Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds
Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds
The “EU Trust Fund for Stability and Addressing Root Causes of Irregular Migration and Displaced Persons in Africa” (EUTF for Africa) isn’t exactly headline news (and nor does it exactly roll off the tongue), but its influence is vast and will be felt for decades to come for millions of people ac
cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/317062
As well as equipping and training security agencies in surveillance, the Fund is being used to bankroll the development of mass-scale biometric identity systems across the African continent and is awarding lucrative contracts to well-connected European security companies in the process.
Holy fuck! This cannot be happening, what happened to the EU we voted for in the 90s?
This is it. It's here. The neo-colonial European project for the neoliberal age. It hasn't fundamentally changed in the last thirty years. Wait until you learn about Frontex and the externalization of the EU border. Wait until you learn about all the colonial and imperial exploitation EU members still do. And it's largely coordinated and directed by unelected and unaccountable bodies and people in the EU. It sounds a bit harsh at first, but I think in many ways the EU accomplished quietly and diplomatically what the Nazis failed to, namely a construct which could exercise imperial relations between European nations as well as their cheap resource and labour colonies abroad.