
Alpha Bah
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Alpha Bah
@AlphajorbaBah
AI ethicist | Environmental Enthusiast | Social & Political commentator. Tweets are my personal views. Retweets are not endorsements



Let me welcome you to the new South African immigration officers of 2026. Be in no doubt fellow Africans, this is the 🇿🇦 of 2026.

The African Union’s Silence on South Africa’s Xenophobia Is Starting to Look Like Endorsement Xenophobia in #SouthAfrica isn’t new. It’s been rotting in plain sight for years. What’s harder to explain is why the African Union keeps acting like it isn’t there. Rogue groups are attacking, harassing, killing other Black Africans — people with papers, people without, legal residents, long-term settlers. The common denominator isn’t documentation. It’s looking like you came from somewhere else. And this isn’t underground. It’s brazen. South African security forces have, at various points, stood aside or done worse. Pretoria knows. The continent knows. Addis Ababa knows. And yet — nothing. No serious condemnation. No suspension threat. No emergency session. Just the usual communiqué language that means absolutely nothing to the man being chased out of his shop in #Johannesburg. Yes, sovereignty matters. Nobody’s disputing that. But there’s a point where deferring to sovereignty becomes a polite way of covering for state failure — or state complicity. When citizens of one AU member state are hunting citizens of others on the basis of where they were born, that is no longer a domestic matter. That is a continental disgrace. The @_AfricanUnion should suspend South Africa. Not as punishment for the whole nation — South Africans themselves have been among the loudest critics of this violence. But as a signal. A line drawn in public. This is where we say enough. The Union has made a habit of grand language — African solidarity, African solutions, African unity. Fine. Then use the mechanisms that exist. Targeted pressure. Public accountability. Suspension where it’s warranted. If those tools only come out for Western interference narratives and never for intra-African atrocities, what exactly is the Union defending? What is happening in South Africa concerns rest of the continent and we just can’t afford to watch from a distance. It is a failure of the continental project itself. And every silence from Addis Ababa makes that failure louder. @BBCAfrica @ali_naka @ecowas_cedeao @AfricanHub_ @AfricanArchives @cecild84 @GovernmentZA @News24_SA @sowore @Julius_S_Malema @officialABAT #SaloneX @CyrilRamaphosa #SouthAfrica @julius_maadabio @AfrikParliament















The African Union’s Silence on South Africa’s Xenophobia Is Starting to Look Like Endorsement Xenophobia in #SouthAfrica isn’t new. It’s been rotting in plain sight for years. What’s harder to explain is why the African Union keeps acting like it isn’t there. Rogue groups are attacking, harassing, killing other Black Africans — people with papers, people without, legal residents, long-term settlers. The common denominator isn’t documentation. It’s looking like you came from somewhere else. And this isn’t underground. It’s brazen. South African security forces have, at various points, stood aside or done worse. Pretoria knows. The continent knows. Addis Ababa knows. And yet — nothing. No serious condemnation. No suspension threat. No emergency session. Just the usual communiqué language that means absolutely nothing to the man being chased out of his shop in #Johannesburg. Yes, sovereignty matters. Nobody’s disputing that. But there’s a point where deferring to sovereignty becomes a polite way of covering for state failure — or state complicity. When citizens of one AU member state are hunting citizens of others on the basis of where they were born, that is no longer a domestic matter. That is a continental disgrace. The @_AfricanUnion should suspend South Africa. Not as punishment for the whole nation — South Africans themselves have been among the loudest critics of this violence. But as a signal. A line drawn in public. This is where we say enough. The Union has made a habit of grand language — African solidarity, African solutions, African unity. Fine. Then use the mechanisms that exist. Targeted pressure. Public accountability. Suspension where it’s warranted. If those tools only come out for Western interference narratives and never for intra-African atrocities, what exactly is the Union defending? What is happening in South Africa concerns rest of the continent and we just can’t afford to watch from a distance. It is a failure of the continental project itself. And every silence from Addis Ababa makes that failure louder. @BBCAfrica @ali_naka @ecowas_cedeao @AfricanHub_ @AfricanArchives @cecild84 @GovernmentZA @News24_SA @sowore @Julius_S_Malema @officialABAT #SaloneX @CyrilRamaphosa #SouthAfrica @julius_maadabio @AfrikParliament







