South African far-left party reacts to US elections with falsehoods

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's triumph successful the November 5 elections met a mixed absorption crossed the African continent, with immoderate critics going truthful acold arsenic to contradict ideology successful the United States and portraying the federation arsenic a predatory assemblage state.

One specified illustration is simply a highly misleading connection by South Africa's far-left populist absorption Economic Freedom Fighters enactment (EFF), published connected the societal media level X connected November 6.

The EFF, South Africa's third-largest governmental party, is founded and led by arguable fig and societal media influencer Julius Malema, known for his radically divisive rhetoric. Malema is occasionally accused of hatred code and corruption, among different assertions, each of which helium denies arsenic politically motivated.

In a two-page insubstantial titled EFF's Statement connected the Outcome of U.S. Presidential Elections, the enactment claimed "indifference" to the winner, but went connected to represent the U.S. authorities arsenic the "worst kind" and "imperial" by nature.

Besides repeating a disputed mentation that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency directed the 1961 assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the connection said the U.S. stands down the existent warring successful the Democratic Republic of the Congo, wherever 100 rebel groups are warring for power implicit earthy resources.

The hostilities successful Congo person already led to the displacement of much than 7.2 cardinal people, according to U.N. statistics.

Congo is affluent successful gold, copper and cobalt – a cardinal metallic successful producing electrical vehicles.

"They [the U.S.] are present nonstop beneficiaries of instability successful Congo, looting the earthy resources to payment their companies and their allies,'' the EFF said.

That is misleading.

The United States exports copper, cacao and diamonds straight from Congo and via 3rd countries, according to the State Department. Copper accounts for 50% of the commercialized betwixt the 2 nations. U.S.

However, the U.S. takes measures to forestall immoderate illicitly mined minerals from entering the American markets via 3rd countries.

There is capable grounds that alternatively of profiteering from struggle successful Congo, the United States has repeatedly condemned violence successful the East African federation and has sanctioned militia groups and individuals progressive successful amerciable mining.

The U.S. besides criminalized trading successful minerals stolen from war-torn nations.

In July 2010, the U.S. Congress passed into instrumentality the Dodd Frank Act, Section 1502, which requires each U.S. publically listed companies to bash owed diligence connected their proviso chains of minerals that mightiness originate from Congo and study their findings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Congolese authorities systematically accuses neighboring Rwanda and Uganda of illegally mining its resources by colluding with the rebels.

This past May, Congolese Mines Minister Antoinette N'Samba Kalambayi accused Rwanda of using M23 rebels to bargain its earthy resources. M23 is simply a militant group sanctioned by the U.N. and U.S. for quality rights abuses. It broke distant from the Congolese service a decennary agone and is reportedly dominated by the taste Tutsi fighters originating successful Rwanda.

That aforesaid month, the Congolese justness minister, Rose Mutombo, filed a case against Rwanda astatine the International Criminal Court, accusing Kigali of utilizing the M23 rebels to bargain its earthy resources.

In 2023, the Financial Times cited the Congolese authorities arsenic claiming to suffer $1 cardinal worthy of minerals annually to Rwanda, which exports "$1bn successful gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten, adjacent though the state has fewer mineral deposits of its own."

Most recently, connected July 8, the U.S. State Department accused Rwanda and Uganda of financing the struggle successful Congo by facilitating the movements of stolen earthy resources by equipped groups, ''including artisanally and semi-industrially mined golden and tantalum.''

The State Department stated that "in galore cases, these minerals straight oregon indirectly payment equipped groups and determination retired of the state done Rwanda and to Uganda earlier moving to large refining and processing countries."

The United Nations has repeatedly highlighted successful its reports that "ample grounds indicates that Rwanda and Uganda were financing their subject expenditure with the profits from earthy resources exploitation successful DRC."