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https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/ethiopia-benishangul-gumuz-violence-gerd-western-front/ article about the massacre in Ethiopia. Note that the source is heavily neoconservative, so keep the bias in mind
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PawParole posted:https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/ethiopia-benishangul-gumuz-violence-gerd-western-front/ Is FP heavily neocon? The second story I see on their front page reads quote:It Happened Here
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# ? Jan 10, 2021 13:43 |
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FP is a centrist "washington consensus" magazine, foreign affairs is conservative
i say swears online fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jan 10, 2021 |
# ? Jan 10, 2021 17:46 |
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So what percentage of the vote do we think Museveni will let Bobi Wine get and will this complete charade finally result in the US breaking ties with him?
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 16:03 |
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kustomkarkommando posted:So what percentage of the vote do we think Museveni will let Bobi Wine get and will this complete charade finally result in the US breaking ties with him?
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 16:11 |
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uganda is fairly stable and prosperous compared to its larger neighbors
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 18:16 |
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https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1349401343765721091 I was on a call with some colleagues based in Kampala a few hours ago and they all dropped all of a sudden.
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 18:31 |
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kustomkarkommando posted:will this complete charade finally result in the US breaking ties with him?
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 19:48 |
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https://twitter.com/HEBobiwine/status/1350074095447117824?s=19 https://twitter.com/Smith_JeffreyT/status/1350085702751576065?s=19
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# ? Jan 15, 2021 17:09 |
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that seems ominous. any indication as to why they're acting this drastically?
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# ? Jan 15, 2021 19:11 |
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V. Illych L. posted:that seems ominous. any indication as to why they're acting this drastically? In general Museveni has become incredibly more brazen in suppressing the opposition since about 2017, especially since scrapping the upper age limit on the presidency to let him to run again this year. In part this may be because of Uganda's continued rule in South Sudan and elsewhere in the region as an aspiring political broker giving him a sense of security to act with minimal international blowback but the emergence of Bobi Wine as a undeniably popular voice of opposition definitely has rattled him somewhat (this isn't the first time his house has been surrounded and he's taken to wearing a bullet proof vest in public after getting shot at). Bobi Wine has really successfully positioned himself at the forefront of the generational schism between the ruling "old men of africa" and the ambitious, digitally connected and increasingly vocal youth which has begun aggressively bubbling up throughout Africa for a while and has begun violently erupting with things like the whole EndSARS protests in Nigeria. There's a couple of other similar figures like Malema in SA and Omoyele Sowore in Nigeria but Bobi is probably the most succesfull due to his relative lack of political baggage and the fact Museveni's complete inability to relinquish personal power has become increasingly farcical to the degree where he actually attempted to float on social media that he may have been three years younger than he previously thought and thus below the presidential age limit (of course he denied he was trying to do.this once social media rounded on him) There's a lot of people outside Uganda on the continent watching him closely for sure.
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# ? Jan 15, 2021 19:44 |
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i have friends in south africa who have split with malema and the EFF for being too shy in attacking the ANC, starting their own party in KZN. the youth are mad lol
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# ? Jan 15, 2021 19:51 |
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kustomkarkommando posted:There's a lot of people outside Uganda on the continent watching him closely for sure.
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# ? Jan 15, 2021 19:52 |
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so museveni thinks he has a winning hand and is probably just going to keep doing this until it blows up in his face or he keels over? grim
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# ? Jan 15, 2021 20:34 |
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V. Illych L. posted:so museveni thinks he has a winning hand and is probably just going to keep doing this until it blows up in his face or he keels over? grim
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# ? Jan 15, 2021 22:45 |
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https://twitter.com/rakidi/status/1350424244560265218?s=19 Seems legit...
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# ? Jan 16, 2021 16:25 |
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https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1350694423471009794
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 18:10 |
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There's been a lot of reporting this weekend of the extent of the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, as the survivors face starvation with nearly all infrastructure and hospitals destroyed and shops looted or sold out across the region. The first aid workers in say 90% of the 5 million population require emergency food aid, but the UN says aid has been able to reach very few people. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/extreme-urgent-starvation-haunts-ethiopias-tigray-75306648
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Fuschia tude posted:There's been a lot of reporting this weekend of the extent of the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, as the survivors face starvation with nearly all infrastructure and hospitals destroyed and shops looted or sold out across the region. The first aid workers in say 90% of the 5 million population require emergency food aid, but the UN says aid has been able to reach very few people. And yeah, sucks that this had to happen during a pandemic year.
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# ? Jan 18, 2021 06:54 |
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Is there a good primer in article form about Zimbabwe? Granted, there's probably several large books worth there, but I wanted something to get started. edit: Specifically post-colonial Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jan 20, 2021 |
# ? Jan 20, 2021 04:29 |
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The Ethiopian army killed Seyoum Mesfin, who was the country's foreign minister 1991-2010. I can see this getting a lot worse.
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 23:01 |
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https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/hundreds-reportedly-dead-after-massacre-at-oriental-orthodox-church-in-ethiopia-51752 Locals have said they believe the church was targeted by raiders of the lost ark. The church is thought to contain the original Ark of the Covenant, a sacred golden chest first mentioned in the book of Exodus that carried the 10 commandments, parts of sacred scripture, Aaron’s rod, and a pot of manna. They believed the attackers wanted to steal the Ark of the Covenant and take it to the capital city of Addis Ababa, the Church Times reported. This ark is guided by a single priest who never leaves the compound, and it is not allowed to be seen by anyone else, so whether it is really the true Ark has been debated by historians for centuries. PawParole fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 23, 2021 |
# ? Jan 22, 2021 23:53 |
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the brotherhood of the cruciform sword has sabotaged that link with an ellipsis so we don't find the truth
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 23:59 |
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i say swears online posted:the brotherhood of the cruciform sword has sabotaged that link with an ellipsis so we don't find the truth sorry. fixed it.
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# ? Jan 23, 2021 00:04 |
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oh christ that's way worse than i was expecting
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:The Ethiopian army killed Seyoum Mesfin, who was the country's foreign minister 1991-2010. I can see this getting a lot worse.
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# ? Jan 23, 2021 01:34 |
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Reports are coming out of other areas of Tigray now too, like from expat Ethiopians who have since been able to escape. For instance, the account of an Ethiopian-American woman who was in Hawzen visiting her mother and got stuck there. Hawzen is a popular tourist destination in the countryside 3-ish hours away from Mekele and it is famous for its inaccessible churches, particularly Abuna Yematah Guh ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJCy64adY3Y ) Here's her report: https://apnews.com/article/international-news-eritrea-ethiopia-only-on-ap-kenya-2bdd10888f7717690847ad117f09f2d4 quote:She first saw the Eritrean soldiers in mid-December. She had fled with others into the mountains as fighting approached, leaving her mother, too frail for the journey, behind. Twelve days later she returned to the town of Hawzen, needing to know whether her mother had survived. I would have never expected Eritrean soldiers to be as far as Hawzen, several hours' drive from the border. Abiy is hosed. I was hoping that the capture of Mekele would mean a quick end to the worst abuses of war, but I can't even imagine what is going on in his head that would justify getting Eritreans anywhere other than border towns and allowing such slaughter. I messaged everyone I spent significant amounts of time with when I spent a couple weeks in Tigray a year ago, and never heard back from anyone in Tigray, unsurprisingly, where WhatsApps didn't even ever get to "received". I did hear back from the guy who showed us around Lalibela and our guide for Simien, both of which are pretty close to Tigray, but they said everything is fine and normal where they are. It's going to be 10+ years before Tigray is even close to back to normal...
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# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:18 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1353853399842738177 Eritrean soldiers looting
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 03:58 |
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Saladman posted:I would have never expected Eritrean soldiers to be as far as Hawzen, several hours' drive from the border. Abiy is hosed. I was hoping that the capture of Mekele would mean a quick end to the worst abuses of war, but I can't even imagine what is going on in his head that would justify getting Eritreans anywhere other than border towns and allowing such slaughter.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 06:08 |
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My half-baked understanding is that Eritrea is also majority ethnically Tigrayan, and the ruling clique of Eritrea saw the TPLF as potential rivals for power/influence in their country?
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 00:08 |
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Our operations are gearing up to respond to the latest Ebola outbreak that is kicking off in West Africa. Definitely in Guinea and I heard as well in Mali. I am hoping that the stockpiled vaccines are effective because I am sure the WHO and CDC is more stretched then last time. It will be interesting to see how much Africa gets closed off from flights (more than it already is due to Covid) through this.
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# ? Feb 15, 2021 11:02 |
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https://twitter.com/addisstandard/s...ghtmode%3Dfalse
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 07:41 |
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Grouchio posted:I know too little about Uganda (and I have many ebooks to read) to be able to answer that question. Have living standards improved since Idi Amin? I was only in Kampala, but speaking with people there, they say there have been lot of infrastructure improvements (new roads, schools, malls, churches, etc.), but a lot of people still live in essentially shacks though. It definitely didn't seem as developed as Kenya. There were also a lot of little hints that the "president" was more of a dictator.
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# ? Feb 20, 2021 08:50 |
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quote:NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopian officials and allied militia fighters are leading a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, the war-torn region in northern Ethiopia, according to a confidential United States government report obtained by The New York Times. As far as I can tell there's still no reporters in western Tigray Region. I guess TPLF has sued for peace but that doesn't seem to be a big priority for Abiy. edited out wrong stuff Vivian Darkbloom fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Feb 27, 2021 |
# ? Feb 27, 2021 04:02 |
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Meanwhile, the covid-19 crisis in Tanzania is getting worse while its government refuses to remove its head from its rear end.Bloomberg posted:Tanzania’s main hospitals have been swamped by patients displaying coronavirus symptoms, intensive-care units are full and funeral masses have become daily occurrences.
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# ? Mar 1, 2021 09:18 |
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There was an excellent article about that in The Continent last month which gives me a chance to rep it a bit - it's a free magazine put out by the M&G delivered via WhatsApp gathering various different pieces from across Africa that's definitely worth your while subscribing to. PDF copies are available on the site here to read if you prefer but check out - details on how to sign up are there as well This was from the Feb 6th edition: quote:The bars are open in Dar es Salaam. So are the markets, and the beaches, and the churches and concert venues and nightclubs. We may be living through a global pandemic, but no one is wearing masks or social distancing on the streets of the seaside commercial capital. Since Feb though it seems like Magufuli has made a slight change in course after a string of high-profile deaths, calling on citizens to start wearing face masks (locally made of course, not foreign ones which can't be trusted) and organizing another few days of pray against "respiratory illnesses" without making any direct statements on Covid
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quote:Tanzania's President John Magufuli is being treated in hospital in Kenya and is in a critical condition, opposition leader Tundu Lissu has told the BBC, citing well-placed sources. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56347756 How could this have happened kustomkarkommando fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Mar 10, 2021 |
# ? Mar 10, 2021 19:52 |
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bless
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# ? Mar 10, 2021 20:44 |
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The rains down in tanzania?
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https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/1372289859931545604 maybe not covid then? (not that theyd announce that of course)
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