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So what's going on with those nascent border conflicts in South Sudan? Are the neghbouring countries nibbling off their preferred bits during the civil war, or are they worried about destabilising the area further or what?
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Ianiniho posted:Some major déjà vu here. CAR is a huge mess and has been since decolonisation, i'm not convinced the peacekeepers could've done much without actually shooting, and they are really not supposed to do that
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is there any reason to believe that the coupers are involved with dicko? obviously allying with a populist religious movement is a move that makes sense as far as securing legitimacy is concerned, but do we actually know anything about these people?
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that seems ominous. any indication as to why they're acting this drastically?
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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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they should probably stop giving oyy thea peace prize, shouldn't they
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don't the french have a fairly heavy military presence in mali still? wouldn't expect the government to fall without french sanction
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Some military leaders who want to get rich? This isn't even the first recent junta, it's not like they wouldn't have considered it without the insidious whispers of the CIA. Non westerners have agency sometimes. probably the french at least okayed this. west african special forces have pretty tight institutional connections to the french military and unless i misremember this guy is married to a french woman and a former legionnaire
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Count Roland posted:Are international journalists allowed to report from Ethiopia? I find the lack of reliable sources to be odd given the scale and international character of this conflict. I basically only see Tigray get mentioned but little mention of Oromia or the OLA. total press blackouts has become standard practice in dealing with internal conflicts over... i'd say the last five to ten years? i think they've realised that they can actually just turn off the internet and refuse to guarantee reporters' safety and foreigners will actually not take the risk, and because of the political economy of the media it actually won't be a big deal it seems a part of the complete disintegration of the informal ethics of government that's been going on over the past years. at some point the forces that established a sort of governmental common-sense just atrophied and now various powerful people are pushing against it and finding that there's nothing much there. even in syria, a very well-covered war, you had blackout zones and the whole weird thing with the white helmets was going on
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PawParole posted:if you include militias then that is an undercount. A lot of them were given only machetes and sent out to fight people with tanks and artillery, because the state cannot trust them not to turn their weapons on the government. so did nobody tell abiy this before he sent in the army or what in the world was he thinking?
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the obvious drone footage means that it can't be very old and they're holding aloft what looks sort of what the TPLF flag if i squint, but that's mostly the red+yellow/orange triangle shape which i suppose is a fairly general design and could also belong to other groups e. by "not very old" i mean "from the present conflict", not "within the last few weeks" to be clear
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PawParole posted:https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1462869797214040067 siege of sarajevo joke i assume
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CalvinandHobbes posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66654965 there was a very interesting piece about niger in the new left review's sidecar section: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/rule-by-junta which argues that "functional democracy" is a bit of a misnomer for bazoum's government i suspect that gabon is simply less important geopolitically than niger (seen from europe and the US), but i really do not know enough about this to make any serious claims
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