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Jobs/VacanciesRe: [hot Jobs] Tar Global Consultants Recruiting Nationwide – Multiple Positions | A by bolaino(op): 12:29am On May 06
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Jobs/VacanciesRe: [hot Jobs] Tar Global Consultants Recruiting Nationwide – Multiple Positions | A by bolaino(op): 8:02am On May 05
Vacancies are still available
Jobs/Vacancies[hot Jobs] Tar Global Consultants Recruiting Nationwide – Multiple Positions | A by bolaino(op): 1:47am On May 05
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Foreign AffairsRe: Trump: I Hangout With Losers, It Makes Me Feel Better (Video) by bolaino(m): 6:26pm On Mar 28
Trump is one of those types of people who leaves one speechless, what can we say to this...
Foreign AffairsRe: There Could Be More US Strikes In Nigeria, Says Trump by bolaino(m): 11:46am On Jan 09
PoliticsRe: LAGESC Launches Massive Clearance Of Beggars And Street Occupants In Ketu-alaper by bolaino(m): 9:29am On Nov 13, 2025
Glimpsetv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmoyVwbjUwA?si=seacK5IcZq-UPVpl
Brother Seun, please don't let Trump see this on nairaland abeg
PoliticsRe: President Tinubu And The Mystery Of His Infinity Hat by bolaino(op): 3:44pm On Jan 24, 2025
LtCZAR:
This piece of history in Lagos politics is long and I hope those who knew about the other dynamics of it, shed more light.
During the formation year of AD. The contest was between, PBAT and Funsho Williams. The elders of AFENIFERE then, pleaded with Funsho Williams to step down for TINUBU, then he will continue after Tinubu. He was just to do one term as agreed. But after Baba, got to power, everything changed. After his attempted assassination, Baba TINUBU started appearing in public, with this INFINITY ♾️ symbol style of cap.
The elders where uncomfortable and accused him of wanting to rule Lagos forever.
Well, we can see how far now.
I would be grateful if you could tell us more about this issue you are talking about as it is very intriguing and I know a lot of Nairalanders would be happy to know about this story and this holds a lot of security significance both security and economic significance as it represents symbology and symbols rule the world reason we have coat of arms and flags so your knowledge about this is very important and i am humbled by it ad would genuinely be happy if you could tell us more not to politicize but to educate us more on the issue and show us in your opinion any correlation with what happened there ad with the move of the president as regards interpaty politics with Wike as Wike is a member of the pdp but President tinubu is a member of the Apc but he worked to help wike into the federal government, does any of these moves he made politically similar to the events regarding the infinity hat that happened in his time with the AD
PoliticsRe: President Tinubu And The Mystery Of His Infinity Hat by bolaino(op): 1:22pm On Jan 23, 2025
mightyhaze:
Don't gv a damn about his hats or wigs... He should deliver the promises he inundated our ears with before elections and stop destroying lives he can't create with disastrous policies
PoliticsRe: President Tinubu And The Mystery Of His Infinity Hat by bolaino(op): 12:40pm On Jan 23, 2025
LtCZAR:
This piece of history in Lagos politics is long and I hope those who knew about the other dynamics of it, shed more light.
During the formation year of AD. The contest was between, PBAT and Funsho Williams. The elders of AFENIFERE then, pleaded with Funsho Williams to step down for TINUBU, then he will continue after Tinubu. He was just to do one term as agreed. But after Baba, got to power, everything changed. After his attempted assassination, Baba TINUBU started appearing in public, with this INFINITY ♾️ symbol style of cap.
The elders where uncomfortable and accused him of wanting to rule Lagos forever.
Well, we can see how far now.
wow this is truly eye opening and gives more insight into the reason he is wearing the hat very intriguing
PoliticsRe: President Tinubu And The Mystery Of His Infinity Hat by bolaino(op): 3:00pm On Jan 22, 2025
LtCZAR:
Ask, the Old AFENIFERE PEOPLE THAT FOUNDED AD THEN.
AFTER BABA'S FIRST TENURE, WAS WHEN HE STARTED WEARING THIS SYMBOL AND THEY READ MEANING TO IT. THIS WAS WHAT AND SO MANY ISSUES THAT LED TO THE DISSOLUTION OF AD ( ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY)
this is very interesting, please could you shed more light on this please, because i know for a fact that President Tinubu was one of the founding party members of the AD just like he is one of the founding members of the APC.
PoliticsRe: President Tinubu And The Mystery Of His Infinity Hat by bolaino(op): 12:13pm On Jan 22, 2025
LifeOfTrigga:
Some say na eiye man, say na 8 8 dey e cap.. grin
world people i greet.
PoliticsRe: President Tinubu And The Mystery Of His Infinity Hat by bolaino(op): 8:53pm On Jan 21, 2025
sapele914:
Hmm what are u trying to hide?
PoliticsRe: President Tinubu And The Mystery Of His Infinity Hat by bolaino(op): 3:45pm On Jan 21, 2025
Sirmwill:
Knowing what it means or not won't add a single iota of success to your life


Don't stress yourself.


It's a useless symbol
PoliticsPresident Tinubu And The Mystery Of His Infinity Hat by bolaino(op): 3:10pm On Jan 21, 2025
Alot of Nigerians know and have noticed that president Tinubu, Always wears this hat carrying this symbol and there have been a lot of conspiracies regarding this hat and what it signifies, the president has not formally acknowledged the reason for always carrying this symbol in his hat, but Nigerians Being who they are as inquisitive and always wanting to know, have always wondered about the origins of this symbol or what it stands for, I hope this will help clarify any misconceptions or mystery that the president's wearing of his infinity Hat may have caused anyone.

PoliticsRe: Tinubu Will Release Nnamdi Kanu – Bianca Ojukwu by bolaino(m): 10:49pm On Nov 26, 2024
Myrrhis:
Did Tinubu tell her that?
She should choose her words carefully.
I am the one who mandated her to talk on behalf of Tinububu
PoliticsRe: Edo State Government Suspends Consultancy Services by bolaino(m): 5:43pm On Nov 18, 2024
BleedingPen:
https://metrowatchonline.com/breaking-edo-state-government-suspends-consultancy-services/?amp=1
So Governor Obaseki, this is how you will not be able to pay me my 55 Billion naira. Smh.
Christianity EtcRe: Modern Nigerian Music Corrupts The Soul. by bolaino(op): 7:56pm On Sep 30, 2024
bolaino:
Dorubucci, alanta, skelewu, malonogede, kokolets, ginger your swagger, swagger your ginger, rotate, Ginger, parcel, etc are popular titles and phrases you will definitely hear in Nigerian music of these days, if the song is not about wizkid looking for his caro, it would be davido singing skelewu, I have no beef with Nigerian artists, as I respect them as people trying to make a living in a society that has no musical standard, the only genres of music in Nigeria with sanity is high life and Afro juju, at the least when you listen to those genres of music you get uplifted, you reason ways to improve on your self or ways to improve as a Nigerian, people like the late osadebe, fela, Raskimono, majek fashek, oris wiliki, mandatos etc made music back then fun, and then we had beautiful hip hop music from arrested development, queen latifah, tupac, naughty by nature, tlc, etc to spice up the soul, but the musicians we have today in Nigeria are something else, everyday they keep spewing rubbish, and I sometimes wonder where they get the creativity to create this sort of intense rubbish we hear everyday that defiles the soul, I'm tired of hearing about sex on Nigerian Music. Our youths have become so intellectually lazy, dullards they have become and I believe christians and muslisms should pray for the souls of Nigerian youths and adults too, because the modern Nigerian music corrupts the soul. Makes you want to have sex and do yahoo yahoo or any other foolish thing that's "reigning" out there, promoting drug use and all other vices, what is Sk running in my small vein, that's like the lamest line ever in the history of foolish and mediocre lyrics. For pete's sake what's happening in this country.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria, Country Of Loud Mouths. by bolaino(op): 7:56pm On Sep 30, 2024
bolaino:
Nigerians are natural boasters and self praisers, the typical Nigerian thinks highly of himself, take for example, a Nigerian who is stopped on the road by a police man for a routine police check, the next thing you might hear from the car owner would be, " do you know who I am" they ask the question as if knowing who they are gives them the right to break laws or be above the law, Nigerians are cowards, who only know how to point out problems in the society but do not offer viable solutions to these problems, Nigerians are loud mouthed, and our image as Nigerians outside of this country is nothing to write home about. We might feel we are important here in Nigeria, but outside of Nigeria the worth of a Nigerian is nothing, because we have lost every sense of dignity, all we now have are our words, and they mean nothing, If a Nigerian tells you A you'll be expecting Z, Nigerians have become like the plague, people always look at Nigerians with mixed feelings. I've heard on tv and on radio and on the internet, where the most insulting of jokes are attributed to Nigerians, when a foreigner hears of Nigeria, they start, thinking of the following, corruption, insecurity, ethnic bigotry, religious extremism, and the list goes on, how long are going to continue using our loud mouths to talk about corruption instead of finding active ways to end corruption? Is this how we are supposed to live? We are creating problems for our children and our youths, it's time for Nigerians to start acting instead of talking, let's come together and build this nation. Let us not continue to be the centre of jokes to the world, let's all have some sense of dignity, united we stand divided we fall. Long Live The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Tick Tok, Tick Tok Says The Clock!!! by bolaino(op): 7:49pm On Sep 30, 2024
bolaino:
Time is One of Life's mysteries. Nobody knows The real time of The world, or of Humanity, and Time is very important to us as human beings and to us as a society or culture, at large. And as I write this Time is Of the essence, and I believe strongly in the Adage that says "A stitch in Time saves Nine/Lives". and the sooner we prepare ourselves for worst case scenario situations, the better, Nigeria is currently sitting on a keg of Gun powder and anytime from now, It's surely going to explode, How prepared are you in trying to prepare your family and loved ones for Evacuation, what measures have you taken to safeguard the Lives and Properties in your environment, I want to Urge all Nigerians irrespective of Religious orientation to prepare themselves for Emergency situations, and I implore NEMA to do all It can To provide quality Evacuation strategies and plans in case of Any chaotic situation, Nigerians Be Vigilant and Watchful, God Bless Nigeria, and Long Live The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: WARNING: Nigerians Say No To Drone Assistance. by bolaino(op): 7:48pm On Sep 30, 2024
bolaino:
I want to use this medium, to urge Nigerians To refuse any foreign assistance of The use Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s in Fighting Boko Haram, as The Collateral damage of such Operations in Nigeria would be Catastrophic. Nigerians Say No To Drones, Don't get sucked Into The GWOT machine. Save your selves. Say No To Drones, for The sakes of Your Innocent Children and aged Fathers and Mothers, say No To Drone Assistance. To Be Forewarned is To be Forearmed.
PoliticsRe: The Growing Increase of Homosexuality In Nigeria. by bolaino(op): 7:47pm On Sep 30, 2024
bolaino:
There's a Saying amongst Locals in Nigeria that "When Red neck Lizard Jump from High Place Come Down, If nobody Greet am he go Greet himself" hence the constant nodding of it's head. Over Two years ago I wrote an article on a website named www.vigilantcitizen.com, and a few months later I wrote the same article here on nairaland. In the article I made allegations against The United States and it's inherent plan to Homosexualize The African Continent and Nigeria In special, when I made these allegations then, many Nairalanders said my allegations were spurious and unfounded. But fast forward to This moment. It is no longer News that America has legalized same sex Marriage and is even calling for all African leaders to allow LGBT people (that is what they call them nowadays) all over Africa to be given the Right to GAYISM (that's the word I have coined for both acts of homosexuality and lesbianism). That is, the right for consenting Homosexual men to marry consenting homosexual men, and Consenting Lesbian women to marry consenting lesbian women. Etc. But in all seriousness I am not surprised, I wrote about this here on nairaland almost two years ago, But what I am really surprised about is the growing rate of homosexuality amongst our young men in Nigeria. I don't know why this is so, is it due to the readily available Gay Porn content on the internet? or is it due to increase in Gay activism by Gay folks like Charly Boy and Denrele Edun, who are known and practicing homosexuals. I really do not know. But what I do know for certain is that homosexuality is Increasing in Nigeria, and the sooner our Government steps in, to start enforcing our Local law content on acts of Homosexuality and lesbianism, the better for us. Homosexuality is Bad and Evil. And I am very surprised that Black Nigerians are coming out as Gay. It's pathetic. Left to me, Homosexuals should be Taken to another planet to stay, so that they can continue their homosexual acts there. And we will monitor their growth from earth. The issue of Homosexuality is an issue of Grave concern, we can not be worrying about Boko haram, Corruption, and Homosexuality. The Government has to start arresting and prosecuting Homosexuals. If care is not taken, most of Our Nigerian celebrities who are closet homosexuals would start singing about Gay Rights in their music. Take Rugged man for example. Just the other day he was said to be writing a Poem in support of Homosexuals. I just don't know what to say. I am Homophobic, and I have every Right to be Homophobic, I can stand being Raped By women, but I can not stand being Raped by men. God Forbid.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria's Security, And The Need For A Missile Defence System. by bolaino(op): 7:41pm On Sep 30, 2024
bolaino:
with the recent happening all over the world, it has become a matter of the highest security concern for Nigeria to start the plans to create a Missile defence system like they have in western countries to help us against foreign aggression that might come in the form of proxy war fallouts from world events. the ministry of defence needs to sit up. Long Live The Federal Republic Of Nigeria
CelebritiesRe: Reps Panel Question Kirikiri Deputy Controller Over Bobrisky Bribery Allegations by bolaino(m): 6:26pm On Sep 30, 2024
Mrfixitt:
Nigeria under T pain has become a huge joke
na really TPain, your head dey touch oo
PoliticsRe: How Many Persons Can You Recognize From This Picture? by bolaino(m): 11:20am On Sep 30, 2024
Kemistri3:
Let's see the real students of history😎

How many persons can you recognize in this photo?
Tinubu, Shetima, wike, Agui Ironsi Baba shege
PoliticsRe: DSS Arrest NLC President Joe Ajaero At Abuja Airport by bolaino(m): 11:44am On Sep 09, 2024
Xscape1993:
Well done drug baron and certificate forger. You are doing well sir.
you wicked oo...
PoliticsRe: Kaduna Govt Declares Curfew As Protest Gains Momentum On Day 5 by bolaino(m): 1:56pm On Aug 05, 2024
This is a good development
Foreign AffairsMurdered Russian Journalist In Africa Was On To Something Dangerous For Putin by bolaino(op): 1:51pm On Aug 05, 2024
Murdered Russian Journalists in Africa Were Onto Something Dangerous for Putin
AMBUSHED
Philip Obaji Jr.
Anna Nemtsova
Updated Aug. 06, 2018 12:29AM EDT Published Aug. 04, 2018 3:19PM EDT

Vasily Maximov/Getty

UYO, Nigeria—When Russian journalists Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev, and Orkhan Dzhemal arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday last week, they wanted to spend a fortnight investigating a private Russian security company operating in the country and gathering information about Russia’s interests in diamond, gold, and uranium mining in the restive nation.

Although there are some conflicting accounts, it appears the trio departed the capital, Bangui, late Monday night on their way to meet with a United Nations representative in the town of Bambari, about 380 kilometers away. But they never got there. They reportedly were ambushed and killed by about 10 men wearing turbans and speaking Arabic, according to the driver of their vehicle who survived the attack.

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The U.N. said on Wednesday that its peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic, known as MINUSCA, found the bodies of the journalists “with multiple gunshot wounds, along with an abandoned vehicle, 33 kilometers north of Sibut, in Kemo Prefecture,” which would have been about halfway to their destination.

According to the CNC (Chinese) news agency, locals in Sibut said that the attack was unusual, that the assailants seemed most interested in the “tall and muscular man” (Radchenko, the cameraman) and they wanted to search his pockets, but the journalist resisted and they shot him in front of his friends.


“The bodies were transferred to a U.N. hospital in Sibut and were then transferred to a local hospital in Bangui by national authorities,” U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York. “The circumstances of the incident have not yet been established.” Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs planned to transport the bodies of the three killed reporters to Moscow on Sunday morning.

The journalists had been assigned to travel to Africa by the Investigations Management Center (IMC), a project funded by former Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the most influential critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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The IMC’s manager, Russian senior investigative reporter Andrei Konyakhin, sounded heartbroken on Thursday when he talked to The Daily Beast. “I am looking at dozens of scary photographs of my dead friends, at their wounds,” Konyakhin said. “Somebody just piled up their dead bodies on the ground; their faces are covered with blood, I assume that their kidnappers first beat our guys up, then executed them by shooting right in their hearts.”

“The Wagner Group is something special. Some have called it Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 'private army.'”
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Radchenko, Rastorguyev and Dzhema were focusing their report on the activities of Wagner, a private Russian military firm with links to the Kremlin and to the military intelligence agency known as the GRU. Its involvement in the Central African Republic is believed to have begun in January this year, when Russia began shipping arms to CAR along with five active duty military and 170 civilian instructors, many of whom presumably are ex-Russian military, to train two army battalions. It had won an exemption to a United Nations arms embargo in order to contribute small arms and ammunition to the country’s chronically weak military, which needed help to keep very determined rebel groups at bay.

But the Wagner Group is something special. Some have called it Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “private army.” The organization is led by Dmitry Utkin, who was once a member of the Russian special forces and is currently under U.S. sanctions for aiding Russian-backed separatists in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.


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(According to a CNN report, Utkin was once head of security for Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin. Prigozhin was one of 13 Russians indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in February for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign. He became famous as a restaurateur, and earned the nickname,“Putin's chef.” Russian business outlet RBC reported a year ago that Utkin’s name appeared in a corporate database as the general director of one of Prigozhin's companies.)

As the exiled Khodorkovsky pointed out on his Facebook page after the reporters’ deaths were announced, in Russia “the Power too often likes to cover its dark business with a reference to ‘private persons.’” In Russia, Khodorkovsky noted, mercenary activity is regulated by opaque laws and may be a criminal offense. Yet the most powerful people of the state “are not shy about talking about this practice with approval, which makes the situation particularly dangerous.”

“If you ask government officials about the Russians, they will ask you to shut up and even threaten you.”
— Louis Kottoy, freelance journalist based in Bangui
The Central African Republic, for its part, has a deeply troubled post-colonial history, including some wildly corrupt leaders and foreign intrigues aimed at securing its rich deposits of gold, diamonds, and other minerals. (In the 1970s it was ruled by the self-declared Emperor Bokassa, who liked to favor visiting dignitaries with diamonds gifts.)

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The country descended into conflict anew in 2013, when a largely Muslim coalition of rebels called the Seleka toppled the government, causing predominantly Christian militias known as the anti-Balaka to fight back. The ensuing sectarian violence cost thousands of lives, forcing France, the former colonial power, to deploy troops to the country. The French later gave way to MINUSCA.

CAR was relatively calm after Faustin-Archange Touadera was sworn in as president in March 2016 and immediately promised to make it “a united country, a country of peace, a country [of] development." But violence returned not long after, and fighting has continued to the present. With CAR facing an escalating conflict, and with very little backing from the West, Russia saw an opportunity and stepped in with a promise to deliver 5,200 rifles and a variety of other light weapons by the end of 2018. Today, a Russian serves as Touadera’s security adviser and at least 40 Russians are in his presidential guard. Contractors from Wagner are scattered at several locations around the impoverished nation.

Like all of Russia’s dealings with CAR authorities, including several bilateral deals both governments have signed, details of Wagner’s operations in the troubled nation are shrouded in secrecy.

“If you ask government officials about the Russians, they will ask you to shut up and even threaten you,” Louis Kottoy, a freelance journalist based in Bangui, told The Daily Beast. “If you dare go to the site where these Russians are based for information, you’ll be chased away.”

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“All three of my friends got killed but their driver survived; I would like to meet with the driver and ask a few questions.”
— Andrei Konyakhin, IMC manager and senior investigative reporter
Interestingly, Russia’s secret dealings in CAR haven’t just been with the government, but also with the rebels who control about 80 percent of the country, along with access to its gold and diamonds resources.

In the first quarter of the year, Russian officials, suspected to be Wagner representatives, reportedly met with leaders of the three major rebel groups in CAR, including former President Michel Djotodia and Noureddine Adam of the Renaissance of the Central African Republic group who are both under sanctions by the U.S. and U.N. for threatening peace and blocking political transition in the African nation. None of them have yet given details of their discussions with the Russians.

According to IMC’s deputy chief editor, Anastasiya Gorshkova, who was speaking on Russia’s TV Rain, the reporters had traveled on Sunday, the eve of their assasination, to a camp at Berengo where Wagner was thought to be based, but were turned away because they lacked CAR Defense Ministry accreditation.

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As one CAR journalist told The Daily Beast, getting military clearance to enter the camp, which was once the home of former President/Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa, is very difficult for civilians. An AFP journalist who gained rare access to the large facility located in Berengo, 60 kilometers west of Bangui, reported that he saw Russians in military uniforms training CAR soldiers, but he was not permitted to take photographs, shoot videos, or conduct interviews.

Konyakhin has applied for a visa to travel to CAR and investigate the murder of his colleagues. “All three of my friends got killed but their driver survived; I would like to meet with the driver and ask a few questions,” Konyakhin told The Daily Beast. He said he would also like to meet with the U.N. employe who originally invited the crew to stay with him, and who had promised to help with the project.

The day after they failed to gain access to the Berengo camp, the three journalists were due to travel one and a half days by road to Bambari to the east to meet their fixer—a U.N. employee with MINUSCO—who had “information on the situation with Russian military instructors in the CAR,” and had promised to provide contacts of officials “who were ready to communicate for the record in Bangui,” according to a post on Facebook by IMC. The U.N. representative, the organization said, was also to “help with the filming of the gold mines at Ndassima,” a town where rebel groups are battling with the government for control.

“Russian mercenaries are now guarding the gold mine.”
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The mine at Ndassima, which once collapsed in 2014 killing 27 artisan miners, is built on a hilltop located in a forest. It originally was owned by Canada’s AXMIN gold exploration company, but was overrun by militants in late 2012. Reuters reported in 2014 that laborers toiled under the gaze of militants, to produce some 15 kilos of gold a month, which is worth roughly $350,000 on the local market, or twice that amount in international trade.

“Russian mercenaries are now guarding the gold mine,” said Kottoy, the journalist, who hails from Ndassima. “These mercenaries are responsible for the transporting equipment from Bangui to the gold mine.”

An article published last month by Africa Intelligence reported that Russia had agreed to work with the CAR government to develop the Ndassima gold mine, which is still under threat from militants. The Russian foreign ministry previously said the country was “exploring the possibilities of the mutually beneficial development of Central African natural resources,” having almost secured “mining exploration concessions.” The details of the agreement between between both parties and how they will work effectively in an area where the government doesn’t have total control are still not very clear.

Neither Russia nor CAR has denied the presence of Russian military personnel in the fragile African nation. A spokesperson for President Touadera reportedly told Jeune Afrique that officials from Russia “work at all levels and are there to observe and train the presidential guard.” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that "there is no sensation in the presence of Russian instructors in CAR, no one hid anything."

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But no one believes Russia’s interest is charitable, and no one has yet said anything concrete about the Russia-Central African Republic deals that underly Moscow’s interest. As the murder of the three journalists suggests, efforts to discover the truth are potentially deadly.

“Journalists, including foreign correspondents, have faced constant threats and intimidation from both the government and the rebels in CAR.”
Long before the Russians appeared, the Central African Republic was already a dangerous place for the media. Armed men constantly looted and destroyed the operations of media organizations, forcing quite a number to shut down. Journalists, including foreign correspondents, have faced constant threats and intimidation from both the government and the rebels.

In 2014, French photographer Camille Lepage became the first foreign journalist to be killed during the fighting in CAR. The body of the 26-year-old, whose work had appeared in numerous publications, including in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, was found nearly a week after she tweeted that she was travelling with anti-Balaka militia to an area where more than 100 people had been killed two months before. Her assailants have never been identified.

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A formal request submitted by the French judicial authorities to the CAR prosecutor-general’s office for certain actions to be taken yielded no result. CAR authorities said at the time that they lacked the resources to investigate, including a vehicle to visit the site of Lepage’s murder. Her mother, Maryvonne Lepage, last May made a renewed call for her daughter’s killers to be brought to justice. The employers of the three murdered Russian journalists are hoping there will get the justice that often eludes those killed in the war-torn nation.

“The best way to honor the death is to prove that their death was not misplaced,” Khodorkovsky wrote on social media. "I will make efforts to identify those responsible,” he said, and he is more deeply committed than ever to uncovering the activities of the Wagner Group.

Anna Nemtsova reported from Moscow.









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PoliticsRe: Protesters In Kano Fly Russian Flag, Ask President Putin To Wade In On Nigeria by bolaino(m): 9:01pm On Aug 03, 2024
Christistruth02:
We knew Putin could have had a hand in the Protests right from the Start

Putin wants to disrupt Gas supplies from Nigeria to Europe that are replacing Russian supplies
That was why he supported the Niger Coup to disrupt the Gas pipeline to Europe
you are not very far off from the truth my brother, but we pray they dont allow the north Bring more PIRE in the country.
PoliticsRe: UK And US Urge Citizens To Leave Lebanon ‘NOW', ‘Book Any Available Ticket’ by bolaino(m): 8:51pm On Aug 03, 2024
Arda1000:
stop talking rubbish
how is what i am saying Rubbish, Unclehuh
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PoliticsRe: UK And US Urge Citizens To Leave Lebanon ‘NOW', ‘Book Any Available Ticket’ by bolaino(m): 7:37pm On Aug 03, 2024
[quote author=IhateYouMan post=131311364][/quote]the Great Man of God Prophet TB Joshua warned us about this, may his soul rest in peace. E don Burst...

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