Ibrahim Traoré attending Russia’s Victory Day celebrations in Moscow alongside world leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping. Traoré’s visit signals a major shift in global power and alliances.

Traoré in Moscow: China, Africa and Russia Unite

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 5/08 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, hosts Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear are joined by special guests: Roger McKenzie, the International Editor of the Morning Star and author of The Rebirth of the African Phoenix, joins the show to discuss the significance of Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré attending Russia’s Victory Day celebrations in Moscow alongside world leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping. McKenzie argues that Traoré’s visit signals a major shift in global power and alliances— and highlights Africa’s rising role in a new, multilateral world. Khalid Abdalla, a British-Egyptian actor who starred in The Crown, joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the critical role of public figures in condemning it. Recently questioned by British police after attending a Palestine rally in London, Abdalla explains why this intimidation won’t silence him– or the growing global movement demanding justice for Palestine. Dyab Abou Jahjah, co-founder and President of the Hind Rajab Foundation, joins the show to discuss how the foundation identified the Israeli officer responsible for the January 2024 killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab, five of her family members, and two rescue workers in Gaza City. Jahjah will discuss the foundation’s extensive investigation, the war crimes complaint filed with the International Criminal Court seeking the arrest of Lt. Col. Beni Aharon, and the HRF’s global campaign to hold individual IDF soldiers and their accomplices accountable for genocide. Afeef Nessouli, a medical worker in Gaza, joins the show to describe the catastrophic starvation unfolding under two months of Israel’s total blockade of all aid. While Israel is weaponizing hunger and bombing people starving to death, Israeli troops have plans to intensify its occupation and complete its “conquest” of the Gaza Strip Mosaab Baba, a Sudan researcher, joins the show to discuss the escalating civil war in Sudan, where UAE-backed RSF drones targeted key infrastructure, including the last functioning international airport and major fuel depots. Baba will explain the UAE’s role in the conflict and how these attacks will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis, which has already claimed over 150,000 lives and left millions displaced and facing severe hunger. Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss India's May 7 airstrikes on Pakistan, which Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called “an unprovoked and blatant act of war.” They will discuss the rising tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations and the global calls for de-escalation.

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