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

[Fátima @SalBinta]

#Fascismloveaffair

The romanticism around Germany’s “rebuilding years” is extraordinary. Germany did not simply suffer a tragedy that fell from the sky.

Germany started two world wars, carried out genocide, devastated Europe and peoples under European fascism in the so-called colonies, and helped produce destruction on a global scale.

Then it was rebuilt by the United States through the Marshall Plan — a country whose own wealth was built on Indigenous dispossession, slavery, racial capitalism, and empire. Black Americans fought in the war against Nazi Germany, only to return home to Jim Crow, segregation, lynching, voter suppression, and second-class citizenship.

That is the joke at the centre of this story: Germany was reconstructed as a civilised Western partner, while the descendants of enslaved people who helped defeat fascism were denied basic dignity at home.

So no, Germany’s rebuilding cannot be told as a sentimental story of rubble, discipline, and resilience.

It was also white supremacy rewarding white colonising
Europe with reconstruction, forgiveness, and reintegration — while colonised and racialised peoples were left with debt, occupation, extraction, and lectures on responsibility.

The rest of the world was never offered that kind of mercy — and that is why we are reliving fascism in 2026: because the world continues to tell selective stories about violence, guilt, reconstruction, and who deserves forgiveness.

[𝐎𝐧𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐮 @Onyeani_Kalu]

The war had ended. The rebuilding had only begun.

In 1945, many German cities were landscapes of ruins. Homes, bridges, railways and entire neighborhoods had been destroyed, while everyday life had to continue through shortages, displacement and uncertainty.

Then came the long work of rebuilding. Street by street, rubble was cleared. Homes reopened, transport returned, and cities slowly began to live again.

For many German families, this was not simply history — it was part of their own story.

Did you, your parents, or your grandparents ever tell stories about Germany’s rebuilding years after 1945?

#Germany #GermanHistory #PostwarGermany #Reconstruction #History

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[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Heads up: Reuters is literally pulling out the "Hamas-run" tactic with Yemen.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is the kind of "opposition" Nigerians love. Sue the presidency in a court that is under the authority of the Chief Justice who is appointed by the presidency.

1,000 motion, 0 movement.

If you tell them that they'd get a much bigger result if they came out in numbers and blockaded the US embassy in Abuja like the Nigeriens did the French embassy in Niamey 3 years ago, they'll tell you "Why don't you come to Nigeria and do it yourself? CIA man!"

Make una continue to dey whine una selves. Continue to "hold your leaders accountable" by suing them in Kekere-Ekun's court, and "voting them out" with an INEC that receives funding from the US government under a commissioner that is an APC member.

And when it doesn't work, do it again. If it didn't work the first 569,000 times you already did it, try it another 697,000,000 times. When you're reaching the end of the 55 years you are statically likely to survive as a Nigerian and you're finally realising nothing has changed, instead of telling your kids to do the opposite of what you did, tell them "nIgEriA iS cUrSed, dO aNythInG yOu cAn tO mOvE tO cAnaDa".

Very wise people, Nigerians. 🥲

[African News feed. @africansinnews]

Ethiopia is deploying additional troops and weapons toward #Tigray as federal forces face mounting setbacks. Tigrayan forces are reportedly fighting near Sekota, around 69 km from the Tigray border along the D23, and have taken control of Erebti, roughly 100 km away along the D34

[Fuad Hendricks @FUADH78666]

@SalBinta
According to a BRICS report nearly 70% of Iran’s science and engineering graduates are women.
But whatever the statistics these women graduates are graduating into the footsteps of the Persian mathematician Muhammad Al Khwarizmi known as the father of algebra and algorithms.
Therefore, the next great Iranian mathematicians, scientists and technologists would well be women!
But this is hugely promising for the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iranians.
Because women are more likely to shape the minds and hearts of their families and their careers.
Because women are successful builders of families, countries, nations and societies.
Therefore, it is likely that the next generation of Iranian technologists would be mostly women.
But these women technologists would develop and adapt Iran’s indigenous drone, missile and nuclear science technologies for industrial and entrepreneurial use and applications.
Therefore, Iran’s industrial, technological, scientific women resources development look promising and futuristic!
Outstandingly so when given the enabling creative space women will lead, develop and make their optimum contribution.
But Iran’s future looks bright, productive, successful and promising with women as the leading edge in science, technology and institutional development. https://t.co/rBVMmiKw30 https://t.co/rBVMmiKw30…

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Doesn't seem to be natural for there to be so much litigation of "stochastic parrots" with your tech overlords talking about their malware as uncontrollable agents and telling us that their products should have rights and such.

Almost like this is a deflection strategy.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

What is happening here?

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

News: As fighting intensifies, humanitarian source estimates at least 150,000 displaced in #Afar, #Tigray_TV hit by drone

At least 150,000 people have been displaced in #Ethiopia’s Afar region amid intensifying fighting between Tigrayan forces and federal troops, a humanitarian source cited by AFP estimated, while a drone strike hit the headquarters of Tigrai TV in Mekelle on Sunday. The source cautioned that precise displacement figures were not available.

AFP reported that the town of #Erebti, near the Tigray border, fell to Tigrayan forces on Sunday after heavy artillery fire. The humanitarian source said the forces were advancing toward Afdeera, about 100 kilometres east of Erebti.

https://t.co/XaA3jDjcH2

[Mees Wynants @MeesWynants]

The bombs that terrorised Italy and Belgium in the Cold War came from NATO weapons caches. Same serial numbers.

The attacks were blamed on the far left and the far right. Frightened people asked for more surveillance and gave up their freedom to get it. That was the point. It was called Operation Gladio, paid for by the CIA and British intelligence.

[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 👇🏽