RSF DEFECTOR: UAE TRYING TO SPLIT SUDAN
Here’s another nail in the case against the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
At a May 2026 press conference in Khartoum, Ali Al Tayeb Mohammed Musa, a defected Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander, stated how the UAE supports the RSF in the devastating foreign-backed proxy war in Sudan. As of April 2026, the International Organization for Migration reported 9 million Sudanese remain internally displaced.
What Musa laid out supports the Sudanese government’s allegations. In 2025, Sudan took the UAE to the International Court of Justice for complicity in g*nocide. Unfortunately, the world’s highest court declined to hear the case, citing a “lack of jurisdiction.”
What do you make of Musa’s comments in light of mounting evidence against the UAE?
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TikTok Flags Spearhead Videos... For Racism
Sometime this April 2026, The Spearhead was forced to take down a report it had posted on TikTok, a report which, according to TikTok, contained hate speech, specifically a racial slur.
The racial slur in question was “Niger”.
As in the independent, internationally-recognized West African country, Niger.
How did TikTok’s proprietary, multibillion-dollar, AI-powered content moderating system manage to somehow forget that Niger is a country?
And could this “bug” have something to do with the platform’s recent acquisition by the United States government?
Barra Hart reports for The Spearhead.
Benin Republic Moves To Mend Strained Relations With AES, Rebrand Image In West Africa
Benin’s new President, Romuald Wadagni, has been moving to rebrand his country’s unenviable image in Africa since taking office in May 2026. The head of state paid diplomatic visits to Nigeria, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in the weeks immediately following his inauguration. Of particular note were Wadagni’s visits to the AES, whose relations with the still Western-alligned Benin have been strained for over two years.
What do these visits mean for West Africa?
Uche Okorie reports for The Spearhead.
Mali Places Bounty On T*rrorist Leader Also Wanted By International Criminal Court
On April 25, 2026, the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) foiled a series of coordinated t*rror att*cks targeting several cities across the country. The Al-Q*eda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the so-called Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) both claimed responsibility for these att*cks, whose scale and orchestration suggested substantial external backing.
On April 28, 2026, Mali President Assimi Goïta addressed the nation, with a vow to continue military operations until the forces of t*rror were fully expelled from the country.
Since then, FAMa has carried out several successful operations, with technical support from Russia’s African Corps, to retake areas currently under t*rrorist control.
On June 5, 2026, it was reported that the Malian government had placed a $3.5 million bounty on the head of JNIM leader, Iyad Ag Ghaly, who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. The government also banned the use, outside major city centers in Mali, of the motorcycles frequently employed by JNIM and FLA in their att*cks.
As a member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Mali has faced relentless att*cks by Western-backed t*rrorists, economic isolation and sovereignty violations by Western-aligned African states, and endless slander from Western and Western-aligned media. Despite these externally-imposed challenges, the country and its fellow AES members have continued to record economic and political wins.
‘Tanzania is a Geopolitical Battleground in Africa’: David Hundeyin
On June 3, 2026, The Spearhead premiered its debut documentary, ‘What Happened On October 29?’, at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, a documentary which challenges the Western narrative about the violent, anti-government protests that rocked Tanzania in October 2025, offering an African-centered perspective on these “protests”, and exposing the nefarious, external forces behind them. This East African premiere came 8 days after the documentary’s West African premiere, which was held in Accra, Ghana.
In this excerpt from a panel discussion held immediately after the Dar es Salaam screening, Nigerian investigative journalist and founder of The Spearhead, David Hundeyin, sheds light on the true geopolitical role that the so-called “objective” and “unbiased” media outlets of the West play in Africa’s information space, and what Africa’s indigenous media must do about it, if the continent is ever to truly prosper.
Mali Court Sentences French Spy To 20 Years In Prison
A Malian court has handed a 20-year sentence to French intelligence officer Yann Christian-Bernard Vézilier, along with a $6,333 fine, for plotting to destabilize the West African country and topple its government. The sentencing, read on June 5, 2026, came nearly a year after Vézilier’s arrest along with several local co-conspirators by Malian authorities, and signals the Malian government’s determination to defend its nation’s sovereignty.
As a member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Mali has faced relentless att*cks by Western-backed t*rrorists, economic isolation and sovereignty violations by Western-aligned African states, and endless slander from Western and Western-aligned media. Despite these externally-imposed challenges, the country and its fellow AES members, Niger and Burkina Faso, have continued to record economic and political wins.
All 3 AES members have pointed to former colonizer France as a key sponsor of t*rror in the region – a claim which has been corroborated by their international allies – and France itself has made no bones about its intentions to revive its dwindling influence in Africa, and in so doing, shore up its presently crumbling economy.
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