mbewane
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I read Gambian chief or armed forces told them to put the arms down and not engage in combat. Hoping for a peaceful end here
ECOWAS Troops Amass on Gambian Border- Jammeh has till Midnight to Leave
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Frangala
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it looks over nice bloodless confrontation and I would advise other civil society and well meaning people in other African countries with dictatorships to take note. Most of the soldiers are severely underpaid and there is a lot of corruption. mismanagement of funds that the vast majority of the armed forces are dead broke. So a strategy would be to to try to influence them not to carry orders from their heads of state and convince them that their standard of living would significantly improve in a democracy or non-authoritarian government.
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Yep. And other regions of Africa should learn from the ECOWAS by being awesomely united! This was good.
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thatrapsfan
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loyola llothta
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will they do this too Zimbabwe ...Mugabe in 2018
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Mugabe is in southern Africa not west Africa.
and the only dude who wants to take him out down there is the Botswana pres.
loyola llothta
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nah im talking about botswana i heard they just made some statement about they will no longer recognize jammeh
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You were talking about zimbabwe/mugabe not jammeh.
I said "and the only dude who wants to take him out down there is the Botswana pres."
loyola llothta
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yeah i was meaning will Botswana who just made the statement(strong one) on jammeh will do the same on zimbabwe's MugabeYou were talking about zimbabwe/mugabe not jammeh.
I said "and the only dude who wants to take him out down there is the Botswana pres."
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Oh. You weren't clear on that in the other post.
Botswana has always made strong statements on Zimbabwe
Now if you're talking about rolling into Zimbabwe, then that's a different story.
thatrapsfan
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this is a classic African intervention. Breh asked for a timeout so he can go to Jumaa prayers with the Mauritanian and Guinean President.Said give me till 4 pm brehs
Trajan
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This dude was literally celebrating with the crowds:
A hero for just not firing on the people
Unless there is a coup and those are rare in Southern Africa. As long as South Africa backs him nothing of the sort will happen. There will never be any condition that Mugabe would accept the results and turn back, he knows that if he did what Jammeh did and concede then the calculus would be different. In the 2008 election the Government realized they were losing when results were coming in constituency by constituency and they stopped announcing those and came back with Mugabe having lost the first round with like 42% or something to Tsvangirai 47% and then they turned the army and political machinery to win the second round uncontested but lacked the political capital to form any government and Mbeki forced forced him to form a coalition government because the entire country had virtually ground to a halt.
Frangala
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There is an expression which says you can choose to leave through the door or a small window. Jammeh who ruled his country for 20+ years is leaving and seeking asylum and probably won't be welcomed there or not even buried there. He is leaving through a small window after 20 years of ruling you can even chill in your own country.