US Imperialism After Own Interest in South Sudan: Abayomi Azikiwe
Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe
Mon May 5, 2014 6:10PM
To watch this interview over Press TV Top Five featuring Abayomi Azikiwe just click on the website below:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/05/361437/us-after-own-objectives-in-s-sudan/
Press TV has conducted an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire from Detroit, about the United Nations expressing grave concern over the recruitment of more than nine thousand children by armed groups in South Sudan.
What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Let’s look at this. We are talking about thousands and thousands, nine thousand to be exact of children that have possibly been recruited according to United Nations in South Sudan.
How is this allowed to take place and why do we see this high percentage of children being recruited there?
Azikiwe: I think it represents the unviability of the Republic of South Sudan which was largely a creation of the United States and the State of Israel. They were pushing for many years for the partition of the Republic of Sudan which is based in Khartoum. It was the largest geographic nation state on the African continent.
Today both the Republic of Sudan based in the north in Khartoum and Republic of South Sudan based in the south in Juba are facing extreme economic difficulties as a result of this partition.
The utilization of child soldiers in this internal conflict in Republic of South Sudan is a reflection of the lack of coordination and the lack of political will and stability on the part of the leadership that has been imposed on the people in this part of the African continent.
The United States is working frivolously right now to bring about some type of political solution to the conflict in the Republic of South Sudan because their own political credibility on the African continent is at stake and if they do not resolve this internal conflict and if the Republic of South Sudan completely collapses, it will represent a monumental failure on the part of US imperialism to re-make the African continent in its own image.
Press TV: Well Mr. Azikiwe, what exactly does it mean? On the one hand you are saying that the United States and many of its other Western allies pushed for many, many years to divide Sudan into what we see today.
On the other hand, is it that they did not look at the repercussions of that division or that the chaos is exactly what they wanted to take place?
Azikiwe: I think it is a combination of both. Not only in Sudan but in other parts of the world US imperialism places its own objectives first, its own interests have been primary in this geopolitical disagreement and conflict and in many ways they do not care if they destroy the social fabric of the country.
At the same time when you have these types of internal divisions, it provides a rationale for the intervention of imperialist troops. Right now you have the East Africa Response Force (AFRICOM) that has its presence right now in the Republic of South Sudan. You also have thousands of Ugandan military forces. They are also in South Sudan siding with the government of Salva Kiir. Uganda of course is heavily financed and trained and politically backed by the United States. They carry out the political imperatives of US imperialism in Africa.
So it is a combination of both. If they can’t get their political will in regard to destabilizing these states, then of course they can enter themselves, placing their military forces on the African continent.
Sudan is a very rich nation in regard to the production of oil. They want that oil, they want to control it and that is the real reason behind the partition of the country as well as the intervention of the United States in the Republic of South Sudan.
Press TV: Well in general let’s look at the African continent. You just talked about Sudan as being rich and having oil. In general the African continent is very rich but it appears that the picture that imperialism wants to paint is a continent of not having anything, not being able to take care of themselves, not being able to feed themselves.
Is this part of a plot of imperialistic goals in general to paint this picture that the Africans cannot do anything without their help, that they in the long-term have to intervene in order to help the poor Africans?
Azikiwe: Yes. It is a dual narrative. They appear to be contradictory but in essence they merge.
You have a situation where they talk about this phenomenal economic growth on the African continent. Nigeria they claim now is the top economic power on the African continent but at the same time you have these escalating terrorist attacks inside of Nigeria, therefore necessitating intervention by the CIA, the FBI and the Pentagon.
It is a similar situation in the Republic of South Sudan as well as the Central African Republic. They want to first of all pour investments into these countries in order to exploit the natural resources and the labor but at the same time they want to control the direction of these countries to benefit US imperialism and also to block the People’s Republic of China from their growing partnership with Africa as well as other states around the world including Iran, including Japan who also are developing partnerships with the African Union member-states.
So it appears to be a counter-narrative. It appears to be contradictory but in essence the objectives merge and the overall objective is to promote the domination of US imperialism on the African continent.
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| Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, on Press TV. |
Mon May 5, 2014 6:10PM
To watch this interview over Press TV Top Five featuring Abayomi Azikiwe just click on the website below:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/05/361437/us-after-own-objectives-in-s-sudan/
Press TV has conducted an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire from Detroit, about the United Nations expressing grave concern over the recruitment of more than nine thousand children by armed groups in South Sudan.
What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Let’s look at this. We are talking about thousands and thousands, nine thousand to be exact of children that have possibly been recruited according to United Nations in South Sudan.
How is this allowed to take place and why do we see this high percentage of children being recruited there?
Azikiwe: I think it represents the unviability of the Republic of South Sudan which was largely a creation of the United States and the State of Israel. They were pushing for many years for the partition of the Republic of Sudan which is based in Khartoum. It was the largest geographic nation state on the African continent.
Today both the Republic of Sudan based in the north in Khartoum and Republic of South Sudan based in the south in Juba are facing extreme economic difficulties as a result of this partition.
The utilization of child soldiers in this internal conflict in Republic of South Sudan is a reflection of the lack of coordination and the lack of political will and stability on the part of the leadership that has been imposed on the people in this part of the African continent.
The United States is working frivolously right now to bring about some type of political solution to the conflict in the Republic of South Sudan because their own political credibility on the African continent is at stake and if they do not resolve this internal conflict and if the Republic of South Sudan completely collapses, it will represent a monumental failure on the part of US imperialism to re-make the African continent in its own image.
Press TV: Well Mr. Azikiwe, what exactly does it mean? On the one hand you are saying that the United States and many of its other Western allies pushed for many, many years to divide Sudan into what we see today.
On the other hand, is it that they did not look at the repercussions of that division or that the chaos is exactly what they wanted to take place?
Azikiwe: I think it is a combination of both. Not only in Sudan but in other parts of the world US imperialism places its own objectives first, its own interests have been primary in this geopolitical disagreement and conflict and in many ways they do not care if they destroy the social fabric of the country.
At the same time when you have these types of internal divisions, it provides a rationale for the intervention of imperialist troops. Right now you have the East Africa Response Force (AFRICOM) that has its presence right now in the Republic of South Sudan. You also have thousands of Ugandan military forces. They are also in South Sudan siding with the government of Salva Kiir. Uganda of course is heavily financed and trained and politically backed by the United States. They carry out the political imperatives of US imperialism in Africa.
So it is a combination of both. If they can’t get their political will in regard to destabilizing these states, then of course they can enter themselves, placing their military forces on the African continent.
Sudan is a very rich nation in regard to the production of oil. They want that oil, they want to control it and that is the real reason behind the partition of the country as well as the intervention of the United States in the Republic of South Sudan.
Press TV: Well in general let’s look at the African continent. You just talked about Sudan as being rich and having oil. In general the African continent is very rich but it appears that the picture that imperialism wants to paint is a continent of not having anything, not being able to take care of themselves, not being able to feed themselves.
Is this part of a plot of imperialistic goals in general to paint this picture that the Africans cannot do anything without their help, that they in the long-term have to intervene in order to help the poor Africans?
Azikiwe: Yes. It is a dual narrative. They appear to be contradictory but in essence they merge.
You have a situation where they talk about this phenomenal economic growth on the African continent. Nigeria they claim now is the top economic power on the African continent but at the same time you have these escalating terrorist attacks inside of Nigeria, therefore necessitating intervention by the CIA, the FBI and the Pentagon.
It is a similar situation in the Republic of South Sudan as well as the Central African Republic. They want to first of all pour investments into these countries in order to exploit the natural resources and the labor but at the same time they want to control the direction of these countries to benefit US imperialism and also to block the People’s Republic of China from their growing partnership with Africa as well as other states around the world including Iran, including Japan who also are developing partnerships with the African Union member-states.
So it appears to be a counter-narrative. It appears to be contradictory but in essence the objectives merge and the overall objective is to promote the domination of US imperialism on the African continent.
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