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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56441499
quote:What is the role of US forces?
To support its efforts in tackling the growing insurgency, the Mozambican government has invited in US military advisers.
The agreement between the Mozambican and US governments is for American soldiers to train local forces fighting the militants.
"US special operations forces... will support Mozambique's efforts to prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism," the US embassy in Mozambique said on 15 March.
"Clearly, the US is trying to extend its influence," says Jasmine Opperman, an analyst with the monitoring group Acled.
But she adds that it is a complex local conflict, and that "the US is framing the insurgency in a very over-simplified manner by referring to [the militants] as an extension of the Islamic State".
On March 10, the US government designated al-Shabab in Mozambique as a "foreign terrorist organisation", describing it as an IS-affiliate.
Portugal, the former colonial power in Mozambique, has also committed to training the military.
"We will send a staff of approximately 60 trainers to Mozambique to train marines and commandos," said a Portuguese official.
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1378464439326883841?s=20
and some Africa news:
https://twitter.com/gijnAfrica/status/1375466329721946116?s=20
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How big of a deal is the Jordan thing? It looks like it really was an attempted coup. Hard to imagine Hamzeh and his side of the family can stay in Jordan much longer, unless it's in prison
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It looks like this is part of a growing trend to privatize ports and create "special economic zones" similar to Hong Kong (but much worse), where the terminal operates independently from government interference and regulation. Little libertarian enclaves that are complimentary to the broader flags of convenience regulatory framework.
These maneuvers are barefaced neocolonialism. Ripping major infrastructure and land out from the hands of developing countries and into the megarich.
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UN condemns French airstrike on wedding in Mali that slaughtered 22
quote:In a report made public last week, the United Nations has revealed that the French military launched an airstrike on a wedding ceremony in Mali at the beginning of the year, slaughtering at least 22 people.
The airstrike took place at 3:00 p.m. on January 3, near the town of Bounty in the center of the country. According to the report by the United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the religious ceremony for the marriage had taken place the evening before in Gana, approximately seven kilometers away.
The following morning, approximately 100 people came from their homes in Bounty and smaller surrounding settlements to celebrate the marriage. As is normal in the local custom, the men were gathered in a separate area from the women and children. The French airstrike hit the gathering of men, killing 22.
Little has been publicly reported about the victims, except that they were aged between 23 and 71. The report states that 19 of the victims were civilians, and three were members of an armed Islamist group named Katiba Serma. However, it makes clear that there is no evidence that any of them were involved in any ongoing military operations against French armed forces and were therefore also protected under international law.
The MINUSMA report is the product of a weeks long investigation on the ground by a team of 19 UN staff, including two police science investigators. From January 4 to February 20, they traveled to the towns of Bamako, Sévaré, Douentza and Bounty. They conducted interviews with more than 115 people individually and another 200 people in groups, including family members of the victims, witnesses, and representatives of local community associations and medical responders.
Their report exposes the lies of the French army and the Macron government following the attack. Immediately after the airstrike, the Macron government insisted that it had hit a gathering of 30 members of an “armed terrorist group.” On January 20, Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly was questioned about the attack during a hearing before the Senate Commission for Foreign Affairs. Parly called reports of an attack on civilians as an example of “information warfare” and “rumours” being used to discredit the French occupation of the Sahel.
“We have seen this again recently when on all sorts of social media networks, France has been accused of being at the origin of a strike having supposedly killed civilians,” she said. “It is not necessarily a question of rumors spread by local actors, but also a game of powers, competitors who see only advantages in Europeans leaving this theater, to be able to better deploy there themselves…”
Asked why the French army had not made public its evidence supposedly proving that the victims were members of an armed terrorist group, Parly claimed that this was impossible because it would show “our enemies what we know about them.”
All of these statements have been exposed as hollow lies. The report constitutes clear evidence of a French war crime. The massacre makes clear the criminal and neocolonial character of the entire military operation led by France in the Sahel. How many other similar attacks, attributed by Paris to the killing of “armed terrorist groups” have taken place but gone unanswered?
The civilian casualties of this war are systematically covered up by the occupiers. Parly’s denunciations of “social media networks” testifies to the acute consciousness in the French military brass and Macron government of the enormous popular opposition in the French and African working class to the operations of French imperialism in the Sahel, and their determination to conceal the nature and victims of the occupation.
Even in the wake of the UN report, Paris has doubled down on its lies. On March 30 the armed forces published a statement, “Reaction to the MINUSMA report on the January airstrikes in Mali.” It makes no attempt to answer the substantial evidence provided in the 36-page report. It simply asserts in a gangster-like manner that “the only concrete sources that the report is based on come from local testimony. … It is impossible to sympathisers or individuals under their influence.”
In reality, the report provides ample and detailed evidence to substantiate its conclusions. Throughout its investigation, the MINUSMA team maintained correspondence with the French army.
A January 7 army communiqué claimed that “the totality of intelligence information in real time permitted [French forces] to characterise and formally identify the gathering as belonging to GAT [armed terrorist group].”
The MINUSMA report states: “No information on the elements or probatory intelligence that the [French] Barkhane forces disposed of has been communicated to MINUSMA.”
According to the army’s own version of events, it monitored the group for one hour and a half before launching the airstrike.
The UN report comments: “It appears difficult in the circumstances (one hour and a half of observation) that the party responsible for the attack could have determined that all the participants in the gathering [almost 100 people] were members of an armed terrorist group. … The characterisation of an entire gathering of people as members of an armed group, excluding de facto the presence of civilians, in such a period, and in such proximity to inhabitated areas, raises significant concerns.”
It notes that a forensic examination of the scene of the airstrike found no evidence of destroyed arms, munitions or motorcycles that are typically used as means of transport by militia.
The French media has largely passed over the revelations of the French war crime. Le Monde devoted two news articles to the event and moved on. One can only imagine the wall-to-wall media reports, editorials and news columns that would follow were a similar report produced about the operations of a major rival of French and European imperialism, including China or Russia.
In its concluding segments, the MINUSMA report calls for the French and Malian governments to conduct an investigation into themselves, including an “independent and transparent investigation to examine the circumstances of the attack and its impact on the civilian population in Bounty.”
The response already made by the French government to the latest revelations makes clear the illusory character of any such appeals. In fact, the latest massacre is the inevitable outcome of the neocolonial character of the war itself, which is aimed at the subjugation of the resource-rich region and where the entire population is therefore viewed as enemies.
France launched its intervention in Mali in 2013, after its overthrow of the Gaddafi regime during the 2011 NATO war in Libya that destabilized the entire Sahel. It has maintained a permanent occupation of between 4,000 and 5,100 troops, alongside Reaper drones and manned bombers.
While it is waged under the banner of combating separatist and Islamist terrorist groups, its real aim is the assurance of French neocolonial control over the resource-rich and strategically important region, which includes uranium supplies used for French energy production and neighbors what is believed to be the third largest gold supply in the world.
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Here is a weird one.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210405-turkey-detains-10-retired-admirals-over-open-letter-critical-of-canal-project
quote:Turkey detains 10 retired admirals over open letter critical of canal project
Turkey on Monday detained 10 retired admirals after they openly criticised a canal project dear to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a country where the hint of military insubordination raises the spectre of past coups.
The official approval last month of plans to develop a 45-kilometre (28-mile) shipping lane in Istanbul comparable to the Panama or Suez canals has opened up debate about Turkey's commitment to the 1936 Montreux Convention.
The pact is aimed at demilitarising the Black Sea by setting strict commercial and naval rules on passage through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits leading to the Mediterranean.
In their letter, 104 retired admirals said the existing treaty "best protects Turkish interests".
"Recently, the opening of the Montreux Convention to debate within the scope of the authority to withdraw from international treaties and the Canal Istanbul project is a cause for concern," the letter read.
The Ankara chief public prosecutor's office said arrest warrants had been issued for the 10 and ordered four other suspects to report to Ankara police within three days, opting not to detain them because of their age.
They are accused of "using force and violence to get rid of the constitutional order", NTV broadcaster reported.
Father of sea doctrine
The prosecutor's office opened a probe on Sunday into the retired admirals on suspicion of an "agreement to commit a crime against the state's security and constitutional order".
The wording is similar to that prosecutors have used against other Erdogan critics who have been jailed in a crackdown that followed a failed putsch in 2016.
The retired admirals detained on Monday included some of Turkey's most famous naval commanders.
They included Cem Gurdeniz, often described as the father of Turkey's controversial new maritime doctrine known as "Blue Homeland".
The doctrine has grown in prominence, especially during tensions last year between Greece and Turkey over Ankara's gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.
It argues Turkey has rights to substantial maritime borders including the water surrounding some Greek islands, much to Athens' chagrin.
Also detained was Alaettin Sevim, who had previously been arrested in 2011 as part of the so-called Ergenekon alleged coup plot against the government, which was later discredited.
Before the arrest warrants were issued, state news agency Anadolu said the prosecutor's office had determined who the "leaders" were of the open letter.
'Evoking coups'
Turkish officials have reacted angrily to the letter, claiming it appears to be a call for a coup.
"Stating one's thoughts is one thing, preparing a declaration evoking a coup is another," parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop said on Sunday.
Coups are a sensitive subject in Turkey since the military, which has long seen itself as the guarantor of the country's secular constitution, staged three coups between 1960 and 1980.
The attempt to overthrow Erdogan in 2016 was blamed on followers of US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen in the military.
"This is upsetting in the name of democracy," Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said on Monday.
"Our struggle against this dark mentality continues. The necessary response will be given within a legal framework," Gul added.
Erdogan's proposed 75-billion-lira ($9.8-billion) alternative to the Bosphorus and Dardanelles raises questions on whether existing agreements would apply to the new route.
Last month, parliament speaker Sentop said the president "could" withdraw from the convention.
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"He has the power," he told HaberTurk channel on March 24. "But there is a difference between possible and probable."
Erdogan assumed the power to pull Turkey out of treaties without parliament's approval in 2018.
Last month he withdrew Turkey from the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women.
(AFP)
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Wow, Macron really is French Obama. Only difference is the UN isn't afraid of him
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Wow, Macron really is French Obama. Only difference is the UN isn't afraid of him
macron can't ball worth poo poo what's to be afraid of
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isnt there already a canal from the black sea to the mediterranean. a natural one? why would you spend shitloads of money to bypass your own strait
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the montreux convention presumably only covers the existing strait
i guess i dont know much about that. still if there is a convention prohibiting certain traffic thru the strait, building a canal exactly next to it to circumvent that convention seems like something where you think you are being clever but absolutely will not work
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Erdogan is a dipshit but lol I wish the military here in Brazil became as whipped as the turkish one.
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i guess i dont know much about that. still if there is a convention prohibiting certain traffic thru the strait, building a canal exactly next to it to circumvent that convention seems like something where you think you are being clever but absolutely will not work
Well it probably won’t because it would be a massive project that would take at least a decade if not more and Turkey is already broke. Hell, it would probably eat up the last of their reserves and not even be close to completed. Erdogan is still in empire building mode but there is no way for the Turkish economy to sustain it.
That said, the idea would be to move any ship that they choose to the Black Sea. If anything the canal project at least confirms that Crimea and its naval base is the chief issue at play here.
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it’s meant to be perceived as an absurd moon shot that only Erdogan could propose. a “crazy project” founded on a public-private partnership (build-operate-transfer) that enriches his cronies. these projects usually include stipulations that if the operation is insufficiently profitable to the company then the government has to pay them the difference. in practice you have toll bridges with huge fees that lead to nobody using them, BUT the government has to cover any lost revenues according to some bullshit projection.
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it’s meant to be perceived as an absurd moon shot that only Erdogan could propose. a “crazy project” founded on a public-private partnership (build-operate-transfer) that enriches his cronies. these projects usually include stipulations that if the operation is insufficiently profitable to the company then the government has to pay them the difference. in practice you have toll bridges with huge fees that lead to nobody using them, BUT the government has to cover any lost revenues according to some bullshit projection.
In this case, I have a hard time seeing this thing completed considering the scale involved and the hits that the Lira keeps taking. In the end, it is probably going to be more money flushed down the toilet, at a time when the country really really needs the opposite.
That said, as far as Erdogan goes, he his down in the polls but I have a hard time seeing him just throw up his hands and allow a peaceful transition.
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so apparently the government of nigeria is starting to fall apart. my brothas cant even get their passports renewed
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https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/1379403443547295747?s=20
https://twitter.com/EthioEmbassyUK/status/1378296926026752000?s=20
I can't find the clip again, but the US State Department guy's condemnation was sort of weak. Abiy has been friendly with the West, but I think this is a sign of parts of the UK/US apparatus getting concerned about his actions. Not for moral reasons, but because starting multiple wars is a dumb idea.
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so apparently the government of nigeria is starting to fall apart. my brothas cant even get their passports renewed
can you talk more about this? i've got friends there trying to escape to literally any other country for work but they've never been abroad before so i'm not sure they have passports at the moment. most of my friends on social media are igbo so i see lots of anti-buhari and farmers vs herders memes but nothing really specific
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can you talk more about this? i've got friends there trying to escape to literally any other country for work but they've never been abroad before so i'm not sure they have passports at the moment. most of my friends on social media are igbo so i see lots of anti-buhari and farmers vs herders memes but nothing really specific
i honestly have no idea, the swedish embassy apparently hasnt had an ambassador for half a year and theres a bunch of prisons getting blown up? im trying to figure if this is happening for real or if its just business as usual. kind of hard to know with the government hanging out on the brink of collapse as the default
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I can't find the clip again, but the US State Department guy's condemnation was sort of weak. Abiy has been friendly with the West, but I think this is a sign of parts of the UK/US apparatus getting concerned about his actions. Not for moral reasons, but because starting multiple wars is a dumb idea.
Abiy has also been getting close with Eritrea.
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so apparently the government of nigeria is starting to fall apart. my brothas cant even get their passports renewed
Strangely enough, I just read this article about Nigerian maritime workers claiming that the state is falling apart:
https://nigeriamaritime360.com/insecurity-nigeria-drifting-into-anarchy-maritime-workers-warn/
quote:The President General, Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, has lamented the growing insecurity in the country, saying that the nation is gradually drifting towards anarchy.
Also, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), has insisted that Nigerian workers will resist any attempt by the federal government to increase the price of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol.
Speaking over the weekend at the 5th Quadrennial National Delegate Conference where he was re-elected for a second term following a unanimous decision by members of the union, Adeyanju called on the Federal Government to rejig the country’s security architecture with a view to curbing the incessant killings of innocent citizens, kidnapping and piracy among other vices before the situation spirals out of control.
He said, “It is no gain saying that the security architecture in the country has broken down. The incessant killings of innocent citizens, kidnapping, robberies, raping, piracy, brigandage and all other vices, which have been the order of the day, must be brought to a stop now.
“The federal government is hereby called upon to immediately rejig its security architecture with a view of curbing all these vices and save lives and properties and an urgent need to reverse this trend before it spirals out of control.”
Adeyanju asked the National Assembly to drop the attempt to remove the wages and salaries of workers from the exclusive legislative list to concurrent, saying it will be vehemently rejected.
He said, “We call on the national assembly to drop the attempt to remove wages/salaries from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent legislative list. We strongly stand by the NLC in its call for an abolishment of the process.”
However, the President of NLC, Com. Ayuba Wabba who condemned the planned increment says upwards increment will make life unbearable and difficult for Nigerians.
According to him, it is premature to put more burden on Nigerians especially at a time when unemployment and poverty rate are extremely high in the country.
He said, “We heard some states in the country are yet to start paying the N30,000 minimum wage while salary in some states are not regular. So, increment by government is like adding salt to injury by increasing the price of these two (fuel and electricity), very important commodities.
“As we have said clearly, Nigerians and NLC will continue to resist some of this imposition on us and i think this period is even more challenging because we are aware many people have lost their jobs, the unemployment statistics is extremely high, poverty level is something else.
He further stated that the union will not allow government to transfer her inefficiencies in refining crude locally on Nigerians who are already at breaking point due to the harsh economic situation in the country. He lashed out at the government for importing refined petroleum, saying Nigeria remains only OPEC country that import fuel in the world.
He said, “it is left for all of us to resist the price because this policies will have a negative effect on all Nigerians not only labour even you. It will have a negative effects but, we will provide the leadership as usual because we will try to resist it and resist it means all of us would have to be on our feet and resist some of those policies.
“We believe government policies need to add value to Nigerians and even reduced our burden and not actually increase them. Basically, as you are aware, we have continued to engage this issues for the past 20 years and during the last increment, we are the only organisation if you remember that stood and said this policy must not be a continuum.
“That is when they finish a circle another one will come because it means once the price goes up at the international market, gorvernment will increase pump price and it will get to a point that even you will not be able to ride a motorcycle in Nigeria.”
Wabba, who said the solution to the incessant increment in pump price is the fixing of Nigerian refineries, challeneged the federal government on the $1.5bn cost for rehabilitating the nation’s refinery.
“We support the idea of reviving the refineries but on the issue of the cost component, we are not competent to know what will be the cost hence, we won’t be able to argue the cost but we urge government to be transparent in the process of putting those figures and the procedures before Nigerians so that Nigerians will be able to examine those figures whether they are figures that can revive the refineries.
“Labour is pro-fixing the refineries and the only argument is about the cost because some people said the cost is too high and basically we don’t have the breakdown that made up the cost of fixing the refineries.
” I think it is also good for government to put the facts before all of us, what are the components to be changed, what are the processes to be involved so that Nigerians can also know that it is a transparent process but in terms of the principle, we support the principle of fixing the refineries but the issue is that we don’t have the details of the cost but we can demands from government to make the details available for all to see.
Also the union talks about an unnamed company outsourcing port security to foreign nationals. I wonder if its the same french billioniare Atrocious Joe posted about recently.
http://www.thetidenewsonline.com/2021/03/29/mwun-vows-to-end-wage-disparity-between-expatriates-indigenous-workers/
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