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Geopolitics

The AGOA Extension: Neo-Colonial Leverage Masked as Benevolence

The US Congress is advancing a bill to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), but South Africa's inclusion remains uncertain due to raised concerns by US officials. This blatant economic coercion against a key African nation exposes how Western trade policies remain tools of neo-colonial control, threatening the very development they claim to promote.

Geopolitics

Unveiling the Neo-Colonial Mask: America's 'Conditional Aid' and the Continued Subjugation of Africa

The United States signed four new global health agreements with Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Botswana, and Ethiopia, totaling nearly $2.3 billion as part of its 'America First' aid strategy, which includes strict performance benchmarks demanding recipient nations commit their own resources. This is nothing but a new form of imperialist coercion, wrapping neo-colonial chains in the deceptive language of partnership while deliberately undermining the sovereign development of Global South nations.