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And these people who say "who cares as long as the economy improves" are gonna learn the hard way too. And to think many(including me) were praising John Magufuli.

That notion also fuels the arrogance of certain East Africans when looking at other countries who are not doing well economically but yet fighting tooth and nail to have a democracy. Long term the countries that will do a whole lot better long term by fighting for strong institutions now at the sacrifice of short term economic gain and being darling of the intl community as an example of development.
 

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No easy fix, indeed. Pastoralism, which requires a lot of land, won't be abandoned in Nigeria anytime soon. Especially when the ruling elite either owns the cattle or has a nostalgic perception of such a lifestyle. Neither will farming, given the lack of employment opportunities in Buhari's Nigeria.

No easy fix...but no ethnicity has a monopoly of violence in Nigeria anymore. It is not 1966.
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My own understanding is this may be BH 2.0. Having been basically defeated their French backers are using Fulani to exacerbate racial and religious tension. You do know many of these herdsmen speak French and are from Burkina Faso and Mali? Idk if its true they've reached Atlantic states,though.
 

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Tanzania police threaten to beat protesters 'like stray dogs' to...

Tanzanian girl with an IG page with huge following, living in LA got the Government shook. She's been posting about nationwide protests tomorrow and theyve beefed up police presence in all the major cities. Police chief was talking about beating protesters like stray dogs if they dare :francis:




When nations are being built up.. protesters.. unionists are gonna get their skulls cracked. It is what it is. Things like that can always stop in the future.




There’s at least one poster here who said he didn’t care about human rights as long as the economy improves:yeshrug:


Your god damn fukking right I don't care as long as things improve. Do you not see the position Africa and her children are in globally?! :dahell:

we don't have time for any more of that high road morality shyt.


So much damn potential wasted.

How so .. because some protesters got hit up :skip:
 

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My own understanding is this may be BH 2.0. Having been basically defeated their French backers are using Fulani to exacerbate racial and religious tension. You do know many of these herdsmen speak French and are from Burkina Faso and Mali? Idk if its true they've reached Atlantic states,though.
:skip: @The Odum of Ala Igbo You really believe this conspiracy theory?
 

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:skip: @The Odum of Ala Igbo You really believe this conspiracy theory?

My goodness! Negro,you thought these BH/Al Shabaab/Al Qaeda/ISIS were spontaneous creations!? Convincing you would be another thread,let me leave you with the words of South African COIN specialist Eeben Barlow,who helped train a Naij army strike force just before the 2015 election.

The smuggling is conducted “largely by coerced and co-opted members and supporters of the enemy. In some instances, it has been by helicopter delivery to the enemy’s strongholds. We are unaware of any African-based anti-government force that flies around in helicopters,” Barlow said. “The weapons consist mainly of small arms, machine guns, explosives, and shoulder-launched anti-tank systems. However, unless the enemy is totally destroyed, it is only a matter of time before more sophisticated weaponry makes its way into Nigeria.”
http://sofrep.com/40700/eeben-barlow-speaks-pt-5-external-drivers-nigerias-war/#ixzz3jcUVtUPD

In fact a Frenchman was caught after the army captured the BH Sambisa stronghold but everything went crickets. This was the report.

The mysterious white man captured by Nigerian soldiers during last week’s storming of Boko Haram’s headquarters in the Sambisa Forest is a Frenchman and he specializes in repairing and unlocking armoured personnel vehicles and other fighting equipment, Daily Trust learnt from authoritative military sources yesterday. The white man’s identity is being concealed by the Federal Government and military authorities for diplomatic reasons, the sources also said.


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/g...-repairs-apcs/177947.html#jV7mTfbusXkbMw1x.99


BASICALLY BH is an attempted French L Chad oil grab using regional players. That many of the Fulani are french speaking strongly suggests the same are responsible especially coming after BH has been defeated in battle.
 

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Youths kicking tribalism out of Kenya, 78% want intermarriage - report

Youths kicking tribalism out of Kenya, 78% want intermarriage - report
Apr. 20, 2018, 9:00 am

Majority of Kenyan youth are no longer bothered by their tribes, a survey has found.

The survey by the British Council, whose results were announced on Thursday, stated that 91 per cent of the participants said they identified more with the country than their tribes.

Eighty six per cent said the heritage and identity of the country was more important to them than their ethnicity or religion.

Sixty two per cent of the participants felt life in their generation was better than during their parents' times.

"These young people see Kenyan nationality as their strongest source of identity, ahead of family, religion and ethnicity," British Council Country Director Tony Reilly said.

Reilly reported that majority of the youth would marry someone not of their tribe or religion.

"It is surprising that over 78 per cent said they would marry someone with a different religion or from a different ethnic group," he said.

The report dubbed 'Next Generation Kenya' says youths think ethnicity can either help or hinder someones prospects of success.

"Although 61 per cent agree that there are equal employment opportunities regardless of ethnicity, 29 per cent disagree, with ethnic discrimination being felt most by young people in Nairobi, North Eastern and Western regions."

The report however indicated that religious and ethnic tensions were becoming more of a concern.

Though the youth themselves are generally tolerant of other religions and ethnicity and believe their generation is more tolerant than their parents, many (72 per cent) fear the gaps are widening.

The research involved door to door visits and took place across the country from September 2017 to February.


It involved 4,014 respondents aged 15 to 24 and had a margin error of +/-1.5% and a confidence level of 95 per cent.

The council said that majority of Kenyan youths in this age group are worried about the massive unemployment situation and would move to other parts to find jobs.

They also gave corruption, crime, violence and insecurity as the reasons they would leave Kenya.

More on this: Local youth want to venture abroad for jobs - report

The survey also covered the relationship between sexual favours and the ability to find employment.

The report stated that sex is a means of earning money for some young people in Kenya as jobs do not come by easily.

Details: Business of sex? Unemployment pushing Kenyan youths to the edge

For youths to avoid early pregnancies and harmful relationships, the council advised that the government holistically supports sexual and reproductive health in schools and communities.

There is also need for education and support for mutual respectful and non-violent relationships among ethnic groups.

"There should also be establishment of safe spaces where young people can develop life skills and find support and mentorship from their elders and peers on how to co-exist," the report said.
 

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Youths kicking tribalism out of Kenya, 78% want intermarriage - report

Youths kicking tribalism out of Kenya, 78% want intermarriage - report
Apr. 20, 2018, 9:00 am

Majority of Kenyan youth are no longer bothered by their tribes, a survey has found.

The survey by the British Council, whose results were announced on Thursday, stated that 91 per cent of the participants said they identified more with the country than their tribes.

Eighty six per cent said the heritage and identity of the country was more important to them than their ethnicity or religion.

Sixty two per cent of the participants felt life in their generation was better than during their parents' times.

"These young people see Kenyan nationality as their strongest source of identity, ahead of family, religion and ethnicity," British Council Country Director Tony Reilly said.

Reilly reported that majority of the youth would marry someone not of their tribe or religion.

"It is surprising that over 78 per cent said they would marry someone with a different religion or from a different ethnic group," he said.

The report dubbed 'Next Generation Kenya' says youths think ethnicity can either help or hinder someones prospects of success.

"Although 61 per cent agree that there are equal employment opportunities regardless of ethnicity, 29 per cent disagree, with ethnic discrimination being felt most by young people in Nairobi, North Eastern and Western regions."

The report however indicated that religious and ethnic tensions were becoming more of a concern.

Though the youth themselves are generally tolerant of other religions and ethnicity and believe their generation is more tolerant than their parents, many (72 per cent) fear the gaps are widening.

The research involved door to door visits and took place across the country from September 2017 to February.


It involved 4,014 respondents aged 15 to 24 and had a margin error of +/-1.5% and a confidence level of 95 per cent.

The council said that majority of Kenyan youths in this age group are worried about the massive unemployment situation and would move to other parts to find jobs.

They also gave corruption, crime, violence and insecurity as the reasons they would leave Kenya.

More on this: Local youth want to venture abroad for jobs - report

The survey also covered the relationship between sexual favours and the ability to find employment.

The report stated that sex is a means of earning money for some young people in Kenya as jobs do not come by easily.

Details: Business of sex? Unemployment pushing Kenyan youths to the edge

For youths to avoid early pregnancies and harmful relationships, the council advised that the government holistically supports sexual and reproductive health in schools and communities.

There is also need for education and support for mutual respectful and non-violent relationships among ethnic groups.

"There should also be establishment of safe spaces where young people can develop life skills and find support and mentorship from their elders and peers on how to co-exist," the report said.


It would be great if it were true but election season says different. What people say to researchers and what they really believe are two different things.

Eighty six per cent said the heritage and identity of the country was more important to them than their ethnicity or religion.

Yet ppl vote along ethnic lines in elections.
 

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Vincent Bolloré is a victim of changing times for France in Africa
Bribery probe shows how much Paris’s influence over its former colonies has crumbled

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In the glory days of Francafrique, Vincent Bolloré would have been the hero rather than the villain. In that now-receding era, Paris valued — indeed encouraged — the businessmen who used whatever clever means they could to keep cash and commerce flowing between France and its former African colonies. These days, Mr Bolloré, who has done as much as anyone to keep the flame of the relationship flickering, finds himself under siege.


Last week, the 66-year-old billionaire was placed under formal investigation over alleged bribery of African officials. The probe is scrutinising whether port concessions in Togo and Guinea were secured by offering the discounted services of Havas, a communications company then part of Mr Bolloré’s empire, to help get presidents elected.

Mr Bolloré might well feel hard done by over the company’s alleged involvement in what was once semi-official French policy. Indeed, he was moved to write an opinion piece, bristling with hauteur, in the weekly Journal du Dimanche, entitled: “Should We Abandon Africa?” He argued that it was ridiculous to imagine that port contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros could be secured for services worth hundreds of thousands. Conjuring up the supposed esteem with which African nations view Paris, he asked: “Isn’t there a risk that the France of Enlightenment they had so admired may break this bond through witch-hunts and unfair and disproportionate inquisitions?”

The closeness of those ties were real, if not always as enlightened as Mr Bolloré suggests. The term Francafrique, used to describe the post-colonial relationship between France and its former colonies, was coined by Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a Le Monde-reading, French-educated politician who became the first president of Ivory Coast in 1960. He meant it as a positive description of the continued ties with Mother France, which still maintains a strong military presence and supports two CFA franc currency unions in 15 countries.

From Paris, the relationship was handled by a friend of Charles de Gaulle, Jacques Foccart, who oversaw African policy until his death in 1997. He was said to speak with Houphouet-Boigny every Wednesday. Francafrique gradually came to depict a murky neocolonial relationship by which the political and business elites scratched each other’s backs — not always to the benefit of France’s former African subjects.

After Foccart’s death, France’s economic influence in Africa waned, though less so than Britain’s. Companies such as Bouygues, Lafarge and Orange continue to do good business. Still, when in 2012 CFAO, a venerable French consumer goods company with a strong African presence, was sold to the Japanese, it marked the end of an era.

One exception was Mr Bolloré. Even as others were retreating, his logistics business was ruthlessly expanding. Today it operates 16 ports, three railways, assorted energy projects and several plantations across the continent. As well as making lots of money, Mr Bolloré doubtless saw himself as doing France’s work. He was perhaps the only European to rival the Chinese in the construction of roads, rail and ports. It must have come as some shock to discover that the French judicial system did not appreciate his efforts.

Unfortunately for Mr Bolloré, the world of Francafrique has crumbled. François Hollande, the former president, sought to put Franco-African relations on a more modern footing, though his plans were partially sidetracked when Paris resorted to old-style military intervention after jihadis over-ran northern Mali in 2012.


Emmanuel Macron is having another go. Pierre Haski, an expert on Franco-African relations, says the president has been influenced by advocates of closer strategic ties between Europe and Africa. Mr Macron wants to de-emphasise the military and rebuild commercial links, minus the murk that characterised Francafrique.

Those attempts have run into problems, born of the lingering resentment in former colonies that is just as potent as the admiration identified by Mr Bolloré. Mr Macron’s assertion in a speech in Burkina Faso that Africa has “civilisational” challenges provoked accusations of racism.

Despite such teething problems, Mr Macron rightly emphasises that he is the first president born after France’s former colonies gained independence. The 40-year-old president can say, and almost with a straight face: “I am from a generation that doesn’t come to tell Africans what to do.”

Mr Macron would strongly contest Mr Bolloré’s assertion that France risks abandoning Africa. Gone, though, are the days when a French businessman’s little difficulties on the continent can be solved by a discreet call from the Elysée Palace. It is Mr Bolloré who has been abandoned.
 
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Youths kicking tribalism out of Kenya, 78% want intermarriage - report

Youths kicking tribalism out of Kenya, 78% want intermarriage - report
Apr. 20, 2018, 9:00 am

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This is the same egalitarian kumbaya bullshyt British Council and other stupid NGOs produce. Kenyans are the most tribalistic people in the fukking world. Some Kenyans won't even marry people from their own tribe that belong to inferior ignoble clans. And the youth are more tribalistic than the older generation.

There are hundreds of studies that prove the opposite of this bs article.
99% won’t let go off tribalism
99% Kenyans won’t let go of tribalism

These damn public surveys make no sense, do they expect someone interviewed on the streets to just flat out admit they are tribalistic and find women from certain tribes to be completely unattractive and unmarriageable.
And furthermore it is impossible to separate heritage and identity from tribal identity, TF are they talking about
 

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Tanzania Evicted Maasai People and Burned Their Homes for Safari Tourism, Group Says

Tanzania Evicted Maasai People and Burned Their Homes for Safari Tourism, Group Says

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tens of thousands of Tanzania’s ethnic Maasai people are homeless after the government burned their houses to keep the savannah open for tourism benefiting two foreign safari companies, a U.S.-based policy think tank charged Thursday.

Villagers in northern Tanzania’s Loliondo area, near the Ngorongoro Crater tourism hotspot, have been evicted in the past year and denied access to vital grazing and watering holes, said the new report by the Oakland Institute, a California think tank that researches environmental and social issues.

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In this Friday, March 23, 2018 file photo, a young Maasai herder boy stands in the bush at the end of the day near Mikumi National Park in Tanzania. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
“As tourism becomes one of the fastest-growing sectors within the Tanzanian economy, safari and game park schemes are wreaking havoc on the lives and livelihoods of the Maasai,” said Oakland Institute’s Anuradha Mittal. “But this is not just about a specific company – it is a reality that is all too familiar to indigenous communities around the world.”

Allegations of wrongdoing have persisted in recent years against Tanzania Conservation Limited, an affiliate of U.S.-based Thomson Safaris, and Ortello, a group that organizes hunting trips for the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.

Young Maasai herders are so afraid of authorities that they “flee when they see a vehicle approach,” thinking it might carry representatives of foreign safari companies, the Oakland Institute report said.

Responding to the findings, Thomson Safaris said the “awful allegations of abuse are simply untrue.” The company invested in Tanzania “in good faith,” director Rick Thomson said in an email Thursday.

Concern for the Maasai has been raised at home and abroad by rights groups such as Minority Rights Group International and Survival International, which has warned that the alleged land grabs “could spell the end of the Maasai.”

The Maasai, hundreds of thousands of cattle herders who inhabit the savannah in southern Kenya and parts of neighboring northern Tanzania, need land to graze their animals and maintain their pastoralist lifestyle. But the land bordering Tanzania’s famous Serengeti National Park is also a wildlife corridor popular with tourists.

The east African nation’s government depends substantially on tourism revenue to finance its budget.

The government has prioritized safari groups at the expense of indigenous communities, said Hellen Kijo-Bisimba, head of the Tanzania Legal and Human Rights Centre.

“The government has been reviewing boundaries and subsequently evicting communities in the name of conservation,” she told The Associated Press. “In my understanding the conservation should have been made to benefit people, and if people are affected then it calls for worries. The Maasai community (is) indeed suffering.”

A court in the regional capital, Arusha, ruled against Loliondo’s Maasai in 2015 when it decided that Thomson Safaris legally purchased 10,000 acres of a disputed 12,617 acres in 2006. The Maasai appealed and the case is pending.

Thomson, of Thomson Safaris, said in Thursday’s email that “witnessing” the wildlife in Tanzania was a passion.

“But what made Tanzania so alluring was not just the wildlife, but the people,” he said. “When people return from a safari with us, they say how magnificent the wildlife was, but that what was so extraordinary were the people they met.”

Tanzania’s Tourism Permanent Secretary Gaudence Milanzi denied the Maasai are being targeted, saying the government is working to improve their welfare by embracing modern methods of livestock keeping.

“There is no single group of people, say Maasai, who are intimidated, arrested, beaten or forced out of their land,” Milanzi said.
 
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