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If we don't limit ourself to interior enemies, it could also be the Egyptian secret services who don't want a stronger government south of the Nile.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:How so? Given the typical nature of state institutions in Africa I figured these reforms (and more FDI) would be a good thing, but I also don’t know too much about the Ethiopian case specifically. There are well performing state owned companies in Ethiopia - Ethiopian airlines is most prominent example, it is profitable and biggest airline in africa. It has been important factor in success of horticultural industry and is growing quickly and moving into manufacturing components. If it was owned by foreign investors would it still be taking these risks rather than just focusing on returning easier profits to the owners? I'm definitely not an expert but have read Made in Africa: Industrial Policy in Ethiopia by Arkebe Oqubay (important figure in government who has apparently been kept on by Abiy), which outlines the developmental state model(probably somewhere between the Chinese and South Korean models) they have been following. Poor quality institutions is a problem, but if a government cannot run a SOE well, then it probably can't privatize and regulate it effectively either.
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Grouchio posted:Alright who's the bloke who tried to blow up Abiy? my b
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ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:I'm definitely not an expert but have read Made in Africa: Industrial Policy in Ethiopia by Arkebe Oqubay (important figure in government who has apparently been kept on by Abiy), which outlines the developmental state model(probably somewhere between the Chinese and South Korean models) they have been following. So it sounds like the attempt on Mnangagwa's life may have been a Grace Mugabe thing, surprising no one.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Thanks, adding this to my amazon list.
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Anyone know why Eritrea and Eithiopia suddenly decided to stop shooting at one another?
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Aurubin posted:Anyone know why Eritrea and Eithiopia suddenly decided to stop shooting at one another?
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Possible civil war brewing in Cameroon between the francophone led and dominated government and the anglophone region. Video of mothers and their children being executed by what seems to be armed men in camo who're either part of the army or some kind of militia.
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Doc Neutral posted:Possible civil war brewing in Cameroon between the francophone led and dominated government and the anglophone region.  The government also spent a lot of money setting up bilingual (english and french) universities, schools and administrations but in practice they have very very few people speaking both French and English(but a lot speak a pidgin mixing both), it's more of a Nigeria-aligned Protestant group versus Cameroon-reactionary Catholic group thing, if you ask me, with their inability to understand each other as a great excuse to murder people. Edit: you would think the Nigeria-Cameroon tensions over the Golf of Guinea's Oil would go down because the price of oil is going down those days and the war was in the 90s but from time to time tensions flare horribly. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Jul 14, 2018 |
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Kurtofan posted:How did english cameroon get lumped with french cameroon anyway It was all originally the German colony of Kamerun but after the First World War it was divided between France and Britain until independence, when they reunited except for a slice that became part of Nigeria. Thanks, colonialism! Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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What a country. So are there also German-speaking areas or communities left over? Wikipedia doesn't go into this.
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mobby_6kl posted:What a country. So are there also German-speaking areas or communities left over? Wikipedia doesn't go into this. I don't think there are.
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I was just about to post about Cameroon in this thread but I didn't know if there was much interest. My partner was briefly working in central Cameroon earlier this summer. There is sort of the feeling that what is going in the west (Anglophones in Douala and "Ambazonia") is contained to the west. Same story with Boko Haram in the far north east. Perhaps its complacency. I believe the next presidential elections are set for October, and whatever happens then could set off more political movement and the situation might develop more rapidly. Right now these incidents keep occurring but it doesn't seem like anything is going in one direction or another. There were also some wish-washy reports coming out that terrorists who stole government uniforms had committed some atrocities...so yeah, its not pretty. From what I understand longtime president Biya is very much a "law and order" leader and a vast majority of the country is not only stable but pretty safe and doing alright. I mean, back during the Ebola outbreak Cameroon had the infrastructure to fight back with great success. The other thing that is weird...we hear about an Anglophone v. Francophone Cameroon but there should be the qualification "...as second-language" with that. Most people parlay in indigenous tongue but only need to speak the European language on business or official matters. Its a super diverse and beautiful country. Vincent Van Goatse posted:I don't think there are. Funny story from my partner - she found a substantial Romanian community and a Romanian-run Italian restaurant in north Cameroon. Apparently the Romanian government gives some perks for doing that? The way she describes it you can run into a lot of cultural surprises in the country. 20 Blunts fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I don't think there are. Yeah germany lost all their colonies after ww1
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I don’t think Cameroon was ever actually settled by colonial powers in any significant way, unlike say, Namibia, where German is still widely spoken by descendants of both whites and blacks. Also lol at the "election" in October. I’m a time traveler so I’ll ruin the surprise: Biya wins in a landslide. I had some friends who worked in Yaoundé for 5-6 years and went and visited them a while ago and we did a road trip around the western highlands. Lovey area but even at that time we were warned to stay away from the "English speaking” areas because of unrest, and this was 2011, so we didn’t get any closer than Dschang which was lovely. Dschang was a German colonial founded town but in 3 days there I didn’t see a single white person in any restaurant or hotel so if any of their descendants are still around, they’re an absurdly tiny minority, like Egyptian Jews or whatever. Also iirc the ethnic groups span across the theoretical “linguistic” borders. The Bamenda people, I’m pretty sure, span across that region and Bamenda is a common native language in that area. I’m not sure how many other common major linguistic groups there are but it’s not like Papua New Guinea, so fighting over a colonial second language (from a power that wasn’t even in control all that long in the first place) seemed to me like that is probably not the real issue, but a plaster face over underlying problems. I never really looked into it though. Also one kind of fun thing: you can tell which cities are founded (and probably majority settled by) Bamenda people because the city names overwhelmingly start with the letters/sound “Ba”.
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Kurtofan posted:Yeah germany lost all their colonies after ww1  ". Which i have always found extremely weird and quite forgiving toward uncle Wilhelm's Herero and Namaqua genocide. Of course, that argument is pushed by modern German corporations so i guess it's mostly the free market loving Africa again. Saladman posted:so fighting over a colonial second language (from a power that wasn't even in control all that long in the first place) seemed to me like that is probably not the real issue, but a plaster face over underlying problems. I never really looked into it though. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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Toplowtech posted:Funnily enough, because of the German colonies loss, i have seen some anti-colonial Africans expressing their preference in dealing with modern day Germany because i quote "they don't have a colonial culture, unlike your country I mean France was thrown into disarray just during the last election season when Macron suggested apologizing for the history of colonialism. Germans have been pretty good at shedding the legacy of militarism and colonialism compared to the French and Brits, AFAIK, though a narrative about being historically less imperialistic would be false.
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steinrokkan posted:I mean France was thrown into disarray just during the last election season when Macron suggested apologizing for the history of colonialism. Germans have been pretty good at shedding the legacy of militarism and colonialism compared to the French and Brits, AFAIK, though a narrative about being historically less imperialistic would be false. * and some Frenchmen of Algerian descent, i remember Zidane calling them as such. Ignore the fact Algeria massacred 100k-150k of them while De Gaulle did nothing. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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Kurtofan posted:Yeah germany lost all their colonies after ww1
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mobby_6kl posted:They did but (white?) people still speak German in Namibia for example. A lot of Germans also moved to Namibia after it became part of South Africa as well. Part of my wife's family is Namibian, and that branch of the family left Germany in the mid 1920s in the midst of the German economic collapse. A lot of black Namibians also speak German as a second language and it is quite commonly heard and used across the country, or at least the parts of the country that tourists go to (which is basically everywhere except the densely populated farming area north of Etosha). It's a small percentage of the population, but the German-descended Namibians have such outsized economic power in private business, and Germans make up such a huge proportion of tourists, that it's still a relevant language. For whatever reason it seems to be far, far more relevant among white Namibians' private lives than either Afrikaans or English (e.g. the Windhoek carnival is primarily German) but this could also be a viewership bias of my own, given my views through my vicarious connection to Namibia and my single three week trip through the country.
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Toplowtech posted:Well it's maybe because i am French and i find your 'thrown into disarray" slightly excessive (we can do far worse disarray-wise then the little bullshit polemic to which you are referring) but the thing is the "disarray" was mostly minor protests by the Harkis, descendants of pro french algeria muslims now living in France(who are considered descendants of traitors by many modern Algerians*) which found themselves betrayed by Macron attempt to heal the old rifts. When we lost Algeria tons of Muslims Algerian who believed in French Algeria were forced to come to France and let's say we don't have the best history in accepting large Muslim population well. Thanks, that's more convoluted than the media portrayed it here to say the least.
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steinrokkan posted:Thanks, that's more convoluted than the media portrayed it here to say the least. See apologia of colonialism in France isn't new but it kinda got worse after Chirac reelection in 2000 against Lepen, the hard right of the UMP(nowadays Les Republicains) including some former members from Le club de L'horlogue, the GUD and Occident ended up getting some place in the Ministry of Interior and the Foreign Affair under Chirac. They went for Sarkozy in the 2008 years and with the Sarkozy's constant attempt to get the FN voters, it ended up with a loving law celebrating the "benefits and positive side of Colonialism" because there is nothing like roads and hospitals to justify not applying basic human rights to a large part of the local populations. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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Toplowtech posted:Funnily enough, because of the German colonies loss, i have seen some anti-colonial Africans expressing their preference in dealing with modern day Germany because i quote "they don't have a colonial culture, unlike your country At least they made the Giraffe's run on time Famous old time cartoon, racist and sexist Germans in the top quarter, English in the 2nd, French in the bottom left, Belgians in the bottom left http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b222/Sarmatia1871/ZZZZKolonialmaechte.jpg
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So in a sadly predictable result, the Crocodile pulls off the win in Zimbabwe. Not a landslide, but still by enough votes to avoid a run-off. Zimbabwe election: Emmerson Mnangagwa wins election Everything I've read sounds like it was probably fairer than when Mugabe was in charge, but there was still a fair bit of intimidation and shenanigans to make an MDC victory a really uphill battle from the start. Just hope it doesn't get too ugly now. The MDC supporters are already quite riled up.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Joseph Kabila announced that he won’t be seeking a third term in DRC’s upcoming elections. I’m actually pretty shocked by this; all the political maneuvering up until now suggested he would run for a (unconstitutional) third term. Looks like he might just do a Putin, leaving some patsy in the pretty office for a while. Anyone know if DRC term limits are American-style or Russian-style?
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BBC's Africa Eye project published the following video today about an execution video that was published a few months ago from Cameroon, where soldiers executed two women and two very young children in a loving horrific video, because they were supposedly Boko Haram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbnLkc6r3yc The BBC investigation came together with the help of my team at Bellingcat, started out as a workshop project trying to geolocate the video, and turned into a collaborative investigation between Bellingcat, the BBC, Amnesty International, and a bunch of keen amateurs from Twitter, resulting in the above video.
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Murdered by Ambazonians (poor taste, yes yes)RagnarokZ posted:Looks like he might just do a Putin, leaving some patsy in the pretty office for a while. e: on the subject of Cameroon, here is a very enlightening and balanced look at the current situation from DW. The presidential election results will supposedly be released on the 22nd. Everyone already knows it’s been rigged in Biya’s favor but still very worrying that there could be an uptick of violence in Yaounde and the southern region after the announcement. The whole country is a powder keg right now. KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Oct 19, 2018 |
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Trump emboldens bloodthirsty fascists everywhere: https://twitter.com/johnupton/status/1058447229973917696
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Cat Mattress posted:Trump emboldens bloodthirsty fascists everywhere:
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Toplowtech posted:Well, the whole Nigeria+Cameroon area is going to be a bloodbath if they all follow Trump's escalation doctrine. I'm for one am shocked that the former head of a military junta would be shitastic on human rights.
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What's the D&D opinion on lifting sanctions against Eritrea? I get that there is apparently no evidence they've been supporting al-Shabaab, but they're still pretty lovely on human rights, if perhaps not uniquely so among sub-Saharan countries, press freedom being a notable exception. Although, considering how closed-in they are, sanctions might not be the best solution to that problem? Looking at the way Ethiopia is reforming, that gets to happen in the context of a (misplaced) "Africa Rising" narrative they've enjoyed for a while. Idk.
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I wouldn't know either. I know next to nothing about ETH-ETR relations or civil war history so I couldn't tell you. But there's this: Ethiopian Police Arrest Ex-Director of Renaissance Dam in Connection to June's PM Assassination Attempt Which mean that construction on the Dam will no longer stall.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:What's the D&D opinion on lifting sanctions against Eritrea? I get that there is apparently no evidence they've been supporting al-Shabaab, but they're still pretty lovely on human rights, if perhaps not uniquely so among sub-Saharan countries, press freedom being a notable exception. Although, considering how closed-in they are, sanctions might not be the best solution to that problem? Looking at the way Ethiopia is reforming, that gets to happen in the context of a (misplaced) "Africa Rising" narrative they've enjoyed for a while. Idk. Eritrea's Junta are loving psychotic lunatics who run their country like a giant prison camp, gently caress them.
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