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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

mawarannahr posted:

relevant as Eurabian paristanbul news…attacks on Kurdish people, probably by Turks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64077668

It turns out the killer was a French guy who really hates foreigners and seems to have picked Kurds as his target almost at random: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/25/suspect-in-paris-shooting-says-he-had-pathological-hatred-of-foreigners

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SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

vyelkin posted:

It turns out the killer was a French guy who really hates foreigners and seems to have picked Kurds as his target almost at random: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/25/suspect-in-paris-shooting-says-he-had-pathological-hatred-of-foreigners

Good thing it was entirely pathological and there was no evidence of any extremist ideology, I guess. Case closed.

quote:

He had recently been released from prison, where he had served a year on remand awaiting trial for a sabre attack on a migrant camp in eastern Paris a year ago, where he was accused of stabbing migrants and slashing their tents with a sword.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

that’s just a normal French past time

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

he must have run out of jerry lewis movies to watch during the holidays

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1607473527036207106?t=lO-4W7apBZhvhnZG6O16cw&s=19

Biden's former special envoy to the Horn of Africa wrote about the peace deal in Ethiopia. Pushing for the West to take a bigger role and to keep sanctions in place against Ethiopia until the peace process is further along.

The main focus is actually more on how to punish Eritrean leader Afwerki for the war. He claims Abiy promised him that Ethiopia would fight the Eritreans if they did not withdraw from Tigray.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1607473527036207106?t=lO-4W7apBZhvhnZG6O16cw&s=19

Biden's former special envoy to the Horn of Africa wrote about the peace deal in Ethiopia. Pushing for the West to take a bigger role and to keep sanctions in place against Ethiopia until the peace process is further along.

The main focus is actually more on how to punish Eritrean leader Afwerki for the war. He claims Abiy promised him that Ethiopia would fight the Eritreans if they did not withdraw from Tigray.

“ Benchmarks the international community should monitor include the withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Ethiopia and of local Amhara forces from Tigray, the initiation of credible transitional justice and accountability mechanisms, and the establishment of a political process that builds on and protects the cease-fire arrangement from spoilers and that addresses tensions and violence in other parts of Ethiopia. ”

This would lead to another million people dying. Fano would lynch Abiy if he demanded a withdrawal from Wolkait . Eritrea is also maximally sanctioned, so I don’t know what pressure America could bring to bear.

Also the last time America attempted to negotiate a “peace” in Ethiopia it led to thirty years of ethnic discrimination and abuse.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1606338240084119552?cxt=HHwWgMC41cuH7sosAAAA

https://twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1602550012239433728?cxt=HHwWgMCi5dqvs70sAAAA

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

PawParole posted:

This would lead to another million people dying. Fano would lynch Abiy if he demanded a withdrawal from Wolkait . Eritrea is also maximally sanctioned, so I don’t know what pressure America could bring to bear.

The pressure they're bringing to bear is a war between Eritrea and Ethiopia in Tigray, I think. It reads to me like they're going to back a play by Abiy to end the issue militarily and see if the Eritreans blink. I dunno if the US is in any shape to support another military adventure in the world with Ukraine going on, though.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The pressure they're bringing to bear is a war between Eritrea and Ethiopia in Tigray, I think. It reads to me like they're going to back a play by Abiy to end the issue militarily and see if the Eritreans blink. I dunno if the US is in any shape to support another military adventure in the world with Ukraine going on, though.

That is stupid. The Ethiopian army is destroyed and Abiy is only defended by the ethnic militias he wants to antogonize.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

I can believe Abiy told Feltman that Ethiopia would fight Eritrea, because who cares what Feltman claims he was told behind closed doors. These US special envoys change every six months, easier to just tell them what they want to hear.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1608818779169128450

Eritrea to withdraw as the TDF disarms

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1608766011096064001?cxt=HHwWgoDTobuKvtMsAAAA

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

what's going down in Somalia

quote:

At least 20 people killed in clashes in Somaliland
By Abdiqani Hassani
BOSASO, Somalia, Jan 1 (Reuters) - At least 20 people have been killed in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces over several days, according to a doctor at a public hospital.

For more than a week police and the military have been battling the protesters in Laascaanood, a town in Somaliland's east which is disputed between Somaliland and neighbouring Puntland, one of Somalia's semi-autonomous regions.

Mohamed Farah, a doctor at Laascaanood Hospital, a public facility in Laascaanood, told Reuters at least 20 people had been killed and dozens injured. He said he had seen the bodies of victims brought into the facility.

Protesters are demanding that Somaliland cede control of the town to Puntland and also accuse security forces of failing to end insecurity in the town.

"Somaliland forcefully occupied Laascaanood and failed to secure it. We are demanding that they leave," Adaan Jaamac Oogle, the spokesman of the protesters told Reuters.

"We cannot tolerate continuing bloodshed of civilians."

A police spokesman did not immediately respond to a call from Reuters requesting comment.

Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has not gained widespread international recognition for its independence. The region has been mostly peaceful while Somalia has grappled with three decades of civil war.

Puntland's Vice President, Ahmed Elmi Osman Karash, accused the security forces of violence.

"What is being done by the Somaliland army is a massacre of civilians," he told Reuters by phone.

Mahad Ambaashe Elmi, a senior commander in the Somaliland army, did not pick a Reuters call requesting comment.

Somaliland's Minister of Information, Salebaan Ali Koore, appealed to the protesters in a statement on Saturday to stop their demonstrations and begin negotiations with the government.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/least-20-people-killed-clashes-somaliland-2023-01-01/

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

as always when i see a region i'm not too familiar with i'll google maps the towns and look at some restaurants. one restaurant in bosaso posted this tiktok, which i can't find on the actual site

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

i say swears online posted:

as always when i see a region i'm not too familiar with i'll google maps the towns and look at some restaurants. one restaurant in bosaso posted this tiktok, which i can't find on the actual site

the news is being reported from bosaso, the violence is going on in Laas Canood.


Unionist clans in Somaliland who don’t want to be a part of somaliland are rioting.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

year-end haul is in


that’s a lot more meth, up to 9.7 tons from 5.5 tons in 2021. it has grown scary fast!! it didn’t seem to be much of a thing a decade ago.

coke haul seems light - 793 kg when last year there was 2.8 tons.

heroin is also light — down to 4.9 tons from 22.2 tons in 2021. wonder if this has to do with Afghanistan.

pics of dogs destroying playtime



lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
i like dogs, but i also like playtime, so i am conflicted

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

i say swears online posted:

as always when i see a region i'm not too familiar with i'll google maps the towns and look at some restaurants.

that seems like it could be really interesting and is a neat way to think about places. I should start doing that

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

indigi posted:

that seems like it could be really interesting and is a neat way to think about places. I should start doing that

it's super cool and just started taking off in latin america and africa in the last couple years. just hover over a town, type in restaurants, and click through the pics and vids people post. most are crazy recent

google maps is decent for self-posted pics not attached to a page via streetview but the real king was when google earth had a similar system that they discontinued like 3-4 years ago. i kept a screenshot folder of local monuments from around the world that i thought looked interesting

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

saw this years ago and it just popped up in my pics again. not mine originally

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/Syria_Protector/status/1610658877338714113?t=YXvW4QsLVV5qBSuqlWH4kA

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

it’s dangerous to write on Wikipedia https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1611414674385289234

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

everyone who edits and maintains wikipedia should be jailed

especially the ones in the discussion sections

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

checking in on an up and coming account

https://twitter.com/antiturkism/status/1606744565557362689
https://twitter.com/antiturkism/status/1612573796690452480

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lmao

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1612609252060708865?s=20&t=S7-ILrKE4H0Kli7QpKOO_g

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

oh no

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


cripes https://twitter.com/thedad/status/1303764924083179521

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
Is that a kangal puppy?

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

https://www.news24.com/news24/south...mbique-20230110

the international military assistance mission to mozambique is in some hot water now because a video from last year emerged of soldiers throwing dead bodies into a fire

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011


This looks like something the Italian army would have buried in 1938

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/chriswelch/status/1613017916676489216?t=m8n4YJu5iMQwagYPSKweAg&s=19

Saudi may own the WWE

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Playtime 2: Revengeance

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-africa-vagner-extremism/32218322.html

quote:


The United States accused Russian military contractors backed by the Kremlin on January 10 of interfering in the internal affairs of African countries and "increasing the likelihood that violent extremism will grow" in the Sahel region, which is facing increasing attacks and deteriorating security, an allegation Russia denied. U.S. Deputy Ambassador Richard Mills lashed out at the Vagner Group at a UN Security Council meeting, accusing its paramilitary forces of failing to address the extremist threat, robbing countries of their resources, committing human rights abuses, and endangering the safety and security of UN peacekeepers and staff.

:ironicat:

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

IS reportedly tried to suicide bomb the Afghan Foreign Ministry during a visit from a Chinese delegation.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
The Taliban Announces their first locally produced sports car.

https://twitter.com/suhailshaheen1/status/1612899265549946881?s=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_...eature=emb_logo

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

SplitSoul posted:

IS reportedly tried to suicide bomb the Afghan Foreign Ministry during a visit from a Chinese delegation.

the one guy in the cia who speaks Pashto working overtime

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.


Doug demuro goes to Afghanistan

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

Mango Press 🥭🗝 posted:



🇿🇼 🤝 🇨🇳 #Zimbabwe #China #BRI #一带一路政策

The construction of Zimbabwe’s new Parliament building is now complete! The building and all of its associates construction costs were ‘gifted’ free of charge to Zimbabwe by The People’s Republic.

🥭 @mangopress
(from t.me/mangopress/12514, via tgsa)

looks cool ngl

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/Adnan42017/status/1613186266979528704?cxt=HHwWgMDT_ZuXmOMsAAAA

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