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Cpt_Obvious posted:I know absolutely nothing about the nigeria coup are there good sources/posts for some info? Vijay's Prashad's new article has some immediate context quote:Niger is the fourth country in the Sahel to experience an anti-Western coup
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Maximo Roboto posted:Oh definitely the north/south division in Nigeria is interesting, but I think Lagos being a West African city-state (a super-city at that, it's the most populous metropolis on the continent) would be really fascinating. Though I wonder if it would've been inevitably united with the mainland, like Hong Kong / unlike Singapore. honestly depends on how much of the surrounding area (predominantly akeokuta and ibadan) were incorporated into the city-state. if not, things would probably heat up but if there was a true yorubaland i think they would have stayed completely independent or possibly form a new state with togo and benin
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Megamissen posted:what were the internal french colonial borders like before that? The Songhai/Zarma majority territory around the capital (the little lump on the west side of the country) was part of the same colony as Mali and Burkina Faso, which kind of made sense geographically, with quite a bit of cultural/historical overlap. Then they broke off Niamey as a special military disctrict because it was the threatened frontier. Think Peshawar and the Northwest Territory for the Raj, except Peshawar was full of loving gold and diamonds.* It was mostly just the part of the river Niger which runs north to south in the middle of that little lump. At this point the district/colony kinda makes sense. Little chunk of gold producing territory that needs some extra attention from the French overlords. When they finalized the borders with the British colony they also had a weird strip of Hausa territory which contains most of the countries population (and some more gold) they went ahead and slapped onto Niamey. Then they got annoyed by the kingdom of Air which they half-conquered and also just kinda lumped in with it, even though it didn't really make any sense, and the Tuaregs have been in a state of more or less open rebellion since it happened. This would eventually pan out as the Tuareg lands are where most of the coal and uranium mining is**, but it was mostly just cleaning up loose ends at the time. *  **  
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until the third map i was like "drat ain't never heard of those ethnic groups before"
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is this really a good idea?quote:The United States commends the Government of Kenya for responding to Haiti’s call and for considering to serve as the lead nation for a multinational force in Haiti to assist in addressing insecurity caused by gang violence. The United States looks forward to working with partners of Haiti to advance this process successfully, including through a UN Security Council Resolution authorizing a multinational force to Haiti. E: quote:NAIROBI, July 29 (Reuters) - Kenya is ready to lead a multinational force into Haiti, which is experiencing a surge in violence between police and gangs, its foreign minister said on Saturday. mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 00:48 on Aug 2, 2023 |
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i say swears online posted:honestly depends on how much of the surrounding area (predominantly akeokuta and ibadan) were incorporated into the city-state. if not, things would probably heat up but if there was a true yorubaland i think they would have stayed completely independent You mean an independent Lagos would need more territory to act as a buffer / make it more formidable against the expansion of its neighbors? i say swears online posted:or possibly form a new state with togo and benin You mean Lagos being part of Togo and Benin? Funnily enough, I'm reminded of Stand on Zanzibar, with Dahomalia, the Republican Union of Nigeria with Ghana, and tiny Beninia.
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Maximo Roboto posted:You mean an independent Lagos would need more territory to act as a buffer / make it more formidable against the expansion of its neighbors? i mean, lagos with its yoruba population would still be an anchor of a theoretical yorubaland, including yoruba areas of togo and benin, even if they were french colonies and not british. the yoruba areas of nigeria that don't include lagos are still like half of yorubaland's population so i assume if they were trapped in a lagos-less rump nigeria there would be tons of agitation honestly lagos itself would be different; i have a few igbo friends that were born in lagos because there's huge internal migration in the country similar to other large countries where i can, for instance, be born in LA but my extended family is from new york. nigeria has a national service year for anyone getting a bachelor's and they send them everywhere around. lots of people that get stationed in lagos settle there i say swears online has issued a correction as of 00:49 on Aug 2, 2023 |
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Atrocious Joe posted:Vijay's Prashad's new article has some immediate context Thanks, this was really helpful.
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https://twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1686386057942892544 Seems FANO is getting momentum, reportedly they got many strategic towns under their control.
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Atrocious Joe posted:Vijay's Prashad's new article has some immediate context    
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lol check out whats on frances ministry of foreign affairs emblem
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Al-Saqr posted:lol check out whats on frances ministry of foreign affairs emblem there's something going up that fash hole
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Al-Saqr posted:lol check out whats on frances ministry of foreign affairs emblem Is it me or does this symbol look kinda fashy
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yeah it's been in use as a symbol of the ministry of foreign affairs for over a century now. i've got a golden fasces symbol on the cover of my passport. the mfa does have a reputation as a pretty conservative institution, why do you ask
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Flowers For Algeria posted:i've got a golden fasces symbol on the cover of my passport. 
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another banger from Niger https://twitter.com/cinveen/status/1684927005320429568?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg
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whatever dude baby steps somalia is barely out of a destructive civil war and kow this lady wants them to be ultra experts and win gold medals? who cares?
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Al-Saqr posted:lol check out whats on frances ministry of foreign affairs emblem Judging by the logo alone, it's quite nice. Would stencil quite well. No sign of garbage modern corporate clip art. Wish more organisations kept their historical insignia, for better or worse. Rebranding is just what managers do to stamp their stink on an organisation when they take charge. A metaphorical human piss against a lamp post.
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Bad news for Niger - The West should withdraw support from the country and instead focus on helping the densely populated countries in the coastal strip make a last stand against African jihadism, and on encouraging them to be open to direct military intervention by Western forces at the invitation of governments in the region. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/01/why-the-nightmare-in-niger-is-the-worlds-problem Why the nightmare in Niger is the world’s problem Aug 1st 2023 OVER THE past decade a losing battle against violent jihadists, autocrats and insurgents has been raging across the Sahel, an arid and dirt-poor zone in western Africa. That struggle has reached a crisis point after a military coup on July 26th in Niger. It was the last semi-functioning state left in the region after recent military takeovers in Mali and Burkina Faso. The immediate prospect is a country on a knife-edge: ecowas, a group of west African states, has demanded the elected government be restored by August 6th and threatened to take military action against Niger’s junta. The longer-term prospect is of an arc of instability that spreads farther across the continent, endangering far bigger economies including Ghana and Nigeria and even becoming a base for extremism and terrorism beyond Africa’s shores. Niger’s nightmare is another perilous step towards the struggle in the Sahel becoming a global security threat. The ousting of Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s president, by elements of the army led by General Abdourahamane Tchiani, has struck a match in a fireworks factory. France, the former colonial power, is evacuating its citizens. It has 1,500 troops in Niger to fight jihadists and has suspended aid and threatened “an uncompromising response” to any attack on its interests after protesters tried to torch its embassy in Niamey, the capital. The junta says it will defend itself against ecowas’s “plan of aggression”. Its pals in the military regimes of Mali and Burkina Faso say they would treat an attack on Niger as a declaration of war on them, too. The scale of the jihadist disaster in Africa is daunting. As well as the Sahel, militants control vast stretches of north-eastern Nigeria and Somalia. In total, these areas are home to more than one in ten sub-Saharan Africans. In the 12 months to June more than 22,000 Africans died in jihadist-related violence, 50% more than in the preceding year and double the number killed in Iraq in 2014 when Islamic State was at its peak. Niger’s coup-plotters claim that they would do a better job of fighting jihadists but the toppling of elected governments in Burkina Faso and Mali was followed by spikes in jihadist violence there. Improvised, thuggish crackdowns by illegitimate, isolated military governments will not solve a problem with such deep roots. Jihadism is a symptom of social and economic collapse as much as a cause. In the case of the Sahel the drumbeat of population increases and climate change have created a zero-sum competition for land and other resources as well as destabilising internal migration. Corrupt and incompetent governments intensify these problems, creating predatory bureaucracies and brutal armies that stoke jihad by aggravating sectarian tensions and abusing ethnic minorities. Post-colonial fatigue and cynicism about the West have added to the conflagration. A French-led military effort to combat jihadists in the Sahel that began in 2013 produced dismal results, partly because of local suspicion of France. In the place of Western support some countries have sought help from sinister places, including the mercenaries of Wagner. They are led by Yevgeny Prigozhin who has just led a mutiny in Russia and is more interested in getting his hands on the region’s mineral wealth than bringing about peace. For the rest of Africa and the outside world one option now is to do nothing: after all, repeated efforts to control extremism and establish stable governments in the Sahel have failed. The trouble is the threat, which has been consistently underestimated, is no longer geographically confined. Insurgents are threatening to spill westward over borders and destabilise richer and more densely populated countries on the coastal plain, including Ghana and Ivory Coast, two of sub-Saharan Africa’s ten-biggest economies. It is possible they could link up with extremists in Nigeria, the largest economy of all. America’s most senior military commander for Africa warned earlier this year that as the extremist groups grow “the risk of terrorist plots against US citizens, embassies, and ultimately the homeland are likely to rise” and that “threats once contained on the continent are transforming into worldwide threats.” A global effort to contain African jihadism has therefore become essential. In part that means addressing its deep roots. Paradoxically, Niger was showing the way. Mr Bazoum, who was inaugurated as president in 2021 in Niger’s first democratic transfer of power, has improved governance and services such as health and education. He has tried to resolve local grievances and ethnic disputes through talks and persuaded some jihadists to lay down their arms by offering them an amnesty. He has welcomed Western forces to train the army and fight terrorists. Niger’s enlightened approach to the jihadist threat is one more reason to hope that ecowas is able to reverse the coup there. That has happened before: in the past two decades it has reversed coups in the Gambia, Guinea and São Tomé, among other places. Yet if Niger’s new military junta remains in power, the West should withdraw support from the country and instead focus on helping the densely populated countries in the coastal strip make a last stand against African jihadism. That means urging these states to adopt a comprehensive approach to stemming jihadism, learning the lessons from Niger about the rule of law and the importance of providing decent services. It means training soldiers who come up against jihadists not to brutalise the local population and being open to direct military intervention by Western forces at the invitation of governments in the region. Last, it means building a broader alliance against jihadism that extends beyond colonial powers. Many countries now have an interest in Africa’s being stable and growing richer, including China and Turkey. They need to help. The threat is urgent: the jihadists are at the gates. ■7
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Al-Saqr posted:whatever dude baby steps somalia is barely out of a destructive civil war and kow this lady wants them to be ultra experts and win gold medals? who cares?
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Flipswitch posted:She's the niece of the federal athletics director lol ok so I take back everything.
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Flipswitch posted:She's the niece of the federal athletics director lol Al-Saqr posted:ok so I take back everything. she’s not the sister or niece of the Somali minister for athletics. People are claiming it’s nepotism because she’s from the same clan as the president, but so are like 4 million other people, she applied and got it because no one else wanted to go.
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Al-Saqr posted:whatever dude baby steps somalia is barely out of a destructive civil war and kow this lady wants them to be ultra experts and win gold medals? who cares? It's cool as gently caress that this woman got to go to an Olympic qualifying event as an amateur. That's the spirit of the Olympics. Look up the St. Louis Olympics, or the British ski jumper, Jamaican bobsled team.
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PawParole posted:she’s not the sister or niece of the Somali minister for athletics. People are claiming it’s nepotism because she’s from the same clan as the president, but so are like 4 million other people, she applied and got it because no one else wanted to go. ok then i dont take back anything, she had a dream and went for it, who cares if shes not super athletic she stepped up when no one else did i mean the british have that Eddie Eagle wierdo and they made a film out of him! whatever dude life sucks let people have fun and run in the olympics if they can. i support her.
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haters can hate, but that lady got to compete in the olympics and they didn't so who's really the chump here?
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Al-Saqr posted:ok then i dont take back anything, she had a dream and went for it, who cares if shes not super athletic she stepped up when no one else did  When I had my card I couldn't work or go to university, I had to train all day every day, and lmao I missed the loving podium. This lady's finish was marginally worse than mine but I guarantee she had a much more enjoyable year leading up to her games.
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Frosted Flake posted:It's cool as gently caress that this woman got to go to an Olympic qualifying event as an amateur. That's the spirit of the Olympics. Look up the St. Louis Olympics, or the British ski jumper, Jamaican bobsled team. yeah exactly! "oh shes not as fit as the rest" gently caress off shes lived a much harsher life than the rest of the bozos on the track and she decided to go for something fun and good and try her best. gently caress the haters! waaaaa i cant believe this unathletic girl from a country that only ten years ago was in a big civil war and had full actual real deal "yarr matey" pirate clans isnt as good as the girls from schools with million dollar facilities and coaches thay screamed at them every day at 4:30 in the morning waaaaa
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Al-Saqr posted:5:00 in the morning I had to get up at 4 am every single day just in my university varsity program. If people were allowed to compete as total amateurs they might actually have fun, like when you play sports as a kid, instead of being constantly sore, tired and hungry lol. And because carded athletes are technically amateurs, you have to live off your stipend, which is like $20k a year. There's the per-medal bonus, but if you miss it.. well, you're broke as poo poo.
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Good news for Niger - They have reopened their land and air borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Libya and Chad. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/2/niger-reopens-borders-with-several-neighbours-a-week-after-coup Niger reopens borders with five neighbours a week after coup 2 Aug 2023 Niger has announced the reopening of its borders with several of its neighbours a week after a coup that has been condemned by foreign powers and raised fears of a wider conflict in West Africa’s Sahel region. “The land and air borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Libya and Chad are reopened from August 1, 2023,” a spokesperson for the transitional military government said on state television on Tuesday. The government closed the borders on July 26 while announcing that it had removed democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum from power. The borders that have reopened are mainly in remote desert areas. Niger’s key entryways for trade and commerce remain closed due to restrictions imposed by the regional bloc. Niger’s coup was the seventh military takeover in less than three years in Western and Central Africa. On Sunday, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) threatened to use force if soldiers do not reinstate Bazoum after a one-week ultimatum. In response, Burkina Faso and Mali, which have seen two coups apiece since 2020, banded together in opposition to the rest of the 15-nation regional bloc, saying they would consider external aggression in Niger as a declaration of war. Defence chiefs from ECOWAS are set to start a two-day meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Niger. A delegation from the regional bloc was also expected to arrive in Niger’s capital Niamey on Wednesday to start talks with the military government, led by General Abdourahmane Tchiani. Already, the first military planes carrying mostly European nationals landed in Paris and Rome on Wednesday, although there has been no announcement of foreign troops being withdrawn so far. France, the United States, Germany, and Italy have troops in Niger on counterinsurgency and training missions, helping the army to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS). Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday there were no concerns about the safety of German soldiers. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani also said any Western military intervention to restore democracy must be ruled out as it would be “perceived as a new colonisation”.
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Al-Saqr posted:yeah exactly! "oh shes not as fit as the rest" gently caress off shes lived a much harsher life than the rest of the bozos on the track and she decided to go for something fun and good and try her best. gently caress the haters! She’s probably still really privileged, and there were no pirate clans, they were individual enterpenuars with hr offices and profit-sharing for employees.
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i'm not really sure about the "she's the only one who applied" and "the country just got out of a civil war how are they supposed to train" stuff having anything to do with this. Somalian universities have sports programs and place internationally (including during this exact competition) reasonably often. But it is an extremely funny video regardless even if she got there through corruption or some oversight in recruiting or whatever. However she got there I'm pretty sure she was having a laugh with it.
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