Bonne journée!
#Mali L’un des éléments ayant contribué à relancer la rumeur est une déclaration publique d’Aboubacar Sidiki Fomba, membre du Conseil national de transition (CNT), affirmant qu’il serait possible de faire venir la mer au Mali via la Guinée
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📄💡 Ecowas without the Sahel states?
@franziscaz.bsky.social, Amanda Bisong and @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social discuss how the Sahel states' split from Ecowas impacts migration and free movement, all while Ecowas struggles with a growing legitimacy crisis.
theconversation.com/ecowas-witho...
Africa needs its own credit rating agency
Because the big credit agencies exaggeraste investor risks in African countries, says, er, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
www.ft.com/content/0671...
Combattants africains pour la Russie: ces noms dévoilés par All Eyes on Wagner qui confirment l’ampleur du phénomène
www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...
Charles Ojiambo Mutoka, 72, poses with a portrait of his son Oscar, who he learned was killed in August
Lies, horror, trauma: Kenyans recount forced Russian recruitment.
Four Kenyans -- Victor, Mark, Erik and Moses -- recount to AFP the web of deception that took them to the killing fields of Ukraine
u.afp.com/S2aT
Worth reading to understand how facts are distorted or hallucinated, explaining current US activism, including air strikes, in defense of Christians allegedly under threat in #Nigeria
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...
Given that Trump is ridiculous, it is worth pointing out that anyone who flatters or admires him also comes across as an idiot.
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„Heute regieren in den USA Prediger der freien Rede und lassen Unschuldige für Meinungsäußerungen in Haftanstalten verschleppen. Da ist niemand falsch abgebogen. Da kommt jemand ans Ziel.“
Essay über Free Speech und Cancel-Culture-Panik im aktuellen @spiegel.de (+):
Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.
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In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience.
What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?
Peter Lintl analysiert, warum die deutsche Staatsräson nicht auf Israel verkürzt werden sollte. Am Gazakrieg zeigt er, wie die Engführung von historischer Verantwortung und Völkerrecht die Debatte blockiert und warum Staatsräson neu gedacht werden muss.
internationalepolitik.de/de/deutsche-...
In 2015, that figure was 43 bn EUR, foregone revenues that - in theory - could be invested in public services such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure.
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The story? how dysfunctional or criminal the state in Cameroon is. In the larger scheme of things, it is just one illustration of the widely cited -estimated- 76 bn EUR that leave Africa annually through tax evasion, money laundering, and corruption
www.dw.com/en/how-illeg...
#EITI: in 2023, #Cameroon produced 963 kg of #gold and exported 22 kg, officially.
Importing countries, essentially the #UAE, declared to have imported >15 tons of Cameroonian gold. That’s roughly 1,3 bn EUR that has disappeared, and means a massive loss of tax revenues
www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...
An alien just landing on Earth and reading this would not understand what this is about because European leaders are just unable to name things. This is a disaster and a shame
04.01.2026 20:00 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0While the French Presidency is concerned about the inertia of platforms against AI-amplified information manipulation, the French foreign digital interference watchdog will deploy a dedicated centre of excellence to provide information stakeholders with ready-to-use tools to detect and analyse them.
18.12.2025 07:07 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0In which Godfrey Maringira argues that a military coup in #Zimbabwe is very likely in the near future.
17.12.2025 14:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great summary, also for naming more than the usual suspects (UAE...). Advice to democrats worldwide includes: "to reclaim the narrative. Pro-democracy actors need to make democratic values culturally relevant, meet citizens where they are, and show them how democracy improves everyday life."
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A drone strike on a U.N. facility in war-torn Sudan left six peacekeepers dead, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
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#Tanzanie Un mois après la victoire de Samia Suluhu Hassan, élue présidente le 1er novembre avec plus de 97 % des voix, et des manifestations qui ont fait des centaines de morts, les jeunes Tanzanien·nes veulent faire « renaître » leur pays⤵️
📌 #genztanzania🇹🇿 #haijaisha #humanrights
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. (Hank Van Ess)
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Can #Mauritius 🇲🇺 continue to be “a friend to all”?
In their new policy brief Benedikt Erforth, Roukaya Kasenally, and Hangwei Li explore how deepening ties with #India are placing new pressures on Mauritius’s traditionally balanced foreign policy.
Read more, here: t1p.de/3zpxz
#Tanzania: after having killed 700 people and imprisoned 1,700 (UN estimates), the government declares protests called for to denounce the violent suppression of demonstrations around elections in October, arguing they would amount to a "coup"
www.reuters.com/business/med...
Congratulations to @ailitripp.bsky.social for her new book, Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders (OUP, 2025). Learn more about this important scholarship in our latest blog post: www.afpol.org/blog/new-boo...
09.12.2025 09:49 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.
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This is yet another example of how African citizens are lured to #Russia to be enrolled in the war against #Ukraine. @rfi previously reported on similar stories in #Cameroon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/w...
Niger: le militant des droits humains Moussa Tchangari détenu depuis un an
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The UK and the Netherlands are withdrawing a combined $2.2 billion in support for the TotalEnergies-led #Mozambique LNG project, after both hired firms to probe human rights concerns surrounding the development.
www.ft.com/content/b2ea...
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