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   Strategies & Market TrendsAfrica and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?


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From: S. maltophilia10/29/2023 2:29:19 PM
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.....“Africa’s not just one place,” he said in an interview. “It’s complicated and complex; differentiated, contrasted.”

Long viewed in the West as a niche interest — or worse, exotica — African.....

nytimes.com [paywall bypassed]

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From: S. maltophilia12/17/2023 2:06:00 PM
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The Overlooked Crisis in Congo: ‘We Live in War’
Six million have died, and more than six million are displaced after decades of fighting and the ensuing humanitarian crisis in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawing in neighbors, mercenaries and militias.

nytimes.com

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From: S. maltophilia1/4/2024 4:20:00 PM
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....because all futurism is actually Afrofuturism. Africa is literally the future of the entire world. Here is one of the two or three most important charts you will ever see:......

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From: S. maltophilia1/27/2024 5:59:28 PM
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How the World’s Deadliest Crises Go Unseen

In the Central African Republic, researchers found an astronomical death rate. Could a major emergency be invisible?

undark.org

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From: S. maltophilia4/7/2024 1:09:56 PM
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Only a matter of time

......Tutsis dominate the top echelons of Mr. Kagame’s government, while the Hutus who make up 85 percent of the population remain excluded from true power, critics say. It is a sign that ethnic division, despite surface appearances, is still very much a factor in the way Rwanda is governed.

“The Kagame regime is creating the very conditions that cause political violence in our country,” Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, his most prominent political opponent, said by phone from Kigali. “Lack of democracy, absence of rule of law, social and political exclusion — it’s the same problems we had before.”

Ms. Ingabire, a Hutu, returned to Rwanda from exile in 2010 to run against Mr. Kagame for president. She was arrested, barred from taking part in the......

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From: S. maltophilia5/8/2024 1:09:44 PM
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Just another economic migrant:

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From: S. maltophilia5/20/2024 9:33:00 PM
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Weird doings in Niger:

... “When she finished, I said, ‘Madame, I am going to summarize in two points what you have said,’” recounted Zeine, who has led negotiations with the United States. “First, you have come here to threaten us in our country. That is unacceptable. And you have come here to tell us with whom we can have relationships, which is also .....

wapo.st

Some background:

sahelblog.wordpress.com

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From: kidl5/21/2024 3:49:57 PM
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More control, less deniability: what next for Russia in Africa after Wagner? | Russia | The Guardian

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From: S. maltophilia11/1/2024 11:40:17 PM
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visual investigations

How Wagner’s Ruthless Image Crumbled in Mali
The Russian mercenary group operated with little pushback in the West African nation — until it launched one of its most ambitious missions.

For years, Russia has promoted the Wagner mercenary group to authoritarian leaders in Africa as a force of fearsome warriors who could protect leaders’ grip on power and help their armies reclaim territories from armed groups.

In return, Moscow has gained access to resource-rich countries, dislodged Western and U.N. troops and seeded influence across West and Central Africa to a degree not seen since the fall of the Soviet Union.

But a major defeat for Wagner this summer in northern Mali showed that its......

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From: S. maltophilia12/13/2024 12:32:48 PM
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It's a safe bet that the incoming regime is, and will remain, oblivious to the Lobito Corridor.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

.....Biden also announced $600 million in U.S. investment in the Lobito Corridor, a rail line linking Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. By contrast, at a meeting of African leaders in Beijing in September, President Xi Jinping announced $51 billion in new Chinese investment across Africa over the next three years, with most of that money coming in loans. China is now Africa’s biggest trading partner and the continent’s biggest lender.......

washingtonpost.com

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