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So everyone complains about this, but nobody posts. Over 50 people dead in Nigeria since Tuesday in at least two bombings: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34852971 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34859527 Aand "[Security advisor] Dasuki 'stole $2bn' from anti-Boko Haram fight", apparently: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34855695 I don't really have any commentary besides that that's hosed up.
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Nigeria's state-owned oil company has failed to pay the government $16bn (£11bn) in a suspected fraud, according to an official audit.quote:The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) provided no explanation for the missing funds, the auditor general told MPs.
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Aliquid posted:In Nigeria I experienced a strongly anti-Chinese sentiment specifically, people were totally cool with Indians. Turns out Chinese companies had a habit of half-finishing their projects, and I had a half-dozen railroads pointed out to me that were technically under construction but were already overgrown. Anyway yeah, there seems to be quite a bit of animosity between African and Chinese workers, in particular, thanks to China's attempts at imperialism. Check this out for some example of casual racism thrown around here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0C4_88ub_M
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In Gambian news, the security forces are occupying the elecitoral commission HQ, and there are talks of a military solution:quote:The Gambia's security forces have taken over the headquarters of the electoral commission, its chairman says, as the country's president refuses to accept his loss in recent elections.
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"Another ultimatum for The Gambia's long-term leader to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed troops expired at 16:00 GMT." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38686144 Jammeh asked to postpone to 16:00 and then failed to vacate the property. Let's see if foreign intervention can do something good for once, thankfully it won't be our fault if/when it blows up this time.
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Jan 20, 2017 18:20
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So the reason Jammeh had to postpone the deadline twice was probably to get enough time to stuff his luggage with as much state money as possible: probably over $10 million. Still, a small price to pay to get rid of him peacefully. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38714007
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I haven't ran into any openly racist whitey in SA, though I'm sure there are plenty of them. Probably depends on who exactly you talk to, as always, but I did speak with a middle-class hostel operator and some workers travelling to install solar panels or some poo poo. "Farmer in his 60s" sounds like it would be the most racist demographic in any country, pretty much.
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We should add hunter-gatherers to the endangered species list.
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I don't know that guy at all but he can't be worse than Mugabe. Right?  Volkerball posted:https://twitter.com/DougColtart/status/933002139596677121
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punk rebel ecks posted:South Africa has me intrigued. Pretty similar just with more lions.
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Good thing they can just dispense the water directly to the people from the Table mountain as needed.
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I certainly didn't viewed South Africa as an English speaking country, but actually visiting it makes it clear that it's definitely the lingua franca there. Literally everyone I encountered, including fast food employees, street vendors or even beggars all spoke decent English, so I kind of do now. I associated Hong Kong way more with the British for example yet outside of Central or TST I ran into the language barrier pretty regularly. Are there any recommended books on the history of South Africa? Despite visiting many museums while there and trying to read about it here and there I still have pretty big gaps in understanding how things got the way they are.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I've learned not to get hopeful about things in Africa, so the combination of reforms in Ethiopia, the Ethiopia-Eritrea detente, and the South Sudan peace talks he's hosting is disorienting.
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What a country. So are there also German-speaking areas or communities left over? Wikipedia doesn't go into this.
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Kurtofan posted:Yeah germany lost all their colonies after ww1
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Yeah Cape Town is like the San Francisco of Africa. Down to all the beggars and homeless people downtown.
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mila kunis posted:I want to learn more about Congo, does anyone have good links or recommendations? https://www.amazon.com/King-Leopold...ps%2C274&sr=8-1
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Were they wearing traditional Russian green tourist outfits?
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i say swears online posted:nigeria raised its VAT from 5% to 7.5% about eighteen months ago and it looks like some of the public works projects it was intended to fund are coming to fruition. i like the effort at transparency Seems to be also good for buying Land Cruisers
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Saladman posted:Europeans don't know anything about Ethiopia either. To get an answer with more detail than "don't they eat using that rubbery sour bread?" you'd probably have to ask like 100 random Europeans. Maybe only 50 Italians. Hell, I wouldn't be able to tell anything about the ethic or political tensions I the country or what was the deal with the award winning president and I was there a few years before COVID hit. There's just a limited amount of time you can dedicate to geopolitical trivia.
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Speaking of South Africa. I noticed they obstained from the Ukraine resolution. A few years back, before covid, I visited SA and met two ladies at a Durban airport bar while waiting for a bus to the city. They turned out to be ANC MPs, one of them gave me her business card so I know for sure it was Ms M Lesoma. Obviously she's not responsible for foreign policy but regardless I though of reaching out to her and ask for support, any little bit could help for the sentiment. I've read quite a bit about SA history before and after visiting but I'm certainly not a scholar and don't have a feeling for what the attitude among the population. Would it be appropraite to frame this in anti-imperialism and colonialism terms and try to draw some parallels there? E: My concern is to avoid trivializing the issues SA faced since as bad as poo poo has been and can get, I don't think (hope) it wouldn't get apartheid level bad mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/xsfb01/army_officers_appear_on_burkina_faso_tv_declare/quote:Army officers appear on Burkina Faso TV, declare new coup So... they couped the coup government? Honestly no idea if that's good or not.
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Whoa. Reading now. Twitter won't display the images without logging in so I jumped through the hoops so you don't have to:  
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They were going for the cultural victory when I was in Dakar in November
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Nigerian military is massively larger than Niger's, and there would be others member states contributing. Bazoum was popularly elected so I'd think the people would support his return, but maybe they don't want to risk it. Although the alternative is living with a military junta next door so  Anyway it's probably not happening as it looks like the Nigerian parliament voted against troop deployment: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news...l-solution.html
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i say swears online posted:as we all know from recent examples, a larger military with dubious motives will have an easy time with a determined defender on its home turf Lol @ this though: quote:Bazoum fled into the safe room across the hall from his office and phoned aides to say he was confident that U.S.-trained elements of his army would rally to his rescue. Seems like Gen. Tchiani read the Coup d’état handbook: 
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Double-posting because of new developments. There's now a counter-coup going on quote:A former rebel leader and politician in Niger has launched a movement opposing the military government that took power in a July 26 coup, a first sign of internal resistance to army rule in the strategically important Sahel country.
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CalvinandHobbes posted:Thanks for posting that. Not a lot on info seems to be coming out of Niger. But that's at least my impression as well. Still, he has to have some support in the rest of the military otherwise he'd get his rear end kicked immediately. Or, maybe the rest of the military is incompetent and/or unprepared as is often the case. As that article says, there are at least some forces that should be capable of doing something but no idea what they want and if there are enough of them. I wonder if a French speaker could find some local sources. When I was traveling to The Gamiba, it was almost impossible to find any information online even though it's a nominally English-speaking country and everyone has phones with internet. But I guess everything is siloed in chat apps and what not and there aren't any terminally online dorks posting on public blogs. Anyway, it looks like "itshappening.gif" quote:West African bloc ECOWAS has approved military intervention in Niger “as soon as possible” to remove its military rulers following last month’s coup, Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara said Thursday.
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i say swears online posted:the let several coups happen in between intervention in gambia in 2016 and today And that doesn't seem to be working out that great so maybe they're re-thinking it. The good news is that there are some allies in the region  https://bnn.network/conflict-defence/al-qaeda-attacks-wagner-group-at-mali-niger-border-vows-to-block-entry-to-niger/
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With Prigo et al being toast now, maybe the junta's potential backers would be out of the picture, hopefully making them more included to back off peacefully. (With promises to definitely not blow them up in an airplane later)
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