Atrocious Joe posted:

COUP! Coup?
https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/1440202191751434243?s=20

quote:

Residents say six hundred people have been killed in Kobo

Atrocious Joe posted:

TPLF response to the UN truck tweet. They say the UN is more concerned with placating the Ethiopian government than the well being of people in Tigray.
https://twitter.com/rakidi/status/1440723709048750081?s=20

This event seems to be getting some publicity even outside of Ethiopia as well.
https://twitter.com/AFPAfrica/status/1440676003274113027?s=20
https://twitter.com/VOAAmharic/status/1440062602139213824?s=20

PawParole posted:

Zedhe Khoja posted:

It's arguable whether a steamjack really qualifies and Taqi was an Arab, but there is no higher calling for engineers than to craft a more perfect kebap.

Atrocious Joe posted:

"only made it spin doner"

would you rather your invention help people make tasty meats

or be an invention that sets humanity down the path to environmental apocalypse

PawParole posted:

this is going to have a lot of parentheses and explanations of explanations. It's the Horn so the politics are extremely complicated


the Ethiopian junta (mainly made up of ethnic Tigray) which had held power over Ethiopia since they ousted the DERG in 1990, was overthrown in a popular movement that started off after they tried annexing land to expand Addis Ababa (capital of Ethiopia) and they first tried to assuage the protestors (who were mostly Oromo farmers from the region surrounding Addis Ababa (the Oromo name is FinFinne, and Addis is claimed by the Oromia Region) by making a half Oromo Half Amhara prime minister.

he wasn't the puppet they thought he would be, and really hated tigrayians from how they treated him in the Badme war (war against the Eritreans (who are closely related to Tigrays but really dislike each other), so he allied with the dictator/president for life of Eritrea, signed a peace deal that had a secret clause that included an alliance against Tigray, got the Nobel prize for the peace deal, then he tried to replace the leaders of the Northern Command (note that 90 percent of all officers were Tigray, Abiy was one of the only non-Tigray officers they could find) w/ non-tigray, but the Northern Command refused, Abiy took that as a declaration of rebellion, and a year on, here we are.



Ethnic Map of Ethiopia

Map of the War in Tigray

brugroffil posted:

Can anyone link me a summation of what is going on in Ethiopia? I only know what little bits I've picked up from radio war nerd

PawParole posted:

Zedhe Khoja posted:

beef mostly these days. mix of beef and lamb sometimes, like kofte. kebab is actually a fairly recent thing, the steam jacks were basically rotisserie’s, it would be a big goat haunch originally I’m sure.

PawParole posted:

bottom map is a little outdated.

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1441207273607491592

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The TPLF bounced back from what looked like almost certain defeat to the point where they're moving on the south and the Amhara region.

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1441207273607491592

quote:

Did you know?
Long before most tribes in present day Nigeria, knew the meaning of commerce.
Our Ijaw forefathers as early as the turn of the 15 century were engaging in intercontinental trade with the Europeans by paddling their trade cargoes into hundreds of kilometers into hinterlands and acquiring ivories, palm oils, slaves etc and returning back to their shores to trade with the Europeans . Making European historians to refer to our Ijaw fathers and their various Ijaw kingdoms as 'the TRADING states of the oil rivers'

gradenko_2000 posted:

getting Gadaffi-pilled

gradenko_2000 posted:

getting Gadaffi-pilled

quote:

Troika Statement on the Situation in Eastern Sudan
MEDIA NOTE

OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON

OCTOBER 8, 2021
The Troika (Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States) strongly supports the efforts of Sudan’s government to resolve protests in eastern Sudan which, as the government’s October 3 statement highlighted, risk having a serious impact on the country’s economy and the well-being of its citizens.

The Troika joins with the civilian-led transitional government in calling for an end to the ongoing blockades of port and transportation infrastructure in eastern Sudan. Political leaders in eastern Sudan should take up their government’s offer to address their grievances through meaningful political dialogue rather than engaging in action that serves only to harm the nation’s economy. We encourage everyone in the Sudanese government to intensify their efforts to resolve these protests

The Troika fully recognizes the development challenges facing the people of eastern Sudan and is prepared to continue to work in partnership with Sudan’s civilian-led transitional government to address such challenges.

While recognizing that this is an internal issue, the Troika urges the international community to support fully the efforts of the Sudanese government to resolve this matter and to end the ongoing blockades.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Dang MiG-23s are still flying? That's kinda cool

quote:

The development in Lebanon’s ongoing electricity crisis comes about a week after two floating Turkish power barges off the coast stopped generating power after the expiration of a government contract.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/endsanctions/status/1446963326831849481