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Niger Coup d’Etat: Airspace Closure, Sanctions, Diplomatic Overtures?

British Financial Empire, Ivory Coast, Niger

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The Malian army said it would send a delegation to Niamey to show solidarity and a military plane from Burkina Faso was reported to have landed in the Niger capital at about 11.20am GMT.

Niger Coup d’Etat: Airspace Closure, Sanctions, Diplomatic Overtures?

On                  By Dr. Y
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Yesterday saw new turns in the situation in Niger with the airspace closure, and the rebuffing of the west’s puppet organizations that are the AU, ECOWAS, and the UN by Niger. One thing is for sure, everyone is watching carefully, and no one wants a regional spillover; after all, there are a lot of presidents installed to serve foreign interests in many bordering African countries, and many are starting to sweat. As a side note, the U.S., along with France has about 1,500 troops in Niger and Germany with about 100 (and even Italy) use facilities in that country to “combat jihadi groups” (that the West created to destabilize the entire region). The US with Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Wagner (and thus Russia) is misleading the people of Niger… he told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme, “I think what happened, and what continues to happen in Niger was not instigated by Russia or by Wagner, but… they tried to take advantage of it. … Every single place that this Wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed,” said Mr Blinken. “Insecurity has gone up, not down“. And where the US has gone there has not been insecurity, death, or destruction? It is like the pot calling the kettle black! US Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland flew to Niamey on Monday but was denied permission to meet with current president Abdourahamane Tchiani, coup leader, or with former president Bazoum, who is in detention. Instead, she spoke for two hours with other army officers. “These conversations were extremely frank and at times quite difficult because, again, we’re pushing for a negotiated solution. … They are quite firm in their view of how they want to proceed, and it does not comport with the Constitution of Niger,” Nuland told reporters. So when it serves the West’s interests, the constitution of a country is a valid piece of paper, but when it does not like in Ivory Coast in 2010, it is just toilet paper?

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Niger Coup d’Etat: Airspace Closure, Sanctions, Diplomatic Overtures?

 

Africarail -Voir l’Afrique avec les yeux du futur

African High Speed Railway, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Current African News, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Senegal

le développement des chemins de fer à grande vitesse dans toute l’Afrique de l’Ouest!

Source: Sebastien Perimony

Africarail + – Voir l’Afrique avec les yeux du futur #6

26 March 2023

6 ème épisode de ma série Youtube “Voir l’Afrique avec les yeux du futur” consacré au projet AFRICARAIL + pour le développement des chemins de fer à grande vitesse dans toute l’Afrique de l’Ouest.

La Chronique : l’occident ou la raison du plus fort

British Financial Empire, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Current African News, History before 1900, History Modern, Ivory Coast, Libya, Mali

Why African countries do not need to support the West`s war against Russia

“Lorsqu’il engage une guerre c’est toujours au « nom de la paix, et de la justice dans le monde ». Ses problèmes sont automatiquement ceux du monde et celui qui ne prend pas position pour lui devient un ennemi qu’il faut sanctionner”.

Source: Alain Foka Officiel

La Chronique : l’occident ou la raison du plus fort

12 Juin 2022

Lorsqu’il engage une guerre c’est toujours au « nom de la paix, et de la justice dans le monde ». Ses problèmes sont automatiquement ceux du monde et celui qui ne prend pas position pour lui devient un ennemi qu’il faut sanctionner. Surtout ne pas lui rappeler ses crimes, ses ratées, ses nombreuses guerres qu’il ne remporte presque jamais. Cette fois-ci, avec l’Ukraine, l’Occident n’a jamais été aussi isolé. Mais qui mettra fin à sa dictature de la pensée qui menace plus que jamais la paix mondiale ? Qui lui insufflera l’humilité qui lui fait tant défaut ? Pourtant le Président Macron reconnaît la fin de l’hégémonie occidentale. Il faut le mettre devant sa vérité

Réalisation : Sébastien Faye

Ecrit par Alain Foka

Who Benefits from Africa’s Poverty? PD Lawton RTF Lecture

Angola, Belt and Road, British Financial Empire, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Current African News, DRC, Egypt, ESKOM, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, History Ancient, History before 1900, History Modern, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Nuclear Energy for Africa, Republic of Congo/Congo Brazzaville, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, The Sudan, Transaqua, , , ,

Source: Rising Tide Foundation

Who Benefits from Africa’s Poverty? PD Lawton RTF Lecture

28 Dec 2021

In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Africa Agenda editor in chief PD Lawton takes you through a definitive history of Africa with a look to the future. PD introduces ancient African renaissance traditions that have long been suppressed by colonial powers since the 19th century and takes the viewer through the calamitous 20th century with a look to the good, the bad and the ugly dynamics that fought to revive Africa’s noble heritage vs those interests that sought to keep the continent in a dark age, depopulated condition.

After evaluating the struggles led by such great men as Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara and many others, PD evaluates how these historic currents are impacting today’s Africa with a look towards those seeking a better future in tandem with China’s Belt and Road Initiative vs those representing the anti-human Malthusian agenda.

Le nucléaire : une part de la réponse à la pénurie d’électricité en Afrique sub-saharienne ?

Current African News, ESKOM, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Nuclear Energy for Africa, South Africa, Zambia

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Le nucléaire : une part de la réponse à la pénurie d’électricité en Afrique sub-saharienne ?

Dans cet article d’opinion, Isabel Bosman, du think tank SAIIA (South African Institute of International Affairs), soutient que, malgré ses écueils, le nucléaire reste une voie à explorer pour combler le déficit d’approvisionnement en électricité de l’Afrique subsaharienne.

Au niveau mondial, l’approvisionnement en électricité est vital. Sans elle, le développement social, économique et humain moderne est impossible. Cependant, il apparaît clairement depuis les dernières décennies que les sources d’électricité ne peuvent rester les mêmes dès lors que les économies sont en constante expansion et que les populations augmentent. La pollution permanente et les dommages à long terme causés par la combustion de combustibles fossiles sont insoutenables, tandis que les énergies renouvelables sont limitées dans le secteur énergétique mondial. Un changement radical dans la façon dont l’électricité est produite est donc non seulement nécessaire, mais attendu depuis longtemps. Dans le contexte africain, l’énergie nucléaire constitue une option viable, notamment en Afrique subsaharienne. En effet, l’énergie nucléaire est personnalisable et peut être adaptée aux besoins spécifiques et à l’infrastructure électrique existante des différents pays, elle complète les sources d’énergie renouvelables et constitue une option plus propre que les combustibles fossiles.

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Le nucléaire : une part de la réponse à la pénurie d’électricité en Afrique sub-saharienne ?

Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan Fast Track $25 Billion LAPSSET Corridor project

Belt and Road, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Current African News, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya

Source: The New Africa Channel

Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan Fast Track $25 Billion LAPSSET Corridor project

Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan Fast Track $25 Billion LAPSSET Project – Investment in africa by country is at all time high. Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan have recently reaffirmed their adherence to moving forward with the LAPSSET Corridor Program, a massive $25 billion infrastructure project in East Africa. The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor Program, which begins in Lamu, Kenya, remains the region’s largest and most ambitious infrastructure project, uniting the three countries together with essential infrastructural projects such as ports, highways, railways, an oil pipeline, and airports. The $25 billion infrastructure LAPSSET Corridor project, which will link Kenya with Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan, has its headquarters in Magogoni in Kenya’s historic coastal town of Lamu. The far-reaching project involves a railway, a highway, a crude oil pipeline and a fibre-optic cable connecting the four countries. The project will also include several airports, resort cities, an oil refinery, a 32-berth port in Lamu and other supporting infrastructure mini projects. Once completed, the LAPSSET railway will connect to West Africa’s Douala–Lagos–Cotonou–Abidjan Corridor, running through Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire respectively. Experts view the LAPSSET project as a major contribution to the African Union’s regional integration vision of a peaceful, prosperous and fully integrated continent by 2063.

The Silent Revolution in African Rail

Belt and Road, Burkina Faso, Current African News, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia

“The real friends of Africa now are those trying to bridge the infrastructure deficit…..China has done it. It has pumped billions of dollars into the Belt and Road Initiative. Now, whatever critisism they have on that initiative, it has helped Africa. It has opened up Africa and it has challenged the world, that to be a friend of Africa, come and help us to build roads, bridges, have vision, high cities, power, and all those. So it is a clarion call to all friends of Africa in the West, East, Asia that HARD INFRASTRUCTURE IS WHAT WE NEED TO GET OUT OF POVERTY.” Olawale A-Rasheed

Source: BRIX Sweden

Podcast #12: The Silent Revolution in African Rail

2 June 2021

In this new podcast of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX), host Hussein Askary discusses with our guest Olawale A-Rasheed, CEO of Abuja, Nigeria-based African Railway Consulting Ltd, the current situation and future plans for railway connectivity in the African continent. We try to answer the following questions: – What is the status of transport sector in Africa, West Africa, and Nigeria? – What projects are completed, under construction? Who is building them? – What are the plans to develop this sector? Trans-African High-speed rail? – What is the role of China and the BRI in this process, and what can the U.S. and Europe contribute to it? Why they should learn from China in focusing on building the hard infrastructure in Africa? – There are many initiatives proposed by the U.S., the UK, and the EU to “rival” the BRI and China in Africa. Are these realistic? Wouldn’t it be better if the West and China join hands with Africa to reach the development goals? Mr. Rasheed is also the Director of the African Rail Roundtable and editor of the specialized magazine Rail Business (http://railbus.com.ng/)