WIthin months of the Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg in July and the China-Africa meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in South Africa in August, where huge development projects were announced, President Joe Biden has again shown his true colors and his racist psychological vision by expelling four African countries from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), which allows duty-free access to the US for more than 1,800 products. He announced his plan to expel Uganda, Gabon, Niger and the Central African Republic (CAR) from the agreement, saying they were either involved in “gross violations” of human rights or not making progress towards democratic rule.
Biden said that Niger and Gabon, which have both overthrown their governments as puppets of the former colonial masters in France, are being expelled supposedly because they “have not established, or are not making continual progress toward establishing the protection of political pluralism and the rule of law.” And of course we all know how much Biden treasures the “rule of law.” Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea have all previously been expelled from Agoa after military coups in those countries, also against their colonial masters.
Biden also said that the removal of the CAR and Uganda from the program was due to “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” by their governments. Biden has been threatening actions against Uganda since May when Uganda’s parliament passed a law which criminalizes identifying as LGBT, threatens them with 10 years in jail, and imposes a death penalty on people found guilty of engaging in certain same-sex acts.
