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I know I'm being impatient. But it's frustrating that actual countries in 2018 still don't know how to make a train and railway. Bullet and maglev trains I can understand. But regular trains and tracks just have me at :wtf:
 

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I know I'm being impatient. But it's frustrating that actual countries in 2018 still don't know how to make a train and railway. Bullet and maglev trains I can understand. But regular trains and tracks just have me at :wtf:

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Many of these countries are not run by competent people. And their civil service has been hollowed since the 1960s, so they lack capacity to do basic things
 

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I know I'm being impatient. But it's frustrating that actual countries in 2018 still don't know how to make a train and railway. Bullet and maglev trains I can understand. But regular trains and tracks just have me at :wtf:
it's cruelly shocking breh

and for the ones who are qualified and people who know how to make them are all in the diaspora and have no intention applying their trade in their home country.
atleast Congo can build their own ships and yacht :francis:
 

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Hillary Emails Reveal NATO Killed Gaddafi to Stop Libyan Creation of Gold-Backed Currency

November 04, 2018
13 June 2017


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First published on June 13, 2017

Hillary’s emails truly are the gifts that keep on giving. While France led the proponents of the UN Security Council Resolution that would create a no-fly zone in Libya, it claimed that its primary concern was the protection of Libyan civilians (considering the current state of affairs alone, one must rethink the authenticity of this concern). As many “conspiracy theorists” will claim, one of the real reasons to go to Libya was Gaddafi’s planned gold dinar.



One of the 3,000 Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department on New Year’s Eve (where real news is sent to die quietly) has revealed evidence that NATO’s plot to overthrow Gaddafi was fueled by first their desire to quash the gold-backed African currency, and second the Libyan oil reserves.

The email in question was sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by her unofficial adviser Sydney Blumenthal titled “France’s client and Qaddafi’s gold”.

From Foreign Policy Journal:

The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.”

Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at “143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver,” posed to the French franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency.

And here is the section of the email proving that NATO had ulterior motives for destroying Libya (UPDATE: The link has since been killed, but here is the web cache)[GR also removed]:

This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).

(Source Comment: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy’s plans are driven by the following issues:

a. A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,

b. Increase French influence in North Africa,

c. Improve his internal political situation in France,

d. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,

e. Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi’s long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa)

Second update: see https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/6528 (screenshot below)





Ergo as soon as French intel discovered Gaddafi’s dinar plans, they decided to spearhead the campaign against him- having accumulated enough good reasons to take over.

Sadly, Gaddafi had earlier warned Europe (in a “prophetic” phone conversations with Blair) that his fall would prompt the rise of Islamic extremism in the West. A warning that would go unheeded; what’s a few lives in France and Libya, if the larger goal lines the pockets of politicians and the elite so much better after all?

The original source of this article is Sheep Media
Copyright © Sheep Media, Sheep Media, 2018
 

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Tanzania partners with DRC to process cobalt

The Democratic Republic of Congo is looking to establish a smelter in Tanzania to minimise transport costs of raw cobalt shipped to markets outside Africa.

Under the arrangement, the Congolese government will use smelters and other mineral processing plants in Tanzania to process its raw cobalt for export.

Tanzania’s Minister for Minerals Angela Kairuki said recently that the country is developing mineral and mineral congregate plants to process its raw minerals that the DRC can use.

We are negotiating with the DRC to process cobalt and other minerals in Tanzania as an option to reduce transport costs of raw minerals to markets overseas,” Ms Kairuki said.

The DRC produces over 70 per cent of the world’s cobalt, but lacks the electricity and key facilities to process it.

Tanzania and the DRC are looking at key alternatives that would allow us to share mining and mineral expertise and supervision of the mining industry,” Ms Kairuki added.

Regulatory systems

DRC Minister for Mines Martin Kabwelulu and other officials from the ministry were in Tanzania last week on a fact-finding mission.

We need to forge a joint strategy that will see us really benefit from the mining sector,” he said.

Mr Kabwelulu said that the DRC would send its minerals and mining experts to study at the Mineral Resources Institute in Tanzania to learn about production methods through the cadaster model, as well as to improve regulatory systems to monitor smuggling chains.

The amended DRC Mining Act requires investors to be more responsible, pay higher royalties of 10 per cent, up from two per cent, and to ensure mining pits are filled in as soon as activities end, he added.
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Don't know how this benefit Congo more than Tanzania though :patrice:
but electric cars will be the future 15-20 years from now
 

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anyone here been following the Diamniadio development in Senegal? It will be 35 minutes from Dakar.
Is basically gonna be their new economic hub. Dakar is too "artsy" to be their economic hub, even though it's probably the most tour city in west africa. The new city is basically where their manufacturing, industrial zones, petroleum and gas ministries will be. Alot of migrants and educated Senegalese have always fled off to Europe because of no job. This place is expecting to have 500,000 people by 2035. Within the last 2 years, there's been lots of activities in the area.

If only they and CIV could bush the franc...
 
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