QuietMynd:
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Pillar 6, legal standards and enforceability I see Madagascar and even the DRC.
HAIYYEEEE!! Naij is NOWHERE!

rvp2018:
Very nice article explaining Kenya likely to leapfrog in a decade, followed by Rwanda, Uganda in two decades and Tanzania in 3 decades - Nigeria in about 5 decades from now.

Combination of literacy, democracy, savings, investment, etc

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1583723363507195904

When will countries in east Africa see their economies take-off, sustainably and with rapid GDP growth for decades?

Kenya 1st
Rwanda 2nd
Uganda 3rd,
Tanzania 4th,
Burundi last.
Unless government policies change
Ethiopia a harder call

One of best threads I’ve done

Thanks! The much vaunted Kagameland pays 23 cents US per unit of power? Who'd have thought!?

Shma2022:
This is terrible.

Cedi has depreciated by a whopping 119%. Damn!

The difference between us and Waffas! The ksh has lost 7% in the same time their currency has had a 100% fall - while we're all concerned these mofos are in denial!

Lurker4Long:
Ghana’s Homegrown Special Boat Squadron Signals New Era

The Ghana Special Boat Squadron (SBS) has graduated its first batch of operators who were 100% domestically trained.

The eight new graduates completed the rigorous six-month course and were the only ones out of a class of 25 to successfully finish and receive special forces badges. They trained at the Naval Training Command in Nutekpor which was opened two years earlier. They will now join the SBS, an elite special forces unit trained to counter piracy and trafficking and conduct opposed boarding of ships.

Building domestic training capability is a major part of the country’s SBS 5-year Development Plan, which was created in partnership with the U.S. and the Danish Special Warfare Group known as the Frogman Corps.

The units are particularly important as Ghana seeks to protect its offshore oil and gas installations and its fisheries sector.

Chief of Army Staff Maj. Gen. Thomas Oppong-Peprah praised the SBS as “quiet professionals” and said they are among the most flexible and useful instruments in the country’s national security toolbox, the Ghana Peace Journal reported.

“They operate deep at sea and in remote areas making difficult decisions every day in austere, uncertain, and unstructured environments,” Oppong-Peprah said at the graduation ceremony on September 15.

Created in 2016, the Ghana SBS typically works in tandem with traditional units from the Navy or Army. Lt. Cmdr. Seth Dzakpasu, commander of the SBS, said potential squadron members are volunteers from within the Ghana Navy who are screened and shortlisted to attempt the training. The Basic Operator Capability course is, he said, the most difficult course there is in the armed forces. It is both “grueling” and “academically daunting” preparing trainees to operate in desert, mountain, jungle, river or sea environments.

After that, there are follow-on intermediate and advanced courses throughout an operator’s career to sharpen skills.

“The SBS course is in phases,” he told ADF during the Naval Infantry Leadership Symposium held in Dakar, Senegal, in July. “It is designed to first condition you to work in small groups and move rapidly, then the other phases develop your mindset, the mindset to know the possibilities that a standard military unit might think is impossible.”

The SBS cultivates special forces skills such as speed, security, surprise and purpose, he said.

“These are the principles that enable a small entity to take on attacks which, traditionally, should have been conducted by a larger entity, sometimes three times the size, and achieve results,” he said.

Previous SBS graduates were trained with the help of Nigeria. A strong partnership has developed between the Ghana SBS and the Nigerian Special Boat Service, which has taken a lead role in some of Nigeria’s toughest counter-terror fights.

During a 2021 ceremony for the Nigerian Navy’s Basic Operating Capability course where 10 Nigerians and nine Ghanaians graduated, Nigerian Navy Rear Adm. Kamarudeen Lawal said the relationship between the two countries has solidified through training exchanges.

“Ghana and Nigeria are two countries that have been operating closely. We have had various exercises and trainings with Ghanaian officers. In most of our training institutions, we have Ghanaian officers teaching, and we also have Nigerians who are teaching in Ghana,” he said, according to the Nigerian newspaper This Day. “So, we have come a long way and I believe this is just a way to further strengthen our relationship.”

https://adf-magazine.com/2022/10/ghanas-homegrown-special-boat-squadron-signals-new-era/

Those Ghanaians are true operators! They've been trained and tested unlike the many cooks, mechanics and bandsmen we've seen of late wearing Gucci kit posing as Special Needs Troops!

Just40:
Well we are busy borrowing internationally since that wasn't the problem...
The tool kit I'm referring to is the fact that we can make cedi even more valuable than it currently is at absolutely no cost.

At this point, the Kenyan economy is more on the level of Sri Lanka and Lebanon than the Ghanaian economy.

Good you know that currency strength is not being 1:1 so you'll understand why the Cedi remains top 4 on the continent most valuable currencies.

The strength of the Cedi is it tradability

Classic hobabble!

One who is slutty and whorish, and talks about nothing all the time.
They may or may not be a compulsive liar, they do try to do anything to draw attention towards themselves.
they are also easily grief stricken, and they over react about everything.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hoe%20babble

gallivant:


Don't worry about the paper, we have videos..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZYWlv_Sry4

OMFG! So the Tzn child beggar broker beats them bloody and starves them whenever necessary! TRULY niggas are TERRIBLE to each other!?
But then again despite contrary noise from a certain tireless Tzn here this is a society steeped in backwardness: witchcraft rules, albinos are traded as ruthlessly as Trokosi girls, life is cheap and the whole socioculture is underpinned by decades of miseducation and ignorance.

Kazikazi:
pwaaaa pwaaa pwaaa
What are you trying to compare Kilimanjaro with?
You came up with those icecubes?

This is Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak,Tanzania. ....

You do know we Kenyans are familiar with the REAL TZ? Not the tourist places you superimpose pix of locals pretending they're the majority but the REAL TZ!
Anyone in Dar can't help but see Msasani slum crowding Masaki.

With almost 70 percent of its inhabitants living in informal settlements, Dar es Salaam is highly vulnerable to flooding

https://news.trust.org/item/20170104070454-rd34w

A couple of yrs ago I was in Mwanza and even if my eyes were closed Id've smelt Mabatini slums.
In 05 Unga ltd slums stood near a gated community in Arusha- I doubt it's changed; but correct me if I'm wrong.
And on and on and on! I'm sure even the Dodoma he's been assaulting our ears with hysterical screeching is no different!

rvp2018:
Safaricom has some best marketting gurus - I dont see how Ethiopian Telkom SOE will survive.

I doubt Ethiopia eyes have seen such a spectacle before. It was a once in a lifetime thing- like seeing a UFO!
Five yrs hence they'll be like "where were you when Ethiopia Safcom launched on 6/10/22?"

Ednaseret:
Thanks to you Kenyans brethren. These made me to real cry for my country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GAh59VDY4E

Ednited, if that's you supuu just know Kenya and Ethiopia will be together FOREVER!
KCB, Safaricom and Equity are merely the beginning of a new socio economic marriage.
In the meantime dry your eyes and know even better days are coming.

obaaderemi:
Kenya is lost. The post-covid issues will continue to mess up Kenya for a long time to come. Debt keeps rising, inflation is rising, climate change is affecting the country worse than most other African countries, the ksh is going down, etc. And you can't expect them to have a boom from any minerals. Minerals wouldn't really matter but in a continent like Africa where hci and investments are low, minerals matter. They absorb some of the shock.

I'm taking a risk knowingly engaging a professional Makoko danfo man but nigga do you know what this chart means!?

That's your OFFICIAL rate! The real rate has broken 700!

Those who know say it may well fall off a cliff.

The naira is floating, indeed, tumbling freely with no hold based on positive economic imperatives. There is apprehension that except there is a complete turnaround, the naira might plummet to N1000/$1.

https://guardian.ng/opinion/any-red-line-for-the-falling-naira/

Luckily people apart from your mental age mates on this thread can see the obvious major takeaways of the writeup.

The floating of the naira has triggered the worst economic downturn since the end of the Nigerian Civil War.

Even the aviation biz you were prematurely nutting over is DOA.

From the aviation industry is the fact that no less than 14 foreign airlines have shut down their operations in Nigeria due to the rising cost, low patronage, low profit and harsh operating environment

Ohh,Naij! SIGHHHH!?

rvp2018:
Scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Kenya led in digital economy by far in many parameters.

Cyrptos

Kenya has the largest share of its population with cryptocurrencies in Africa, says the United Nations, pointing to the country’s exposure to the ongoing meltdown in the crypto market.

A report by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says that 8.5 percent of the population or 4.25 million people own cryptocurrencies in the country.
This places Kenya ahead of developed economies such as the United States, which is ranked sixth with 8.3 percent of its population owning digital currencies.

War-torn Ukraine is ranked top, with 12.7 percent share of its population with cryptocurrencies, followed by Russia (11.9 percent), Venezuela (10.3 percent) and Singapore (9.4 percent

Wow! On the surface unbelievable but knowing another side of Kenya just from this thread it's NOT surprising at all.

IIRC, this is a first! Never before has a serving leader detailed operational French agreements with their neocolonies.

Ohh happy day! Burkinabe coup leader reveals secret French agreements. This info has actually been in the public domain for over a decade but some Geniuses here ofc thought it was conspiracy theory.
It's NOT!?

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b]Since then, approximately 150,000 tonnes of uranium have been extracted by the majority state-owned French company Areva,[/b] which is now one of the largest uranium producers in the world. The two mines around Arlit – Somaïr and Cominak – account for around a third of the multi-billion-dollar company’s total global production.

https://africanarguments.org/2017/07/a-forgotten-community-the-little-town-in-niger-keeping-the-lights-on-in-france-uranium-arlit-areva/

Look at the price per oz! And the town of Arlit is still poor AF as the entire Burkina Faso even by African standards!?

Ohh happy day! Burkinabe coup leader reveals secret French agreements. This info has actually been in the public domain for over a decade but some Geniuses here ofc thought it was conspiracy theory.
It's NOT!?

S[b]ince then, approximately 150,000 tonnes of uranium [/b]have been extracted by the majority state-owned French company Areva, which is now one of the largest uranium producers in the world. The two mines around Arlit – Somaïr and Cominak – account for around a third of the multi-billion-dollar company’s total global production.

https://africanarguments.org/2017/07/a-forgotten-community-the-little-town-in-niger-keeping-the-lights-on-in-france-uranium-arlit-areva/

Look at the price per oz! And the town of Arlit is still poor AF as the entire Burkina Faso even by African standards!?

Btw, for a forum of fierce pro/anti Russians/J/Ukes you've been strangely silent. Am I the only one who's heard of the Nordstream pipeline bombing?
Whoever benefits the most is generally the perp but what say ye?

kabe1:
South African army plagued by setbacks in Cabo Delgado


The SADC intervention force in northern Mozambique, to which South Africa is the main contributor, has suffered a series of setbacks, including logistical snafus, lack of intelligence gathering, and poor coordination with Rwandan and Mozambican troops.

https://www.africaintelligence.com/southern-africa-and-islands/2022/10/12/south-african-army-plagued-by-setbacks-in-cabo-delgado,109834052-eve

I found this:

At the moment the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is overburdened and will have to pick and choose where it deploys to due to its limited budget and shrunken capabilities, experts have warned.

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/south-africa-needs-stronger-defence-force-to-deal-with-threats-like-mozambiques-insurgency/

There are few other serviceable vessels that can be sent to places like the Mozambique Channel. John Stupart, Director at African Defence Review, reminded participants that the SANDF’s defunct Project Millenium looked at the procurement of an amphibious assault ship, which “would have been an absolute game changer for Mozambique.” However, due to a lack of funding this never went anywhere.

Marais believes the SANDF needs comprehensive air support for operations like Mozambique and although the helicopter squadrons are doing “outstanding work,” the transport fleet (notably the C-130 Hercules) remains a “major concern.” Much of its aircraft are unserviceable.

I knew things weren't good but will this chronic underfunding continue indefinitely? I rmbr frummie, I think saying " the Grips will fly til they fall from the sky."
How many of the SANDF projects will suffer the same fate?

Stargate254:
@NTSA I still dont get why the airforce was given the cobras instead of the army's 50th calvary, 6 is such a small number to be inducted into the airforce, they would be much more useful to army if they had operational control, If the army had them, they would be in Somali right now

This! This! This! I first thought it was the beginning of at least a 12 ship induction. Even though it turned out not to be the Aircav ideally should have gunships which don't fit the mission profile even of 1st world AFs.

Subsaharan:


You seem to understand along with kikuyu1 the story of the migration of African tribes

I'm curious on your what your version is of the Bantu expansion theory.

What empire was built and destroyed to initiate migration on that scale?

We LOOONNG ago demolished the Bantu Migration Theory on ToT! The idea that Bantus in S Naij/ M Cameroon first developed Steel circa 1000 bc then expanded outward via the Congo Forest for some reason is complete B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T!?
It's, an invention, an extremely successful one to separate us from ancient Egypt and the ME.
Just think: they didn't build canoes and sail south down the coast but decided to trek across the impenetrable Ituri in small groups which conveniently leaves no trace. You do know of the 8000 yr old Dufuna canoe from Yobe not too far from the putative Bantu Homeland?
At the same time few if any Bantu oral history has a cultural memory of such a population transfer!

Here's the regional analysis of King Tut's fam. Our Kamba cousins to our drier NE also have ME origins.

Hobley, (1922) a colonial District Commissioner attributed the similarity of the akamba word for spirits with the Assyrian one as pure chance. He (Hobley, 1922, p.27) found that “Curiously enough, the disembodied spirit was called Edimmu by the ancient Assyrian according to R.C Thompson in “Semitic magic”. Hobley observed that the Assyrian word Edimmu (whose root is immu) is the same as the Kamba for the same concept. [/b]He stated that despite that similarity, there was hardly any evidence to show that the identity was “anything but accidental.” Hobley also noticed similarities of certain Kikuyu and Kamba customs to Egypt and Semitism. He dismissed them as due to ‘parallel development’ because, only the “Ba-Hima or Ba-Huma” (of Rwanda Urundi) are believed by one sir Harry Johnston to be descendants of ancient Egyptian settlers…”

https://hubpages.com/politics/Falsification-of-Africas-history

The Cameroonian Bassa, a Bantu people have been identified as Tamil speakers by a Tamil!!

https://youtu.be/vWyAYGlFZjk

To fully understand African history first abandon the idea of tribes and or language groups. Those categories aren't as neat as we think. There's ALWAYS been cultural and genetic links across ALL African population groups-learning Kikuyu history taught me this.
A mere glance at a group of say 10 Kikuyus shows simultaneous Nilotic, Bambuti, OROMO and Semitic elements! I've even heard Naijjans here on this thread and in Nairobi wonder why we're Fulani.

Here are Niger Congo elements identified in the earliest Chinese dialect by Hong Kong uni.

The degrees of African-ness and Chinese-ness are evaluated, and African-style features arefound to be lurking throughout the Qiangic family. Similarities of word structure and wordlength between African and Qiangic languages are held responsible for the similarities.....
A close inspection of the tone system of the Mianchi dialectof Southern Qiang (SQ) shows that its tone system behaves more like a prototypical Africanlanguage than it does like Chinese, even though the tone system arose under heavy influence......
As this paper was nearing completion, I was made aware of Hyman (2007 [forthcoming]),in which African tonal features are reported in kuki-Thaadow, another Tibeto-Burman language........

http://sinica.academia.edu/JonathanEvans/Papers/167301/African_tone_in_the_Sinosphere

Their tonal type is more African than Chinese in 10 out of 12 respects ,specifically Dagaare ,spoken in Ghana as far as Burkina Faso. The language is of the Niger-Congo family.

I had pix of these Kuki Thaddou speakers on my hard drive and tab but IDKWTF happened- NADA!? Anyway, in the 1890s many of these Upper Burmese people looked Polynesian with frizzy hair and dark complexions. Now, though ofc assimilation with Chinese has bleached them out.
Let me leave with the Mangbetu from the middle of Africa. A Sudanic people they're famous for skull binding and their labial trill.

Only a few languages contrast voiced and voiceless bilabial trills phonemically – e.g. Mangbetu of Congo and Ninde of Vanuatu.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Voiceless_bilabial_trill

15000 km + away and 2 groups share distinct linguistic and cultural body modification practices- could it be coincidence?

I've known 2 people over the years who clued me in as to how real life anthropological field teams actually operate.
One, a White American with so much black blood in an earlier era you'd think he was "passing" said many such teams are riddled with ACTIVE Intel agents. They steal, fake and/or deface their findings.
Another acquaintance, a BA female with an actual anthropology degree gave up over a decade ago. The professors are ALL on code: findings aren't just stolen,faked and/or defaced but hidden away to be shown at STRICTLY private exhibitions owned by their sponsors, usually the familiar names of biz moguls.
These are guys with personal 747s on standby!
Yes, they've their own secret societies, ala Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key etc,etc. It's all a private club of secret initiates- the billionaire sponsor who can fund a 6 month dig in N Iraq for 6 months incl armed security costing upward of 10 mn$, the Prof and eager student acolytes: all work to keep this knowledge to themselves.
IIRC, she personally knew of 6 ongoing private ME digs around 2005-2007.
On realising this she saw how lucky she was to graduate and left the field to try new things.
I'll ALWAYS rmbr her say " you wouldn't believe what they've found. The worst thing is they'll NEVER reveal it cause to do so would provoke unwanted questions."
Goodness, but this is long! Point being do your own research without being tied down by the ethnic or linguistic considerations of others.
But be careful- you may go far,far down the rabbit hole.....

Mkenya2019:
Yes I'd say Nara and Kunama have similar history to Kalenjin - northern most nilotes - moving out of Kush/Meroe empire around 2000yrs ago - together with breakaway cushites/semites - while main nilotic (like Maasai, Luo) stock remained longer in South sudan until recently

Whenever you're ready, fafanua zaidi, Mzee! I'm sure there's a LOOONGGGG complicated and fascinating story.

Mkenya2019:
Very good video of Kagame miracle in Rwanda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUoi48ztUg8

Mzee, Jana was in Kilimani at a restaurant off Galana Rd. At the next table were some Eri habeshas sitting with what I'd have sworn were 2 Nandis. What raises eyebrows was while they all spoke Tigrinya! I'd have again sworn one of them spoke Nandi, not Kipsigis which to my inexpert ears has significant Nilotic elements.
I asked and they said they were Nara, a small non Semitic group. I googled kidogo and found this and a few pics.

According to the Eritrean government, the Nara are descendants of the first Nilo-Saharan settlers in Eritrea, who had migrated from the Upper Nile area and intermarried with local Pygmy populations. Today, the Nara number around 108,000 individuals. They constitute around 1.5% of the population of Eritrea.

[url][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nara_people/url]
I'm convinced these are your people! At the time I'd taken my usual but I don't think my observations were off. Ever heard of them?

There's nothing new under the sun! 80 yrs ago names familiar to forumers here,Kiev,the Dnieper,Kharkov were the scene of massive combined arms manoeuvre warfare. Their formations were organised thusly.

The armored (Panzer) division now numbered 14,750 men and had about 160 tanks. The division was organized into an armored regiment with two tank battalions and 2 regiments of infantry, each with 2 battalions, along with various supporting units (reconnaissance, engineer, signal, etc.). In addition to its tanks, the division was armed with 77 guns (ranging from 75mm to 150mm); 70 mortars; 33 anti-tank guns; and 700 machine guns; and some 100 anti-aircraft guns.

https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/services/dropoff/schilling/mil_org/milorgan_99.html

Then as now the steppe with its endless flatness and limited cover favoured armoured ops,especially the German type,spearheaded by Luftwaffe attacks with swarming Panzers all along the battle line looking for holes and piercing or them into the enemy's area where necessary finally encircling his units.


The largest prisoner bag in the history of warfare was taken by the Germans at the first battle of Kharkov in August 1941- OVER 600000!?

The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. It is considered the largest encirclement of troops in history. The operation ran from 23 August – 26 September 1941 as part of Operation Barbarossa.[2] In Soviet military history it is referred to as the Kiev Defensive Operation

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1941)

Barely a month later the Germans moved on Kharkov extremely important in many ways.

Kharkov was one of the largest industrial centers of the Soviet Union. One of its greatest contributions was the Soviet T-34 tank that was both designed and developed at the Kharkov Tractor Factory. It was considered to be the most powerful tank plant in the country. Other plants that were located in the city included the Kharkov Aircraft Plant, Kharkov Plant of the NKVD (FED), and the Kharkov Turbine Plant. Military products that were in Kharkov before the battle started included: tanks, Su-2, artillery tractors, 82 mm mortars, sub-machine guns, ammunition, and other military equipment. The main objective for the German troops was to capture the railroad and military plants, thus they desperately tried to keep the industrial area of Kharkov intact. Adolf Hitler himself stressed the importance of those military plants stating: “…

[url]https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/First_Battle_of_Kharkov/url]

After all these yrs I still can't find anything specific on casualties-the most complete suggest Germany lost the better part of half of a brigade,some 2500-3000 guys with the Russians losing at least a division of 12000 in the 2 day battles of late October 1941.

The 2nd battle of Kharkov in May 1942 kicked off when exhausted Germans were withdrawing from Moscow after failing to capture it. Falling back to their Kharkov base Stalin decided on an offensive.

The Soviet strength for the offensive was about 640,000 men, supported by 1,500 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. Poor management by front line officers, however, failed to maintain the necessary degree of secrecy, and German intelligence was able to determine that a Soviet offensive was being planned.

https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=50

Due to the intelligence of a possible Soviet offensive, troops were readied in nearby regions for support should an attack take place. German strength in the general area was about 300,000 men, supported by 1,000 tanks and 1,500 aircraft.

Long story short the Soviets were again encircled.

[b]The Second Battle of Kharkov resulted in an extremely costly loss to the Soviets, which saw 207,000 men killed, wounded, or captured; some estimates put the number as high as 240,000. Over 1,000 Soviet tanks were destroyed during this battle, as well as the loss of 57,000 horses. German losses were much smaller than the Soviets, with over 20,000 killed, wounded, or captured. [/b]Soviet General Georgy Zhukov later blamed this major defeat on Stalin, who underestimated German strength in the region and failed to prepare an adequate reserve force to counter the arrival of the German reinforcement that turned the tide.

82 yrs later not much has changed but for the numbers and intensity of combat in the same theatre: its true as Jean-Fraude always says.

Shma2022:

I also encourage that. And yes, I am a Kenyan. Red alerts all over the place, that Saudi(middle east) is a NO GO ZONE. you with your problems decide to fold your eyes and move there, smh! This is the reason why Rvp says Africans are backward.

Disclaimer! Obscene content.

Nigeria & Ghanaian women being r@ped in broad daylight in middle east.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVztg0EsowE

The problem is not poverty. Africans are the problem.

What I do know is that their culture excuses and encourages some terrible dysfunctions. Unthinkable ishyt is done in madrassas, normal schools and homes and has become normalised and passes without comment.

Nemesis4you:

Yes
Better late than never , govt literally had to kick the ass of the generals / foreign arms lobby / bureaucracy

Tomorrow LCH will be inducted into IAF

Speaking of which anything new on Gen Rawat's suspicious Mi 17 crash?

Mkenya2019:
I have been to both. I saw huge slum in Namibia. Like South Africa - you see white and colored people living big - and Africans mostly in Slums. Namibia and South Africa are almost same country.

Sam Nujoma has a lot to answer for. IIRC he actually gave SWAPO fighters names to Boer Intel!?

Shma2022:

We can't be fighting food security with GMO imposition, even with expert involvement. & you can't convince me otherwise; just let it rest. GMO cant be a good thing, and has never been a good thing.

For sakajas case,
Bottom line:
We can do better without Tribal rhetoric.

Fyi, GMO has actually been with us for the longest. Eg Drought resistant Katumani maize was hybridised out of several varieties. The term has been emotionally weaponised however.

Top Five Myths Of Genetically Modified Seeds, Busted

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top-five-myths-of-genetically-modified-seeds-busted

rvp2018:
From a Tanzanian - even a Kenya hawker on the street - would die of laughter. The only thing you can manufacture is bong music,witchraft and begging at industrial scale.

Mzee,OUCHHHHHH!? Lakini wewe.... HAHAHA!

Faithful007:


Lol. I am sent weekly pieces of these institutions including CFR, LEVIN Institute SUNY, CSIS and others you haven't even heard. Frankly I don't think anyone here knows about the crimes of the West more than me. American "hegemony", the dark sides of the US Special forces, bending and the outright disobedience of International law and conflict rules. I read all these from reports published in America. As long as it is not classified or has not leaked, I probably know it.

So if you think they don't speak ill of America, then you don't even read them. I watch MSNBC, CNN and FOX, but they still too politically minded and sensitive to audience for me. That's why I spend more time reading these reports. I don't bring up the negatives here because most of you are closed-minded, some are childish and others too uninformed/misinformed. They'll rather capitalize on it to whip up sentiments and reinforce misinformation.

Son, you do you! While you're at it don't forget your other "neutral reading":

, spend more time reading Brookings or Canergie or other policy research institutions around the world that painstakingly research global events from a neutral standpoint.

obaaderemi:
His country is sinking fast and he is worried about Nigeria. From a Hdi of 0.6 they slipped to 0.5. What a fall. Even Nigeria with it's chaotic north did not experience such a massive tumble. The funny thing was their denial when I showed them. First the rvp guy, then his slaves the transgendered and old man Kikuyu1. Then their deafening silence when the truth hit home. I see the transgendered is trying to debunk their slum data I posted. What an animal.

Here's another one, a clearer one at that. It may be 2014 but Kenya is the only country in Africa where the slum population is growing at over 5%

When,how and why did I become a tranny?

kabe1:
Nigerian Air Force SOF

This is exactly WTF I'm talking about! If this is a NAF SOF unit what is their SPECIALITY? Is it their dogs? Fyi,the KA has a dog unit,the 1st Canine Rgt stood up a decade ago.

The 1st Canine Regiment's mission is to provide dogs as a force multiplier at times of war and peace to the Kenya Army. The unit was established in 2012 and is based at Embakasi Garrison. Kenya is the only country in East Africa with a fully formed and independent canine unit within its military.[1] The unit is trained in explosive detection, patrolling, search and rescue and road and building clearing. The regiment relies on a variety of dogs from the Belgian Malinois and Labrador Retriever to the German Shepherd depending on the range and type of mission assigned.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Canine_Regiment

Rmbr I mentioned the popularity of Malinois earlier? The KN IIRC according to a pal uses Labs. Anyway its not a SOF or even a spec ops capable regt. OTOH here are SEALs,a true SOF using wardogs.

Pls stop this ishyt! Training true spec ops can cost 20-30x the cost of an average infantry guy!

“These guys are a national treasure,” he said. “In my day, it cost an average of $1 million to train a special forces soldier. Now it probably costs closer to $1.5 million, and you don’t waste that asset. You use them judiciously when you really need them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/special-ops-retro.html

In these parts you could halve that figure but still the sheer intensity of training is unbelievable. An ex SEAL explains.

That being said I imagine that an active duty seal team member would train like I did (do) when practicing precision speed drills with a secondary: at least three times a week, I burn through 550 to 650 rnds of 9 mm auto in about an hour and a half. This time includes reloading the mags and going to range counter to buy more ammo and swapping targets....So eight to ten thousand plus rounds a month for half serious training on just the secondary for one man would not be uniusual. Now add in the primary weapon for the off days or for the afternoon. We are talking about 28 rnd mags at the same rate of fire on drill targets. So a mag will be changed about every 10 seconds.
This noise will degrade the quality of this thread which will turn stinky like the other one....

https://www.quora.com/A-few-years-ago-I-read-an-article-claiming-that-in-a-year-US-Navy-SEAL-teams-are-allotted-and-use-more-9mm-rounds-for-training-than-the-entire-Australian-Army-are-allotted-in-training-ammunition-for-all-calibres-in

Rmbr also there's drop outs at all stages of selection and training who add to the training cost. SOF training never stops! They still train to retain hard earned skills!

Pls stop throwing out that SOF term so casually-at the rate you're going you'll be posting pix of the NA Signals brigade or even the Mess Kit Repair guys AT Headquarters 1 Division Nigerian Army in Kaduna screeching NA SOF!?

Toju200:
Deep blue special forces

What does that mean? What role? Which branch?

Toju200:
okay SOF units in Nigeria
NASFC
Nigeria air force SOF (Panthers)
Nigeria navy SBS
Nigeria navy special operations forces (CNS intends to create them different from the SBS)
DHQSOF(Phantoms)
The guy i posted is a NAF SOF (panther)
Have i answered you?

Are the Panthers pilot rescue? Are they truly SOF? What will be the role of the NN SOF given you already have SBS? Will it be a combined ground unit- how will it function given there's no amphibious Marine type force?
Are Phantoms army? If not are they under DHQ? Who has operational control of the unit?
Who are your spec ops capable units if any? The US has Marine Force Recon in this category. Unlike strategic roles of SEALs they perform tactical functions for their larger parent USMC brigades.

The mission of Force Recon is to conduct amphibious reconnaissance, deep ground reconnaissance, surveillance, battle-space shaping and limited scale raids in support of the Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), other Marine air-ground task forces or a joint force.

https://www.military.com/special-operations/force-recon-missions-and-history.html

The BA Para Pathfinder platoons have a similar role and are similarly classed as spec ops capable- IIRC some refer to such units as Tier 2 spec ops.
If you have any QRF type units tell us their classification. Whatever happened to the Barlow trained 72 Mobile Strike Force?

rvp2018:
Nairobi Eastleigh - one biggest somali type mall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5m2ZlL_Nk&t=165s

Mzee umesahau? The Kenyattas somehow got their hands on this. Mama Ngina herself was seen there late last yr with a Turkish construction crew. This yr UK's eldest Jomo was seen making a tour.

rvp2018:
Yes Kibaki was able to cut on borrowing by selling SOES - to finance deficit; This is what we need to do;Next year budget for example; instead of borrowing 800B - we can target to sell SOES for 200B (few jewels like Safaricom, Kengen, KCB) - and borrow the 600B instead.

Exactly! I'm not saying let's fire sale the family jewels- HELL NO!! Let's not send the wrong message: instead let's reduce gov shareholding in some SOEs in exchange for a couple of billion dollars which will be well spent.
Again I stress we're not NEARLY as badly off as the Waffas and have enough manoeuvre room and smart policy guys to make smart moves.

Edit: Also a srs state capture enquiry can get a couple billion. I don't want to throw out unproven figures but it's known UK made minimum of 2 bn$ in his term from rent seeking, kickbacks, influence peddling and corruption like Sportpesa. How much would you value that deal alone?
That unbridled greed and hubris permeated every sector. Eg, all the trucks transporting Turkana oil are his!