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well poop, i thought the EFF was legit. some really good ideas in the article, but i bolded the unexpected stuff. seems like a CCP model but more explicit?quote:Floyd Shivambu: EFF job plan will rescue SA from a crisis it's certainly better than the status quo but i thought they were revolutionaries like the ANC 25 years ago
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Isn't Malema, the founder and leader of the EFF, supposed to be incredibly corrupt? While he takes on the revolutionary leanings of the old ANC, he seems to be very much cut from the same cloth as the more corrupt elements of the contemporary ANC.
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# ? Oct 30, 2019 14:08 |
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I initially thought these guys looked like Hugo Chavez types but it turns out they are another party that wants to copy the China model.
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# ? Oct 30, 2019 16:17 |
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Well this is going about how I expected
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# ? Nov 8, 2019 16:26 |
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The Egyptians must be pleased.
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# ? Nov 8, 2019 16:39 |
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Well, if the Ethiopians let him cut a ribbon there and put up a signed photo of him and Abiy shaking hands in the control room, that would also reduce the probability of Sisi openly attacking the dam from like 1% to 0%. But I can’t imagine anyone seriously inviting Trump to any mediation, especially not for an infrastructure project in Africa that he will know literally nothing about and won’t bother informing himself (or receiving information) in advance of such discussions.
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# ? Nov 8, 2019 16:41 |
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Toplowtech posted:The Egyptians must be pleased.
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# ? Nov 8, 2019 17:03 |
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We'll also get to figure out how the world deals with tens of millions of more arab refugees
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# ? Nov 8, 2019 17:12 |
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Grouchio posted:We'll also get to figure out how the world deals with tens of millions of more arab refugees Oh, I know! Trump will say "lol not my problem, they're going to Europe" but double down on the child concentration camps just in case, and Europe will react by bribing despots in Turkey, Egypt, Libya, etc. to bottle them up, while hoping that those who do manage to reach the shores will drown quietly far from the sight of those annoying sea rescue NGOs. Canada will say "we're the good guys and we welcome them", knowing full well that less than 0.001% of them will be able to reach Canada without having to first go through Europe or through the USA.
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# ? Nov 8, 2019 17:24 |
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does Somalia go here or the Middle East? There’s been massive ethnic pograms in Ethiopia between Amhara and oromos, university students have been forced to withdraw from their courses if they’re in the wrong ethnic region, and basically the country does not seem like it will last until the 2020 elections ( if EPDRF doesn’t cancel it). PawParole fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Nov 16, 2019 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Isn't Malema, the founder and leader of the EFF, supposed to be incredibly corrupt? While he takes on the revolutionary leanings of the old ANC, he seems to be very much cut from the same cloth as the more corrupt elements of the contemporary ANC. There are a great many corruption allegations hanging over Malema, and he was living way beyond his means even back when he was still in the ANCYL.
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# ? Nov 23, 2019 03:30 |
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PawParole posted:There’s been massive ethnic pograms in Ethiopia between Amhara and oromos, university students have been forced to withdraw from their courses if they’re in the wrong ethnic region, and basically the country does not seem like it will last until the 2020 elections ( if EPDRF doesn’t cancel it). Have there? This seems like a lot of hyperbole to me to be honest ("massive" "pogroms" "does not seem like it will last until May"). I asked a childhood friend who has lived in Addis for years, and she thinks that there's a absolute poo poo-ton of pizzagate-level conspiracy theories rolling around in Ethiopia, especially for things related to Oromo-vs-Amharic relations. I've been reading about Ethiopia for the last couple months and haven't seen anything substantiated beyond a few violent protests centered around Adama and Hawassa. I do not see any reliable news sources that have reported on "pogroms" in Ethiopia, and I can't imagine Abiy canceling the 2020 election. There is banditry (with a flavor of "freedom fighter") in the Afar region and in almost all of the border regions, but this has also been the case for decades for those regions. It's worth noting that the Sidama region independence vote from SNNPR went totally fine, and the EPDRF just formed itself into a new coalition party ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50515636 ). E: I mean yeah a handful of churches and mosques have been burned down, and there has been some university stuff like you mention (e.g. https://borkena.com/2019/11/13/ethiopia-students-oromo-region-leaving-university-campuses/ ) but it's not "massive" and it's also not like Ethiopia has ever had any long period of stability without low-level ethnic violence. Talking about as if the current situation portends a near-term collapse of Ethiopia seems... dramatized. You're not the only person I've seen say that, but the only other people I've seen say that have been on Facebook, and since what I've read on FB is written in more or less grammatically-correct English, it is no doubt by Ethiopian expats living in the US and Canada who get third-hand information from their relatives through a game of telephone. I don't see anything about I mean just look at the 4 comments on that Ethiopian article I linked regarding pizzagate-level conspiracy theories. The first comment is lol. Saladman fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Nov 23, 2019 |
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Speaking of Ethiopia, they're trying to bolster their military. The leaked document shows their ambition is matched only by their approximation. Besides wanting "multiroll helicopters" (I agree, a copter that can do only one roll isn't interesting), they also seem to think the M51 is an air defense missile. (It's not. It's also absolutely not on sale. I assume they're actually thinking about the Aster.) Of course they don't have the money for any of that, and I doubt France would be eager to give away its top-of-the-line stuff to a country heavily indebted to China.
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# ? Nov 23, 2019 13:35 |
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Cat Mattress posted:Speaking of Ethiopia, they're trying to bolster their military. Based on that doc they are looking for ballistic missiles. So heh.
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# ? Nov 23, 2019 15:00 |
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Cat Mattress posted:Speaking of Ethiopia, they're trying to bolster their military. Eh its for show all the cool kids have ballistic missiles so why not us?
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# ? Nov 25, 2019 06:13 |
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This piece by Awol Allo in Al Jazeera yesterday on the dangers of merging EPDRF into the Prosperity Party is definitely worth reading.
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# ? Dec 6, 2019 19:58 |
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Basically only the future losers are joining the new party. TPLF is the only party that is popular in its home region.
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# ? Dec 7, 2019 22:55 |
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Just as the virus was brought under control aid workers for MSF have been forced out of central Congo by violence. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ebola-response-workers-killed-in-attacks-force-withdrawal-from-critical-drc-region/
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# ? Dec 8, 2019 10:21 |
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goodluck jonathan's relatives are freaking out on facebook, apparently some gunmen got close to his house looks like they came up on motorboats and were trying to steal a gunboat at the guard station protecting the ex-prez. jonathan lives in bayelsa which is a lot like the southern louisiana of nigeria
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 17:40 |
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Manager of Sonangol account in Portuguese bank found dead in Lisbon: report uhhhh
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Manager of Sonangol account in Portuguese bank found dead in Lisbon: report
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# ? Jan 23, 2020 16:49 |
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he was also implicated in the dos santos scandal and then suddenly "hung himself"
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# ? Jan 24, 2020 16:46 |
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This story is from July so it may already have been posted in this thread last year so if it was I apologize but I thought it was interesting. Why Zimbabwe’s female rangers are better at stopping poaching quote:Sgt. Vimbai Kumire holds up a photo of a dead leopard on her phone. She stares at the image as the truck she’s riding in bounces over the rutted road. The cat’s neck is slashed and its bloody paws hang slack. “Before this job, I didn’t think about the animals,” she says.
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https://www.voanews.com/africa/mystery-illness-kills-ethiopian-nomadsquote:Mystery Illness Kills Ethiopian Nomads gently caress's sake
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:https://www.voanews.com/africa/mystery-illness-kills-ethiopian-nomads
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# ? Mar 18, 2020 20:09 |
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The symptoms make me think of a particularly nasty jaundice.
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# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:36 |
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rip
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# ? Apr 8, 2020 06:26 |
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Um Nkurunziza is dead of a "heart attack"
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# ? Jun 9, 2020 16:13 |
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Wonder what happens to Burundi now.
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# ? Jun 9, 2020 16:16 |
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Well conveniently his successor was just installed.
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# ? Jun 9, 2020 16:49 |
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This poo poo is loving outrageous.quote:Making a killing: Israeli mercenaries in Cameroon
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# ? Jun 23, 2020 17:13 |
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Seems like Mali has it's own Khomeini https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53176083
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 17:25 |
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Thanks for posting that, I hadn't heard about it. I hope to read more about this, the fact the dude is named Dicko probably doesn't hurt
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# ? Jul 1, 2020 21:02 |
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cross posted from midEast thread, but i think this video is worth watching for everyone: I just saw this excellent video profiling the career of Muammar Kaddafi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NkZn5P8UA which is from an African perspective. Not that Nigerians have any special insight into Libyan history, but still. This channel is a must subscribe for anyone interested in contemporary African history and politics.
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 15:55 |
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I con't find anything about the provenance of that channel.
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 19:13 |
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Discendo Vox posted:I con't find anything about the provenance of that channel. nor could I, except that they say they are based in the UK. My impression watching a few videos is that the author is trained as an economist but if there are multiple writers I don't know. They have a twitter account though so you could try @ing them?
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 20:27 |
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Has anyone found any good us-centric articles or takes on the current conflict between the state and the local islamic extremist in gaz-rich north Mozambique? Beside a few good Allafrica articles i have found next to nothing in the english web and most of those articles were a translation from news in Portuguese. Apparently the Tony Blair Institute and the US State Department call it "Islamic State terrorism" but since there is currently a repression of journalism in Mozambique by the government, not a lot get out.
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# ? Jul 6, 2020 06:46 |
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this is about as US-centric and neoliberal as you're gonna get https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/war-mozambique-natural-gas-blessing-turned-curse/
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# ? Jul 6, 2020 06:53 |
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i say swears online posted:this is about as US-centric and neoliberal as you're gonna get
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Squalid posted:nor could I, except that they say they are based in the UK. My impression watching a few videos is that the author is trained as an economist but if there are multiple writers I don't know. They have a twitter account though so you could try @ing them? https://medium.com/@kwabena.taiwo https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-b-taiwo-2a6a6218a/?originalSubdomain=uk all stubs. I really can't tell how to evaluate it, given the significant amounts of money behind the design, and because I am not literate enough in the area to tell its slant.
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