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[2014] 14 African Countries Forced By France To Pay Colonial Tax For The Benefits Of Slavery And Colonization
Did you know many African countries continue to pay colonial tax to France since their independence till today!
14 African Countries Forced By France To Pay Colonial Tax For The Benefits Of Slavery And Colonization
Who is Brice Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim leader?
Nguema heads the Gabonese Presidency’s Republican Guard, the country’s most powerful security unit.
Who is Brice Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim leader?
H/T: Liu Sivaya.
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Military leaders seize power in oil-rich Gabon
Army officers say they have taken control from President Ali Bongo after he was declared election winner
Military leaders seize power in oil-rich Gabon
Video via TheRedPillDiaries
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Situation in Gabon, West Africa a Big Issue for Europe – EU’s Borrell
See this video, by Zack Mwekassa, regarding former Gabon President Bongo.
Niger Military Coup | What They Are Not Telling You
Why the U.S. Government Cares About the Coup in Niger + More
Let us travel back in time to April 9, 1999. It was the middle of hot season in the West African country of Niger and 120 degrees in the shade. Jocelyn, one of the authors, was a newly minted Peace Corps volunteer and had recently arrived in a rural community 60 miles south of Niamey, the capital, where she would spend the next two years. That day, President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara and five other people were shot dead at the airport, a mutiny by his presidential guard. But there was no international outcry, no evacuation of Americans and Europeans. Jocelyn was told to stay put in the small community where she was living. Life went on as usual.
Why the U.S. Government Cares About the Coup in Niger | Opinion
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Why might Africa want France gone? + ECOWAS Activates Standby Force for Potential Niger Intervention
Let’s continue to follow the post-coup situation in Niger. We had Victoria Nuland travel to Niger, presumably to help organize the overthrow of the government since 1- that’s usually what a visit from Nuland portends and 2 – a “rebel movement” called the Council of Resistance for the Republic under the leadership of someone named Rhissa Ag Boula started just after her visit. If there is going to be a Western war over this coup, it is likely that Nigeria – the giant country in West Africa with 224M people, much bigger than all other countries in the region combined – will be a part of the intervention, as would France and presumably the US. Other countries of the region are lining up on one or the other side, with Burkina Faso, Mali, and Algeria all lining up with the post-coup Niger government, so we are in a scary situation.
Why might Africa want France gone?
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ECOWAS Activates Standby Force for Potential Niger Intervention
Sudan’s warring sides send envoys for talks in Saudi Arabia
ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s two warring generals sent their envoys on Friday to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at firming up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse, three Sudanese officials said.
Sudan’s warring sides send envoys for talks in Saudi Arabia
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Role of US troops in Sudan to shift as Biden administration sees no quick end to fighting
H/T: Emil Cosman
German ambassador expelled from Chad
German ambassador expelled from Chad
But a Chadian government official told AFP anonymously that N’Djamena blamed the diplomat for “interfering too much” in the “governance of the country”, as well as “remarks tending to divide the Chadians“.
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The main opposition leaders have been in exile or in hiding since the bloody repression of a demonstration against the government on 20 October 2022, which officially left 73 people dead, but many more according to NGOs, which also mention “forced disappearances” and “extrajudicial executions”.
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Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo called the protests an “armed insurrection”. He also personally ordered the ban on several opposition parties, claiming they had “led a rebellion in the south and killed people”.
French military bases in Africa will now self-identify as schools
Emmanuel Macron wants to rebrand Paris’ presence in its former colonies as cultural and economic projects
French military bases in Africa will now self-identify as schools
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Macron: ‘New era’ in economic, military strategy in Africa
Monday’s speech came at a time when France’s influence on the continent is facing its biggest challenges in decades. Growing anti-French sentiment has led to street protests in several West and North African countries.
In addition, historical economic ties that France had with the region are under pressure from the growing commercial presence of Russia, China and Turkey.
Macron acknowledged that Africa now is a “field of competition” and urged French businesses to “wake up” and get involved in the fight.
In the past year, French troops had to withdraw from Mali, which turned instead to private Russian military contractors of the Wagner group, and most recently from Burkina Faso, which also appears to increasingly look towards Moscow.
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