The Financial Freedom Fighters (EFF) has condemned United States airstrikes carried out in northwest Nigeria, describing the assaults as a violation of African sovereignty.
In an announcement, the occasion mentioned the strikes, carried out on Christmas Day and offered by Washington as “counter-terrorism operations”, amounted to what it termed “American navy imperialism on the African continent.”
International involvement
The EFF criticised the Nigerian authorities’s response, accusing authorities of endorsing overseas navy intervention fairly than defending the nation’s sovereignty.
The occasion warned that continued overseas navy involvement dangers turning Africa right into a battleground for international powers, significantly if regional establishments fail to behave.
Play a extra decisive function
Based on the EFF, African-led options are important to deal with safety challenges on the continent, and our bodies such because the African Union and regional blocs should play a extra decisive function in stopping exterior navy interference.
The assertion provides to ongoing debates round overseas navy presence in Africa and the stability between counter-terrorism efforts and the safety of nationwide and continental sovereignty.
