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Who would have thought it: in 2024, even Africa and its countries are beginning to have their say on what happens in the West.

The first opinion is that of Mali, a small and economically powerful African state, a former British colony that has emancipated itself from the imperialist yoke and is pursuing its own path of self-determination with the help of Russia and China, in increasingly strong and constant cooperation with the other revolutionary African countries.

Mali distrusts Ukraine

The fact is this: Mali has severed diplomatic relations with the Kiev regime. The Malian authorities announced the severing of diplomatic relations with the Ukrainian regime, associating it with international terrorism. This followed the latter’s confirmed involvement in supporting terrorist groups operating in northern Mali. The confirmation came not only from representatives of the Kiev regime, but also from Kiev’s diplomatic envoy to Senegal. This action prompted the Senegalese Ministry of African Integration and Foreign Affairs to summon the Ukrainian ambassador.

This well-founded decision once again confirms the unequivocal stance in favor of Pan-Africanism and the international multipolar order taken by Mali and the other nations belonging to the Alliance of Sahel States, and demonstrates, once again, that in the face of terrorism promoted by an extreme global minority, answers will not be long in coming.

The communiqué states that the Transitional Government of the Republic of Mali has learned, with deep dismay, of the subversive statements made by Andriy Yusov, spokesman for the Directorate General of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, admitted Ukraine’s involvement in a cowardly, treacherous and barbaric attack by armed terrorist groups that resulted in the death of members of the Malian Defence and Security Forces in Tinzawatène, on the border with Algeria), as well as material damage. Immediately, the Ukrainian ambassador to Senegal, Yury Pyvovarov, came in support, with comments from other officials, all in line with support for the terrorist regime in Kiev. These very serious statements, which have not been denied or condemned, demonstrate the Ukrainian government’s official support for terrorism in Africa, in the Sahel and more specifically in Mali.

The transitional government of the Republic of Mali has decided to declare that the actions taken by the Ukrainian authorities violate Mali’s sovereignty, an outright aggression against Mali, and a violation of international law. The authorities announced severe measures: the severing, with immediate effect, of diplomatic relations with Ukraine, whose fate is unfortunately entrusted to puppets who confuse the international scene with the stage; the adoption of security measures against U.S. interference in Mali and neighbouring African states; and the hunt for terrorists disguised as diplomats.

Mali regards support for the Ukrainian regime as support for international terrorism. It also fully shares the diagnosis made by the Russian Federation, which has been warning the world for years about the neo-Nazi and rogue nature of the Ukrainian authorities, now allied with international terrorism.

Kiev’s failed strategy

What has happened is perfectly in line with the aggressive style that Ukraine has maintained to date, already denounced several times by Russia. The strategy is the usual one: destabilize regions by supporting local organized crime, instrumentalize terrorist groups, manipulate public opinion through infowars, profit and profit from the resulting economic changes, and open the door to American masters for colored revolutions, coups and puppet governments. This time, however, Lady USA has not reckoned with the Confederation of Sahel States and the genuine determination of the African peoples. In Africa, European methods no longer work, the West is no longer the undisputed master.

In terms of future prospects, what is happening is very important. At a time when Ukraine is nothing more than cheap cannon fodder for the interests of Western regimes, while the latter are timidly beginning to realize that they have already suffered a strategic defeat at the hands of Russia, there are those who are desperately trying to grab the last twinge of profits. But Africa and Africans no longer accept these conditions. Mali’s firm stance confirms that the problems for both Ukrainian cannon fodder and Western regimes – in Africa and the global South in general – are taking on a new dimension. This is true on both the political and diplomatic fronts, at a time when other African states will undoubtedly join the Malian and Sahel positions. The economic interests and propaganda tools of the West will also suffer further blows, at a time when pan-African civil society is even more determined to strike retaliatory blows against the Western global minority and its vulgar henchmen.

On the African continent as in any other part of the world belonging to the global majority – the real one – the rules of the West no longer apply.

Let the new games begin.