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Oh man did Condé say something about land reform This may be overly Latin-America centric of me
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A few things about Conde: - He was the first democratically elected president in Guinea's history - He changed the constitution to allow him to run for a third term - He has sought closer relations with China - His new budget was going to cut the budgets of both the police and the military - He is a social democrat Moreover, 25% of Guinea's national income comes from mining, and Guinea has one-third of the world's bauxite ore, which is used to make aluminum. China has received massive bauxite concessions in return for infrastructure projects. Yossarian-22 has issued a correction as of 20:12 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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I found this from some random googling. Looks like the president of Guinea was one of Tony Blair's many clients. https://www.theafricareport.com/23836/tony-blair-the-man-who-whispers-in-the-ears-of-africas-presidents/
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Yossarian-22 posted:- His new budget was going to cut the budgets of both the police and the military when a bunch of dudes show up in tacticool outfits telling you they're in charge this may as well be your one and only explanation why
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seems the coup government has been in talks with the rest of the region after levying sanctionsquote:Four figures of the mobilization against a third term of former President Alpha Condé received a triumphant welcome on Saturday in the streets of Conakry.
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Colonel Amara Camara is a fantastic name
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if the coup government wanted to do something drastic with conde it feels like they would have done so somewhere sooner than this after posing with his sunday afternoon dad-rear end. perhaps there's an information blackout at effect here but it's kind of jarring that an africom subsidized overthrow of the government has been so casual. it doesn't really seem like any of the bauxite and other mineral exports of hit any kind of snag to speak of, which is something you would expect to happen by now, or perhaps i'm just expecting too much out of what's likely a slow burn in the background.
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i say swears online posted:Colonel Amara Camara is a fantastic name carries a beat 
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other motives aside they probably just don't want to let him immediately form a government-in-exile in langelyOffice Pig posted:carries a beat guinean hannah montana
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A new species of Anopheles mosquito (the kind that carry malaria) is establishing in Africa and it’s bad, folks.
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Platystemon posted:A new species of Anopheles mosquito (the kind that carry malaria) is establishing in Africa and it’s bad, folks. pro-click, super interesting stuff quote:Already, some 40% of the African population is urban, and this proportion is expected to rise to 60% by 2050. However, An. gambiae and An. funestus, like most Anopheles species, cannot breed in small containers, or in water with organic pollution, and therefore these mosquitoes tend to be excluded by the process of urbanisation. As a result, African towns typically have fewer mosquitoes and less malaria than surrounding rural areas. The centres of large African cities can be completely free of malaria transmission, and in some countries, these are the only places that are reliably free of transmission. Thus, while many health problems are exacerbated by the ongoing process of urbanisation, malaria is one problem that tends to be “built out” as housing improves and the landscape gradually becomes more and more polluted and paved over with concrete.
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I also want to draw attention to the closing:quote:Can we learn from previous invasive vectors? Reading up on the elimination of A. gambiæ from Brazil is how I came across this article. We did that nearly a hundred years ago, when the field of infectious disease was in such infancy that we barely knew what viruses were. It is a crime that today the West stands idly by.
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we could easily save a half-mil people a year from a horrible death and millions more from debilitating sickness with the bare minimum of effort but we cannot because the first world is the great satan i got malaria the same time i got cholera but i could pay the $400 hospital bill so i lived
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i swear by IV saline bags!! don't get cholera, folks
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My personal experience with malaria is that I travelled to malaria‐endemic areas, used chemoprophylaxis, and didn’t get malaria. I did know a good man who died to West Nile Virus, which is considered by epidemiologists to be a neglected tropical disease despite being increasingly widespread in temperate North America and Europe.  I’d post the U.S. map, but it’s literally every state, territory, and district except for Alaska, Hawai‘i, and Guam. It’s like the West neglects this disease out of spite, lest some of their efforts trickle down to the global south. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 08:17 on Sep 21, 2021 |
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You probably aren't too far off on that last part. Immiseration of the global south produces propaganda material that is core to the pan-European right and even the more 'normal' imperialists. Haiti is a more popular example of it in the western hemisphere, but a lot of what happens in Africa revolves around having a specific people to demonize, and it is by virtue of the fact that they are so caught up in centuries of colonial projects that it's impossible to extricate them from it without admitting to the fundamentally exploitative nature of the world as it has been for the existence of most powerful dynasties. Malaria being a problem for 'those people' likely drives an extremely immoral cost-benefit analysis for not ever doing anything about it. Like, who's going to get it in the world that matters? Texas? Who gives a gently caress it'll just snipe the people who aren't total poo poo anyway
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Platystemon posted:My personal experience with malaria is that I travelled to malaria‐endemic areas, used chemoprophylaxis, and didn’t get malaria. west nile's first case in texas this year was in dallas, far away from the tropical areas of the state. it has an extremely high mortality rate of like 8% here, and we get a couple hundred cases a year
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quote:I’d post the U.S. map, but it’s literally every state, territory, and district except for Alaska, Hawai‘i, and Guam. Sounds like it's endemic. We just have to learn to live with it.
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There are a couple hundred cases per year that you know of. In general, only a fraction of a percent of cases are detected. From the link I posted earlier,quote:In this study, we estimated nearly 7 million WNV infections in the continental US. This is likely an underestimate since the few studies that evaluate testing frequency have determined that only approximately 40% of cases that meet criteria for WNND are tested upon presentation to a healthcare facility That’s seven million in twenty years, but still not great. There’s a vaccine for horses, because that’s what’s really important. 
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I've been neglecting my baby thread. Sorry about all that. Anyway, food for thought. https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1440863770054516737?s=19
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seems we've had a pretty good failure streak lately! k... kind of
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https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1440783070810890240?s=19 Algeria served diplomatic relations a few weeks ago with Morocco. Largely over the independence movement in Western Sahara. Which Algeria supports. They also claimed the huge wildfires in August were started by Moroccan-backed rebels.
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How explosive is Lake Kivu?
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This is the son of the previous president who was killed by rebels earlier this year after being in charge via a coup d'état since 1990 so I'm sure things are definitely going to change https://twitter.com/AfricaElect/status/1441705782479781895?s=19
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https://twitter.com/AIDSPortal/status/1442407475815206913 treading old ground for certain but the europeans are jackals
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the Gambia is a small west African country that is located in Senegal's mouth an election is coming up in the Gambia, and it's an important one. back in 2016 the country managed to vote out and, with some help from the international community, dismiss a dictator that had been in power since 1994. his replacement, Adama Barrow, was committed to democracy and reconciliation and etc etc. significantly he has also been outspoken about making it easier for the Gambia diaspora to vote from abroad. in the Gambia, you cant talk about either the economy nor the political landscape without including the 118,000 Gambians who live abroad. in a country of 2.2 million people with like 1.3 million people of voting age, they and their families in the Gambia are an important part of winning an election. in 2020, 15% of the Gambia's GDP came from remittances. emigration is a problem in the Gambia. people dont have money, and a lot of young people (half of the Gambia's population is under 25) make the decision to leave for Europe, usually overland via Agadez in Niger and up through Libya. many of them don't make it to the Mediterranean and end up victims of human trafficking in Libya. forced labor and prostitution are common. even if they get to Europe their prospects are not great and many end up homeless and the lucky ones manage to find their way back home. for these reasons, finding ways to help youth unemployment in the Gambia are a foremost issue on voter's minds. Barrow has mostly failed to achieve anything meaningful in this regard, and he has failed to make the voting process easier for the diaspora as promised. the election will likely be close, if Barrow does achieve a victory it will largely be due to the inability for the diaspora to vote (from what i know the African diaspora in general tend to vote against incumbents, especially when they exhibit signs of becoming dictators.) Barrow has hinted that he will not relinquish power if he loses. he said he would rather die than face the shame of losing an election. as is often the case in Africa, he is also likely afraid of being prosecuted for the corruption he's committed while in power if he loses. so if Barrow loses, the question will be whether or not he steps down. if he does not step down, the international community may again be forced to intervene as they did after Jammeh's defeat in 2016. even if he wins, his legitimacy will be in question due to his (likely intentional) failure to reform the voting system to make it easier for the diaspora to vote. a few short years of relative stability may come to an end on Saturday. also they vote by putting marbles into buckets with the candidate's pictures of them which is cool imo 
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Detailed article about the world's largest peat bog in DRC on the border with Republic of Congo in WaPo and its implications for potential resource wealth vs huge injection of carbon into the atmosphere. Use the usual methods to get around the paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/congo-peatlands-carbon-emissions/?itid=hp-top-table-main
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Bilirubin posted:Detailed article about the world's largest peat bog in DRC on the border with Republic of Congo in WaPo and its implications for potential resource wealth vs huge injection of carbon into the atmosphere. Use the usual methods to get around the paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/congo-peatlands-carbon-emissions/?itid=hp-top-table-main *flies to the upper atmosphere and back*
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Germany returns some of the Benin bronzes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/germany-hands-over-two-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria
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loving finally, really nice of them to remember to finalise the paperwork for the return of all that stolen property
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abdulrazak gurnah, anybody here familiar with his work? impressions, etc
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in the last two months nigerian social media has been inundated with peter obi, running for president not affiliated with either major party. very astroturfed feel to it all but afaik he's not evil
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giant prison attack near the capitol, 800 prisoners freed including dozens of boko haram. that was like ten miles from where i lived lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSqPj4CQ99U
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1zDhu6_FU slaps
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Interesting when Nigerian elections trend in the United States https://twitter.com/OfficialPDPNig/status/1548558133554864128?s=20
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osun is a swing state, this was a rematch that went the other way from 2018. in general things are in decline and so i would expect more events like the above where the incumbent APC loses to often the only option for opposition, the PDP. like the US' upcoming midterm results, this won't really mean an endorsement for either the US' republicans or Nigeria's PDP i'm seeing it more and more that the labour party's candidate, peter obi, has the momentum. they're a nobody party and he pretty much swooped in and gobbled up the apparatus so it's just a shell; i don't know his ideology. the press likes him, but other than that the only people i see talking about him are facebook intelligentsia so dunno if i'm in a bubble there (probably)
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