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The Taliban’s defense ministry staged a military display to commemorate the country’s independence from British influence. The signing of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty in 1919 is commemorated at the event.

Rwanda made the announcement on August 5 that it would accept 250 migrants as part of the Trump administration’s expanding third-country deportation program.

Yolande Makolo, a spokesman for the government in Kigali, stated that Rwanda would still have the option of deciding which deportees to admit for “resettlement.” She continued, “to help them rebuild their lives,” adding that those who were accepted would receive training, care, and housing.

President Donald Trump’s controversial pledge to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history” includes the program.
Additionally, it is Africa’s third deportation agreement of its kind.

Five convicted criminals from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen were transported to Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, on July 16 by the US.

They are confined to isolated units at the Matsapha Correctional Complex, close to the capital Mbabane, pending eventual repatriation, and are characterized as “barbaric and violent” and rejected by their countries of origin.

Eight murder, sexual assault, and robbery convictions were deported to South Sudan on July 5 for 11 days. Whether a deported person was South Sudanese is reported differently.

The deportations have already sparked a lot of outcry, from Eswatini civil society organizations to South Sudanese attorneys who deny that they are illegal.

Even Eswatini’s government has filed a formal protest with the country’s government.

Meanwhile, foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar claimed that the nation already has “enough problems” and “over 230 million people” and that accepting 300 Venezuelans is against US pressure.

These transactions are unfair.

The US is armed against the most vulnerable by weakening others.

Trump’s established impunity is horrifying. In the name of policy, his family separations in 2019 caused his children to be terrified and alone.

Rwanda, Eswatini, and South Sudan, which are both developing countries that are already struggling to care for their own citizens, are now being sent by the US.

This is the truth about how imperious Africa is, according to Trump’s Victorian perspective, a desolate, unsalvageable continent that is deserving of respect or equal partnership. His perspective echoes a Western custom that was exemplified in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, where the characters of Africa are portrayed as “dark” and “primeval,” a land viewed as oppressive and violent, and its people depicted as incapable of understanding, feeling, or caring.

That’s not who we are, exactly.

Yes, there are challenges in Africa.

However, we don’t convert the underprivileged into pawns or use exile as a policy. Our unbreakable humanity is unquestionable.

Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting nation in Africa at 1.7 million refugees today, which is the largest number in the region. This figure is higher than the current total refugee populations in the UK, France, and Belgium under UNHCR’s purview.

Asylum seekers and refugees must bear a far greater burden on Europe.

These deportation agreements between third countries are not reputable.

They represent rebirth of colonialism.

When Africa still bleeds from the wounds of the West’s civil war, civic unrest in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, environmental destruction in the Delta, and the persistence of French monetary imperialism through the CFA, no self-respecting African leader should ever consent to participating in an organized atrocity.

Instead of the old warships, “Uncle Sam” now intends to transport both convicted criminals and desperate asylum seekers to Africa’s shores. Both groups in the US deserve assistance from home, where offender rehabilitation is extensive and where vulnerable people can find safe haven.

Europe may be the only choice if not.

Let the heat strike the empire’s architects.

Let Washington’s powerful, politically awkward allies bear the burden for good.

With per capita incomes that are only a fraction of those of their former colonial rulers in Europe, Rwanda, Eswatini, and South Sudan rank among the poorest in the world. It is absurd to expect them to bear the burden of America’s deporteees.

Gaston Nievas and Thomas Piketty’s study Unequal Exchange and North-South Relations, published in May 2025, examined the accumulation of foreign wealth over the course of more than two centuries. It demonstrates how colonial transfers, artificially low commodity prices, forced labor, and exploitation contributed to Europe’s development by 1914, demonstrating how European powers were already a source of nearly 140 percent of GDP.

Global inequality is still being driven by colonial plunder, from Juba to Kigali.

It is unacceptable to accept a return to the systemic brutalities that were unleashed following the disastrous Berlin Conference of 1885, during which European powers carved up Africa.

Sending America’s cast-offs to Africa is colonial exploitation repackaged for today, regardless of what Rwandan, South Sudanese, or Eswatini officials make in public.

This approach is not novel.

Many European colonies were converted to offshore extraction facilities and dumping grounds as early as the 19th century. Convicts and political exiles were exiled from countries like Gabon and Djibouti, where France is still a part of the world. Spain’s deportees from Cuba were detained on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea as a penal settlement.

Africa and the Americas have been dealt a fresh blow by the US, who has revived that same imperial entitlement. Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Haiti, which are the most feared countries in the US because of centuries of US imperial dominance and colonialism, are the most frequent visitors.

These nations exhibit the continuing effects of migration-promoting colonial legacies and geopolitical meddling.

However, both Europe and the West deny and denounce the repercussions of its past and present crimes.

Through centuries of colonial exploitation, Europe has undoubtedly prospered. For instance, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and the UK have impressive prison rehabilitation programs, as well as robust welfare systems, public health networks, and colonial-era-buildings.

Deportees can be taken into custody if they have both the resources and the institutions.

They also possess the record.

In wars that are widely regarded as violating international law, these same powers have eagerly joined the US in attacking and destabilizing sovereign states across Africa, as well as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Every intervention has caused new waves of people fleeing the chaos that Western armies created: powerless people who the West openly ignores or despises.

In contrast, Africa abides by the UN Charter and adheres to the rules. Even though we are bound by colonial debt to maintain our dependence, we respect international law, respect international law, and work for peace.

Africa bears the brunt of the consequences even though Europe and Africa both break the law.

The level of hypocrisy is astounding.

We won’t finance, legitimize, or leave the empire’s crimes behind.

We hardly ever have any influence over our own destiny. Our economies are under the control of the IMF and the World Bank. Old hierarchies are being enforced by the UN Security Council. Africans who are left behind are impoverished and starving because the G7 guards the West’s interests over us. The West continues to ingrain on the lives of people in Africa and the Americas as a result of structural oppression.

But we won’t be involved in any crimes.

We’ll keep our silence.

In the Global South, policies and interventions from Western countries cause instability, displacement, and poverty.

Let’s send detainees to those who built this system of oppression and still make money from it if the US insists on doing so.

The West must beware of its spoils.

Include Africa in it.

Send Europe to the deportees of Trump.

Living 1.5 meters (5 feet) above the rising seas, as my country, the Maldives, does, is what more underscores the urgency of climate change.

However, developing nations like the Maldives and others in the 74-nation Climate Vulnerable Forum require funding to deal with climate change.

By 2030, the most vulnerable countries will need an estimated $ 490 billion to finance their climate strategies, including mitigation, adaptation, and damage and loss. However, major emitters’ funding for climate change continues to be woefully inadequate.

It is an indictment of a dated, underdeveloped global financial system that ignores those working on the climate front lines. If a global financial system denies the most vulnerable people the chance to develop resilience in the face of climate change while allowing others to release the greenhouse gases that are causing rising temperatures, what good is it?

In this context, carbon markets have the power to mobilize urgent climate finance, which is essential for bridging the funding gap and advance climate justice.

Carbon markets are one of the levers that, by 2030, could bring in an additional $ 20 billion annually to V20 countries, according to the Climate Vulnerable Forum and the Vulnerable 20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20). This would significantly improve climate resilience, lessen economic losses, and help these countries pursue sustainable development.

Implementing national climate plans, or NDCs, would be reduced by half, lowering the cost of implementation, and supporting other development goals. While keeping emissions reductions in line with national priorities, it would also increase revenue for governments, particularly for those promoting nature-based solutions, mitigation, and resilience. The host nation’s carbon projects could experience a seven-fold impact as a result.

Many of the V20 nations, for instance, by preserving and recovering tropical and temperate forests, have unmatched abilities for reducing emissions and reducing carbon emissions. They are therefore in a good position to host important, carbon-creditable projects that promote both domestic and international climate goals.

However, these nations typically lack the expertise to access carbon finance and realize the full potential of it because they are frequently the least equipped with tailored market infrastructure, appropriate policies, and appropriate regulations. They also have the least access to carbon finance.

These obstacles prevent emerging markets and developing nations from leveraging carbon markets to promote sustainable development goals like decarbonization and climate-resilient economies.

Climate-vulnerable nations must be given the power to make informed, sovereign decisions regarding carbon market engagement and management in order to reduce the risk of carbon markets exploiting developing economies and maximize potential climate impacts and benefits.

To assist developing nations in integrating carbon market access into their climate prosperity plans, the CVF–V20 and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) are collaborating to do so. Climate-vulnerable countries’ multiphase national investment and access to technology are used to help them turn climate risks into profitable opportunities, as climate prosperity plans aim to do.

The CVF–V20 will use the updated carbon markets access toolkit from VCMI to assist its members in evaluating and managing their participation in various carbon markets, including those established under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

The toolkit will provide V20 nations with a step-by-step guide to important decisions, including how to address legal and institutional considerations and how to host high-integrity carbon projects that produce tangible benefits, drawing on the learning from VCMI’s Access Strategies Programme.

Countries have benefited from VCMI’s Access Strategies Programme’s assistance since 2021 in developing and selling high-integrity carbon credits that meet their needs. In order to address concerns about the unfair treatment of local communities, the Mexican state of Yucatan created best practice guidance for carbon markets, as well as a decision-making tool for the Benin government, which found a $11.3 billion climate investment gap by 2030.

Given that, to date, the international community has not provided financially disadvantaged nations with assistance to address climate change, initiatives like this are all the more significant.

These nations are strengthening their domestic capacities to attract additional funding for investments in climate, development, and nature while also calling for changes to the world financial system. Working with partners like VCMI to address the urgency and breadth of the challenges we face, climate-vulnerable nations are collaborating to find solutions.

V20 nations can use carbon markets to make wise use of them, both domestically and internationally, to increase resilience. Its very survival is dependent on it.

According to analysts in Israel and doctors who have worked in Gaza, the Israeli military, which describes itself as the “most moral army in the world,” may be regularly committing war crimes.

According to analysts, Israeli soldiers can do as they please without even needing an operational reason despite the fact that a long history of dehumanization, far-right ideology infiltration, and a lack of accountability have contributed to this scenario.

According to Erella Grassiani of the University of Amsterdam, who wrote about the moral “numbing” of Israeli soldiers during the second Intifada of 2000, “as far as I can see, this is a new phenomenon.”

She said, “This is new, not as if Israeli soldiers haven’t beaten and arrested children for throwing stones before.

There were “some kind of rules of engagement” in place, even if they were lax, but they still apply. She said, “What we’re seeing right now is completely different.”

Sport as a sport in the world of war

Israeli soldiers have long been accused of being brutally brutal while operating in Gaza and the West Bank.

Israeli soldiers have shared videos on social media showing themselves playing with their underwear, dressing up as women who have been raided, and wearing their dresses.

Additionally, there are reports of soldiers shooting civilians for “target practice” or simply to get bored.

The BBC began its investigation into Israeli soldiers’ killing of children in Gaza in early August. 95 of the 160 cases that were examined included shots that were not “intended wound only,” and 95 of those were in the head or the chest.

There are reports that Israeli soldiers have been targeting civilians who gather near aid distribution centers run by the self-declared GHF for target practice in addition to killing children.

British surgeon Nick Maynard, who made his third trip to Gaza since the start of the war, claimed that the GHF sites have been constructed as “death traps.”

“They’re compounds that have enough food to feed a family for a few days, but not the thousands of people who keep waiting outside.” They then open the gates, he said, “and allow the chaos, fighting, and even rioting to occur,” and then use that as a justification for firing into the crowd.”

The emergency room staff at the nearby Nasser Hospital, where Maynard worked, became aware of the nature of the shooting.

According to Maynard, “I was operating on a 12-year-old boy, who later died.”

“He had been shot at one of the GHF sites,” he claimed. Later, I had a conversation about it with a coworker in the emergency room who claimed he and other doctors had observed repeated and consistent patterns of wound grouping.

Wound grouping refers to the situation where several patients present with the same body part of an injury. Many patients who had wounds on a different body the day before come in with suspected Israeli snipers were either playing or using civilians to improve their aim, according to Maynard, who had previously told Sky News.

No control or accountability.

Israeli soldiers were portrayed as having no restrictions on their ability to shoot at civilians in Gaza, according to an investigation conducted by the Israeli magazine + 972 in July 2024.

A soldier who spent months serving in Gaza told + 972 that “there was total freedom.” The anonymous soldier continued, “If there is]even] a feeling of threat, there is no need to explain. You just shoot,” he continued. “It is permissible to shoot at their center of mass [their body], not into the air.”

A young girl and an elderly woman are permitted to shoot everyone, right?

According to a study by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), of the 52 inquiries the Israeli army claimed to have conducted into crimes committed in Gaza or the West Bank between October 2023 and June 2025, 88 percent were stalled or closed without any action.

Only one had sent the accused to prison.

1, 303 people were killed, 1, 880 were hurt, and two more were reported to have been tortured, according to AOAV’s investigation.

Even when footage of an incident, such as what appeared to be a Palestinian prisoner’s gang rape at the Sde Teiman Israeli prison facility, was exposed, the accused eventually received help from members of the Israeli cabinet, who included.

The Red Crescent documented the systematic torture of prisoners in Nablus Prison in the West Bank in at least 1967, leading to claims that the Israeli army tortures Palestinians regularly.

Additionally, there has become more offensive the dehumanizing language being used against Palestinians, which according to researchers is now used frequently in the army.

Israeli officials who allegedly denied that Palestinians were even human were uncovered in 1967, including former Israeli ambassador to Burma and now-Myanmar.

In 1985, a review of 520 Hebrew children’s books revealed that 86 of them portrayed Palestinians as “inhuman, war lovers, devious monsters, bloodthirsty dogs, preying wolves, or vipers.”

Twenty years later, 10% of a sample batch of Israeli children who were asked to draw Palestinians drew them as animals, most of whom were most likely in schools when many of those currently deployed to Gaza were likely in school.

According to Grassiani of the University of Amsterdam, “the dehumanization of Palestinians has been ongoing for decades.” However, I would say it is now finished.

Israeli soldiers have been attempting to retaliate against the Hamas-led attack of] October 7 from the very beginning, she said.

Author of the book An Army Like No Other about the Israeli military, Haim Bresheeth, described it as “like a snowball running down a hill to which there is no bottom.

He said, “Every year, the violence is ratcheted up.” The logical conclusion is to use civilians as target practice.

He compared Israel’s infantry to “it’s a new sport, a blood sport, and these sports always develop from the bottom up.”

A government minister in Australia responded to Israel by saying that “strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up or how many children you can leave hungry.” His rebuke came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Australia’s leader of “betrayal” as tensions deteriorated amid tit-for-tat visa cancellations.