Category: Global Politics
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🇱🇷 Liberia Receives First 20 Deportees as U.S. Begins Plan to Send Up to 1,200 Third-Country Migrants
MONROVIA, Liberia — August 21, 2026 — Liberia has received the first group of migrants deported from the United States under a controversial new third-country transfer arrangement that could bring as many as 1,200 people to Liberia over the next 12 months. The first batch of 20 deportees arrived at Roberts International Airport on Thursday,…
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🇺🇸 The Plantations Behind America’s Wealth: Confronting the Brutal Reality of Slavery
By Pan African News The story of America’s economic rise is often told through railroads, factories, banks, agriculture and entrepreneurship. But beneath that familiar narrative lies another history—one built on forced labor, racial violence and the systematic exploitation of millions of enslaved Africans and their descendants. A recent examination of Louisiana’s Whitney Plantation and Woodland…
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor Charged in Transnational Drug Trafficking Probe
MONROVIA, Liberia — August 19, 2026 — Liberia’s former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been charged with drug trafficking, money laundering and other offenses as part of an investigation into an alleged transnational narcotics network, according to Liberia’s government. (Reuters) The development marks a dramatic escalation in Liberia’s ongoing investigation into a major cocaine trafficking…
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🇭🇹 Haiti: From the World’s First Successful Slave Revolution to a Nation Trapped by Debt, Intervention and Gangs
By Pan-African News Desk Haiti’s modern crisis did not begin with the rise of today’s armed gangs. It did not begin with the assassination of a president, the collapse of political institutions, or the latest failed international intervention. Its roots reach much further back — to a revolution that terrified the colonial world, an independence…
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US State Department Takes Responsibility After Africa Map Error Sparks Criticism
The United States Department of State has acknowledged responsibility for displaying an inaccurate map of Africa during an official conference in Brazil, following widespread criticism over significant geographical errors that misrepresented the continent’s countries and borders. The map, which was used during a presentation at the international event, incorrectly placed several African countries in the…
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Stockholm Syndrome: A Silent Nightmare for Pan-African Nations
Breaking the Chains of the Colonial Mind
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🇺🇸🇻🇪 CIA admits NO proof of Venezuela election fraud, yet US kidnapped Maduro
The CIA finally confessed what we already knew: there was no massive fraud in Venezuela’s elections. After nearly 20 years of spying, US intelligence found zero proof of electronic manipulation. 🤢 End of fraud narrative A declassified CIA memo, Summary of Select Intelligence Reporting from 2004–2020 on Venezuela’s Electronic Voting Manipulation Capabilities, admits “persistent concerns”…
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High Court Orders Seizure of Nana Kwame Bediako’s No. 1 Oxford Street Hotel Amid Multi-Million Dollar Legal Battle
The Accra High Court has authorized the seizure of the iconic No. 1 Oxford Street Hotel in Osu, a luxury property associated with Nana Kwame Bediako, popularly known as Cheddar, founder of The New Force and former presidential aspirant. The court granted police assistance to a court-appointed Receiver seeking to take possession of the property…
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Former Executive Mansion Chief of Protocol Finda Bundoo Released from Jail: What Her Release Means for Liberia’s Politics and Electoral Credibility
Monrovia, Liberia – Former Executive Mansion Chief of Protocol Nora Finda Bundoo has been released from the Monrovia Central Prison after meeting the legal conditions set by the court for her temporary freedom pending trial. Her release marks another significant chapter in one of Liberia’s most closely watched corruption cases, a prosecution that has drawn…
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Anti-Migrant Protests Trigger Economic Shockwaves Across South Africa
South Africa is experiencing growing economic disruption as escalating anti-migrant protests force tens of thousands of foreign nationals to leave the country, affecting key industries that depend heavily on migrant labour. From domestic services and food delivery to textile manufacturing, businesses are reporting significant operational challenges as workers flee amid rising hostility and insecurity. The…