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...While the complaint does

artappraiser — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 01:22:11 +0000

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...While the complaint does not state what country he was spying on behalf of, sources told The New York Times he was spying for Ethiopia....

Government contractor charged with spying https://t.co/BI7Afw0Zh0
— J. W. (@wolfjon4) September 21, 2023

Wagner threat in Africa - but

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:45:48 +0000

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Wagner threat in Africa - but what happens after Prigozhin?

Niger military regime orders

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 01:55:47 +0000

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Niger military regime orders expulsion of French ambassadorhttps://t.co/jdoC19Umgp
— The New Arab (@The_NewArab) September 2, 2023

Meet Ali Bongo, the Gabonese

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 03:07:33 +0000

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Meet Ali Bongo, the Gabonese dictator who rigged an election 2 days ago and gave himself 64%, and was toppled by the military today.
He is under house arrest after years of running a corrupt family dictatorship underpinned by a ruthless mafia.

He has ruled Gabon for 14 years… pic.twitter.com/Cl0LekvEXW
— Hopewell Chin’ono (@daddyhope) August 30, 2023

Next after Gabon?

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:20:35 +0000

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Next after Gabon?

Zimbabwe's opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has called for fresh elections after declaring that last week's general election was fraudulent. https://t.co/UvnXXTxlTB pic.twitter.com/E1R3OaQh4o
— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) August 29, 2023

Ethiopia's opposition

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:07:54 +0000

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Ethiopia's opposition politician Bekele Gerba has requested the US government to give him political asylum, claiming that "the country [Ethiopia] is not safe for my life’’. https://t.co/NFgRQs2Llc pic.twitter.com/SnPm3xzM1D
— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) August 29, 2023

"Make noise, for the people

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:04:47 +0000

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"Make noise, for the people here have arrested me."

Gabon's President Ali Bongo has appealed for help after the army deposed him in a coup and put him under house arrest. pic.twitter.com/iwZf2QcThC
— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) August 30, 2023

Gabon has three leaders since it gained independence from France in 1960. Here's a profile of each one. https://t.co/RQTqiWcEOR pic.twitter.com/FylNKBj8zn
— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) August 30, 2023

Gabon has been the top trend worldwide today on Twitter, now known as X, with a mainly positive reaction. On TikTok, many are expressing hopes that the coup will “save” the oil-rich nation from the nearly six decades of Bongo family in power. https://t.co/wBCuOIJMaW
— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) August 30, 2023

The military in Gabon has seized power and placed President Ali Bongo under house arrest.

Here's what you need to know https://t.co/lec2gNV8hz #GabonCoup @BBCAfrica @bbcworldservice
— Muthoni Muchiri (@noni_muchiri) August 30, 2023

Gabon coup: Simple guide to what's happening https://t.co/BRzqZol6p3
— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) August 30, 2023

In the early hours of

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:59:13 +0000

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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, twelve army officers appeared on national television to announce they had cancelled Gabon's elections, dissolved all state institutions and closed the country’s borders. Here's their announcement. pic.twitter.com/vL9RUlaM8N
— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) August 30, 2023

Race pumps like Cori Bush

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:00:00 +0000

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Race pimps like Cori Bush stay focused on glorifying and lamenting the scummy lowlifes like George Floyd and Mike Brown, and and ignore the more worthy cases of shock and disgust that actually bolster the needs for reform. The Central Park 5 was a travesty. A junkie passing counterfeit money is more an accident waiting to happen.

Real racist police crime like linked below is a nothing-burger. Justified police action against a violent criminal becomes a cause celebre. https://t.co/Q4K71pa7aH
— Jack (@nevernotjack) August 10, 2023

Focusing on the rights of

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:50:42 +0000

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Focusing on the rights of criminals is not the path to larger reform - not on - not in Africa, but not in UK, not in US, but not in LatAm - it's a niche cottage industry with natural limits, a hygiene issue per Maslow that doesn't rise to higher society functioning - jobs, education, housing, higher freedoms like political choice and right to speak out. That Sub-Saharan is mired in corruption, violence (tho fewer actual wars these days) and overpopulation is a massive alarm for life and its effecta in 20-50 years. We've been lulled by China's ability, and and to a lesser extent India's, ability to train up its massive overpopulation for manufacturing and IT skills, to be a productive target for foreign investment (not handouts). This isn't happening in Africa. Tribalism is winning, while there's retro cheering for the exploitive self-serving quasi-ocialist colonialism of old. More poverty in the past 30 years has been alleviated through freeish market capitalism than through handouts. War remains destructive and unhelpful, as does "crony capitalism", aka corruption at all levels.

The main value of black people to progressives is our propensity to whinge, march, riot, and burn everything down for "justice and equality". And black people only do that for criminals, that's why our criminals are so important.

Thus England venerates George Floyd, a criminal. https://t.co/BN73kRxnjt
— Wanjiru Njoya (@WanjiruNjoya) August 10, 2023