The “All Africa” newsite published a report on the situation in Africa and Libya. It said that Libya became a “source of much of the instability in North and West Africa.”
The report explained that “AFRICOM and NATO’s presence and activities in African countries are troubling and ominous, and have led to the militarization of the continent.”
“What NATO and Africa have caused on the continent are more coups and more chaos. It has been bombing Somalia and Libya for many years. In 2011, NATO launched a military intervention to force Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi out, it was Canada my country that led the NATO bombing of Libya. For over seven months, NATO’s fossil fuel-powered fighter jets dropped 20,000 bombs, and its diesel-powered warships scammed the country,” the report said.
“This bombing severely damage civilian infrastructure and it wrecked the great man-made river system, which is a source of 70% of Libya’s water. After the bombing, the Canadian Air Force revealed that its fighter jets consumed 14,000 pounds of fuel, and the Canadian Lieutenant that oversaw the operation retired, and joined Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest American weapons manufacturer. NATO’s military operation in Libya led to the killing of Gaddafi and severely destabilized the country, causing a humanitarian and refugee crisis that led to waves of African migrants crossing and drowning in the Mediterranean Sea,” it added.
The report stated: “After a decade, there is still chaos in Libya, and the country is not able to deal with the social unrest, much less with the climate-induced extreme weather events from severe sandstorms, droughts, heatwaves, and crop failure. Yet Libya was one of the wealthiest countries in Africa with great oil and gas resources, and it was able to provide free healthcare and education to its people. It was one of the leading countries in the African Union. Gaddafi was a Pan-Africanist, and did not want western colonialism and capitalism on the continent. Now Libya is in crisis from political instability and worsening climate change,” the report said.
“Libya today is the source of much of the instability in North and West Africa. Western imperialist governments, which led the campaign to destroy Libya have never taken any responsibility related to its disastrous consequences. Sectional violence spread after 2012. Armed groups based upon sectional and religious approaches to national politics began to attack state institutions and civilian communities,” it noted.
“Some of the most impoverished and marginalized people have suffered from the escalation of violence. Mali became the first country to experience the fallout from the Pentagon-NATO war against Jamahiriya Libya,” it concluded.