Fátima

🕷 Abolishing the architecture of Black death| Combating the weaponisation of the R2P|Dismantling the death machinery is justice! In love with Human Nature🧶

[Fátima @SalBinta]

The slave patrol in Africa, 2026.

Six Nigerian nationals have been extradited from South Africa to the United States to face charges of wire fraud and money laundering in relation to an alleged online romance scam.

But the legal question is bigger than this individual case.
Why were they extradited to the United States at all?
If the men were arrested in South Africa, and if they are Nigerian nationals, then there are obvious legal alternatives. South Africa could prosecute crimes committed from its territory. Nigeria could request their return and prosecute its own nationals. Regional cooperation could be used. African courts and African criminal justice systems could deal with African defendants.

So why must Black African men be transferred into the U.S. penal system?

Extradition is not neutral. It is not just “cooperation.” It is the movement of a person’s body from one sovereign jurisdiction into another state’s machinery of punishment. And when that receiving state is the United States, the question becomes even more serious.

The United States has one of the largest prison populations in the world. Black people are imprisoned at profoundly disproportionate rates. Its penal system is historically connected to slavery, slave patrols, convict leasing, Jim Crow criminalisation, prison labour, mass incarceration, immigration detention, private contractors, and the prison-industrial complex.

So when African states extradite Black nationals into that system, they are not sending them into a neutral legal space. They are transferring them into a state whose punishment system has repeatedly turned Black captivity into governance, labour, surveillance, and profit.

That should matter in extradition law.

Extradition treaties cannot be treated as if all receiving states are equal. A country with a documented history of racialised mass incarceration should not be given automatic access to African bodies. African states should be asking whether extradition to the United States exposes Black defendants to a system structurally hostile to them.

We already know that international law recognises limits on extradition. States can refuse extradition where there is a risk of torture, political persecution, unfair trial, the death penalty, or serious human rights violations. So why is racialised mass incarceration not treated as a serious legal concern?

Why is the prison-industrial complex not part of the extradition analysis?

Why is anti-Black punishment treated as background noise instead of legal risk?

This is not about saying that fraud should not be prosecuted. It should be. But prosecution does not have to mean surrendering African nationals to the United States.

If the alleged conduct involved South African territory, South Africa can prosecute.

If the accused are Nigerian nationals, Nigeria can prosecute.

If the crimes were transnational, African states can cooperate.

What is unacceptable is the assumption that justice only becomes serious when African bodies are delivered to Western courts.

There is something deeply disturbing about this.
Centuries ago, European and American systems crossed oceans to capture Black people from Africa and turn them into labour, property, punishment, and profit. Today, under the language of extradition, prosecution, cybercrime, and international cooperation, Black African bodies are again moved across borders into systems that continue to profit from captivity.

The form has changed.
The structure is still recognisable.
Capture.
Transfer.
Custody.
Punishment.
Labour.
Profit.
And African states are assisting.
That is the scandal.

African governments must stop treating extradition to the United States as routine. They should review every extradition treaty with countries that maintain racialised prison systems, private detention economies, prison labour regimes, and mass incarceration structures.

There should be a presumption against extraditing African nationals into jurisdictions where Black people are disproportionately imprisoned and where punishment is entangled with profit.

If prosecution is necessary, prosecute here.
If evidence is needed, share evidence.
If witnesses are abroad, use mutual legal assistance.
If money was stolen, recover assets.
But do not automatically surrender African people into the American prison system.
Because this is not only a criminal law issue.
It is a sovereignty issue.
It is a racial justice issue.
It is a post-slavery issue.

And it forces us to ask a brutal question:
How did we reach a point where the United States, a country built through Black captivity and still marked by racialised mass incarceration, can come to Africa and remove Black people into its prisons with the consent of African states?

What exactly are African governments protecting?
Justice?

Or the continued transfer of Black bodies into Western systems of punishment?

@_AfricanUnion @AUC_PAPS @achpr_cadhp @AfCHPR @ecowas_cedeao @SADC_News @courtecowas @court_afchpr
#AfricanJurisdiction #AfricanCourts #AfricanJustice #AfricanUnion #AfricanSovereignty #InternationalLaw #CriminalLaw #TransnationalCrime #DueProcess #MutualLegalAssistance #RuleOfLaw #PostSlaveryJustice #PrisonIndustrialComplex #MassIncarceration #Nigeria

[Nathalie Yamb @Nath_Yamb]

Ibrahim Traoré: Dorénavant, si on prend un espion français chez nous, c’est la peine de mort. Si on attrape un proxy, c’est la peine de mort. Si on prend un de leurs agents traitre local, c’est la peine de mort.

Moi: Voilà!!!! 🙌🏽

[African News feed. @africansinnews]

At the UN, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) denounced what it described as false narratives about Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. AES foreign ministers reaffirmed the confederation as a “geopolitical reality” and accused Ukraine of supporting armed groups in the Sahel.

[Sudan News أخبار السودان 🇸🇩 @Sudan_tweet]

بعض المنتمين للتحالف المدني الديمقراطي لقوى الثورة يريدون ديمقراطية تتسع لكل #السودان، لكن صدورهم لا تتسع لرأي مواطن واحد يخالفهم!
يبدو أن حرية التعبير في مشروع التحالف مكفولة للجميع، بشرط أن يردد ويصفق الجميع لرؤية المتحالفين ومن خلفهم.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Legacy media in a nutshell

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

That's impossible! I was told by Trump and Hegseth that the Iranian military was destroyed!

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

No. They didn’t refuse because it’s too political. They’re just not interested in being part of israel’s lies and propaganda to manufacture consent for genocide.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

There’s been a lot of discourse about Abdul El-Sayed’s Ezra Klein interview wrt Palestine but Klein’s anti M4All propaganda is insane. “Vermont tried Medicare for all just a few years ago”? California tried and failed? Is he serious? Vermont failed (12 years ago) bc 5 people live there and the pool is too small. California Dems have gotten paid off to scuttle it again and again. People like AES have got to stop treating these arguments like Klein’s a good faith actor.

[Kiss Me Quikk @Kiss_Mequikk]

Why Ghana flagged and declined to sign the new USA Health Compact Agreement.

President Mahama disclosed that Ghana flagged several issues in a health compact proposed by the U.S. as a replacement for USAID funding.

JDM explains 👇🏽

[News Central TV @NewsCentralTV]

"We have reliable security reports that over 2,000 armed men are trying to infiltrate Plateau State and attack on multiple fronts."

Rev. Gideon Para-Mallam says attacks on Plateau communities have involved movements from neighbouring states, calling for sustained security collaboration.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Cameroon has some of the continent’s greatest innovators, yet most Cameroonians have never heard of them. These are the stories that belong in history class. Instead, the curriculum keeps circling the Foumban Conference.

Le continent pour une raison. 🇨🇲

[CGTN Africa @cgtnafrica]

Mauritania's Coast Guard rescued 260 migrants, including 17 children, from two boats off the country's Atlantic coast on Sunday. The migrants had departed from Banjul in The Gambia and were in distress after running out of food and experiencing fuel and navigation problems, the Coast Guard said. The vessels were spotted off the coast of the capital, Nouakchott, after spending about seven days at sea, it added. (📸 VCG)

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Once a typical Nigerian influencer starts seeing small money, the next thing that follows is a sense of insulation. They are depoliticized and desensitized. They lose sight of how individual choices, when aggregated, produce collective outcomes. “Allow people to do what makes them happy” will become their mantra.

Of course, the system is designed to reward them for successfully reaching the top of the pyramid through arse-licking. A few gigs here and there. Direct and indirect funding. At this point, life can't be any better for them. They have successfully escaped poverty. Or so they think. Collectivity no longer matters.

Until they make enough money to buy a Bugatti, park it somewhere in Lagos, and watch as Agberos surround it demanding money and threatening to damage it. Then they will suddenly start complaining about symptoms, with no understanding of the disease.

SMH.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

It has come to that: The witnesses are being prosecuted for the crime of having... witnessed the crime!

This is a warning to every European. BEWARE: As a European citizen you may be prosecuted by a EU member-state for merely documenting suspect - often criminal - acts by the authorities of an EU member-state.

The case of Tommy Olsen, and his current prosecution in Rhodes, Greece, should make us all ask again the most pertinent of questions: Who will protect us from our (supposed) protectors?

WHO IS TOMMY OLSEN?

Tommy Olsen is the Norwegian founder of Aegean Boat Report, an independent organisation established to monitor and document what happens to people crossing the Aegean Sea and arriving on the Greek islands. ABR documents arrivals, distress situations, disappearances, pushbacks and human-rights violations and provides information and
documentation to journalists, lawyers and human-rights organisations.

Olsen has been doing this important work since 2017. The criminal case concerns activities Greek authorities link to his work with refugees and people seeking asylum.

TOMMY'S PROSECUTION

The Greek authorities previously sought his surrender under a European Arrest Warrant. Olsen was arrested at his home in Tromso on 16 March 2026.

On 15 May, the Halogaland Court of Appeal refused to
surrender him.

THE NORWEGIAN DECISION

On 16 March 2026, Olsen was arrested in Norway under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Greece. Greece soughthis surrender for prosecution. On 15 May 2026, the Halogaland Court of Appeal refused surrender.

Amnesty International reported that the court confirmed that the actions for which Olsen is prosecuted in Greece are not punishable under Norwegian law and that the charges represent a "real risk of violation of his freedom of expression".

Human Rights Watch reported that the appeals court unanimously recognised that the acts described by
Greek authorities did not constitute criminal offences under Norwegian law and that surrender would risk violating

THE GREEK AUTHORITIES' CHARGES

Greek counsel has confirmed the following public wording of the charges:

1. Establishing and participating in a criminal organisation.
2. Facilitating the unlawful entry into Greek territory of third-country nationals without the legally required
border checks, jointly, in respect of multiple persons, for profit and on a professional basis.
3. Facilitating the unlawful stay of third-country nationals in Greek territory, in respect of multiple persons and for profit.

Olsen denies the charges.

LET'S END THIS TRAVESTY. PROSECUTE CRIMES. NOT THOSE WHO WITNESS THEM.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the US is objectively the bad guy in virtually every war in its history.

[Dépêche AES ✍🏽 @DepecheAES]

Il ne faut jamais baisser la garde face aux ambitions de l’impérialisme français. Certains discours relayés dans les médias français évoquent ouvertement différents scénarios visant à fragiliser ou déstabiliser les dirigeants de l’AES, afin de freiner l’élan de résilience et de souveraineté que les peuples africains revendiquent. 🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪

Restons vigilants et unis pour défendre nos intérêts et notre souveraineté. ✊🏿

[Mohanad @MohanadElbalal]

This young Man called for the dismantlement of the RSF at an event Hamdok was at. Him just saying that made these Gahata so mad literally one of them is seen here attempting to strangle him as he was being escorted out.

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Always remember this: Behind the death and devastation in Congo lies the Global North’s demand for coltan ore, a vital material that enables the upper strata of the middle classes and the world’s wealthy to enjoy and make possible the consumption of modern smartphones such as the iPhone 17.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

If Putin’s former press secretary was warning that he’s leading Russia toward national suicide, that person would be on every cable news network and front page. Zelensky’s former spokesperson @IuliiaMendel says the same about Ukraine. Her reception is a silencing at the European Parliament and being ignored by Western media. With one major exception:

[Ministère des Affaires étrangères du Mali @MaliMaeci]

Son Excellence Monsieur Abdoulaye DIOP, Ministre des Affaires étrangères et de la Coopération internationale, délivrera à la tribune des Nations Unies, le lundi 28 septembre 2026 à 9 h (heure de New-York) /13h (GMT), le message du Mali, au nom de Son Excellence Le Général d’Armée Assimi GOITA, Président de la Transition, Chef de l’Etat.

Le lien de diffusion en ligne:

https://t.co/W4fENIVBpH

Bureau de l’Information et de la Presse/MAECI.

[Mohanad @MohanadElbalal]

Major UAE supply node.