European Parliament Slanders Burkina Faso, The Spearhead Responds
In a June 18, 2026, session, the European Parliament made its latest futile attempt to slander the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso, a government which has given more to the Burkinabé people in the 4 years it has been in power, than the “benevolent” France ever attempted to in its decades lording over its former West African colony.
In this report for The Spearhead, Nuhu Guinko weighs the EU’s latest slander campaign against the facts.
Thabo Mbeki Explains Why African Leaders Rejected Muammar Gaddafi’s Immediate United States of Africa Plan
While addressing an audience at an event marking the 2026 Africa Liberation Day on 25 May 2026, former South African president Thabo Mbeki revealed that the desirability of a United States of Africa among African member states was never in question when the issue was raised by former Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi at the 2007 AU summit in Accra, Ghana.
The only point of divergence among AU member states, he said, was on whether to achieve continental convergence using Kwame Nkrumah’s bold, top-down strategy, which was favoured by Gadaffi, or via a more gradualist, regional approach.
Ultimately the gradualist approach carried the majority of the votes and just 4 years after the summit, Gadaffi was overthrown and m*rdered in a US-backed regime change operation that destroyed the state of Libya and saddled the entire Sahel region with political instability and a security crisis that persists to this day.
In hindsight, was Gadaffi right about taking bold, continent-wide decisions where the opportunity existed
Let us know in the comments.
South Africans Now Att*cking Each Other, As EFF Leader Julius Malema Predicted
South Africa is currently experiencing its latest “anti-immigration” wave. Under the provably false pretext of “protecting” their country from “crime” and “illegal immigration”, a noisy minority of historically-illiterate South Africans have taken to the country’s streets, att*cking Africans from other nations, blocking their children at the gates of schools, denying their families health care, blaming them for South Africa’s economic problems, and calling for them to return to their countries.
Yet through it all, the descendants of South Africa’s European oppressors, who actually dominate the country’s economy and politics, have continued to enjoy their eternal free pass.
Recently, videos have emerged of South Africans att*cking their fellow South Africans, after either “mistaking” them for foreigners, or knowing full well that these South Africans are, in fact, their compatriots.
In a speech delivered at a party event on May 30, 2026, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) founder and leader, Julius Sello Malema, warned that this was always the logical conclusion of South Africa’s “anti-immigration” wave.
While questions continue to be asked about the forces behind this wave, at least one of its leaders, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, has known links to the US government.
Niger Sets Strict Conditions For Reopening Border With Benin
Following his June 2, 2026, visit to Niger, Benin’s new President, Romuald Wadagni, has moved to mend his country’s strained relations with the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) member. On June 21, 2026, a joint committee formed by both countries concluded talks on reopening the Niger-Benin land border, which was closed by Niger in 2023 over security concerns.
The Nigerien delegation’s terms for this reopening were simple:
Benin must now choose between its continued subservience to France, and its relationship with the AES.
President Wadagni took office on May 24, 2026, taking over from former Benin President and full-throated ally of France, Patrice Talon. What this Wadagni’s recent moves mean for the status quo maintained by his predecessor remains to be seen. For now, Benin remains friendly with France.
Ibrahim Traoré: The Battle Over Africa Is About Uranium, Oil and Gold
Burkina Faso president Capt. Ibrahim Traoré says that worsening economic conditions in Europe are the reasons behind its renewed narrative assault on Africa in an attempt to snatch Africa’s minerals.
Do you agree with him?
Tell us in the comment section.
Ghana’s State-Owned Oil Refinery Records First Profit In 9 Years As Country Moves Towards Self-Sufficiency
In yet another win for Africa’s sovereign development, Ghana’s state-owned Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) has announced a net profit of $109.1 million for the fiscal year of 2025, its first profit in 9 years. This announcement, made on June 29, 2026, comes on the heels of years of challenges faced by the refinery under previous administrations.
Under President John Mahama, Ghana appears to be on a political and economic trajectory that echoes the nationalist vision of its founding father and Pan-Africanist icon, Kwame Nkrumah, who was a firm believer in the power of the sovereign African state.
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