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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/29/eswatini-imposes-curfew-to-quell-pro-democracy-protests
eSwatini PM Themba Masuku is denying that the king fled and has imposed a curfew.
Swaziland Solidarity Network is calling for SADC intervention. They are based in South Africa. PUDEMO, democratic socialists and the largest opposition party, are calling for a multiparty democracy. https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/pudemo-urges-eswatini-citizens-to-continue-exerting-pressure-on-government/
Economic Freedom Fighters, the far left political party in South Africa and third largest party in that country: "We call on the people of eSwatini to boldly intensify the militant struggles against the dictatorial family"
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eff own, but my one leftist friend in south africa hates malema's guts and founded his own splinter party
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Biafran separatist leader facing trial in Nigeria. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-says-biafran-separatist-leader-arrested-will-face-trial-2021-06-29/
Apparently this person is Jewish and claimed to receive help from Mossad when he fled the country a few years ago. It started a whole crazy series of rumors that Israel and Nigeria would go to war over Biafra lol
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- i say swears online
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'igbo are the jews of africa' is actually a huge trope in nigeria
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there are also actual igbo jewish communities, although not very big.
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'igbo are the jews of africa' is actually a huge trope in nigeria
nigeria is a major centre for emigration and migrant identity is something thats gonna shape the future of nigeria, and for some reason the igbo keep ending up in finland
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and also they were kinda done in by the british in the same way as israel was by the babylonians?
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igbos have by far the largest diaspora because they were the most colonized and most enslaved area of nigeria. in the late colonial era and early independent era they were by far the most wealthy and educated group as well; they and related ethnic groups like the ijaw are from the only region on nigeria where people sometimes have english last names like in liberia
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$50 billion IMF deal to relieve 90% of Sudan's debt. Hundreds protest. People have been upset for months due to the removal of fuel subsidies. https://www.africanews.com/2021/06/30/sudan-protesters-call-for-govt-resignation-over-imf-backed-reforms/
People arrested with the excuse of having "links to Bashir," the former dictator, and for planning violent acts. Some are calling for the fall of the current regime.
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Two protestors shot dead in Ghana. https://www.africanews.com/2021/06/30/two-protesters-shot-dead-in-ghana/
Protests have increased ever since the killing of Ibrahim "Kaaka" Mohammed, a member of the Economic Fighters League.
EFL has picked up ever since Ghana took a center-right turn and allowed the U.S. to host a military base in the capital. The prior center-left party also privatized the electric company in line with IMF designs. EFL takes inspiration from Ghana's anti-colonial history, Kwame Nkrumah in particular. https://africasacountry.com/2018/04/the-economic-fighters-league-seeks-to-reignite-ghanas-anti-colonial-past
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That's interesting, Ghana is usually quiet as heck
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Older news: General Butt Naked of Liberia has gone from eating the hearts of children to roaming the slums of the capital and trying to get former child soldiers off of drugs and away from crime. He is now an evangelical pastor. Many members of civil society want a real trial for those who committed war crimes in Liberia's decades of civil war, many of whom are now top officials in government. https://www.africanews.com/2021/06/30/liberia-the-former-dreaded-bloodthirsty-general-now-rehabilitating-ex-child-soldiers/
Interesting fact about Liberia: their president, George Weah, was named the African footballer of the century in 1996. I think the only head of state who compares with him in terms of sports accolades is Imran Khan, who was a star cricket player before becoming PM of Pakistan.
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i actually opened up the article itself to make sure you weren't loving around with that name, tres bien
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george weahs son timothy is one of the more promising young men on the us national soccer team and also plays for lille in france
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People's Dispatch has had consistent English language coverage of Sudan from a socialist perspective
https://peoplesdispatch.org/custom/regions/africa/sudan/
This month marked the two year anniversary of the massacre in Khartoum as well.
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At least 19 dead in Eswatini according to protesters. The Communist Party of Swaziland reported five of the deaths. https://allafrica.com/stories/202107010185.html
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Big funeral for the founding president of Zambia, who died last month. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-leaders-mourn-zambias-founding-president-kenneth-kaunda-2021-07-02/
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Kenneth Kuanda was pretty cool based on my weak attempt at research (wikipedia).
"In 1955 Kaunda and Nkumbula were imprisoned for two months with hard labour for distributing subversive literature.[7][14] The two leaders drifted apart as Nkumbula became increasingly influenced by white liberals[15] and failing to defend indigenous Africans, Kuanda led a dissident group to Nkumbula that eventually broke with the ANC and founded his own party, the Zambian African National Congress (ZANC) in October 1958.[7] [15] ZANC was banned in March 1959 and in Kaunda was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, which he spent first in Lusaka, then in Salisbury.[16][7]
While Kaunda was in prison, Mainza Chona and other nationalists broke away from the ANC and, in October 1959, Chona became the first president of the United National Independence Party (UNIP), the successor to ZANC. However, Chona did not see himself as the party's main founder. When Kaunda was released from prison in January 1960 he was elected President of UNIP. In 1960 he visited Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta and afterwards, in July 1961, Kaunda organised a civil disobedience campaign in Northern Province, the so-called Cha-cha-cha campaign, which consisted largely of arson and obstructing significant roads."
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More: "Kaunda's newly independent government inherited a country with one of the most vibrant economies in sub-Saharan Africa, largely on account of its rich mineral deposits,[24] albeit one that was largely under the control of foreign and multinational interests.[25] For example, the British South Africa Company (BSAC, founded by Cecil Rhodes) still retained commercial assets and mineral rights that it had acquired from a concession signed with the Litunga of Bulozi in 1890. Only by threatening to expropriate it on the eve of independence did Kaunda manage to get favourable concessions from the BSAC.[26]"
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But most importantly, he was the main African leader who hosted militant anti-apartheid movements in his own country. "Beginning in the early 1970s, he began permitting the most prominent guerrilla organisations, such as the Rhodesian ZANU and the African National Congress, to use Zambia as a base for their operations. Former ANC president Oliver Tambo even spent a significant proportion of his 30-year exile living and working in Zambia. Joshua Nkomo, leader of ZAPU, also erected military encampments there, as did SWAPO and its military wing, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia."
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"Until approximately 1984, Kaunda was arguably the key African leader involved in the international diplomacy regarding the conflicts in Angola, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and Namibia."
I didn't know anything about this person until today but I feel like I know enough now to say RIP to a real one.
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Holy poo poo Tigray really is loving up Ethiopia and Eritrea to the degree that Sudan is looking to join in to grab some clay, it's true:
It really was as quiet and nonchalant as all the Ethiopian bureaucrats in Mekelle bundling away in a van in the early morning hours...
FULL ARTICLE
quote:ONCE THE history of Ethiopia’s latest civil war is written, the battles of June could well be recounted as one of the great rebel victories of recent years. For it will explain how a group of insurgents in the mountains of Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray routed two of Africa’s largest armies, Ethiopia’s and Eritrea’s, to reclaim Mekelle, their capital.
At sunset on June 28th—seven months to the day after Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, declared victory over the ruling party in Tigray as his troops occupied Mekelle—Tigrayans came onto the streets to celebrate the flight of federal troops. Officials appointed by Abiy’s government to run the region were whisked out of town as if from a crime scene. “There are celebrations in every house in Mekelle,” said Haile Kiros, a teacher in the city, before phone lines were cut.
The recapture of Mekelle marks a turning-point in an atrocity-filled war that Abiy had thought would last just a few weeks. It has not only scuppered Abiy’s attempt to bring Tigray to heel by force of arms, but also threatens to break up the factious ethnic federation that makes up Africa’s second-most populous country.
The fighting in Tigray started in November amid a struggle for power between Abiy and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the region’s ruling party. The TPLF had controlled the central government for almost 30 years until it was ousted by the protests in 2018 that ushered Abiy to power. At first the TPLF seized control of much of the army’s heavy weaponry by attacking federal bases in the region. But the pendulum soon swung in Abiy’s favour. Federal forces, backed by air power and soldiers from neighbouring Eritrea, swiftly captured the big towns and cities.
Yet the fighting degenerated into a grinding guerrilla war as fighters of the self-styled Tigrayan Defence Force (TDF) took to the hills, much as their grandfathers had in a successful insurgency in the 1980s against the Derg—a communist dictatorship—and as their fathers had in a conventional war against Eritrea from 1998 to 2000. Some Tigrayans were provoked into taking up arms by murders and rapes, many committed by Eritrean forces whom UN officials also accuse of attempting to starve Tigray into submission.
Then in mid-June the TDF’s fighters came back down from the hills under the command of Tsadkan Gebretensae, a veteran Ethiopian army chief who had been at the helm during the war with Eritrea, to launch “Operation Alula”, named after a 19th-century general. At first few observers believed the TDF when it claimed to have defeated several Ethiopian and Eritrean divisions and taken thousands of prisoners in a succession of battles on the roads to Mekelle. The Ethiopian government insisted it was in full control of the region and was mopping up sporadic resistance. But the truth was exposed when, as quickly as they had arrived, Ethiopian troops left, pausing only to dismantle telecommunications equipment and raid a UN office.
With Ethiopian and Eritrean troops scrambling towards the exit, the federal government announced a unilateral ceasefire on June 28th, ostensibly on humanitarian grounds. More probably it was an effort to mask the defeat of its forces and allow them time to retreat (just days earlier Ethiopia’s deputy prime minister had told Western ambassadors for the first time that his government wanted a ceasefire and peace talks).
However, the TDF is in no mood to halt its offensive. Its spokesman called the government’s ceasefire a “sick joke” and said that the TDF would continue pursuing “enemy” forces. Some Tigrayan leaders have threatened to fight on northwards, towards Asmara, Eritrea’s capital, and westwards, towards the border with Sudan, intending to expel occupying Amhara militias. As The Economist went to press, the TDF appeared to be in control of most of Tigray, including the towns of Axum, Shire and Adwa.
The priority for all parties ought to be ensuring that aid agencies are able to get access to Tigray, where up to a million people are at risk of starvation because they have been unable to plant crops and because Eritrean and Ethiopian forces have not allowed in sufficient supplies of food (see map). Yet Will Davison of the International Crisis Group, a think-tank based in Brussels, sees signs that officials in Abiy’s government plan to continue to blockade Tigray, allowing in some aid but little else. If so, the TDF may seek to break the blockade by fighting for access to the Sudanese border or trying to topple the government in Eritrea.
Abiy, happily, has much to gain by lifting the blockade and starting talks, beyond ensuring the well-being of Tigrayan civilians. For a start it would help to repair his relationship with Western governments, whose support he needs to rebuild and get Ethiopia’s battered economy back onto its previous path of rapid growth. In addition to the military bill, Abiy claims Ethiopia’s government has spent about $2.3bn on associated costs such as repairing roads and food aid. Because of its concerns about war crimes, America has asked the IMF and World Bank to withhold economic assistance. America has also pressed the United Arab Emirates, which has provided Abiy’s government with financial support (and possibly arms), not to bail it out.
Diplomats are concerned about the risks of the conflict spreading beyond Tigray’s borders. Eritrea’s dictator, Issaias Afwerki, may already be regretting his decision to join the attack on Tigray, largely to settle scores with the TPLF, which had humiliated him in the border war. A second trouncing at its hands is unlikely to strengthen his hold on power.
Foreign officials also worry about a deterioration in relations between Sudan and Ethiopia. Since November the Sudanese army has been skirmishing with Ethiopian forces, Amhara militiamen and at least some Eritrean troops over a disputed area of farmland on the border and over a huge new dam under construction on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. In a speech on June 30th Abiy suggested his forces had withdrawn from Tigray in part to redirect their attention towards the Sudanese front. “Another force threatens us and we need to prepare for that,” he said.
Still, the deepest concern of Western diplomats and officials from countries in the region is the stability of Ethiopia’s fragile ethnic federation. Although TPLF leaders have yet to call for secession, many young Tigrayans now champion it unambiguously. “The only way is for independence,” says Tekleberhan Weldeselassie, an Ethiopian air-force pilot who fled abroad at the start of the war. “We Tigrayans will never stay together with Ethiopia.” Abiy has the almighty task of convincing them to do just that.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/07/01/tigrayan-forces-have-routed-the-ethiopian-army
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Kenneth Kuanda had some banger quotes too.
"Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit."
Okay I'm done talking about him
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Thousands protesting in Burkina Faso against government inaction/failure to contain jihadist groups in the north and east of the country. One attack in June killed 130 people. France is also winding down Operation Barkhane so West African countries will be increasingly responsible for their own security. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/thousands-protest-burkina-faso-over-jihadist-attacks-2021-07-03/
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I said I wouldn't post about Libya much but the UN is now talking about canceling the presidential elections that they had agreed to as part of their roadmap earlier this year. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/libya-election-plans-in-chaos-as-un-accused-of-breaching-mandate
The current leader, Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibeh, has been accused of funneling money to the Muslim Brotherhood and is super close to Turkey (in general this is true of the government leaders in western Libya, whereas Khalifa Haftar is closer to Egypt, UAE, and Russia).
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interesting piece that's being passed around the igbo professional class on facebook, written in the long-winded nigerian style i know and love
quote:NOTES to IPOBians [Indigenous People of Biafra, he's using it derisively]
From; Nnoruka Udechukwu S.A.N.
"I, like many other Igbos have stood on the side lines for far too long, wishing this Biafran breeze fizzles away, but it’s now dangerously turning into a major storm that constitutes an existential threat to Igbo civilization as we know it. Those of you IPOBians, Sympathizers, Rumour Mongers, Facebook Warriors, Facebook megastars, Opinion Leaders and Propagandists escalating the already tense situation must understand that in the end, you'll all be losers, victims and at the same time in more bondage than you ever were. Not my wish anyway, but the perceptible reality.
No war ever got won by emotions. Preparation and strategy does, ask any battle-tested soldier. Even the best of them get eaten. Little by little you guys are doing everything possible to attract avoidable conflict to our region hoping that the international community will intervene. You'll be in for a shocker when this meal you've cooked for so long is served up.
Understand this, I have monitored many revolutionary conflicts around the world and know this for a fact, the international community foot-drags at less than a snail pace, if at all, before attempting any interventions in internal conflicts in a sovereign nation and that includes America and Israel you're hoping on. War is a huge liability and no Country wants to meddle. The best they give these days are reliefs not military aids and that is after many must have died including those who started the fire. I watched it happen to Libyans, Yemenis, Syrians and till now they still don't have peace. Besides, you’d be stupid to believe that those countries, if ever there is any, promising to support Nnamdi Kanu are really in for it. Some of them want to use him to initiate conflict and sell their weapons to both sides and make blood dollars.
War is an all-comers affair and all kinds of demonically vicious players come to the slimy field to play the hellish game of blood and death. In this case, Boko Haram that has largely been caged by the army will break free to roam with ambitions to finally establish their Caliphate across Nigeria, all because the Army now fighting on two fronts can no longer concentrate on them having become too stretched. Guess what, they’ll come with ISIS on their back. The Nigerian Army will be fighting to keep Nigeria together on one front, Boko Haram (ISIS Nigerian Branch) with Caliphatist ambition on the other and Biafra with secessionist ambition on yet another front.
That was how Syria got so complex till date and any war in Nigeria today will have a similar picture. Whoever gets overwhelmed will face the other. It will be a long and difficult journey and unlike the first civil war without Boko Haram in the equation, no one can predict the tortuous end.
Other Jihadists from across Africa and Middle-East will join in as they always do wherever there’s instability to advance their different brands of Islam. In the end you’ll leave Nigeria and discover you’re fighting other strangers you don’t even know how they came into the picture.
The big boys (international players) like Iran will be there to get there pound of flesh from Nigeria in revenge for the Shiites, Saudi will be there to defend Nigeria, and all will play. Weapons merchants will the start smiling to the banks. Guess where the theatre of war would be, Igboland......we must not allow this! Libyans thought they were fighting Ghaddafi but after Ghaddafi, they discovered other strangers fighting them to establish their different brands of Islam. Same thing in Syria.
The words of Saif Al Islam Ghaddafi (Ghaddafi’s first son) keeps ringing in my ears as he forewarned Libyans of these grim possibilities, but okuko nti ike nánu ife n’ite ofe.[The chicken that claims to be wise always become a fool in the cooking pot.] I never took him seriously at the time but in retrospect, I now see he knew better because it panned out just as he predicted and Libya still isn’t out of the woods.
That’s the way it is these days of jihad consciousness across the world. If you ever experience war, you'll never take peace for granted.
War is not a movie as some of you think. You could be the first victim. Can you stomach watching your loved ones maimed, killed, raped, tortured, starve to death under slow and painful circumstances? Those are the grim realities of war and in Africa, it is executed with luciferous savagery and psychopathic sadism. The worst of peace is still better than the best of wars.
Funny enough, most of our chest-beating IPOBians will likely die off within the first month or two of the conflict leaving those who knew nothing or are on the sidelines to defend themselves. There will be nowhere to run to as no country in West Africa will agree to accept the ocean-sized volume of refugees. When the Rwandan genocide was looming, everyone was running his mouth until the death hurricane they courted so hard swept across their country, they wailed and shouted for international community to intervene but none came. That's the way it is. Paul Kagame, their current President it was who ended it. And they vowed to “never again”. They learnt from history and have completely removed tribalism from every facet of national life and are admirably making astounding progress as one of Africa's best.
My advice, agreed, Buhari hasn't treated us as well as we wanted, but wait till 2023 and make amends. I have listened to Nnamdi Kanu on several videos and my conclusion is that he is plain naive on how things roll in a conflict situation. On one occasion he bragged that it would take him only two weeks to reach Sokoto in the event of war.[lmao] I don't know what weapons and extra-terrestrial strategies he has to execute that. War is an unpredictable undertaking that you'll be ignorant to estimate which direction it goes. As it is, he has no weapons just yet and is bragging. Many of you believe him and even ascribe infallibility to his words. I have lived a couple of years abroad and what some of you don't know is that many of our people there egging you on don't have immigration papers and are praying for an outbreak of hostilities in Nigeria so they can claim asylum on the back of it.
We must advise ourselves on this current path of self-annihilation. Some of you think Biafra will be the end of all your problems, so South Sudan thought, as did Eritrea, but sorry it will be the beginning of new ones. Now take this to the Bank, it will even be far more difficult for any country to touch any conflict here with a long spoon than it was in the sixties. Reason? Then there was the prospect of oil but today oil is out of fashion and even as it is, Nigeria is begging for buyers and nobody's buying. Osinbajo said that much a few days back. Now, tell me, if they spend their money intervening in your conflict to save your asses, what will they get in return? The best they can do for you is to condemn what is going on, then more out-pouring of condemnations and then more unleashing of floodgates of condemnations, but NO ACTION while you die in numbers.
You often argue that a call for referendum is not a call for war. I agree completely! Very true! Referendum is a right not a privilege. Even Buhari asserted that much in favour of Palestine when he addressed the UN. However, it is plain naivety to assume that all that is enshrined in international law is enforceable. UN has no mechanism of enforcement. Countries and Dictators constantly flout it and nothing happens. Even if something were to happen you’ll all have decomposed in your graves by then. A show of bravado will not lead you anywhere Umunnem. Call me a coward if you like, but Chinua Achebe told us that we often stand in the house of a coward to point at where a brave man ONCE lived. In any case, isn’t it foolishness to challenge an army that has been stockpiling arms since 1960 when you on the other hand haven’t bought a bullet just yet?
Papa Achebe puts it this way, “Only a foolish man can go after a leopard with his bare hands”. As impulsive and as tempting as it may get, tone down your rhetorics, invectives, acerbics, and cursing on social media. Cherish the peace you now have at least Igbos are not worse-off than other regions despite never being in power. While there is grinding poverty in other regions, the highest income per capita in the country is posted by Anambra and other Igbo states ain’t doing badly. Our people live well, build better houses compared to other regions and it's all a miracle given the scratch we started from after the war. Why do we want to throw all that away because of ego and start all over again? Is it a curse? The Hausas though having been in power do not even live a better quality of life than Igbos. Let's be wise and not give opportunity to destroy all we've achieved as a people.
I condemn in the strongest of terms the killing of unarmed people by Nigerian soldiers, killer herdsmen, and do not by any means say Nigeria is what we want it to be but understand Biafra wasn't Ojukwu's first choice. At Aburi his choice was a return to true federalism which he knew was a better deal for us than secession. Nigeria failed to honour that agreement and continued the killings forcing him to declare a Biafran Republic to save his people from slaughter and it's understandable. Nigeria owes us tons of apologies, I agree. But brothers, let's think again! A Biafra today will even be far less economically viable than it would have been then. Reason is because then we would have used oil money to jump-start the new country but today oil is so unsellable to the extent that Venezuela with arguably the largest reserves is grappling with severe economic problems. Kick-starting a new country from the basics would be painfully slow and may outlive our generation to even get the basic things in place. Arewa youths know that, the reason they have asked Nigerian Government to let Igbos go, only for Nnamdi Kanu to start asking for Benue and Rivers because he knows that Igboland alone isn’t viable.
Asking for Benue is laughable because they were never part of Biafra and have made it clear to all, as did different Rivers groups that they don’t want Biafra. A handful of his collaborators from those regions pledging allegiance to him does not equate to an entire people. Majority of their people hate this Biafran idea and have made that much clear. Some funny IPOBians are also hoping on Asari Dokubo and FFK. What a funny bunch being used to fight other people’s fight. Why won’t they take up the gauntlet or is it only us that is suffering injustice? Don't even think corruption will suddenly disappear in a new Biafra as some naive IPOBians hope. If they give you Biafra today, your eyes will open up to new unpleasant realities many of you haven't even factored-in in your agitation but then it would have been late.
I know voices like mine are often loathed and cursed by IPOBians but some of us who know the truth can no longer keep quiet while you drag us all into avoidable chaos. I owe our people the truth as I see it. Curse me all you want, it's OK. Umunnem, ka ako’n’uche na udo chianu biko! Patience solves all things, with time. Let our people think again and know what is looming. Stop your facebook and social media vituperations, cursing, grand standing and join me to educate others. De-escalate this situation and speak words of kindness to others. Even mighty America de-escalates after tensions with Russia. It’s called wisdom.[lol] North Korea provokes South Korea most times but the South always de-escalates tensions knowing that the North hasn’t got anything to lose in the event of war but beautiful South Korea will lose quite a lot. In our case, all the beautiful houses and streets in Igboland will be razed to the ground. Why should we be starting afresh all the time? It will even be more painful if we lose again as was the case in 1970. As it is, it’s not looking good! One more thing. We can join other ethnic groups to demand restructuring. Let us not face our common enemy alone. Britain is our enemy using minority Fulani [aristocratic Hausa] to enslave Nigerians. We can together liberate Nigeria from Fulani if only we can unite. Let's stop all these provocative language and join forces with the West and the Middle belt. See all over where Igbos are killed on daily bases. The worst is our behaviour in other people's land.
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- Yossarian-22
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Interesting hahaha. I wonder whether Biafran nationalism or pragmatism will ultimately win out
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Jul 4, 2021 21:23
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- Yossarian-22
- Oct 26, 2014
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SADC to probe Eswatini over the human rights situation https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00078622.html
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Jul 4, 2021 21:23
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- Yossarian-22
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Jacob Zuma's supporters have formed a shield to prevent his arrest. This despite record numbers of COVID and the gathering being illegal. Also, the constitutional court has agreed to hear his appeal. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57706099
Comparing Zuma to Ramaphosa, the former seems to have been somewhat less friendly to Western foreign policy/business interests, even if he was more nakedly corrupt.
Yossarian-22 has issued a correction as of 23:29 on Jul 4, 2021
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Jul 4, 2021 23:18
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that's correct, each of SA's four presidents have increasingly tilted toward the US, each more than the last I think
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Jul 5, 2021 00:29
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- Yossarian-22
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More than 40 killed in Cameroon due to separatist/government conflict in the Northwest. Separatists are English speakers who initially protested maltreatment by the French speaking majority in 2017. Cameroonian soldiers have been beheaded and the government is pissed. https://allafrica.com/stories/20210...3Aaans%3Aacbllp
This region was once known as "Southern Cameroons" under British rule and originally set out to have its own autonomous state with Cameroonian independence, but instead got absorbed into Cameroon proper. The separatists have long considered themselves to be an independent state known as "Ambazonia."
The current civil war started with teacher/lawyer trade unions going on strike due to the appointment of Francophone judges. At least 4,000 people have been killed and over 700,000 displaced.
Ambazonia just created its own cryptocurrency. https://qz.com/africa/1492745/cameroon-anglophone-separtists-create-cryptocurrency-ambacoin/
Yossarian-22 has issued a correction as of 08:06 on Jul 5, 2021
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Jul 5, 2021 07:57
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poo poo sucks so hard for Sub-Saharan Africa right now irt COVID. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...tion-roll-outs/
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Jul 5, 2021 21:05
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GERD causing heartburn on a critical watery passageway
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/6/egypt-angry-ethiopia-resumes-filling-gerd
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Jul 6, 2021 14:39
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- Yossarian-22
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Military has taken "full charge" of Eswatini amidst protests. https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00078657.html
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Jul 6, 2021 17:22
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Internet shutdown in Eswatini challenged in high court. https://allafrica.com/stories/202107050776.html
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Jul 6, 2021 18:54
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Scandal in Liberia. Deputy Immigration Commissioner breached COVID moratorium and let several COVID-positive Turkish people into the country and now cases are beginning to explode. https://allafrica.com/stories/202107050661.html
Water pump station explosion in South Africa. Running at 55% of regular capacity as of Monday. https://allafrica.com/stories/202107060796.html
Yossarian-22 has issued a correction as of 19:00 on Jul 6, 2021
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