After seizing power in #Mali in 2021, Goita promised 'security' and 'a return to democracy.'

Since then: violence has soared; elections scheduled for Feb. 2024 canceled; media banned from reporting on political activities; and political parties suspended

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Actually, there is a vibrant opposition - the Democratic Alliance. You may not like it, but look at the financial results it delivers for ordinary South Africans!

Sudan: Children's drawing of the terrible violence they have experienced martinplaut.com/2024/04/12/sud…

Facing a post-oil world, Gulf monarchies pivot to #Africa - with over $100bn spent in #FDI on the continent by the GCC since 2012 - in attempt to extend political influence on the continent and access critical resources for renewable #energytransition .

africa-conf.com/Gulf-Influence

BBC - Inquiry hears of foreign meddling in Canadian elections - Chinese government 'clandestinely and deceptively' interfered in elections...online & media “activities aimed at Canadians, particularly of Chinese heritage”…David Cameron Lord (Tariq)Ahmad of Wimbledon
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Zuma on the South African ballot paper...not so fast says the Election Commission martinplaut.com/2024/04/12/zum…

A Crumbling Addis Metro Reveals Failed Promise of China’s Billions in Africa martinplaut.com/2024/04/12/a-c…

West Africa is the region most targeted by disinformation—accounting for nearly 40% of documented disinformation campaigns in Africa.

Roughly half of these attacks are connected to Russia, which as we've examined elsewhere, benefits from the decline of democracy in the region.

Update: The #UK joins growing local and international calls for full investigation into the murder of #OLF Political Officer, Bate Urgessa

The government of the United Kingdom has said it echoed a call by Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) - ኢሰመኮ) “for a prompt, impartial,…

EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 534 - 11 April 2024 martinplaut.com/2024/04/11/eep…

Brigade Nhamedu Isreal, stronger than ever, having a successful convention April 6, 2024.

Transnational repression by African dictatorships targeting diasporas in the West is becoming more and more of a problem. Some Western govts and security forces are learning how to handle these challenges effectively. Others are taking their own sweet time.

Eritrean and Ethiopian government forces attacked, sealed off and deliberately starved about 7 million Tigrayans in a siege as brutal as Gaza’s. The death toll was between 162,000 to 378,000 civilians
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'When you speak out against the govt, you are speaking for the prisoners. When you choose to be silent, you are colluding in their being forgotten.'

Transnational Repression: German evidence of how diasporas are attacked martinplaut.com/2024/04/11/tra…

Zambia uncovers 'sophisticated' Chinese cybercrime syndicate.

Golden Top Support Services, the company at the centre of the raid, has not commented on the allegatio bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

So how do the RSF get its hands on Chinese drones? #Sudan

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