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Jagchosis posted:Grats to Pierre Nkurunziza on winning a third term I, for one, never doubted the glorious leader.
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Jagchosis posted:Speaking of depressing, there was a coup d'etat in Burkina Faso. The coup was perpetrated by military officers supposedly loyal to the former president for life Blaise Compaore, who was ousted recently by popular protests. The coup was against the leaders of the transitional government, and occurred three weeks before scheduled elections to determine his successor. The leader of the coup, General Diendere, says that elections will still go forward but the scheduled date of October 11 is much too early, and we must not rush democracy, oh no that would be bad, so the elections are delayed indefinitely. The French use Burkina Faso as a staging area for operations against Islamists, and the country is also allied with the U.S. against those militants. The U.S. is mad salty about this coup and saying they're going to "review" the military aid they provide to the country (in the same manner they "reviewed" military aid to Egypt after their coup, which is to say lol). The African Union is apparently threatening travel bans and asset freezes if the coup-ers don't knock that poo poo off immediately. Not sure it'll stick, but it's slightly more than a strongly worded letter.
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kustomkarkommando posted:
Oh man, I remember this! There was a hilariously whiny AQ memo captured about how he was ruining all their wonderful plans by not following policy, and as I recall, also being bad at accounting. 
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AtomD posted:Pretty much the biggest joke to come out of SA politics in the past month or two was this: I am not sure "very small skeletons" is the best choice of words, especially for a county with historical UK associations.
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blowfish posted:Because it's part of that place's history, even if it's not from a glorious part of that history. Erasing all the reminders of the unpleasant parts just makes it easier to forget your country's history isn't all good, instead you should educate people more comprehensively. Another option is just to change / add a plaque. Boom, tone of the exhibition is changed while retaining historical value. Edit: apparently this has been discussed but I disagree with making the historical art just disappear.  Guess I would be okay with moving it to the Museum of Racist Shitbags, though.
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Brainiac Five posted:A Native American group cut off the foot of a statue of a conquistador who ordered all the men in New Mexico have one of their feet cut off in retribution for an uprising. Good on them and the guys who cut off Cecil's nose. See, this I like.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:He's in Guinea now, picking an asylum country eventually.  Even in Africa, sometimes nice things happen. Good job Mauretania and friends?
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lollontee posted:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39799961 I mean, accidents happen. Especially to rising stars with substantial control over a buttload of federal money.
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So what should be the appropriate way to handle traditional groups that are, themselves, at risk of causing ecological destruction? Obviously "empower a bunch of mercenaries to do whatever" is, uh, suboptimal, but this sort of situation isn't even in "agree to reasonable fishing standards" radius, it's a lot harder to figure out or enforce. Although that might be the correct sort of idea in the end. I mean, in this context, another answer is "don't expand protected parks".
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blowfish posted:This looks like it could be from Russia, except in Russia people wouldn't run but continue chugging Vodka because gigantic fireballs aren't remarkable enough to interrupt daily life I'm reminded of that Russian dashcam video where the meteor falls from the sky and the driver just impassively lowers the sun blocker thingy because it's bright.
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Grouchio posted:Is the SA govt doing anything to help the Cape Town drought crisis? We're too busy trying to keep Lowtax alive, sorry
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Telsa Cola posted:Also generally speaking doctors all have horrrrible bedside manners and cultural competencey, so you can bet that they aren't explaining poo poo. This is a huge problem in the US and the few papers I read on the ebola stuff basically said they saw improvments when they actually went around and talked to people like humans and informed them about poo poo which leads me to believe its a thing there too. A friend of mine did CDC compliance stuff and one of her big recommendations on South Texas tuberculosis stuff was basically this 
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Re Deby, the rebels claim they shot him, although frankly they'd probably make that claim even if he instead caught a fatal case of bribed bodyguard. macron attended his funeral lol
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Lawman 0 posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1434857203186405379?s=19 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.
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V. Illych L. posted: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 Absolutely, I'm just saying the causation might flow "aspiring dictator checks with his buddies" rather than "colonialists install random dictator". The ultimate result is not terribly different but one of these options involves (horrible) locals having their own agency. which is in turn closely linked to why a lot of these programs are indirectly horrible
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