Fred Harter I keep saying this is EU in Ethiopia / የአውሮፓ ህብረት በኢትዮጵያ 's only problem. They don't care about atrocities, just political showmanship on migration.
Dear whoever reads this at German Embassy Addis Ababa etc: I'm a German citizen, and you are a total disgrace to our diplomacy.

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Scratch virtually any self-professed 'anti-imperialist' in the Kremlin and you'll find a racist. Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's former ambassador to NATO, the former head of Roscosmos and one of the Kremlin's most vocal 'fighters against global colonialism,' is a case in point.

…who wouldn’t consent to the re-education (even if this would still mean the extermination of some millions of Ukrainians), Puchkov suggests killing every single one of them. The final solution of the Ukrainian question, in the eyes of people like him, becomes truly final.

To read more about how 'race' informs Russian 'African' initiatives, here's my earlier piece on the widely-hyped 'Afrovillages.' end/
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Die fortgesetzt geduldete Beeinflussung der AfD aus Russland und China kann die Erfolgsaussichten in einem #Verbotsverfahren nach Art. 21 GG erheblich beeinflussen. Vorlage wäre nicht das NPD-Verfahren, sondern die KPD-Entscheidung. Wir analysieren in einem Thread:
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Very well-put description of one main problem here.

The 'deliberations' about Rafah are shameful long before the 'operation' itself. More than 1 million people are ducks in a shooting gallery for Israeli bombers, living in abject squalor as the masters of war 'debate' their fate. 1.1 million hostages; it is already a crime.

It also suggests a false dichotomy between open and closed borders, as the only alternative to interning, torturing and killing asylum seekers was no borders at all. The very thing proponents of inhumane border policies want us to believe.

Le premier ministre français reste dans la droite et même la très droite lignée des meilleures traditions françaises : autoritarisme, paternalisme, 'inculquer' en guise de pédagogie. Pitoyable, mais symptomatique.

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Génocide rwandais : nouvelles recherches. Les spécialistes au micro de Xavier Mauduit .

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To host refugees is, precisely for OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives_Stat countries, an investment with return. Yet they count it as aid.

Here's research on actual impact by
Hippolyte d'Albis Ekrame Boubtane Meredith Dost et al,
Michael Clemens
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This is important. The infamous Janjaweed/RSF are a part of the state fighting over the resources of the state.

This also means they are a local actor in local dynamics. Like all local actors, they use foreign resources - EU, UAE, Russia - for their goals. They are not a proxy.

I know what Soyinka said about Obasanjo's book. It may sound a bit unkind though.