 **"We would never violate the sovereignty of any country" | Part 5: Africa**

Libya: 1801-05 war on Tripoli; 1981 and 1989 clashes over the Gulf of Sidra; 1986 bombing; 2011 war; 2013 seizure of a suspect in Tripoli

Algeria and Tunisia: 1815 naval expedition

Morocco: 1904 landing at Tangier

Egypt: 1882 landing in Alexandria; 1952 coup

Congo: 1960 plot to poison Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba; backing for Mobutu's coups in 1960 and 1965; 1964 Stanleyville operation

Ghana: 1966 coup against Kwame Nkrumah

Angola: covert war from 1975, arming of the UNITA rebels

Chad: arming and financing of Hissène Habré in the 1980s

South Africa: CIA tip-off before Nelson Mandela's 1962 arrest

Somalia: 1967 election funding; 1992-95 intervention and the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu; CIA arming of warlords from 2003; backing for Ethiopia's 2006 invasion; hundreds of air strikes and raids since 2007

Sudan: military aid channelled through neighbouring states to southern rebels in the 1990s; 1998 missile strike on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant; two decades of sanctions; 2020 removal from the terrorism list made conditional on recognizing Israel

Mauritius: islanders expelled from the Chagos Islands in 1967-73 for the US base on Diego Garcia

Ivory Coast: 1843 punitive landings

Comoros: 1851 naval action at Anjouan

Burkina Faso: 1987 killing of Thomas Sankara

Niger: troops and drone bases 2013-24, expelled by the new government

Mali and Burkina Faso: counterterrorism deployments, ended by the new governments

Nigeria: December 2025 strikes

_And this is far from complete. There are many more we could have missed, and we haven't even touched the work of USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy and similar outfits, or the political backing for Israel-aligned governments across Latin America.

So no, Marco. You are lying._

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