The African Update

An anti-imperialist perspective on political, economic, and social developments across Africa.

Just three months into the new year and the Global South has been devastated by the desperate escalation of US-led imperialism that has declared open war on the multipolar world.

Last month, during his speech at the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, asked his fellow Europeans to join the US in recolonizing the Global South and restore the era of the Western empire’s dominance over the entire planet. This message was met with a standing ovation, with European leaders feeling reassured in their “partnership” with the United States. Africa, which provides the resources that power the capitalist-imperialist system, is obviously a primary target for these recolonization plans.

However, unlike the direct attacks facing other Global South countries like Iran, Venezuela and Cuba, the imperialists are using an indirect approach by utilising reactionary Africans to advance their interests on the continent. Neo-colonialism (Africans who serve the interests of imperialism) remains the greatest threat to our liberation.

In Ghana, President Dramani is playing a double game. In public, he espouses Pan-African ideals, praises our beloved Captain Ibrahim Traore and is leading a campaign to get the United Nations to recognize the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity. To an uninformed eye, President John Dramani seems like a progressive force on the continent worthy of sitting in Nkrumah’s chair. But if you take a closer look into Ghana’s policies, you will find strengthened ties with Ukraine, the US and France.

Last month, Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, was in Kyiv and met with Zelensky to discuss a potential defense agreement. “Ghana and Ukraine do not have a defense plan. Therefore, we decided to start negotiations,” stated Ablakwa. Ghana, which neighbors the Alliance of Sahel States via Burkina Faso, is preparing to sign a defense agreement with the terrorist nazi state of Ukraine that participated in an attack against the Malian armed forces in July 2024 which led to the death of 47 Malian soldiers and 84 Russian allies.

Another threat to African sovereignty which can be found on Ghanaian soil is the US military which houses a base at the recently renamed Accra International airport. This base was established in 2018 when Ghana signed the Ghana-United States Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). This agreement gives American soldiers unimpeded access to the airport, exemption from inspections and they do not require passports to enter the country. The imperialists and their lackeys claim that this is not a military base but simply a logistics hub, but the operations organized through this space demonstrates that it is indeed a military base that is serving as a key launching pad for attacks against the AES Confederation. At the end of December 2025, villagers in a Ghanaian town near the border with Burkina Faso recorded a US aircraft which seemed to be surveilling and doing reconnaissance in Burkina Faso.

To top it all off, Ghana has recently enhanced security ties with the bankrupt French empire. Last month, French troops were seen training with Ghanaian soldiers in forests in the eastern part of the country. The Ghanaian government claims these trainings are designed to enhance the ability of Ghanaian troops to combat armed illegal miners but we know that in reality France is attempting to reposition itself in West Africa in order to plan the overthrow of the AES Confederation.

In the neighboring neo-colony Nigeria, the dying French empire is also seeking a new base from which to attack the AES Confederation. Since 2025, Nigeria and France have signed several bilateral agreements relating to security, trade and even culture. At a time where France is in total decline, with talks of the country needing an IMF package and a President with a 5% approval rate, it’s hard to understand why Africa’s most populous country with the potential of one day being a superpower would allow itself to be subjugated by a dying empire.

Further east, the heart of Africa, the DRC, continues to be genocided for its massive mineral wealth with the support of its corrupt ruling class. The so-called peace deal orchestrated by the greatest force of evil on this planet, the United States government, has proven to have been nothing more than political theatre. The Rwanda backed M23 continues to advance through the country, slaughtering the masses and conquering more land. At the end of February 2026, two mass graves were discovered on the outskirts of the eastern city of Uvira. Despite the signing of the so-called peace deal, fighting between the M23 and the Congolese armed forces have continued in the region on several fronts. It must be understood by Africans that the single greatest threat to Africa’s liberation is the United States government and therefore, under no circumstances can we believe that it could be engaged in bringing peace to our continent. What this agreement allowed is for the United States to come back more forcefully into the DRC in order to control the access of the collective west to the massive mineral reserves found in that country.

The primary contradiction facing Africa today is neo-colonialism. And by neo-colonialism we mean the corrupt Africans who have chosen to serve the imperialists at the expense of their continent. It is through these insidious characters that the capitalist-imperialist system maintains its stranglehold upon Africa. The overthrow of the neo-colonial class in Africa is our primary task as conscious Africans. Like Kwame Nkrumah reminds us in his seminal text Class Struggle in Africa, it is only when both the indigenous bourgeoisie and imperialism has been defeated that the aspirations of the African masses will be fulfilled.