state-owned companies and African countries. However, a paradigmical example of the Chinese model of infrastructure investment can be found in Angola. In fact, it was in Angola that this innovative form of Chinese neocolonial diplomacy of the debt trap was initiated.
Angola stayed memorablely described as "a land profoundly cursed with natural resources – a tropical paradise full of landmines and hemorrhagic fever, budgeites and gold". Indeed, the curse on resources has hit Angola peculiarly powerfully in fresh decades.
Immediately after independency from Portuguese colonists in 1975, Angola has become the site of a decade-long substitute war between socialists supported by the russian Union and Cuba and rebels supported by Americans and South Africa. no of the abroad powers active in the replacement war were, of course, curious in fighting the Angolan people. They were curious in home diamonds, natural gas and oil.
When the fighting ended in 2002, Angola, in the face of force from abroad creditors, was to sign an agreement with the global Monetary Fund ("IMF"), which would supply emergency backing for the country in exchange for greater transparency and work for the state's income from oil. But then China dived with an innovative debt with a low interest rate of $2 billion, no liabilities.
The loan, constructed in an different way, became the basis for many later Chinese investments in Africa. Known as the "model of Angola", it was explained by economical nonsense in the 2018 technological work, which they wrote about "China-Angoli Investment Model".
The Government of Angola uses Chinese credit instruments backed by oil guarantees to finance investments. However, these investments do not represent the money transferred straight to the Government of Angola, but alternatively supply the essential resources for Chinese public companies to make infrastructure and industrial projects in exchange for oil and minerals. [. . .] Chinese investments are recovered from extracted and imported crude oil.
For visualists in the crowd, here is an infographic showing the flow of funds in this investment model in Angola:
The problem with this model is that these low-interest loans without liabilities are dangerous debt traps. Now, realizing the trap, more and more African leaders begin challenge the infrastructure investment model itself.
One specified leader is the president of the African improvement Bank Akinwumi Adesina, who in Last June, he tweeted: "The loans secured by natural resources (oil, gas, minerals) are toxic. They are opaque, unfair, corrupt, complicate debt repayment and charge the future of countries with mortgages. Africa must end with all loans based on natural resources."
Even Angola turned on this model. After oil prices fell in 2014, forcing Angola to pump more reserves to service Chinese debt, Angolan president João Lourenço admitted in 2019 that the Angolan model was not working. A powerful state oil company has not achieved This year, oil profits due to rising debt repayments and falling oil prices. Lourenço He promised to leave. from Angola's failed policy of securing the country's debt by placing oil on China.
But this is not the end of the Angolan chapter of the secret conflict for Africa. Not at all. How reportedThe Wall Street Journal, American financiers were happy to enter the vacuum created by the failure of Chinese investment capital.
For now, it seems that Angola – whether dependent on Chinese, American or any mix of these 2 – will not be able to escape the natural material curse soon.
Kenya
What, do you think that the hysteria of artificial intelligence ("AI") that has taken over the planet someway missed Africa? If so, Kenya would like a word with you.
Last month, U.S. Department of Commerce signed the contract with the Kenyan Ministry of Information, Communication and Digital Economy to "co-operation on establishing interoperable privacy systems and facilitating trusted cross-border data flows" in the interest of "using the power of artificial intelligence for good while at the same time mitigating its risks".
This agreement was concluded only a fewer weeks after the Chinese-African improvement and Cooperation Forum in Xiamen, China, was held in China in 2024, during which the ChiComs praised "the request to strengthen Chinese-African cooperation in the area of artificial intelligence" and pledged to "observate a human-centered approach and the principles of artificial intelligence for the good, justice and openness, deepening friendly Chinese-African cooperation in the area of artificial intelligence and further promoting the improvement at a advanced level of comprehensive strategical partnership and cooperation between China and Africa".
As if all this was not enough, Kenya besides signed in April "Investment memorandum"with the United arabian Emirates, promising that both countries will begin "to research investments in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence" and "to make data centres projects with a full capacity of up to 1000 megawatts".
So what do all these offers tell us? Well, they're telling us that the Kenyan government worked hard last period to put their digital future to abroad mercenaries. But they're besides telling us that there's a full sub-intelligence war in Africa between China and the US, that's what they say. Semafor in a fresh article "Artificial intelligence in Africa opens a fresh battlefield for China, USA".
As explained by crack repetents from SemaforKenya is not the only 1 that attracts interest in abroad powers to fund AI fantasy flights. besides Egypt, Rwanda and Mauritius have already published national strategies on artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa are at various stages of developing their own strategy.
These intergovernmental agreements are only the most visible side of the AI investment bonanza, which has taken place in Africa in fresh years, financed almost entirely by abroad capital. Examples of this phenomenon are:
- Google's African Artificial Intelligence Center;
- $30 million "the Gates Foundation's investment in a fresh artificial intelligence platform in Africa, which it claims will aid researchers to make solutions for wellness care and social problems across the continent";
- "Africa AI Accelerator Program" (Acceleration Programme of Artificial Intelligence in Africa) developed by IBM; and
- something called AfricaAI which, strangely adequate – despite offering many mists of defined AI services to African (?) customers – seems to call itself "NYC AI" on its page "Information"and talks about accepting artificial intelligence and innovation in fresh York. (Really, what is it anyway?)
Yes, the crazy pursuit of Africa takes on a digital form in the 21st century. possibly it is not amazing that both China and the United States are trying to attract these countries with investment promises and improvement agreements to gain an advantage in fresh (digital) gold fever.
And if you think a gold fever metaphor is simply a small besides much, that's not my metaphor! Not anyone another than Vice president Ghana (and erstwhile central banker) Mahamudu Bawumia He proposed this idea in pages The Guardian Last year:
When we see the fury of artificial intelligence flowing across continents, 1 thing is clear: Africans have a gold vein at hand. A rapidly increasing population of 1.4 billion people, 70% of whom are under the age of 30, combined with a immense increase in investment in artificial intelligence, creates a powerful prescription for Africa. We're not gonna sit around and wait for the remainder of the planet to collect our rewards.
These are strong words, but given how hard countries specified as Kenya worked to attract abroad investments in the improvement of artificial intelligence, it seems that any African countries are actually full prepared to "sit" at their "gold mine" and "waiting for the remainder of the planet to collect its rewards", if there will be adequate money from the deal from above.
In short: no Let us anticipate that Africa will shortly become a technologically advanced land of witchcraft, leading the planet with artificial intelligence technologies that will change the Earthbut anticipate that African data will be sold to the highest bidder by corrupt governments who want to gain on the latest technocratic trend.
South Africa
So far we have talked about the different ways in which the large powers of our times (namely Uncle Sam and Uncle Xi) compete against each another to gain the advantage in fighting for the soul of Africa. But if there is 1 thing on which all sides (manipulated, invented, fake bullshit.) the battles between the large powers can agree, that is, the deception of biological safety!
Of course, the U.S. government (whether guided by MAGA Jab Trump or Biden) and the UK government, and the Government of Canada and the remainder of the NATO gang pressed for blockades, masks, social distance, heart-stopping thrombotic injections, contact tracking and all another B.S. frauds.
But, like viewers "Corbett Report"They already know, so it was with China, Russia and the remainder of the false opposition crowd with BRICS. Hell, Xi and Putin even issued a joint message about combining efforts in a "fight against the pandemic of the fresh coronavirus" and committing to "digitalisation of a wide scope of different spheres of life" and even committing to the allegiance of the UN Agenda for Sustainable improvement 2030!
It should not be surprising, therefore, that the planet wellness Organization ("WHO") – the same global organization that facilitated all deception, transplanting Chinese madness lockdown to the remainder of the planet – worked hard to sink its claws in Africa.
In 2021, WHO set up the first MRNA technology transfer centre in Africa"to increase and increase the production of vaccines in Africa".
In a press release containing 1 of the most patronizing rhetoric that 1 can imagine, WHO boasted that she was here to aid abroad companies teach these stupid Africans how to produce a life-saving mRNA clot suspension:
The technology transfer center in South Africa will teach African producers how to produce mRNA vaccines specified as Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, here in Africa.
Foreign producers will share techniques with local institutions, and WHO and partners will supply production know-how, quality control and aid to get the essential licenses.
The creation of a training centre equipped with all the essential equipment that African producers will be able to learn. Manufacturers will pay for training their employees, which they must complete before production begins.
Oh, thank you, WHO! What would we do without you? ... he said absolutely no 1 ever.
Unfortunately, a public relations run ("PR") aimed at selling to Africans the thought that gene therapy pretending to be a vaccine is simply a large idea, and it did not end there.
In 2022, WHO wrote another A disgustingly condescending press release, this time informing South Africans that this mRNA center is "a foundation of self-sufficiency".
Last month, the planet wellness Organization (WHO) published a case survey on this subject: "MRNA technology transfer center: pilot task for transformative change for the common good?"
This PR propaganda was linked, as could be predicted, to a multitude of articles in controlled corporate press, praiseworthy The heroic nonsubjective of the task is to approximate the production capacity of vaccines to the same African populationThe eugenic elites are so desperate to eliminate.
Rwanda yet defeated South Africa, becoming the first African country to have a mRNA-producing plant and joined it six another countrieswho are willing to join the action: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia.
Yes, unfortunately, was a real pandemic caused by covid: a pandemic of technocratic madness of bioinsurance and frenzy of clots. Unfortunately, that pandemic is True, it is promoted by the WHO and supported by seemingly all nation in the planet and spreads smoothly throughout the African continent.
To be continued...
This is where I usually tie everything into a good bow and sum up what we learned today. But if you got this far, you know the Secret conflict of Africa isn't over yet. In fact, it's just getting started.
All I know is that the people of Africa will proceed to endure erstwhile their false leaders sale the continent and its wealth to those who offer the highest price. And the eternal game of colonial conquest continues.
Stay tuned...
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James Corbett is an award-winning investigative writer who edits, webmasters, writes, produces and leads The Corbett Report.
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