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You should also put china is looking to buy the college out.
Also What do you mean by Rússia recruiting African students?
Essential The Africa the Media Doesn't Tell You About
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You should also put china is looking to buy the college out.
Also What do you mean by Rússia recruiting African students?
loyola llothta
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makes you think who's funding them
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Russia has a declining population; not enough young people to enroll......... africa has the fastest growing population and projected to have the largest group of young people; russia is looking to recruit african students to fill the colleges so they can remain open.... behind the chinese, africans are the largest group of international grad students....
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Addis Ababa, Moscow Finishing Talks On Constructing NPP In Ethiopia - Ambassador
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir)
Mon 12th August 2019 | 12:10 PM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th August, 2019) Addis Ababa and Moscow are close to finishing the negotiations on constructing the first nuclear power plant in Ethiopia with the participation of the Russian nuclearcorporation Rosatom, Ethiopian Ambassador to RussiaAlemayehu Tegenu told Sputnik.
"We have to have nuclear energy to produce electricity for our economy and our people. That is why we signed the memorandum of understanding with Rosatom and then, again, the road map that we signed in Sochi. Almost now we are finishing negotiations ... it is progressing good. After the negotiations are finished, we will sign the agreement and the construction [of the nuclearpower plant] follows," Tegenu said.
Addis Ababa, Moscow Finishing Talks On Constructing NPP In Ethiopia - Ambassador
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir)
Mon 12th August 2019 | 12:10 PM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th August, 2019) Addis Ababa and Moscow are close to finishing the negotiations on constructing the first nuclear power plant in Ethiopia with the participation of the Russian nuclearcorporation Rosatom, Ethiopian Ambassador to RussiaAlemayehu Tegenu told Sputnik.
"We have to have nuclear energy to produce electricity for our economy and our people. That is why we signed the memorandum of understanding with Rosatom and then, again, the road map that we signed in Sochi. Almost now we are finishing negotiations ... it is progressing good. After the negotiations are finished, we will sign the agreement and the construction [of the nuclearpower plant] follows," Tegenu said.
Addis Ababa, Moscow Finishing Talks On Constructing NPP In Ethiopia - Ambassador
Ethiopia, China to partner to build new 300 mln USD industrial park
Source: Xinhua | 2019-08-13 00:54:47 | Editor: yan
ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia and China are set to partner to build a new, 300 million U.S. dollar industrial park in the east African country.
Liu Yu, economic and commercial counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia, told Xinhua recently that construction of the park, located in Adama city, 99 km southeast of Addis Ababa, could start before the end of 2019.
Liu said 85 percent of the funding needed to build the industrial park will be covered through Chinese government concessional loans while the rest 15 percent will come from the Ethiopian government.
"The planned industrial park will focus on attracting firms engaged in equipment manufacturing," Liu said, noting that work is being done to conclude land acquisition and financing-related procedures.
It will be the second industrial park in Adama city, a key commercial hub in central Ethiopia, with Chinese finance and expertise.
"The governments of China and Ethiopia have attached great importance to their cooperation in various fields including in construction of industrial parks, whereby they have achieved fruitful results," Liu told Xinhua.
The first Adama industrial park, which was built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) at a cost of 146 million dollars, was inaugurated by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in October 2018.
Covering 100 hectares of land, the industrial park is expected to create job opportunities for around 25,000 Ethiopians and is part of Ethiopia's grand plan to transform its largely agrarian economy into an industrialized one by 2025.
Ethiopia, China to partner to build new 300 mln USD industrial park
Source: Xinhua | 2019-08-13 00:54:47 | Editor: yan
ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia and China are set to partner to build a new, 300 million U.S. dollar industrial park in the east African country.
Liu Yu, economic and commercial counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia, told Xinhua recently that construction of the park, located in Adama city, 99 km southeast of Addis Ababa, could start before the end of 2019.
Liu said 85 percent of the funding needed to build the industrial park will be covered through Chinese government concessional loans while the rest 15 percent will come from the Ethiopian government.
"The planned industrial park will focus on attracting firms engaged in equipment manufacturing," Liu said, noting that work is being done to conclude land acquisition and financing-related procedures.
It will be the second industrial park in Adama city, a key commercial hub in central Ethiopia, with Chinese finance and expertise.
"The governments of China and Ethiopia have attached great importance to their cooperation in various fields including in construction of industrial parks, whereby they have achieved fruitful results," Liu told Xinhua.
The first Adama industrial park, which was built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) at a cost of 146 million dollars, was inaugurated by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in October 2018.
Covering 100 hectares of land, the industrial park is expected to create job opportunities for around 25,000 Ethiopians and is part of Ethiopia's grand plan to transform its largely agrarian economy into an industrialized one by 2025.
Ethiopia, China to partner to build new 300 mln USD industrial park
Unite workers and the poor against xenophobic attacks, says SAFTU
Published by admin at August 19, 2019
“The working men have no country.” “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Workers of all countries, unite!” (The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels).
The South African Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns the recent brutal attacks on informal traders on the streets of South Africa by both police and vigilante groups. There can be no excuse for the violence, thuggery, theft, destruction of property and illegal arrests inflicted on some of the most oppressed and vulnerable members of our society.
SAFTU rejects with contempt the excuses offered to justify these assaults – that all those attacked were “illegal immigrants”, that they were selling goods that were counterfeit or past their sell-by date. No evidence has been produced, or even sought, to justify any of these spurious charges.
The reality is that this was a calculated attempt to victimise the most vulnerable section of the working class – the marginalised and unorganised – and set worker against worker. Some of those arrested have proved their South African citizenship and police officers have been arrested for selling goods they seized from traders.
The attacks were an attempt to capitalise on the genuine grievances of working class people – that more than half South Africans are living in poverty, that nearly 40% are unemployed and that we live in the most unequal country in the world – and try to shift the blame for all this onto the shoulders of other working-class people who are victims of exactly the same problems, in order to loot their goods.
SAFTU calls on all workers and members of poor communities not to take out their understandable frustrations on people from other countries who are not the cause of our crisis of mass unemployment, poverty, inequality, corruption and crime, but the Capitalist class.
The federation has always supported the fight led by unions against the growth of trade in counterfeit products, goods which are being sold past their expiry date and tax evasion amongst others. We demand however that this be tackled by proper, impartial investigations by the relevant authorities, the employment of more government inspectors and the more rigorous enforcement of laws to protect consumers’ health and prevent tax dodging.
The inspections must however be conducted purely on the basis of law enforcement and with no bias based on the nationality of the owners of the businesses being inspected.
Working-class as part of the consumers, employees and law-abiding traders are all victims of these crimes and must be united in a strong but peaceful campaign to prosecute those who are guilty, focusing on the wealthy business people who manufacture the counterfeit goods and dodge far greater amounts of tax. There must also be action to arrest those who use violence against immigrant workers and traders.
We must always fight against attempts by the ruling capitalist monopolies to divide and rule the workers movement by fomenting racism and xenophobia, which pits worker against worker and poor versus poor, which only benefits the ruling class which exploits us all.
We are all fellow victims of a capitalist system which condemns millions to poverty while making the rich even richer by exploiting workers, consumers and small business people, regardless of their nationality, race or gender. Xenophobic clashes make it even easier to continue this exploitation by keeping workers and the poor fighting against each other.
Many migrant worker organisations attended the Working-Class Summit in 2018, representing both workers and informal traders. The Summit resolved to stand firm on the long-standing principle of the labour movement to forge unity between the working class and the poor of all countries. This was in line with SAFTU’s founding congress’s firm commitment to international and pan-African solidarity
We should never forget that migrant labour was the basis of the super-exploitation of black workers by the apartheid regime which stole their land, forced them to live under inhuman conditions in hostels and paid slave wages.
SAFTU denounces the continuation of apartheid-era policies in the way the Department of Home Affairs treats foreign nationals who are vulnerable and destitute. This practice has all the hallmarks of the institutionalised racism of the apartheid regime which hunted down people and demanded they produce documents – the dompas system – which was enforced through military repression, road blocks and raids against black African people..
Many immigrants come from countries who aided our national liberation struggle, others are fleeing horrific violence and they come to South Africa in search of safety and a better life. They must not be treated as criminals or enemies of the workers but allies in the struggle for a socialist Africa free of the national boundaries imposed by imperialist rulers.
SAFTU commits itself to prioritising working with civil society to ensure that we organise migrant workers – be they domestic workers, waiters, farmworkers, mineworkers, waste-pickers, or spaza shop-owners – in our struggle for equal rights and living wages for all those living in South Africa.
Migrants are a vital part of the South African working class and any talk of labour justice without migrant justice means complicity in the marginalisation and oppression of this increasing number of our class.
The ANC leaders pay lip service to the idea of pan-Africanism, but have done absolutely nothing to bring it about. Their austerity programmes and neoliberal policies have created desperate levels of poverty, which have created the basis for the rise of xenophobic attacks on fellow workers.
The struggle for an egalitarian society is a struggle for a socialist society, and to overturn capitalism and all its oppressive manifestations. We must intensify the struggle against xenophobic attacks and discrimination against our fellow workers from other parts of the world.
Workers of the world unite!
Unite workers and the poor against xenophobic attacks, says SAFTU
Published by admin at August 19, 2019
“The working men have no country.” “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Workers of all countries, unite!” (The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels).
The South African Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns the recent brutal attacks on informal traders on the streets of South Africa by both police and vigilante groups. There can be no excuse for the violence, thuggery, theft, destruction of property and illegal arrests inflicted on some of the most oppressed and vulnerable members of our society.
SAFTU rejects with contempt the excuses offered to justify these assaults – that all those attacked were “illegal immigrants”, that they were selling goods that were counterfeit or past their sell-by date. No evidence has been produced, or even sought, to justify any of these spurious charges.
The reality is that this was a calculated attempt to victimise the most vulnerable section of the working class – the marginalised and unorganised – and set worker against worker. Some of those arrested have proved their South African citizenship and police officers have been arrested for selling goods they seized from traders.
The attacks were an attempt to capitalise on the genuine grievances of working class people – that more than half South Africans are living in poverty, that nearly 40% are unemployed and that we live in the most unequal country in the world – and try to shift the blame for all this onto the shoulders of other working-class people who are victims of exactly the same problems, in order to loot their goods.
SAFTU calls on all workers and members of poor communities not to take out their understandable frustrations on people from other countries who are not the cause of our crisis of mass unemployment, poverty, inequality, corruption and crime, but the Capitalist class.
The federation has always supported the fight led by unions against the growth of trade in counterfeit products, goods which are being sold past their expiry date and tax evasion amongst others. We demand however that this be tackled by proper, impartial investigations by the relevant authorities, the employment of more government inspectors and the more rigorous enforcement of laws to protect consumers’ health and prevent tax dodging.
The inspections must however be conducted purely on the basis of law enforcement and with no bias based on the nationality of the owners of the businesses being inspected.
Working-class as part of the consumers, employees and law-abiding traders are all victims of these crimes and must be united in a strong but peaceful campaign to prosecute those who are guilty, focusing on the wealthy business people who manufacture the counterfeit goods and dodge far greater amounts of tax. There must also be action to arrest those who use violence against immigrant workers and traders.
We must always fight against attempts by the ruling capitalist monopolies to divide and rule the workers movement by fomenting racism and xenophobia, which pits worker against worker and poor versus poor, which only benefits the ruling class which exploits us all.
We are all fellow victims of a capitalist system which condemns millions to poverty while making the rich even richer by exploiting workers, consumers and small business people, regardless of their nationality, race or gender. Xenophobic clashes make it even easier to continue this exploitation by keeping workers and the poor fighting against each other.
Many migrant worker organisations attended the Working-Class Summit in 2018, representing both workers and informal traders. The Summit resolved to stand firm on the long-standing principle of the labour movement to forge unity between the working class and the poor of all countries. This was in line with SAFTU’s founding congress’s firm commitment to international and pan-African solidarity
We should never forget that migrant labour was the basis of the super-exploitation of black workers by the apartheid regime which stole their land, forced them to live under inhuman conditions in hostels and paid slave wages.
SAFTU denounces the continuation of apartheid-era policies in the way the Department of Home Affairs treats foreign nationals who are vulnerable and destitute. This practice has all the hallmarks of the institutionalised racism of the apartheid regime which hunted down people and demanded they produce documents – the dompas system – which was enforced through military repression, road blocks and raids against black African people..
Many immigrants come from countries who aided our national liberation struggle, others are fleeing horrific violence and they come to South Africa in search of safety and a better life. They must not be treated as criminals or enemies of the workers but allies in the struggle for a socialist Africa free of the national boundaries imposed by imperialist rulers.
SAFTU commits itself to prioritising working with civil society to ensure that we organise migrant workers – be they domestic workers, waiters, farmworkers, mineworkers, waste-pickers, or spaza shop-owners – in our struggle for equal rights and living wages for all those living in South Africa.
Migrants are a vital part of the South African working class and any talk of labour justice without migrant justice means complicity in the marginalisation and oppression of this increasing number of our class.
The ANC leaders pay lip service to the idea of pan-Africanism, but have done absolutely nothing to bring it about. Their austerity programmes and neoliberal policies have created desperate levels of poverty, which have created the basis for the rise of xenophobic attacks on fellow workers.
The struggle for an egalitarian society is a struggle for a socialist society, and to overturn capitalism and all its oppressive manifestations. We must intensify the struggle against xenophobic attacks and discrimination against our fellow workers from other parts of the world.
Workers of the world unite!
Unite workers and the poor against xenophobic attacks, says SAFTU
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I'm guessing modern Russian power plants are what safer now?
Because considering the recent Russian nuclear accidents...
Think Ethiopia should be wary of this.... But I understand the need for energy..
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2 July 2019
Russia’s Military Deal with Mali Further Encroaches on France’s Influence in West Africa
By Andrew Korybko
Russia is making rapid progress in presenting a “balancing” alternative to French domination in Paris’ Françafrique “sphere of influence” in Africa after signing a military deal with the terrorist-plagued but geostrategically significant state of Mali during the visit of its Defense Minister to Moscow last week.
Russia's Military Deal with Mali Further Encroaches on France's Influence in West Africa - Global Research
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13 June 2019
Russia’s “Pivot to Africa” Encroaches upon France’s Traditional “Sphere of Influence”
By Andrew Korybko
The quiet success of Russia’s “Pivot to Africa” over the past few years has seen Moscow begin to encroach on France’s traditional “sphere of influence” in the continent, which in turn piqued Paris’ interest in negotiating a “New Detente” with its Great Power counterpart in order to rebalance relations between them in the New Cold War.
Russia's "Pivot to Africa" Encroaches upon France's Traditional "Sphere of Influence" - Global Research
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2 August 2019
A Brief History of the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan
By Ryan Dawson
With the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan winding down its time to take a brief but comprehensive look at the origins and history of this most secret of Pax Americana crimes in Africa.
It is in the national interests of the USA to deprive China of access to African energy resources, with the Sudanese oil fields being the only Chinese owned and operated in Africa. It was no coincidence that one of the first targets of the “rebellion” in South Sudan was the Chinese oil fields. It has been US vs China in South Sudan from the start.
To begin this history we must go back to the origins of the South Sudan peace process that developed in 2004. This new breakthrough came about following the East Sudan uprising and subsequent intervention in Sudan by the Eritrean military in support of the Beja and Rashida peoples movement in 2003. Eritrean commandos cut the Port Sudan-Khartoum highway, the lifeline for 25 million residents of Sudans capital. For two weeks the Sudanese army counterattacked and ended up utterly defeated by the Eritrean special forces.
Facing critical food and fuel shortages the Sudanese officer core that was then the base of support for the recently deposed Omar Al Bashir capitulated and as part of the peace deal agreed to begin good faith negotiations with the various Sudanese resistance groups, both east, south and even, supposedly, in the west.
This resulted in John Garang, head of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement and the President of Sudan Omar Al Bashir sitting down together to sign a comprehensive peace deal in Asmara, Eritrea late in 2004.
In December of 2004 we flew into Asmara, Eritrea and checked into the old Imperial Hotel, the Emboisoira, and found ourselves sharing breakfast with senior leaders of the SPLM. We had a satellite dish back in the US with EritreanTV so we had seen our breakfast mates on the news covering the recently signed peace deal in Asmara. They were all in high spirits, still excited about the prospect for peace in Sudan.
Later, after returning home to the USA in 2015 we heard of a new peace deal, this time being signed in Navaisha in Kenya. And this time the deal was brokered by the USA. The only real difference between the 2004 Asmara agreement and the 2005 Kenya deal was the inclusion of a clause calling for a referendum on independence for South Sudan.
The USA forced Bashir and Garang to accept this independence referendum after forcing a new peace “negotiation” and eventual, deal, in Kenya, away from Eritrean mediation efforts. Carrot and the stick, inducements and threats by the worlds superpower forced Garang and Bashir to accept the dismemberment of Sudan and created the conditions for one of the most brutal civil wars in African history. This was the doings of the USA from the get go.
After signing the peace deal John Garang, as head of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM), held his first public rally in Khartoum and drew a million people or more, three times the largest crowd Bashir had ever had.
There he made a fateful speech.
John Garang made it clear that he was strongly AGAINST independence for South Sudan, instead calling on his fellow Sudanese in the North to help elect him president to build a new Sudan based on equal rights and justice for all Sudanese.
Garang stated his intent to be politically independent from the western powers instead looking to China, already in the oil business in Sudan, to develop Sudans economy. Sudan, as a whole, is the largest and potentially richest country in Africa and for the USA to lose Sudan to China wasn’t acceptable to Pax Americana.
John Garang was dead two weeks later in a mysterious helicopter crash and with him died a unified Sudan.
With in a few years a referendum was held for “independence” for South Sudan and voila it was a done deal. The irony is that John Garang, who was vehemently against independence for South Sudan, is now proclaimed “The Father” of the South Sudanese independent state.
In 2009 my old friend Alexander Cockburn contacted me asking for a story about what was going on vis a vis Sudan/South Sudan. I had been living next door in Eritrea for the past few years and I responded with “Storm Clouds Over South Sudan” which Alex and Jeffrey St. Claire published on their website “Counterpunch” where I predicted the upcoming holocaust in the worlds newest “independent” country.
I only wish my words had not come true.
I was repeatedly forced to continue exposing the CIA’s dirty war in South Sudan over the next few years with titles like “US vs China in South Sudan”, “The CIA’s DIrty War in South Sudan” amongst others in an attempt to shine the light of day on this most dirty, and secret, CIA covert war.
I am not exaggerating when I call the civil war in South Sudan the most secret major covert military operation by the CIA in the Agency’s history. The proof of this is the fact that not a single writer other than myself has made this charge. This might be explained by the lengths prominent western journalists have attempted to point the blame away from the Agency and instead at the South Sudanese peoples themselves.
It’s been horrific first hand stories by award winning progressive journalists that painted this dirty war as black on black, African tribal violence at its worst.
When I pointed out to one of the more prominent journalists that the rebels were being paid $300 a month salaries, they denied the accuracy of my claim. In an exchange on Twitter he said that the rebels were making maybe $300 a year if that, so no need to explain the $6 million a month it would take to pay 20,000 rebel combatants salaries?
The problem with this assertion is that former South Sudanese rebel fighters have confirmed being paid $300 a month when they were under arms. In South Sudan young men join the army because it’s the only way to get enough money to feed your family, not out of patriotic zeal. When the money periodically dried up, usually stolen by the rebel generals, the soldiers start to leave, as my sources had experienced.
Do the math, 20,000 rebels paid $300 a month times 6 years plus food, fuel and ammo and you come out with over $500 million and counting? Honestly now, who has a history of coming up with that amount of cash, entirely secret for that long but the CIA? Must we be reminded of the CIA’s dirty wars in Angola and Mozambique in support of South African Apartheid back in the 1970’s and 80’s?
Show me the money, right? How come no one in the international media has ever asked this question? The rebels have no visible means of support, where could they be getting their funds from?
This story remains the best kept secret “dirty war” the CIA has ever operated. Until the Chinese brought in a couple thousand armed “peacekeepers” to protect their oil fields this CIA operation was successful, shutting down, temporarily Chinese oil production in South Sudan. But more importantly, it pretty much shut down Chinese expansion in South Sudan. That is what this dirty war was all about, preventing China from gaining a major foothold in Africa’s oil fields.
Show me the money? Show me the ONLY party that benefits from this war? Thats right, the ONLY party to benefit from this brutal, foreign funded African holocaust has been Pax Americana, the U.S. of A, by shutting down Chinese oil production and expansion in South Sudan.
Today peace has broken out in South Sudan, shaky as it may be. The CIA had been using the former regime in power in Ethiopia, the TPLF, to funnel their filthy lucre to the rebel armies in South Sudan but with the “Peaceful Revolution” breaking out in Ethiopia this avenue to the rebels was cut off. The rebel leadership had no choice but to cut a deal with South Sudan President Salva Kiir for cash so they could pay their troops salaries. No money, no honey, you get what you pay for and without hard CIA cash to pay their troops it became “Give peace a chance”. Of course corruption remains rife and stolen salaries for various ethnically based military departments have continued to cause revolts and instability.
Yet so far the peace deal signed, sealed and delivered in Asmara in 2018 has been holding. The CIA are now almost completely out of the picture in South Sudan though one should never underestimate the Agency’s capacity for evil. Its in the US national interest to deny China access to African oil so it will always continue to be US vs China in South Sudan, as part of Pax Americana’s designs for Africa as a whole.
A Brief History of the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan - ANC Report
Africa needs to industrialize badly.
Frangala
All Star
People are not serious if they don't highlight this all this solar talk and tech cell phone revolutions is bogus. You need electricity and other types of infrastructure
Yep. You need the energy to propel the industrial base forward. It's only after industrializing that you can begin moving onto some of these other sectors.