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6 days ago
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Israel's Deadly Attack On The Holy Family Church In Gaza Is A Heinous Crime And Crime Against Humanity
The New African Charter International (NACI) is saddened by the unprovoked criminal and brutal attack on a place of worship in Gaza. In particular, NACI condemns in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly attack on the Holy Family Church in Gaza, Palestine on Thursday 17th July, 2025. It is reported that two people were killed and many others wounded in that terror attack, including the Church's Priest-Father Gabriel Romanelli. According to reports on the ground, the Holy Family Church is the only place of worship that until before this attack, that had survived Israeli aggression on Palestinian lands and territory. It is also reported that this Church was being used to serve as a sanctuary for dozens of internally displaced Palestinian families seeking refuge from the ongoing Israeli campaign of extermination of whole peoples, whole nations and whole regions, as well as the destruction of the environment. We condemn these and all acts of terrorism against all peoples. NACI is committed to a culture of peace, non-violence and respect for the right to life. The violation of life committed in this latest Gaza Church attack is abhorrent and speaks of an atmosphere prevailing in occupied Palestine today, where every living thing is a target for liquidation with no exception. However, we recognize that the ongoing unstopped genocide and race cleansing campaign on Palestinian Arab lands and territory, is aggravated by the unjust and race-filled structural system of the UN decision-making process, which allows Israel to launch brutal attacks on Palestine with impunity, and with no regards to international law and principles. This speaks of the absence of concrete action from the nuclear powers and permanent UN Security Council members-states, to protect and defend human rights and international law. While we call for a structural reform of the process, allowing for more efficient and effective approach in resolving international conflicts and a better protection of civilians, NACI demands an end to the grave injustice meted on Palestinian Arab people. The current situation in the occupied Palestinian lands and territory has been lasting for over half a century, and there is no defined hope that the United Nations would be allowed to shoulder its responsibility, to resolve the Palestinian question. NACI is deeply concern by the lack of alternatives to a violent intervention in the Palestinian situation. The latest Israeli attack on the Church in Gaza is a grave injustice and stands condemned by all. It is deserving of utter condemnation and repudiation by all elements of society, and has indeed been so condemned and rejected. For this, we appreciate the prompt statement issued by Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican, expressing profound sorrow over the loss of life and injuries caused by the Israeli assault. The Pontiff reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire to allow peace to prevail in that region. It is universally accepted that terrorism in whatever form or manifestation is unjustifiable and constitute heinous crime and crime against humanity, regardless of its motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed. War criminals have of late find it a luxury to export their trademark to targeted countries of the world that are on the list for destruction. In the face of Israeli brutality towards Palestine and other countries, the international civilized community must stand together to save humanity against actions of war criminals. We condemn the lack of respect of international law and the disregard for United Nations Charter, the core of Israel's regional and foreign policy towards its neighbors and humanity. More so, we call on the United Nations Security Council to retrieve influence on the situation and to organize in order to ensure security in the face of violence and to guarantee justice for all Palestinian Arab people, whether living at home or displaced or in refugee camps or in exile. It is thus incumbent upon United Nations Security Council to immediately, and by all means, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and other obligations under international law, including international human rights law, international refugee law and international humanitarian law, to stand with all victims of such heinous attacks in occupied Palestine and around the world. Our deepest sympathy and condolences go to the families of the victims in the Israeli attacks on the Church in Gaza, and wish a speedy and full recovery to those who were injured in this despicable act. NACI advocates the human rights and freedoms of Palestinian Arab people as they fight for their rights to exist equally with other human race and colour; and to uphold the rights of Palestinians to life. God save Palestine and Palestinian people!
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07-07-2025
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NACI Unreservedly Rejects The Baseless Smears & Insinuations Peddled Against A Trusted Friend To The African Continent
Dutch and German intelligence agencies came out on Friday, 4th July, 2025 with a new narrative, assuming that Russia is now using chemical weapons in the war with Ukraine. They went further to call for punitive action be taken to further punish Russia, and for continued NATO weaponry supply and support for Ukraine's aggression on Russia's sovereignty and territorial integrity. This claimed which was pushed by the Dutch military and general intelligence services, MIVD and AIVD, along with Germany's foreign intelligence service BND, accused Russia of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention. This allegation has been rejected by Russia as just another baseless piece of propaganda intended to embarrass the competent authorities in Moscow. Normally it is not the policy of the New African Charter International (NACI) to join arguments with former colonial masters on issues bordering the rules of engagement in war time. We cannot argue either with the German or Dutch security on the situation in Ukraine, because they have already taken sides to execute the unipolar world order, whereby countries like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, South Africa and more are top on the list for destabilization. They have the money, the technology and the mainstream media, to make the public believe they are always on the side of the truth, and any other opinion is considered an affront to western values. The current report against a trusted and progressive friend, and strategic partner to Africa, i.e. Russia, and especially when such report focuses on baseless smears and insinuations, we see it our duty to join the millions of voices around the world to defend truth against unjust attacks. Having read the allegation peddled against Russia, with its ill-intentioned goal, we therefore state as follows: The New African Charter International (NACI) notes with regret the unstopped race-filled propaganda and ethnic purification war that is being initiated and fought against Russia and Russian-speaking peoples. NACI vehemently rejects the malicious narrative in relation to the use of chemical weapons in the Ukraine war, which has been peddled by politically-motivated, war-profiteers and anti-Russian agents whose so-called concerned for human rights depends on spreading misinformation, disinformation and misleading narrative of hatreds. Such irresponsible and polarizing assumptions by German and Dutch security are meant to promote war, and against peace and reconciliation. NACI wishes to make it pellucid that Russia had reported in 2024 that hostile European countries supplied ban weapons to Ukraine, which are now used against Russian soldiers in the frontlines. NACI wishes to make it clear that the German and Dutch security are only concern with the clinical execution of the plan to destabilise Russia, and not to promote peace, reconciliation, understanding, development and progress. That one should speculate that Russia is using chemical weapons in Ukraine is outrageous and completely baseless. The allegations echo similar past claims, and this is not the first time Russia's military has faced such accusations that were given prominent headlines in the mainstream media. These claims have previously been fully rebutted by Moscow in detailed published technical reports, press statements, as well as in submissions made to the United Nations Security Council in New York. Such claims amount only to pure speculation, apparently designed as a last ditch attempt at milking the last millions stashed away from the European tax papers' money. This latest allegation came at a time when Ukraine was making deals with its European masters and US defence companies to step up the production of drones that are needed to destabilize the Russian federation. Denmark has agreed to provide its territory as a pad to produce Ukrainian weapons and drones on the Scandinavian soil. Ukraine has also been promised to receive hundreds of thousands of additional drones this year, with many more in the following year, to boast its aggression against Russia. Needless to remind politicians in Germany about their attempt to influence the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICF) for the case of genocide committed in Gaza, brought before it by South Africa, against Israel. Is it not hypocrisy and double standards at the highest international level for European politicians to unabashedly attacked South Africa for seeking justice at the ICJ, for the people of Palestine, and now want the world to bid their tailored narratives against Russia? For the sake of peace, we urge European leaders and the US government to refrain from making comments or statements which promote hatred, misinformation and misguided beliefs and to cease meddling in the internal matters of Russia through distorted facts. We urge caution at a time when the world is seeking peace and not violence, progress and not retrogression, good governance and not political gangsterism. God bless Russia! Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh Co-founder and President
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06-07-2025
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We Call For Peaceful And Political Settlement To The Crisis In The Republic Of Togo
Again, the people of Togo are on the streets across the country to protest against their government. As a result, protesters are now calling for President Faure Gnassingbe to resign over what the Togolese people say, his failed leadership in the West African nation. For the past twenty years, the world, particularly African leaders have watched Togo under the leadership of President Faure Gnassingbe. Recent changes in the national Constitution is what has ignited the current situation, which is dangerously degenerating. The New African Charter International (NACI) is worried about this instability in Togo and the earlier the international community, through the United Nations, intervene to save the situation is the better. We want the world to know that the situation in Togo cannot be addressed through pouring more fuel on the ground, but through peaceful dialogue and comprehensive political settlement amongst the Togolese people. It is our view that an eye for an eye, and a tit for tat option will serve no purpose in the situation in Togo, but only brings destruction, which is not good for Africa. We are concerned also about the deteriorating human rights and the destruction taking place in Togo since this protest, which began on June 26th, 2025. We call on all parties to not allow the situation to worsen because it's only the Togolese people themselves who will have to incur the loss. Peace and political settlement must be allowed to give expression so that Togo will not slide into bitter civil conflict. The New African Charter International cannot afford to see more deaths in the streets of Lome and other major towns that are witnessing the current protests. We encourage protesters to now seek peaceful end to their action, while the government must take serious step to address fairly the grievances of the protesters. There should be a clear road map to save Togo and the Togolese people. The international community through the United Nations must wake from the slumber. The New African Charter International (NACI) is an African-based advocacy movement that is dedicated to peace, stability, progress, development and prosperity, and unity and sovereignty of the African continent. The new Africa is not the old, oppressive, black neo-colonial, retrogressive, environmentally-degrading and subservient Africa. The new Africa is the one in which leaders are ready, willing and able to harness the continent's rich and abundant mineral wealth and natural resources for the upliftment of Africans, both at home and abroad. The new Africa is the one in which courageous leaders stand by their people, and are willing to defend, in word and in deed, human rights and freedoms of African people, to true independence and sovereignty. The new Africa abhors leaders who fuel fear or division among their people; and seeks leaders who can unite all of Africa, for an Africa that serves Africans both at home and abroad. God bless Africa!
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19-05-2025
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We Reject Human Rights Watch Bias And Libellous Report Against Burkina Faso
Press Release – The New African Charter International NACI Human Rights Watch behaves like any organic intellectual in the imperialist hegemony, fiddling around the edges and adjusting details. It plays approximately the same game as the European-based Cultic Empire. The dawn of the Sahel Revolution has led to remarkable advances in defeating terrorism, poverty alleviation, regional integration and unity, and a reassertion of sovereignty and true independence. France and the United States and their allies have been antagonistic toward the Sahel Revolution, and have concurrently pursued a covert foreign policy, aimed at destabilising the Sahel States of Mali, Burkina Faso and the Republic of Niger, and murdering their leaders, as they did to past progressive leaders across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean nations. So why has international instruments like Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other Organisations and the corporate media so desperately wanting to interpret the foreign policies of France and US, toward Africa? This affinity for imperialist and neo-colonial-driven agendas are not limited to the Sahel or Africa. Human Rights Watch behaves like any organic intellectual in the imperialist hegemony, fiddling around the edges and adjusting details. It plays approximately the same game as the European-based Cultic Empire. It is not the policy of the New African Charter International (NACI) to argue that Human Rights Watch is not among the recognized non-governmental organizations in the forefront of the global advocacy for promotion of human rights. But despite its claims to be an advocate of international human rights law, Human Rights Watch ill-intended mistakes and biased judgement and methodology applied on African issues are too numerous and too serious to ignore. More precisely, Human Rights Watch repeatedly focuses on vilifying the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and the Republic of Niger, while ignoring rapid development in the social and economic sectors that is taking place in those progressive African countries. The US-based NGO has also ignored the fact that the ongoing terrorism war was imposed on the Sahel region by those foreign powers that initiated and spearheaded the genocide campaign in Libya, notably NATO members-states led by France, the US and Britain. As a result, it routinely judges the African continent in a manner that promotes colonial and imperialist-driven agendas, and discredits governments seeking sovereignty and total independence from foreign manipulative mechanism. It is this bias that lies at the root of the spurious attacks on the progressive and visionary governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and the Republic of Niger, by Human Rights Watch. On 12th May, 2025 Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report publication titled: 'Burkina Faso: Army Directs Ethnic Massacres.' The US-based NGO assumed that the Burkinabe military coordinated the massacres of more than 130 civilians, most of whom were Fulani speaking people living in the west of Burkina Faso. Mass killings of civilians by government security forces, militias, and Islamist armed groups amount to war crimes and other possible atrocity crimes, Human Rights Watch stated in the report. The sad part of the report is that, no Human Rights Watch official or representative was present in where the said crime was assumed to be committed. No gainsaying the fact that recently, there were terrorist attacks on security bases in northern Burkina Faso, killing a large number of soldiers, and another in the south of the country that led to the massacre of civilians. Other military bases have been targeted as well, including also police and market places in the Sahel nation. The Djibo military base has suffered serious attacks by terrorist forces under the Al-Qaeda and its affiliate outfits. Many soldiers and civilians as well have been killed, and wounded in that security base. Day-in-and-day-out terrorist forces are unleashing mayhem and heinous attacks in the Sahel region. There are attacks recorded in the South of Burkina Faso, killing scores of security men and women, and civilians in Bousgou, Salemboare and Yonde villages near the borders with the Republic of Togo. While these attacks are being clinically executed, there have been arrests of foreign mercenaries of European nationalities hired to advance the genocide campaign in the Sahel region. Recently in Nigeria, a British mercenary soldier was arrested and investigated for arms trafficking to West Africa. These are facts, which the Human Rights Watch cannot dispute, but instead sit in well-dressed air-conditioned board rooms in New York and rely on hearsay to gather information, which it uses to spoon-feed the international community, as the truth and reality in the Sahel region. The title of the May 12, 2025 report and its contents assert that the alleged massacre of Fulani people in Burkina Faso took place in March of this year, and was directed by the Burkinabe military. The fact is that the HRW and other western NGOs, and the corporate media are hell-bent on an intensive campaigned designed to promote international capitalist system in the Sahel region. As detailed in this latest report, the publication is fundamentally flawed, using lies, distortions, omissions, and egregious double standards to construct a fraudulent and libellous narrative of Burkinabe military attacks on the Fulani civilian population. The report adds Human Rights Watch's obsessive campaign to single out the progressive governments of the Sahel region for destruction. Having stated the above, the New African Charter International takes a very strong exception to the biased, baseless, misleading, racist and hate-filled human rights report on Burkina Faso, which has been disseminated worldwide by US-based Human Rights Watch. The report should be seen here as nothing but selective, colonial and imperialist-driven, ill-intentioned and reminiscent of the game played in Libya, to kill Colonel Gaddafi in 2011, to destroy Libya, to unleash genocide wounds and loot natural resources and wealth of the North African nation. The question now is what really the intent in bringing out such a tendentious report that seeks to build a false narrative against Burkina Faso and other nations of the Sahel? Since the dawn of the African revolution in the Sahel region, under the wise and visionary leadership of Presidents Asimi Goita (Mali), Ibrahim Traore (Burkina Faso) and Abdourahamane Tchiani (Republic of Niger), the corporate NGOs and media have gone wild to promote anti-African agenda, to incite ethnic violence and possible foreign military intervention in the region. The three Sahel leaders have been selected for red-tagging and target for online harassment and vilification. In Burkina Faso in particular, the issue is now assassination bid on the life of President Ibrahim Traore. NACI agrees that the ongoing terrorist war in the Sahel or in any parts of the world should be a major concern, we are disappointed that the US-based NGO has failed to mention in all of its reports on the Sahel about the root causes of the ongoing terrorism in the region. The truth is that, violence between farmers and herders has a long history in West Africa. For Human Rights Watch to assume that the Burkinabe military is coordinating an ethnic genocide against Fulani civilians is fundamentally flaw, fallacious and violates Burkina Faso's sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is a sham and figment of imagination. Human Rights Watch should understand that, Africans can no longer afford to witness another genocide on the continent. The 1994 Rwandan ethnic genocide is now history, and we do not want a repetition of such despicable act in any parts of Africa. We believe terrorism is the most egregious violation of human rights, and yet the authors of the Human Rights Watch's report have deliberately decided to bypass the fact that NATO members-states and their allies initiated and are behind the ongoing terrorist war in the Sahel region. The report clearly reflected the view of France's former Economy Minister, Hon Thierry Breton, who once said: 'It was Emmanuel Macron's stupidity that opened the eyes of Africans. One thing is certain if France loses its colonies our children and grandchildren will go to Africa in search of their livelihoods. Immigration will change direction. Macron needs to go or France will suffer. Europe need to unite to fight this new African vision Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and other countries will follow suit. If one of the puschists' heads falls, the others will abandon the vision. Africa has no history therefore, cannot run the world.' One only needs to take a look at the comments above to illustrate the ludicrousness of the Human Rights Watch's report. The timing of the report puts the credibility of Human Rights Watch at its lowest ebb. We warn the HRW against attempt to dabble into the politics of the Sahel region, and refrain from setting a dangerous precedent in the work of international NGOs across Africa. Despite this report, we would like to assure the international community that no set-up conspiracy theory can distract the Sahel leaders from their responsibility of protecting and defending sovereignty and territorial integrity of the three countries that made up of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), which includes Mali, Burkina Faso and the Republic of Niger. Not even the aggressive rhetoric of France's former Economy Minister, Thierry Breton can distract the resolved of the Sahel leaders, to bail their region out of the mess left behind by colonial France and its puppets in the region. Much as the New African Charter International is concerned, the report peddled around by Human Rights Watch does not reflect the actual situation in the Sahel region. It only succeeded in projecting the current situation in a gloomy and negative light with a political intent to justify US and France overt and covert attacks and plots to destabilize Burkina Faso and by extension, to assassinate President Ibrahim Traore. We want to make it crystal clear that the Human Rights Watch deliberately dodged in its report the commitment of the Government of President Ibrahim Traore, to ensure law and order in areas of Burkina Faso held by Al-Qaeda terrorist outfit and its affiliates. Burkina Faso and the other Sahel nations, Mali and the Republic of Niger are committed to ensuring the fulfilment of their international obligations, and they need no one to inform or remind them of their human rights obligations in their countries. Since the Human Rights Watch believes it operates in more than 100 countries, it should now redirect its mission on peace, development, sovereignty and dignity of Africa, and to refocus on providing support to the Sahel nations in building institutions to protect human rights in the region. It should devote itself to monitoring human rights violations and environmental degradation by some European states against the people of Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and Asia regions. We conclude by demanding the Human Rights Watch, to make a clear and unqualified apology and retraction for its missteps and biased report. We warn the US-based NGO against dispensing allegations without proof; rather than attacking the Burkinabe army for its successes in the frontlines against terrorism actions, we urge the Human Rights Watch to display sincere commitment to fair, ethical and competent reporting about Africa. God save Africa!
