Western Traders Are Crashing Africa’s Cocoa Market
West Africa grows the cocoa that feeds the global chocolate industry, but when the market crashes, it is African farmers who are left exposed.
African countries cannot continue to produce raw materials while Western traders, processors and chocolate brands control the real value, the pricing and the profit.
The cocoa crisis is another reminder that Africa needs stronger regional control, more local processing, African-owned value chains and better protection for the farmers whose labour keeps this industry alive.
Is The UAE Preparing To Commit Another G*nocide In Sudan?
The externally-fueled proxy war in Sudan officially entered its fourth year this April 2026. Across the resource-rich North African nation, millions remain displaced, facing hunger, disease and violence in what many are calling the worst humanitarian crisis of our time.
The UAE-backed – and by extension, US-aligned – Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has perpetrated atrocities across Sudan in its campaign to seize resource-rich territory on behalf of its sponsors, with the regions of Darfur and Kordofan bearing the worst of the carnage. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are fighting to reclaim their country from this vicious militia, and what was once simplistically framed by international media as a “civil war” between “rival factions”, has quickly transformed into a new independence struggle, with Sudan’s gold, oil, arable land and sovereignty as the prize.
Recently, fears have been raised about another imminent atrocity by the RSF in the Sudanese city of Al-Ubayyid. In this report, The Spearhead sheds light on this latest red alert, and the malevolent forces behind it.
African Union Posts Anti-African Job Ad On Social Media
On July 5, 2026, the African Union (AU) posted this job ad on its social media.
For those who do not immediately notice what is deeply, unsettlingly wrong with this ad, it features five hypothetical job candidates, of which two are clearly of European descent, two are light-skinned Africans, and only one is a dark-skinned (and visibly much older) African.
There is nothing accidental about the message behind this ad, and its targeting at a continent with over 70% of its population under the age of 30, and predominantly dark-skinned.
It is certainly not surprising, given that the AU receives most of its operational budget from the European Union (EU) and Western organizations like the World Bank, and has been repeatedly accused of placing Western interests above the interests of the continent it is meant to represent.
It isn’t surprising at all.
It’s just disappointing.
The AU is directly telling the vast majority of Africans that their continent does not actually belong to them and that their interests are not its priority.
And it is left to the people of Africa to take this very clear message to heart, and respond accordingly.
Why Isr*el-Linked Billionaire Gave $554K to South African Anti-Migrant Groups
The South African anti-migrant movement might not be so influential were it not for one Isr*el-linked billionaire.
South African activist July Eccles (@july_eccles on IG) explained the impact of gambling tycoon Martin Moshal’s political donations on Johannesburg-based broadcaster @salaammedia_onair’s programme, “Xenophobia in South Africa: Is There a Hidden Hand Stirring the Chaos?”
A recent South African Electoral Commission report on political donations showed that the South African-born billionaire had given 9 million South African rand ($610,000) to anti-migrant political party ActionSA in 2026’s first quarter. According to South Africa-based Newsday, Moshal had donated 103 million South African rand ($6.35 million) to four anti-migrant political parties since the 2021-22 fiscal year.
Is South Africa’s x*nophobic sentiment actually smaller than what it seems? Drop us a comment if you agree or disagree.
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Joshua Maponga: Who Sends Guns to the Congo?
In this clip from South Africa-based radio station thevoicelounge_za, philosopher Joshua Maponga breaks down how w*apons enter the w*r-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Given foreign powers have backed a conflict that has k*lled and displaced Congolese for three decades and European colonialists plundered the country for decades before that, perhaps it’s best we not blame ordinary Africans for the vi*lence, corruption and underdevelopment.
Drop us a comment if Maponga has piqued your curiosity.
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Video credit: @thevoicelounge_za.
African Proverb Of The Week
One of the most tried and true tactics of Western imperialism is “divide and conquer”. From “favoring” certain ethnic groups over others, to arming insurgencies, to bankrolling separatist and/or “opposition” movements, the West has spent centuries fueling petty divisions in its colonies across the Global South, so that their masses are always too busy fighting each other to mount any meaningful resistance.
These petty divisions have robbed Africa of so many of its great modern visionaries, Nkrumah, Lumumba, Sankara, Gaddafi, and condemned the continent to decades of economic stagnation. And now that the winds of liberation are blowing across the continent again, the West is again doing everything in its power to turn Africa against its new visionaries: the leaders of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).
This West African proverb reminds us, as Africans, to always ask ourselves who truly benefits from our internal squabbles, and never again allow this enemy to turn us against our best and brightest.
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