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Have there been any developments in the War in Darfur for a while?
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Klaus88 posted:Is Somalia still a Normalcy is starting to return to the areas under control of the government, particularly in Mogadishu and the overall security situation is much better. Shabaab is still quite active though, just a couple of days ago they struck a hotel in Mogadishu. A lot of members of al Shabaab have defected since last year as well, so they're desperately trying to stay relevant through more brazen attacks. Somaliland is currently under pressure from a Yemeni refugee crisis (caused by Saudi Arabia's dumb war there), which is leading to more food scarcity in the normally stable region in the north. Somali piracy has been almost completely eradicated following Western military intervention. So Somalia has a ways to go to stability, but its still better than being in Yemen apparently.
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Jul 12, 2015 23:36
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South Africa appears to be intentionally loving up it's tourism sector with new harsh visa application rules that require long form birth certificates and apparently for India specifically, biometric data? KKK can you provide any insight into the impetus behind these changes?
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Jul 13, 2015 21:44
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Grats to Pierre Nkurunziza on winning a third term
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Jul 24, 2015 21:57
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Hey so even though Diskendo Fox posted in this thread gently caress goons for letting it die. Brief update to try to spur its revival: Major human rights activist in Burundi that was critical of Pres. Nkurunziza's third term was critically wounded in a motorcycle attack assassination attempt, which follows the murder of the president's personal security chief, Gen Adolphe Nshimirimana. Looks like Burundi is spiraling towards sporadic violence, at a minimum
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Aug 5, 2015 09:54
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Whorelord posted:What's the current state in Mali vis-a-vis the whole Taureg/Jihadist situation anyway? Last I checked the peace deal between Mali and the Tuaregs has been holding up while Jihadist groups have conducted sporadic attacks on government checkpoints in the periphery. This was in July and I doubt the situation has changed much.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:19
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So is this gonna end jack poo poo with the war because this feels like an even wetter fart than Libya's deal
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Aug 27, 2015 03:35
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Good news from Burundi! A spokesman for the opposition party UDP was murdered in his home today, following a recent assassination attempt on the current president of the UDP. Over 100 people have been killed in political violence since the election and it looks poised to get worse!
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Sep 8, 2015 23:22
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Speaking of third terms, the parliament in Rwanda voted to change the constitution and lift the two-term limit for the presidency, paving the way for Paul Kagame to run again. Rwanda's Supreme Court has agreed to review the measure and decide whether Kagame will be eligible to run again at the end of his current term. Spoiler: He will prevail While this is sure to piss off the international community, this will likely not be nearly as controversial as Nkurunziza's reelection in neighboring Burundi, as Kagame is popular in Rwanda. He's credited with the relative peace and prosperity Rwanda has had under him. Plus he has brutally crushed the opposition during his time as president.
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Sep 10, 2015 05:13
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In Mali there's been some challenges to the fragile peace established through the French intervention recently. First, throughout summer there have been a wave of attacks by the Macina Liberation Front, a jihadist group that likely formed sometime around January. The group is supposedly led by Amadou Koufa, a radical preacher with ties to Ansar Dine, but some argue that he was actually killed in 2013 by the French. The attacks have largely been concentrated in the north and central Mali, which have been the hotbed of jihadism since things went to poo poo there several years ago. However, the attacks are slowly spreading southward and several attacks on government and UN targets have occurred in and around Mali's capital, and just the other day Malian police arrested a terror cell affiliated with the MLF. There has also been some renewed clashes with Tuareg separatists, as a pro-government militia invaded the small northern town of Anefis in mid-August. The government is trying to deescalate the situation, and has apparently successfully pressured the militia to begin withdrawing. In other Mali news, Mali and Cameroon have renegotiated their long standing open border policies, and now citizens of the two countries will need entry visas to pass through check points for the first time in half a century. There has also been a confirmed polio case in Mali, which may have been caused by a live virus vaccine failing and becoming contagious
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Sep 10, 2015 19:19
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The opposition leader in Burundi called for targeted sanctions against the leadership in response to the recent election, and the UN warns that failure to react to Burundi risks the outbreak of yet another war in the Great Lakes region. Burundi's government had their own response to the risk of civil war: they arrested over 100 members of the opposition yesterday. In other clinging to power news, the president of the DRC, Joseph Kabila, sacked two opposition leaders from their roles in government for complaining about him milling on whether to run for another term. There's been violence this week between opposition and government supporters over Kabila's tenure, so this may lead to a more pronounced violent flair up should he run again. In Sweden, a trial began for Claver Berinkindi, a Hutu Swedish national accused of leading attacks against Tutsis. I haven't read much on the case so I don't know how strong the evidence against him is. Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Sep 18, 2015 |
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Sep 18, 2015 03:02
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my dad posted:Why must this thread be so depressing. 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 UN wrote Diendere a very strongly worded letter expressing stern disapproval.
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Sep 18, 2015 09:31
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fade5 posted:So are the French gonna do any sort of intervention (military or otherwise) against General Diendere and company, or are they only doing stuff against Islamists? The French response so far has been to condemn the coup, but President Hollande added "France has friendly relations with Burkina Faso and we cannot just allow what is happening today . . . [but we] have no reason to intervene." So, so far no it's not looking like they're gonna stick their dick into this beehive. The coup leaders released the interim president and several ministers but the prime minister remains in custody.
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Sep 19, 2015 20:44
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The oil slump and China's economic catastrophe are starting to show their effect on export focused economies in Africa. Take for example, Equatorial Guinea and Botswana. Both are relatively wealthy countries, and both are facing hard economic times now. EG's economy is based almost entirely on oil exports, and because of the collapse in oil prices the GDP per capita PPP is expected to plummet over the next several years. EG is exploring with the IMF plans to diversify its economy, and focus on building human capitol. EG already has a pretty good infrastructure by African standards but the proposed plan involves further investment in that sector. In Botswana, GDP growth forecasts have been cut in half recently. Botswana is a major mineral exporting economy, with diamonds being the biggest export sector. China's economic woes have caused a sharp decrease in exports of diamonds, because there is an associated collapse in demand for luxury goods. Botswana is also exploring how to diversify their economy for longer term growth and lower reliance on world demands for gems. Ganbatte, Botswana
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Sep 20, 2015 00:33
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Transitional president of Burkina Faso back in power, coup officially a failure. gg President Nguesso of the DRC has promised a referendum over whether or not he can run for another term. This will probably not placate the opposition.
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Sep 23, 2015 23:09
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Badger of Basra posted:Don't you mean Kabila? Effectronica posted:Actually, he means Denis Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo. gently caress I mixed them up because Kabila is also milling a run for another term. e: Badger of Basra posted:You can't expect me to keep track of all the variously named presidents of the variously named Congos looking to extend their terms.
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Sep 23, 2015 23:18
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Central African Republic has been racked with religiously motivated violence this weekend. It started when a Christian militia abducted and murdered a Muslim taxi driver for whatever reason, which has prompted reprisal violence that has left at least 24 dead and 100 wounded in the capital. French peacekeepers have been criticized for failure to stop the violence.
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Sep 28, 2015 00:31
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kustomkarkommando posted:wordsss Brother KKK, do you have any insight into the history behind the current tensions between the central Somali government and Puntland w/ escalating border violence and militarization this past month?
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Dec 15, 2015 01:37
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US carried out its biggest operation in Somalia since Black Hawk Down, killing 150+ al-Shabaab militants thru air raids in the north of the country, claiming that al-Shabaab had been preparing an imminent large scale operation as the justification
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Mar 7, 2016 22:15
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Spacewolf posted:It's Somalia, do they really need justification? America has a bit of a problematic history wrt intervention in Somalia. That said they've been running minor sortie operations out of Mogadishu for some time now, this is just the largest scale operation by a wide margin
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Mar 7, 2016 22:28
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Spacewolf posted:Honest question: Why do we bother pretending there's a government in Somalia? The government of Somalia has control over basically all of the urban area outside of Puntland and Somaliland now, al-Shabaab is confined to rural corridors
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Mar 8, 2016 21:10
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Protests and strikes in Zimbabwe over the lovely economy and civil servants not being paid. Wonder if anything will come from this (no)
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Jul 6, 2016 18:24
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kustomkarkommando posted:I did a write up on the basic background to the current spate of fighting on page one of this thread. My favorite of these new states is the Lol, South Sudan Anyway Vice did as Vice do and made a couple short form documentaries on it if you want to watch those http://www.vice.com/video/saving-south-sudan-full-length https://news.vice.com/video/ambushed-in-south-sudan-full-length As for my chat thread comment about LRA operating in South Sudan, they're trading ivory with the (north) Sudanese government in an area it controls called Kafia Kingi in Lol, according to defectors. IIRC Sudan has a history of working with the LRA
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Grouchio posted:I feel like we need a separate Nigerian, South African and Zimbabwe thread here. We should also see if any natives from those countries post on these forums so we can have as much endemic information as in the Venezuela Thread. almost no one posts in this thread as is grouchio
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Aug 8, 2016 19:24
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