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Amnesty International has put out a report documenting evidence that Nkurunziza's security forces dug mass graves for victims of violence on December 11th.
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In Uganda news, Mousevini has claimed victory in recent elections with 60% of the vote, and celebrated by having the looser arrested and held at an undisclosed location. Democracy!
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So uh how about that Gabon election guys? Ali Bongo won narrowly due to 99% turnout in his home state where 95% of recorded votes were for him. By narrowly, I mean he won by a margin of 5,594 votes from totally not dead people who definitely showed up and voted for the incumbent. Bongo is of course the son of
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Grouchio posted:Quick question about neoliberal power: Has the influence of the IMF and/or World Bank been increasing or decreasing since the Great Recession? Because from what I've read they're the reason many developing nations today can't go the democratic-socialist route (like Greece or Venezuela) and instead get royally screwed beyond economic recognition. The IMF is a lender of last resort; countries only turn to them when their credit is so bad they're literally unable to get loans from anyone else. By the time you're making deals with the IMF your country is already so hosed fiscally that were it not for the IMF your country would default. Countries only get bailed out by the IMF because the alternative is at least slightly worse. In Greece's case Syriza was elected claiming to be able to get a deal without austerity, which was politically impossible for the rest of the EU governments, even if they were willing. Venezuela's collapse has nothing to do with the IMF, they're still getting bailed out by the Chinese (probably not for much longer). Venezuela's case has more to do with a combination of graft, mismanagement, Dutch Disease, and being a petrostate in a world where oil is <$50 a barrel.
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