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“Russia is trying to encourage holiday makers to go to Crimea. They’ve seen explosions, they’ve seen the Kerch bridge hit….the truth about what’s happening with Putin’s special military operation is starting to percolate into the Russian population.” Putin will face increased concern among the Russian people as the Ruble drops and holidaymakers flee Crimea says retired Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell adding that Ukraine might have found a strategic advantage as the Dnipro floodwaters recede
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18th August 2023
On this day in 1889, a Black man named Walter Asbury was lynched by a mob of white people in Chatham County, GA. His body was left hanging the entire next day to terrorize the Black community. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history.
August 18th, 1889 | A History of Racial Injustice
On this day, a Georgia mob lynched a Black man and left his body hanging to terrorize the Black community.
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18th August 2023
#EgyptWatch: In Egypt, Pres. Sisi is running the show. Today, I measure Egypt’s inflation at a PUNISHING 66%/yr.
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18th August 2023
Czech government imposes Magnitsky sanctions on three Russians involved in arms manufacturing . Nice to see the Czech Magnitsky Act being used on such appropriate targets
english.radio.cz Three more names added to national sanctions list
Russian commander dismissed over war failings dies ‘of illness’ in Moscow
Putin is just as much a terrorist as Osama Bin Laden
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Good material, just note that Putin is a nationalist leader, not a nationalist. He couldn’t care less about “Russian greatness” or the country or people. He’s destroying Russia & handing the rest to China. He’s a crook in nationalist costume. (Sound familiar, USA?)
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The Return of Russian Ethnonationalism https://foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/return-russian-ethnonationalism?utm_medium=social
via @ForeignAffairs
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Food and Agriculture Organization
18th August 2023
Simple & cost-effective rainwater harvesting & storage systems are helping farmers in the Sahel to produce food & thrive despite the changing climate. Follow Fatoumata to learn how #AgInnovation #WorldFoodDay #WaterAction
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18th August 2023
PUTIN CALLING OUT WEST OVER GADDAFI As Western countries ratchet up yet another military intervention in Africa, this time in Niger, an old speech from Russian President Vladimir Putin is worth remembering. With reference to the Libya conflict in 2011, he highlights how Western… Show mor
18th August 2023
PUTIN CALLING OUT WEST OVER GADDAFI As Western countries ratchet up yet another military intervention in Africa, this time in Niger, an old speech from Russian President Vladimir Putin is worth remembering. With reference to the Libya conflict in 2011, he highlights how Western… Show mor
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18th August 2023
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo who was executed in a firing squad and his body was dissolved in sulfuric acid, by Belgium/USA allies because he tried to protect his country’s minerals. Shortly before execution, His last words were: “Neither brutality,… Show more
AMERICA BACK OFF! America has no moral authority when it comes to lecturing Africa about democracy. That’s the stinging assessment of Zambia’s opposition leader, Fred Mnembe. He delivered it during the visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris. And pointed to her country’s ruthless pursuit of coups and enslavement in the past.
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18th August 2023
“The greatest beneficiary of France’s many mistakes in the Sahel, other than the putschists in Mali, Niger and beyond, has been Russia… and France’s recent mishaps there gave it the opening it had long been waiting for.” — #AJOpinion by
French mistakes helped create Africa’s coup belt
Across the Sahel, public anger against France has helped putschists gain legitimacy and Russia expand its influence.
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“We have to show that we are better” Democratic partners ought to demonstrate that their efforts are an alternative to Russia’s and China’s activities in the Sahel region, the President of the Sahel Alliance told DW’s
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18th August 2023
Russia-Ukraine war: August 18 updates China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu visited Belarus on Thursday and said his country would increase military cooperation with Russia’s neighbour and ally. Follow our LIVE coverage: http://aje.io/r7zd
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Al Arabiya English
18th August 2023
Watch: A video released by the Russian Defence Ministry shows Russian and Chinese navy ships jointly patrolling the Pacific Ocean. #Russia #China #EastChinaSea
18th August 2023
Having purchased new attack helicopters from the United States, the Czech Republic could transfer its fleet of Mi-24V aircraft to Ukraine.
18th August 2023
The international community needs to immediately step up their support for the hunger-striking prisoners in #Bahrain, including Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Abduljalil Al-Singace who have been wrongly imprisoned and denied medical care.
Joint Letter to Biden Administration on Urgent Concern for Life of Imprisoned Rights Defender…
We, the undersigned organizations, are writing with urgent concern for the life of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, a 62-year-old prominent Bahraini-
18th August 2023
The Camp David invitation President Joe Biden extended to his Japanese and South Korean counterparts this week was a significant show of camaraderie for two increasingly essential US allies as tensions with China loom large https://cnn.it/3DZKjlZ
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18th August 2023
The US has approved sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands as soon as pilot training is completed, a US official said on Thursday. LIVE updates: http://aje.io/r7zd
18th August 2023
Front cover of this week’s The Economist asking if Germany is again the ‘sick man of Europe’.
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18th August 2023
HOW COUPS CAN MAKE YOU CARE! Today, across The Sahel, terrorism and armed groups have become part of the landscape. In the latest edition of ‘Africa in 90 Seconds,’ host Ahmed Ghoneim looks at how the NATO bombing of Libya in 2011 unleashed a tempest that’s still wreaking havoc… Show more
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18th August 2023
TRAORÉ’S BID FOR NUCLEAR POWER Much was chewed over at the recent Russia-Africa Summit – including the prospect of bringing nuclear power to West Africa. Burkina Faso’s leader discussed a possible joint project to create a plant in his country with his Russian counterpart,… Show more
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17th August 2023
TINUBU THE BAGMAN AND ECOWAS HYPOCRISY African Stream’s very own William Sakawa was invited to share his views on what’s going on in Niger and the Sahel region at the moment by former British Member of Parliament George Galloway’s Mother Of All Talk Shows (MOATS).
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18th August 2023
“The aborted rebellion led by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in June—and its reception among ordinary Russians—demonstrated the power of some of Russia’s emerging strains of nationalism.”
foreignaffairs.com The Return of Russian Ethnonationalism Chauvinism under—and after—Putin
17th August 2023
“For almost a decade, the Russian state has been delegating the most ‘delicate’ tasks—namely, those Moscow did not want to be directly implicated in—throughout parts of MENA to Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries”
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jamestown.org Prigozhin’s Failed Coup and the Future of Wagner in Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA (Part One) On July 31, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the notorious Wagner Group that had attempted an unsuccessful mutiny resulting from conflict with the
18th August 2023
Putin presented Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev with the Order of St. Andrew, Russia’s highest award.
18th Augus 2023
Ukraine’s FM Dmytro Kuleba promises to ‘free Africa from Russia’s grip’ http://aje.io/6lny4n
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“(Ukraine’s) strategy is not to replace Russia, but to liberate Africa from Russian rule” — Kuleba -> Ukraine announces to fight against the “Russian hold in Africa” Detail: The head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmytro Kouleba announced a “long-term” fight to “revive”… Show more
18th August 2023
Abramovich ally Eugene Shvidler fails in attempt to overturn UK sanctions. Good precedent for the UK sanctions regime and a bad day for sanctioned Russian oligarchs
theguardian.com Abramovich ally Eugene Shvidler fails in attempt to overturn UK sanctions High court rejects billionaire’s effort to have sanctions imposed in March 2022 declared
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18th August 2023
The russians came by. Vitaliy Mazur
18th August 2023
A mine fragment that Ukrainian military surgeons removed from the body of a wounded soldier. The patient’s condition is now stable. Command of the Medical Forces
Another interview worth watching if you have time
Who Watches the Watchers? 