| From: S. maltophilia | 1/27/2024 5:59:28 PM | | | | | | 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?
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| From: S. maltophilia | 4/7/2024 1:09:56 PM | | | | | | 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. maltophilia | 5/20/2024 9:33:00 PM | | | | | | 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 .....
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| From: S. maltophilia | 11/1/2024 11:40:17 PM | | | | | | 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. maltophilia | 1/12/2025 8:10:47 PM | | | | | | Making fertile ground of Boko Haram, Wagner or some other disruption:
..... The judge overseeing the Kono High Court, Augustine Kailey Musa, told me it was in a defendant’s interest to plead guilty and “not waste the time of the court,” regardless of what had actually transpired. “If you want me to consider poverty and you plead guilty [first], then I would definitely temper justice with mercy. But if you plead ‘not guilty’ and then [later] give the issue of poverty, I won’t take lightly to it. I don’t really like people who waste the court’s time.”
Judge Musa had complete discretion over the sentencing, and his decisions had no apparent rationale. One young man was given a one-year prison sentence for a $60 debt. Another young man, who owed $700, was released and gently told to “slowly pay it off.”
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| From: S. maltophilia | 1/30/2025 4:38:16 PM | | | | | | Looking to a Time When Most of the World’s Babies Will Be African
Much of the world is accustomed to thinking of Africa as an impoverished sideshow, accounting for only a small share of the world’s population and gross domestic product — but what if that is poised to change?
Experts at the International Monetary Fund have argued that we are entering the “ African century.” I wouldn’t go that far, but they are right to point to profound demographic and other shifts suggesting that Africa will play a far more important role in the world.....
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