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Why should there be an /africa/ thread? There's no /Asia/ thread, there's no /Americas/ thread. If you wanna discuss any particular country in Africa maybe you should just make a thread about that no? Rather than lumping them all together like this
>>2337546>Why should there be an /africa/ thread? There's no /Asia/ thread, there's no /Americas/ thread.There is /SEA/. There is at times the indian subcontinent general. There is /latam/.
Fuck off back wherever you came from.
>>2337591Chill out dude, is south east asia all of asia? Is the indian subcontinent all of asia? Does latin america refer to just south america?
No, they refer to specific geopolitical regions
Im saying it's a disservice to africa to lump them all together like this when we dont do that to other continents. Why not have a /northafrica/, /sahel/, /east/westafrica/,etc instead?
>>2337591>>2337798 (me)
Thanks for the vid btw, even tho you were rude to me lol. It's very nice
>>2337798Okay fair enough.
>Im saying it's a disservice to africa to lump them all together like this when we dont do that to other continents. Why not have a /northafrica/, /sahel/, /east/westafrica/,etc instead?Because they won't get enough posts and quickly fall off. This was already an issue with previous threads despite it being a thread several have interest in.
Protests are heating up in Kenya. a shooting yesterday and roaming armed gangs:
Kenya protesters clash with men wielding clubs
Kenyan protesters have clashed with club-carrying young men, believed to be loyal to the government, in the centre of the capital, Nairobi.
The demonstration, held in the wake of the death in custody 10 days ago of blogger and teacher Albert Ojwang, was called to demand the sacking of a top police officer.
Police initially said that Mr Ojwang died of self-inflicted wounds, but were forced to retract the statement after an autopsy found that it was likely he died after being assaulted. Two policemen have been arrested in connection with the death.
The protest comes amid simmering tension ahead of next week's first anniversary of the storming of parliament by demonstrators.
Earlier on Tuesday, there were pockets of violence in the capital's central business district when groups of young men riding motorbikes, armed with whips and clubs, attacked protesters.
Videos show the men - described locally as "goons" - seemingly working side-by-side with police, who fired teargas to try and disrupt the demonstrations.
The police have denied any link saying that it has "noted a group of goons armed with crude weapons, in today's protests… The service takes great exception and does not condone such unlawful groupings."
>Why the death of a blogger has put Kenya's police on trial
A vendor was shot during Tuesday's demonstration, sparking renewed outrage from Kenyans who accuse police of using excessive force against protesters.
Boniface Kariuki was reportedly selling masks when a uniformed police officer fired a bullet at close range, critically injuring him.
His father, John Kariuki, told local media that the bullet went through his head, just above the ear.
The 22-year-old vendor is now under medical observation after successful surgery, his father said.
In a statement, the police said it was aware of "an incident involving [the] shooting of an unarmed civilian by a police officer using an anti-riot shotgun". The policeman allegedly responsible has since been arrested, it added.
Officers had been deployed across key parts of the city, in an attempt to block protesters from accessing major intersections and government buildings.
Deputy police chief Eliud Lagat has stepped aside as an investigation into Mr Ojwang's death is under way.
But activists want him removed from office as it was his complaint against the blogger that led to the young man's arrest. The 31-year-old was accused of defaming Mr Lagat on social media.
"We shall not be intimidated. We shall remain unbowed. We want Lagat to step aside," one protester told the BBC.
"We want the guy to resign and we want the guy to be arrested. We want him to sit there and answer questions, you know. [He is] still on the payroll, still enjoying taxpayers' money," another said.
The situation in Nairobi remains tense. Most businesses in the city centre are shut and there are visibly fewer people than usual on the streets.
Last year's protests, led by young Kenyans, were against an unpopular finance bill which sought to introduce new taxes. It culminated in the protesters entering parliament on 25 June and forced the government to drop the controversial proposals.
There are no contentious tax measures this year, but activists plan to build up momentum to what they are calling "a total shutdown" of business next Wednesday.
>>2337866Yeah that makes sense, I could have guessed that. I should not have taken such an accusatory tone in my first post.
Two killed today.
Two protesters die from gunshot woundsTwo protesters died from gunshot wounds and at least eight were injured in a town outside Nairobi on Wednesday as demonstrators marked one year since mass anti-government protests in Kenya, a hospital official told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
>>2337872CPK on the streets during the current outbursts.
Two people killed.
>>2354469The Kenyan communist situation is pretty complex, not sure what their split was really about. These guys seem pretty on the ball tho, so I guess theirs is the party we should be paying attention to
Should I invest in Rwanda? Which country can I invest in and profit of exploitation?
>>2354580Rwanda is doing well, developing nicely so investment would be a safe bet. Tho you'd have to not give af about that stuff they're doing in the congo lol
omrade Sebby Apudo and Comrade Derick Munyiri are being illegally detained at Ruaraka Police Station. Comrade Gloria Gakuru has been assaulted by the same police and left for dead. (picrels)
>>2354503They're technically Communist Party Marxist – Kenya (CPMK), they're usually who you see.
>>2354829That pole-vaulting pic goes crazy hard
<vid from todayCops beating and whipping people before being ran off by a bunch of guys in red. topkek.
>>2354829>Perhaps this is premature, but it looks like Kenya is popping off with protests and riots still gaining strength. Do we have a happening on our hands?Last year they stormed the parliment and the state shot and killed/disappeared 60 people.
We will have to see. There have been a few killed, two on the protests, a videoblogger whilst in police custody a few weeks back and a man was shot in the head by police when protesting the killing of the blogger (
>>2337872 ).
why is kenya rising up?
>>2357111Anniversary of last year plus all the same issues as last year even before the deaths.
>>2357997True, and its unfortunate.
At least people recognize the value of it existing on the board though.
>>2357997What would you like to talk about? There’s still protests in Kenya and in Togo, the war in Congo is ongoing and looks to be at a stalemate, RSF might slowly be losing in Sudan. Does anyone know what happened to those huge protests in Swaziland against the monarchy there?
It's still going down in Kenya, the government has doubled down on ordering the cops to shoot. They've banned all reporting on the protests by the media, i think having shut some down.
Breakthrough had Booker on today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgym5QNci4>>2358067If you haven't seen it Evita also does Joe Slovo which is also very fun.
>>2358011i recently learnt there was a time when some people in togo tried to reunify with english togoland
CEASEFIRE BETWEEN RWANDA AND CONGO HAPPENING NOW
>>2354615I live in Belgium so…
>>2358523Actual ceasefire or nato style "let's take a break while I build up more weapons to attack you" ceasefire?
>>2358532It hasn’t ended with regime change in Rwanda so most likely the latter, keeping M23 out of talks completely is really funny though
I guess the HTS operation in Syria was so successful that nato is exporting it to Africa
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/jihadist-ghost-enemy-jnim-sahel
>JNIM and other militants have exploited the vacuum that has opened up, offering protection and some basic services as well as coercing communities into accepting their authority and strict Islamically inspired rules. Expansion also means resources. Control of roads means traffic can be taxed, for example.
>“JNIM are becoming a force that is well beyond just military … Villagers see no other option. JNIM run courts, schools, informal goldmines. They are very pragmatic, and not corrupt,” said Laessing.
>The group may have other ambitions, too. A leader and spokesperson recently boasted that the group had launched a “second phase” of its war against local states and would be hunting its enemies “in the big cities … in your last refuges”.
>One possibility, analysts said, is that JNIM is preparing a radical shift, inspired by the success of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which seized power in Syria after Ahmed al-Sharaa, its leader, moderated his organisation’s ideology and focused on governance rather than holy war.>>2358523Unless m23 withdrawal and abolishment is specified (with zero strings attached) it’s meaningless.
>>2337872So the guy from that video who was shot in the head just died his family have announced.
Boniface Kariuki: Nairobi hawker who was shot in the head by police is deadBoniface Kariuki, the hawker who was shot by police in the head in Nairobi during protests on June 17, 2025, is dead, the family has said.
The family spokesperson Emily Wanjira confirmed to NTV that Kariuki died on Monday.
Kariuki, a mask vendor, was shot in the head at point-blank range by a police officer during the protests that turned violent as the protesters engaged police officers in day-long running battles.
The demonstration was part of a growing call for justice for Albert Ojwang, the teacher and blogger who was taken from his home in Homa Bay and killed in police custody in Nairobi.
Kariuki has undergone two surgeries at Kenyatta National Hospital where he is admitted in ICU.
>>2358529history is a flat circle
>>2362344Tragic, I hope the protests amount to something, but it doesn't look very hopeful
>>2362433>I Investigated Africa's Most Wanted Presidentyeah i want him to please liberate my people President Traorè
https://www.mintpressnews.com/african-stream-removed-us-accusations/290109/Blinken Ordered the Hit. Big Tech Carried It Out. African Stream Is Dead.
>On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, African Stream published its final video, a defiant farewell message. With that, the once-thriving pan-African media outlet confirmed it was shutting down for good. Not because it broke the law. Not because it spread disinformation or incited violence. But because it told the wrong story, one that challenged U.S. power in Africa and resonated too deeply with Black audiences around the world. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused it of being a Kremlin front, Big Tech didn’t hesitate, and within hours, the platform was erased from nearly every major social media site.
>In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the call and announced an all-out war against the organization, claiming, without evidence, that it was a Russian front group. “Russian state-funded media outlet RT secretly runs the online platform, African Stream, across a wide range of social media platforms,” he said, adding:
<According to the outlet’s website, ‘African Stream is’ – and I quote ‘a pan-African digital media organization based exclusively on social media platforms, focused on giving a voice to all Africans, both at home and abroad.’ In reality, the only voice it gives is to Kremlin propagandists.”
>Within hours, big social media platforms jumped into action. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all deleted African Stream’s accounts, while Twitter demonetized the organization.
>African Stream attempted to continue, but it finally ceased operations this week. MintPress News spoke with the company’s founder and CEO, Ahmed Kaballo, who told us that, with just one statement, Washington was able to destroy their entire operation, stating:
< We are shutting down because the business has become untenable. After we got attacked by Antony Blinken, we really tried to continue, but without a platform on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and being demonetized on X, it just meant the ability to generate income became damn near impossible.”
>The news has disappointed the Nairobi, Kenya-based outlet’s large and rapidly growing follower base. At the time of the coordinated operation against it, the account boasted almost one million followers on TikTok, almost 880,000 on Instagram, and almost half a million on YouTube, reaching 30-40 million people per month. Growing from nothing in 2022, it expanded rapidly, offering a pan-African perspective on global events, and worked to expose the role of imperialism on the continent.
>African Stream cultivated a large and committed audience among African Americans, with celebrities, rappers, and NBA basketball stars regularly sharing their content. It was this combination of anti-imperialist messaging and influence with Black America that Kaballo believes triggered the State Department smears, explaining that:
< We criticized the Republicans and the Democrats. We followed the pan-African tradition of Malcolm X, who said that there is no difference between the fox and the wolf, you get bitten either way. And because we had so much influence on the Black community in the U.S., we were seen to be a threat to the Democratic Party. That’s why we feel like it was a partisan attack.”
>Blinken’s attack was not the first African Stream had received. Last June, NBC News claimed (without providing examples) that African Stream sought to undermine the 2024 elections by spreading disinformation. Then, in August, U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America wrote that Kaballo’s organization “distorts the U.S. military’s mission in Somalia,” insisting that the U.S. is bombing one of the continent’s poorest countries to “protect civilians.” Leaked documents also show that the British Foreign Office plotted to run a smear campaign against them.
>Kaballo told MintPress that he expected the attacks. “It’s no real surprise,” he said. “The surprise was that big tech, with no evidence whatsoever, decided to take us down.”
>However, given the extremely close ties between Silicon Valley and the U.S. national security state – something that MintPress has consistently reported on – Kaballo should perhaps have been more prepared for this outcome.
>Google’s Director of Security and Public Trust, Ben Randa, for example, was formerly NATO’s Strategic Planning and Information Officer. Meanwhile, Facebook’s Senior Misinformation Policy Manager, Aaron Berman, the individual most responsible for determining the platform’s political direction, is a former high-ranking CIA agent. Like other platforms, TikTok has also hired dozens of former officials from the FBI, CIA, and State Department to oversee its most sensitive internal affairs.
>If Blinken genuinely wanted to unearth a government-sponsored influence operation, he would not have to look far. Earlier this year, a funding freeze at the U.S. government agency USAID exposed a global network of supposedly “independent” media outlets that Washington secretly bankrolled. The scale of this operation was vast: more than 6,200 journalists at nearly 1,000 organizations across five continents had their salaries secretly paid in whole or in part by the U.S. government.
>While the outlooks of these media groups differed, they all shared one similarity: an unwavering commitment to promoting Washington’s interests.
>The pause in funding was keenly felt in Ukraine. Oksana Romanyuk, the director of the country’s Institute for Mass Information, lamented that almost 90% of local media outlets were funded by USAID, including many with no other source of income.
>In neighboring Belarus, a survey of 20 leading outlets found that 60% of their budgets came directly from Washington.
>Following the freeze, anti-government Cuban media were plunged into an existential crisis. Miami-based CubaNet, for instance, published an editorial soliciting donations from its readers. “We are facing an unexpected challenge: the suspension of key funding that sustained part of our work,” they wrote; “If you value our work and believe in keeping the truth alive, we ask for your support.”
>In 2024, CubaNet received around half a million dollars from USAID alone. U.S.-backed Iranian media, meanwhile, resorted to mass layoffs of their staff.
>The African Stream story highlights the sorry state of global communications, where the United States has the power to choke, and even simply delete, media outlets that stand for an alternative vision of the world. Washington both funds thousands of journalists around the planet to produce pro-U.S. propaganda, and, through its close connections to Silicon Valley, has the power to destroy those that do not toe the line.
>African Stream is far from the first independent, anti-imperialist news organization to have been targeted by Washington. MintPress itself has been repeatedly attacked and smeared as a secret Iranian, Chinese, Russian, Syrian, or even Venezuelan operation. Our reach on social media has been throttled, and we have been debanked by PayPal. Other leading alternative media outlets tell a similar story.
>It is a similar story in Europe, where the region’s support for Israeli actions in Palestine has sparked a crackdown on independent journalism. British journalists Richard Medhurst and Asa Winstanley have had their homes raided by police, while the European Union has sanctioned Hüseyin Dogru for his coverage of pro-Palestine protests.
>In what may prove to be their final post, on Tuesday, July 1, African Stream released a video of their staff dancing, accompanied by the words:
< It’s tough to accept that we had to shut down over baseless accusations by the U.S. government. But instead of bowing out in silence, the team chose to resist, just as our ancestors often did, through dance. You can deplatform us. You can smear us. But you can’t stop us dancing.”
>On the surface, the overt censorship of a Kenyan media outlet by the U.S. government may be a depressing story. Yet Kaballo remained upbeat about the situation, noting that the state of radical African media has drastically improved since 2022, with many channels taking up a pan-African, anti-imperialist message. “In the next few years, hopefully there will be 20 or 30 different versions of African Stream, hitting people with high-quality content,” he said. >>2371127I don't ever find this kind of thing depressing because its just flailing really. A heavy handed attempt to stymy what african people want, which is an end to western cultural and economic imperialism. All this will do is just encourage native sources to become more independent as the audience is clearly there it'll backfire the same way sanctions on Russia backfired resulting in less western influence overall.
>>2371294(me) I should also add that its a pretty transparent attempt by big tech to monopolize the nascent African tech sector by snuffing out native competition, like they are trying to do with India. But since China offers competition in this department Africans don't have to rely on western help for this kind of thing anymore.
>>2337591thank you for posting this i will be sending this to some of my friends to redpill them on the ignoble nature of the anti-apartheid movement.
>>2337591Ultra based!
Who is the whitey along him?
>>2371891>Who is the whitey along him?Joe Slovo
>>2371455Back to /pol/, faggot.
>>2362433>Interesting video bout TraoreAnon these are all just clones, one really popular african creator did it and now everyone is doing it. it's not going to be any good because they don't care about any of this stuff, they're just trying to superficially copy what did well for someone else.
>>2371891Joe Slovo who wrote under the pen name "Sol Dubula." You can find his works here.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/slovo/index.htm >>2371957>Anon these are all just clonesI personally don't have very high hopes for Traore being some kind of socialist revolutionary or smt. But he is a lil bit different from the previous coup guys, insofar as he's more outwardly anti western and seemingly more successful/popular in Burkina Faso than anyone since Sankara
>>2335591Communist era Madagascar fascinates the hell out of me and no one ever talks about it
>>2372988there has never been any true communist movement in Africa. It is all larp here. Simply waving a red flag is not communism. The South African Communist PArty does not do basic 'marketing/propaganda' for communist works. They find no need to read and learn what is Marxism in the first place. It's just mindlessly toi-toiing.
>>2372995On behalf of everyone, Shut The Fuck Up Whitey.
>>2372081I thought he was saying the video was a clone
>>2372988what's fascinating about it?
>>2373174I genuinely just think the fact that it's Madagascar. Maybe I'm old enough to have been influenced by a certain animated movie, or maybe tales of Libertatia stay in the back of my head, but I've always had a fascination with the country. The fact that they were led by an ML government at one point, and the President came back to led in the post-USSR world, is just something that hits the right notes.
what's going on in kenya
>>2374468i've never heard of libertatia before. according to wiki it's some legendary colony on the north of madagascar?
>>2384002no it was a pirate "republic" sort of like how nassau was in the early 18th century Caribbean
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1882485386217144793ARE ISRAEL & U.S. PLANNING REGIME CHANGE IN ERITREA?
Is Israel manufacturing consent for regime change in Eritrea? In a 16 January article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, author Habtom Ghebrezghiabher argues Asmara poses a threat to Israel and the US due to its warm relations with Iran, China and Russia.
The Haaretz article argues that Asmara is an Iranian proxy used to disrupt the maritime routes used by Israel's allies, citing the detention of a vessel of Azerbaijan, an Israeli ally. The author argues Eritrea and Yemen effectively grant Iran control over both sides of the southern Red Sea. Iranian vessels using Eritrean territorial waters is another sticking point, with the author taking issue that Eritrea accused Israel of violating Eritrean sovereignty when Tel Aviv attacked an Iranian vessel.
Eritrea’s anti-Zi*nist stance has been a headache for Israel. Asmara has consistently voted against Israel at the UN, rejected an Israeli ambassador, opposed Israeli presence in the African Union, downgraded its embassy in Israel, and expressed solidarity with Ansar Allah (colloquially known as the Houthis) attacks against Israeli-linked ships in response to Israeli massacres of Palestinians.
For the US, Eritrea’s China-Russia ties could explain the hostility. China has helped develop Eritrea’s infrastructure, such as in healthcare. Eritrea has also benefited from China cancelling debt and imposing zero tariffs on Eritrean exports to China.
The author also cites Eritrea’s cordial relations with Russia as a point of contention. With Eritrea voting in favour of Russia at the UN during a 2022 vote on withdrawing Russian forces from Ukraine, and recent high-level visits between officials in the two countries, it makes sense why the West would be increasingly hostile. In 2019, negotiations began for Russia to establish a logistic centre in Eritrea to bolster military and logistical capabilities in the Horn of Africa region. Eritrea is also interested in attracting investment, particularly in the face of Western sanctions against the country.
>>2393903children should not be attending protests
>>2388443What organized opposition to Afwerki and his party even exist?
>>2354829the pole vaulting pic goes hard but idwk how it ended because it looks like she doesn't have enough height to clear the barbs on her way down and it also looks like the coppers are seconds from fucking her up. scary stuff
>>2393913>children should not be attending protestsThank you for your brave stance.
she was walking past ya fucking nubriton https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/17/france-withdraws-troops-from-senegal-ending-military-presence-in-west-africaFrance withdraws troops from Senegal, ending military presence in West Africa
>Senegal’s new government has taken a hard-line stance against the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional backlash against what many see as the legacy of an oppressive colonial empire.
>The French military completed its withdrawal from Senegal on Thursday, the last West African country with a permanent troop presence, amid Paris' waning regional influence.
>France has faced opposition from leaders of some of its former colonies in Africa over what they described as a demeaning and heavy-handed approach to the continent.
>The French military handed over Camp Geille, its largest base in Senegal, along with a nearby air facility, to the Senegalese government during a ceremony in the capital Dakar.
>General Pascal Ianni, head of the French forces in Africa, stated that the handover marked a new phase in military relations.
>"It is part of France's decision to end permanent military bases in West and Central Africa, and responds to the Senegalese authorities’ desire to no longer host permanent foreign forces on their territory," he said.
>Senegal is an independent country, it is a sovereign country and sovereignty does not accommodate the presence of military bases in a sovereign country", he said last year, adding that Dakar would instead pursue a "renewed partnership" with Paris.
>Senegal's new government has taken a hard-line stance against the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional backlash against what many see as the legacy of an oppressive colonial empire.
>France has announced plans to sharply reduce its presence at all its bases in Africa, except in the eastern African country of Djibouti.
>It said it would instead provide defence training or targeted military support, based on needs expressed by those countries.
>Senegal's military chief, General Mbaye Cissé, said the withdrawal supports the country's new defence strategy.
>"Its primary goal is to affirm the autonomy of the Senegalese armed forces while contributing to peace in the subregion, in Africa, and globally," Cissé said.
>The ceremony marked the completion of a three-month withdrawal of roughly 350 French troops from the West African country, which began in March.
>France's military had been present in Senegal since it gained independence from France in 1960, under military cooperation agreements between the two countries.
>The withdrawal followed a call by Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye last year for all foreign troops to leave, citing Senegal’s sovereignty as incompatible with hosting foreign bases.
>France has suffered a series of setbacks in West Africa recently, including in Chad and the Ivory Coast, where it handed over its last military bases earlier this year.
>They follow the ousting of French forces in recent years in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, where military-led governments have turned to Russia instead for military support.
>Around 350 French servicemen are still present in Gabon, where the army has turned its base into a camp shared with the central African nation.
>Ivory Coast still hosts some 80 French servicemen who advise and train the country's military, and Djibouti is the last African country where France has a permanent military presence, with around 1,500 troops. https://x.com/marcus_herve/status/1947622361533964788<Laurent_GBAGBO:>“When I came to power in 2000, I found in the Ivorian oil exploitation contract that Côte d'Ivoire earns 12% on a barrel of oil. In simple English, this means that if you sell a barrel of oil, for example, at 1,000 francs, France gets 880 francs and Côte d'Ivoire gets 120 francs. I took another look at the other port contracts, cocoa, coffee, gold, diamonds, and other contracts. I realize that it's the same system of plunder that exists everywhere. A month after my election, I began discussions with France to obtain equal agreements in all our business. That is, 50% - 50%." France refused. I saw people blushing as if they were being told bad news, and this was seen as a threat to French interests. That's why they fought me and put their friends in power, who continue with the same false agreements to this day.”
<Laurent Gbagbo, excerpt from his book "Free for Truth and Justice" https://x.com/marcus_herve/status/1946530121600602584🛑🇧🇫- Dissolution of the Electoral Commission, here’s why and what is next.
This Wednesday, July 16th, the Council of ministers examined a draft law to dissolve the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI).
Founded in 2001 after the Sapouy tragedy, the CENI's mission was to organize elections in a transparent and peaceful manner, in a context of political tensions.
The Sapouy tragedy was about the assassination of investigative journalist Norbert Zongo, editor of the newspaper L’Indépendant, who was known for his investigations into sensitive cases, notably the murder of David Ouédraogo, driver of François Compaoré, former President Blaise Compaoré’s little brother.
His investigations into this scandal and a possible revision of Article 37 of the Constitution, allowing for the indefinite re-election of Blaise, were perceived as embarrassing to the ruling power. So, they assassinated him on December 13th, 1998.
This assassination sparked a wave of massive protests in Ouagadougou and other cities in Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, exacerbating sociopolitical tensions.
The demonstrations demanded justice for Zongo and his companions, as well as reform of the electoral system to ensure greater transparency and independence.
In response to this crisis, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) was created in 2001 to calm the sociopolitical climate and strengthen the credibility of electoral processes.
But over the years, the institution has faced numerous structural dysfunctions: disagreements over the appointment of its members, differences over the length of mandates, and internal conflicts undermining its credibility.
A Rupture with the Old Model
The reform is part of the political reconstruction process initiated following the events of September 30 and October 1 and 2, 2022, which led to a change of regime.
The Transition Charter, revised in May 2024 where @CapitaineIb226
was officially made President, provides for a thorough reorganization of the country's electoral institutions.
Among the main measures envisaged:
•The abolition of institutions deemed redundant, such as the CENI;
• The professionalization of the electoral process, now entrusted to qualified, independent and non-partisan actors;
• Reducing costs by relying on existing administrative structures rather than specific bodies.
Towards a Renewed Electoral Governance
With this bill, the Burkinabe government seeks to break with the practices of political division and segmented representation that have often weakened institutions.
The stated ambition is to create a more transparent, credible, and inclusive electoral process, serving a peaceful and modernized “democracy”.
So, you see, this is the truth that the legacy media won’t tell you. They want you to believe that Captain is a dictator and that through this move, he is positioning himself in power for life.
But, here’s the thing, even if he remains there for life, so what? What’s their problem? Is Burkina Faso theirs? It’s none of their business.
Europe is not my center as Sembène Ousmane once said. So, Europe is not the center of the world, therefore, their so called “democracy” hasn’t, can’t, and won’t be the compass of governance.
By the way, although these are reforms, I personally advocate that just how we gathered together to elect Captain to be President, we should keep this way as our way of electing leaders.
I have said it before, the State doesn’t have to spend a penny, and if the leader doesn’t listen to us, we can easily remove him. Look into our history and you will find that this was how our ancestors chose their leaders.
But in the name of “democracy”, sellouts like William Ruto, Allassane Ouattara, Patrice Talon, Emmanuel Macron etc cannot be removed from office.
You have to follow “democratic” processes of impeachment which will likely never happen, or simply wait for the next 5 years to vote him out. No! This is Burkina Faso 🇧🇫! Homeland or Death!
>>2400270https://x.com/marcus_herve/status/1946542734749143300Now, this guy, Newton Ahmed Barry, journalist by profession was the President of the electoral commission CENI in the time of President Roch Marc Christian KABORE. Guess what, when KABORE wanted to do his second term in the 2020 election, do you know what he and the ruling party did? They struck a deal with the terrorists to stop their attacks so that they could hold the election. In return, they paid the terrorists billions of CFA francs (millions of dollars).
Of the 6,490,162 voters registered out of a population of 21M people on the initial electoral roll, only 5,893,406 were ready to cast their ballots due to insecurity, which caused 926 polling stations (out of 19,836) to remain closed.
2,993,280 voters cast their ballots in the first round of the presidential election (November 22, 2020), representing a turnout of 50.79% if only eligible voters are considered.
With MPP (People's Movement for Progress) candidate Roch Marc Christian Kaboré receiving 1,654,982 votes, or 57.87% of the first-round vote, he was declared the winner.
A whole country of 21M people at the time is made to believe that 1,654,982 votes democratically represented them. And therefore, this is democracy for you. It’s democracy as long as the west approves the useless puppet who is voted in.
However, if he’s not approved by them, then it’s not democracy 😄. Democracy might be nice right ? And when the sellout was in bed with the French and we were on the streets trying to remove him, he used the police and gendarmes against the youth.
Unfortunately, when Damiba saw the opportunity and moved to remove him, that useless dunderhead sold out to the French too. Luckily, we found a young patriot who put his life on the line and the rest is history.
If this was democracy, Captain would never have gotten into power, because guess what, France 🇫🇷 would have done all they could to prevent him from gaining power. Yet, none of the so called democratically elected Presidents like Blaise Compaore and Roch KABORE did a fifth of what Captain achieved so far. But, democracy says he’s undemocratic 😄.
The same Newton Ahmed Barry when he goes live on French fake news media claims that Captain is committing a genocide against his kinsmen the Fulanis. Can you imagine? Yet, he was the same one who struck the deal with the terrorists to organize the 2020 election.
Worst, he used his ties with his kinsmen the Fulani terrorists to perpetuate attacks against our State in collaboration with Djibril Bassolé and Damiba. But you see, as he is a wanted man by the State, dude cannot be touched because, he is now living in France 🇫🇷 and democracy is protecting him. Democracy must be nice oh!😄
Anyway, if our justice system was truly right, President Roch KABORE must be tried for high treason including a lot of his cabinet members.
>>2404718is guy dead or not
>>2404718Was that guy photo shopped in?
Sudan is Breaking in Two. Here's What that Means.
>Right now, as you watch this video, there's a genocide unfolding. It's one that's taking place far away from headlines, seemingly being ignored by the world. This genocide isn't hidden. The men behind it video themselves undertaking ethnic killings and upload the footage to social media. Journalists on the ground report on the horrors of cleansing and mass expulsions, while researchers track the razing of homes and the proliferation of mass graves via satellite. And yet society as a whole just doesn't seem to care. Ask even relatively informed members of the public about the persecution of the Massalit or Zakawa and you'll likely just get a blank stare—because these atrocities are not taking place in the Middle East or on the battlefields of Eastern Europe. Instead, they're happening amid the great ignored conflict of our time: a war that has seen whole cities emptied of their inhabitants and burned, that has seen millions flee into exile, and starvation reduce thousands upon thousands to eating grass and leaves just to survive. We are talking, of course, about Sudan—a war the UN has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and one that, sadly, may be about to get a whole lot worse.
>>2400270This is kind of contradictory. Are they doing away with democracy or building stronger, more transparent and credible democratic processes?
IG it's kind of a moot point though until they retain territorial integrity.
>polling suggests that if South Africans voted today, the ANC would not get more than 20% of the vote in Johannesburg
How over is it?
I don't think Africa is the forgotten continent. Oceania would fit that bill more closely.
>>2443853No that's the irrelevant continentlet
You all will regret it soon)
Can someone please explain to me how a socialist/communist society is supposed to function when the average proletariat autism score (which is highly heritable, i.e. genetic) is <75? Can you really expect to build a marxist utopia with a society of lumpenproles?(Rule 12 - low-quality reactionary content)
>>2445216
You can embed videos by selecting "embed" under the select option at the top of the page and dropping your link in the bar that appears anon
>>2445265You know why cultural revolution is needed. Shoving new ideology at people from entriely diferrent culture, and expecting it to work well isn't alway work.
>>2445379
>I know that third mf is lying cause all of Paris is filthy
Exactly where i caught him too. He's clearly never even set foot in paris.
>>2371455Kill yourself, clittycel.
>NRM
>UNITA
>TPLF
>Laurent Kabila
Any other orgs in Africa that used to claim Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought only to go revisionist to fully right wing later? What causes this? Is it just pure opportunism plus Soviet sphere collapse?
>>2337591on all levels except physical I am Joe Slovo
Brrr-pa
Reincarnation
Does this even need to be said? If you white (or any other color, really) and take issue with armed struggle, you have not understood the first thing about liberation.
>>2447571I know fuck all about Africa however
>Soviet sphere collapseSeems to be where most of our issues come from, on a macro level.
what do we think about the prevalence of heidegger thought in decolonial theory, and how do we identify and combat it?
>>2453102What is heidegger thought?
>>2453174Racial essentialism tied to soil, but wokely - washed through french new left theory.
It posits that ethnicities have particular "ways of being" and "ways of knowing", etc., that are inaccessible to universal reason, and must be upheld.
It's sorta like bourgeois individual subjectivity scaled up to a level of nation.
these fucking things are now in africa. can you guys believe this garbage? african elites really need to be fucking executed. they won't share the wealth with their own people but they'll share it with fucking inbred german-speaking christcucks imported from mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/world/africa/angola-mennonites-diamonds.htmlThe Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond CompanyNot long ago, the field where Charlotte Itala picks corn with her friends was a hunting ground where people in her small African village caught antelope, boar and forest buffalo.
Now that land has been plowed over by her new employers, a group of Old Colony Mennonites.
The Mennonites, adherents of a Christian sect founded in the 16th century, number nearly 60 people in all, most of whom set out from Mexico almost a year ago to establish a settlement in northeastern Angola. As part of an agreement with a diamond mining company, they have cleared and cultivated nearly 2,000 acres, hoping to build a community that other Mennonites from the Americas can join.
“If they take our land, we won’t be able to grow our cassava — and then what are we going to eat?” said Ms. Itala, who makes $2.50 for seven hours of work in the Mennonites’ field. The money does not make up for the loss of her village’s hunting ground, she said. “We are worried for our future.”
The Mennonites avoid using the word “colony” in their new home. It conjures visions of a brutal past for Angolans, whose country was for centuries exploited by Portuguese colonists trading in resources and human beings.
Calling their settlement the Fields of Hope, the Mennonites describe themselves as enthusiastic partners of the Angolans. They say they will set aside about 12 acres of land for each nearby village and teach people to farm like them.
“Angola needs cultivation, and we need land,” said Jacob Froese, one of the Mennonites. “I see us as a pair.”
Although Angola has immense oil and mineral wealth, the country has long struggled with widespread corruption, high rates of unemployment and poverty. Most of rural Angola has little access to electricity, and hundreds of villages like Cambanze rely on hunting, harvesting cassava and collecting butterfly larvae, which is sold as food.
Hoping to ease dependence on expensive food imports, the government has sought to promote agriculture in northeastern Angola, a region dominated by diamond mining and once devastated by the country’s long civil war.
The Mennonites and a mining company, Minas Gema Angola, made a partnership that appears to have the potential to secure longer land concessions, according to Mennonite leaders and Zeca Cassanguidi, a businessman and retired general.
“In our contract it’s written that if we find a diamond we have to sit down and have a meeting with Minas Gema to discuss how to sell it,” said Benjamin Kauenhofen, the leader of the Mennonite families. “The diamond miners need us. We are helping each other out.”
Mr. Cassanguidi, who helped broker the arrangement, said that the Mennonites were not allowed to infringe on nearby villages’ farming land, and that salaries for the Angolan workers would increase as crops turned into successful harvests.
The Minas Gema representative named on the contract, Marcos de Oliveira Bacurau, said that there was “enormous potential” for farming in northern Angola. “The diamond mines don’t physically occupy a lot of land, so the area is a great place to introduce agriculture,” he said.
A wave of Old Colony Mennonites, who largely reject new technology, emigrated from Europe to the Americas about a century ago. They have established a string of colonies into the Amazon and farther south, some of which have prompted protests and investigations.
Opposition from environmentalists and beekeepers in Mexico, upset over deforestation and the Mennonites’ use of Roundup, a weedkiller linked to cancer, helped push a group of Mennonites to Angola in search of land for their rapidly expanding families.
“There is a sentiment that there is no future in Mexico for us,” Mr. Kauenhofen said. “They say trees create oxygen and cutting them down is changing the environment. If we must leave the trees, OK, but what are we going to eat? The world is growing.”
The idea of moving to Angola came to the Mennonites after a group of them met an Angolan delegation at an agricultural event in Mexico City in 2019.
But their first attempt, in 2023, ended in anguish. The Mennonites arrived with only tourist visas, struggled to navigate Angola’s bureaucracy and were left living in tents, losing what little money they had, in an area rife with malaria. One 8-year-old child, Lucy, died of the disease.
But they decided to try again, in part because of the land concession deal but also because of their emotional ties. “I wanted to be close to Lucy,” said Berta Harder, the girl’s mother.
The Mennonites do not see themselves converting Angolans or trying to integrate them into their community. Instead, they hope that other Mennonites from the Americas will join them.
“If the Bolivians don’t come, we are going to cry,” said Juan Harder, Ms. Harder’s father, about another group. “The kids are going to grow up and who will they marry?”
But between the farm and the diamond mine to come, he and others in Cambanze share a growing anxiety that they are being squeezed out.
“We are paralyzed,” he said. “We have nowhere to go.”
>>2460962wtf is wrong with these people, its like they have to practise apartheid whereever they go. like those boors who emigrated to israel after the collapse of the apartheid regime and even converted to judaism.
Drought in East Africa: “If the rains do not come, none of us will survive”https://www.oxfam.org/en/drought-east-africa-if-rains-do-not-come-none-us-will-survive
>A large double-decker truck is quickly making its way towards Garadag from Fadigaab, in the south of Somaliland. It is carrying nine families and what is left of their herds: some sheep, goats, and donkeys. It is even carrying their homes – herders can dismantle their huts quickly and rebuild them in different locations.
>This is what pastoralists have done for centuries, following the movements of their animals and the changing seasons. However, because of the drought's effects on the Horn of Africa, these nine families have had to move six times in the last six months. They continue to seek drinkable water for themselves and their animals, hoping they will be able to hold out for the soon-to-come rainy season.
<Nine pastoralist families’ lives, their wealth (their animals), and even their homes are all being transported towards a new site – where they hope they will be able to hold out for the soon-to-come rainy season.
>The region was hit by an 18-month drought caused by El Niño and higher temperatures linked to climate change. Now, in the midst of even more drought, the situation has become catastrophic, causing crops to fail and cattle to die. In addition, the lack of clean water increases the threat of cholera and other diseases.
>Across Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and the autonomous region of Somaliland, 10.7 million people are facing severe hunger. There are increasing concerns that the situation will get much worse, as rainfall in March and early April was very low in places. Poor rainfall is forecast for April through June, the end of the rainy season.
<Sheep and goats which have died because of the continuous drought situation in Somaliland.
>Droughts are not new to this region, but they are intensifying. There is growing scientific analysis suggesting that climate change aggravates their impacts.
>For many in East Africa, the current drought is the worst in living memory. We are now in the third year of very low rainfall coupled with high temperatures, which have exhausted people’s ability to cope with drier conditions and scarce and unpredictable rains.
<Pastoralists resettling in the Garadag district after a 60km journey on a truck with their animals. Somaliland, Northern Somalia, March 2017.
>Pastoralists are most at risk
>Nomadic pastoralists are among the hardest hit by this drought, which has left exceptional numbers of people without most or all of their livestock. They live on harsher lands and receive little support from governments. More frequent droughts are making it harder for people to recover between shocks, making them more vulnerable to the next crisis.
>In eastern Somaliland, which has been ravaged by this catastrophe, Oxfam has witnessed entire communities on the move, desperately searching for water and pasture, and chasing the rains that have been forecast but are yet to materialize. Many say that this drought is worse than the one in 2011, which left a quarter of a million people dead and vast herds of livestock completely wiped out. This left survivors without the means to feed themselves or make a living.
<Mahmoud Geedi Ciroobay (picture above) is from Kalsheikh – 60 km away from where the pastoralists have settled near Garadag.
>“This drought is slowly killing everything,” says Mahmoud. “First it ‘swept away’ the land and the pastures; then it ‘swept away’ the animals, which first became weaker and weaker and eventually died. Soon, it is going to ‘sweep away’ people. People are sick with flu, diarrhoea, and measles. If they don’t get food, clean water, and medicines, they will die like their animals.”
>Right up to six months ago, Mahmoud’s family used to have over 1000 animals: 400 sheep, plus goats and camels. Then, they started moving in search of better pastures and more water for their animals. They moved to the area of Erigavo, then outside of El Alfweyn. “In the last six months, we have moved six times in total – and every time we move, we lose more livestock.”
<Farhia Mohamad Geedi (pictured above) is 25 years old. She came here with her four-year-old daughter, Zeinab, her mother, and the rest of her family in hopes of finding new pastures for the few animals in their care. They used to own 100 goats and 100 sheep, but none survived.
>“Our animals started dying in October-November. The last animals we had died in February. So now we help our relatives looking after theirs. Together, we all decided to move here, as there are some pastures nearby and it could be better for our livestock,” she says.
>“We have moved four times in the last four months. We were trying to follow the rain – moving according to where the rains were supposed to come. But they haven’t. If the rains don’t come, none of us will survive”. AJ Piece on Kenya protests/killings
>>2460962>these fucking things are now in africa. can you guys believe this garbage? african elites really need to be fucking executed. they won't share the wealth with their own people but they'll share it with fucking inbred german-speaking christcucks imported from mexico lmfao that' mad.
>>2489125AES create a federal parliament? man thats sounds like a great progress. Makes one hopeful.
>>2489125How does this help them fight Al Qaeda?
So is AES just doomed? Ive been trying to look at the situation with the islamists in the Sahel and it doesn't look good at all. Mali has been put under a fuel blockade and JNIM are using starlink to communicate. It seems the longer Russia is distracted by Ukraine the less time AES has to defend themselves. Any Africa anons know anything?
>>2507797>multipolartardsChina and Russia do not owe you shit
>>2460962>these fucking things are now in africa. can you guys believe this garbage? african elites really need to be fucking executed. they won't share the wealth with their own people but they'll share it with fucking inbred german-speaking christcucks imported from mexico the african elite did not share shit with the inbred germs
>>2443815Unfathomably Based ΔΣΕ Chad.
I swear if just a fraction of the world communist movement had a modicum of the raw testicular fortitude of Red Hellenic Chads the entire world would be already be a thoroughly planned economy & society with most unshakeable proletarian dictatorship imaginable.
>>2460962TOTAL KOTOKA DEATH.
>>2512003so what do you call it importing inbred germans to farm when there's literally already fucking farmers right there
>>2516946>when there's literally already fucking farmers right thereI don't think there are farmers in Angola. The Portuguese have left a long time ago and I don't think they really were replaced by anyone.
>>2507797Unfortunately nobody really cares about Western Sahara, even you are just bringing it up as a prop to complain about people who rhetorically support China and Russia. In part this is because Morocco is already seen as an obscure, poor and backward country that almost nobody knows anything about, let alone controversies like the minefields along the fence and all that shit. And also because there's only like a a handful people that live in WS, said mines have only claimed 2500 casualties in the last 50 years. It's still fucked up of course, but just in terms of injustices in africa alone it's relatively minor
Madagascar Status?
>>2358067>>2358391You know South Africa genuinely seems like kind of a slept on nation. Sure, it has its problems (rolling blackouts due to how the grid was built during the apartheid era) but from what I can see it's beautiful af and the people are friendly and have a good sense of humor.
I'll definitely have to visit one day. I'll even consider learning one of the languages like Xhosa or Zulu as a sign of respect for the many cultures there.
I do apologize if I derailed the thread but I can't help it my autism/lack of being outside of the United $snakes of Amerikkka.
>>2526951Μάλλον το 2026 θα ξαναπάω Ελλάδα κάποτε στο καλοκαίρι.
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