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lalasticlala:
source: http://www.dailystormer.com/man-arrested-i-e-nigerian-asylum-seeker-in-iceland-for-giving-women-hiv/

take down this crap, that's a racist white supremacist site similar to stormfront..

This Is the original article that brought focus on the high academic achievement of Nigerian immigrants in the west, written by a Zambian Chasala.

IQ gap is no longer a black and white issue

http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

He specifically singled out igbos as being one of the groups who do well academically in the UK and US, therefore disproving the racists theories that Africans are less intelligent than Europeans and Asians.

The racialist now claim that Igbos are just more superior to other black people, the racialist anthropologist Peter Frost claims Igbos even before contact with Europeans had a superior civilization to other Africans (I don't think he's being factual).

Here's one comment.


40. Qasimsays:
July 5, 2015 at 5:57 pm GMT• 100

Words I had left a similar comment on the Chisala article, but thought it might be useful to again note the recent post by Razib Khan which discussed genetic evidence of Nigerians having some DNA from Eurasian pastoralists that interbred with the local population thousands of years ago.

Igbo often have skin tones and eye colors that are significantly lighter than the typical West African (for example see Andre Iguodala).

It would seem that if genetic analysis shows that if the Igbo indeed do have more Eurasian DNA than other West Africans, their high achievement will end up supporting the hereditarian view rather than weakening it.

I saw this article written today on an American site by a Canadian racialist anthropologist on Igbos.

Can somebody knowledgeable on Igbo history please contribute on this topic. @ Radoilla

here's the link

the Jews of west africa

http://www.unz.com/pfrost/the-jews-of-west-africa/#new_comments

Some racialist claims Igbos are more successful than other African tribes because they mixed with Eurasians, therefore proving that Africans are inferior to Eurasians, (rehash of the old hemetic theory.)

LEEDS, England—Parliamentary candidates selected to represent the U.K. Independence Party have told The Daily Beast that they believe 9/11 was a hoax, claimed the British government was to blame for the July 7 London bombings, which killed more than 50 people, and refused to condemn those traveling to live in the so-called Islamic State.

The extraordinary claims cast doubt on UKIP’s credentials as a mainstream political party ahead of the General Election on Thursday. The party, which campaigns for the introduction of tougher immigration controls and an exit from the EU, won the largest share of the vote in Britain’s European elections last year.

Despite UKIP’s anti-immigration stance and history of members being expelled for making Islamophobicor racistremarks, two Muslim immigrants have been selected as candidates in Northern England. During interviews in the Pudsey suburb of Leeds, one of them told The Daily Beast that Tony Blair and George W. Bush had “invented terrorism,” while the other suggested vulnerable animals should be granted the right to claim asylum in Britain like refugees.

A UKIP spokesman said: "The points of view expressed here do not reflect UKIP policy." But the party declined to comment on whether there would be a formal investigation into their candidates' remarks.

UKIP’s rise from fringe campaign group to Britain’s third most popular political party has been meteoric, but it still struggles to win over black and minority ethnic voters. Among a new generation of candidates hoping to buck that trend and welcome minority voters into UKIP’s “People’s Army” are Mohammed “Harry” Boota and Owais Rajput, both immigrants to Britain who are standing for election in Bradford West and Bradford East.

oota, who moved to Britain from Pakistan in 1967, admitted that it had not been UKIP’s stance on immigration that first attracted him to the party. “The gay marriage thing was going through,” he said. “I wrote to Her Majesty the Queen, I wrote to David Cameron. I said what you are doing is wrong. You're going against people's religion.” After a cross-party parliamentary vote in 2013, gay marriage was legalized in Britain. UKIP was the only major party to oppose its introduction, arguing that they supported gay rights but feared churches would be forced to carry out the ceremonies. The party officially dropped its opposition to gay marriage in the run up to this week’s election, but Boota remains unconvinced. “It's against every religion; God's primary concern is procreation,” he said. “He can't turn around and say it's all right to be gay.” Boota was speaking at an official UKIP event that was scheduled to take place at a community center in the south of Bradford. The placards and flags were ordered down a few minutes before it was due to start, however, when the center’s manager said all political events were banned from the premises and the hall had been booked “under false pretenses.” The small, somewhat bewildered, crowd bundled into a convoy of vehicles and headed about 20 minutes away to the outskirts of Leeds, where an Indian restaurant opposite a scrap metal yard had agreed to provide emergency shelter. Jane Collins, UKIP’s Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, was the only white woman in the smart dining room apart from a couple of Eastern European staff who had been employed to hand out flyers. UKIP’s traditional anti-immigration tub-thumping was mysteriously absent from her short speech to the crowd of predominantly middle-aged South Asian men. Collins claimed afterwards that it was entirely coincidental that the party’s central policy had been left out of her opening remarks. Boota, an aromatherapy oil salesman, was keener to address the apparent dichotomy. “All our problems are caused by open door immigration with the EU,” he said. “Housing, transport, NHS, crime, economy, policing, you name it: uncontrolled immigration has been the cause... It affects the Asians more than it affects the whites.” He said the wider immigrant population felt aggrieved that Europeans were allowed to move to Britain without restrictions as part of European freedom of movement regulations while immigrants from the rest of the world struggled to secure visas for their friends and families based in the rest of the world. “It has a very dire effect on the Asians,” he said. As a schoolboy, Boota, 59, was targeted for being an immigrant himself. He was punched as he walked home from school in Bradford and says he later suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of being ostracized as an Asian man while serving for more than 20 years in the Navy. He claimed that all parties have racist members even though the ones from UKIP tended to get caught more often. One UKIP counselor was expelled from the party earlier this year for admitting on camera that “I really do have a problem with people with negroid features." Another elected counselor stood down after a post on Facebook that claimed Islam was a cancer. He also said of Muslim women: “Hang um all first then ask questions later.” Nigel Farage, the party’s charismatic leader who famously conducts interviews with a pint of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other, sparked allegations of Islamophobia himself in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings when he claimed there was a “fifth column”operating in France and Britain as a result of mass immigration. Boota said the party’s leadership needed to be better educated. “I want the leader to voice strongly support for the Muslims in this country,” he said. “Inshallah, there's going to be a candidate who is going to be on the NEC [National Executive Committee] who is going to have a voice from the Muslim community because right now there is no education within the party. The leadership doesn't know how to respond. They don't know what to say.” Owais Rajput, an academic at Leeds Metropolitan University and the prospective parliamentary candidate for Bradford East, however, said he has detected Farage’s respect for his deeply held religious beliefs during three trips to help his leader campaign in Thanet, which is east of London. “He respects others,” he said. “Whenever he's seen me there, there was always a cup of tea in his hand. He never ever drinks in front of me.” Rajput, who has a full, lustrous beard, is far more concerned about the British government’s approach to Islam. Speaking in a sunny pub garden 100 yards from the curry house, he said the government was utterly failing to connect with the Muslim population. He said less spying and more trust was required to counter Islamic extremism, which appears to be on the rise within Britain. “When something happens in the North or in East London they say, ‘Oh, hang on a second. This is radicalization.’ I'm totally against that word—and we need to be careful when we use words like jihad,” he said. “People in London created this mess; they called us homegrown, radicalized, terrorists. 7/7 happened because of our own problematic policies.” Rajput, a Pakistani who moved to Bradford in 1995, suddenly seemed to be blaming the government for Britain’s worst terrorist attack. Three of the four jihadists, who killed 52 on buses and trains during the morning rush hour on July 7, 2005, were British-born sons of Pakistani immigrants who lived in the Leeds area. It’s common for Islamists to cite British foreign policy as a root cause of terror attacks, but Rajput went further. “Forget Iraq, forget the foreign policy of the United Kingdom,” he said. “[There are] 1,001 issues related to our local communities. “We need to understand the whole journey. A British-born person does not suddenly—one night or one month or one year—become a terrorist. And we have to be careful about those words,” he said. “The 7/7 people, yes they committed those crimes. They were not acceptable, but… Those were disaster policies. They [the government] had no clue, what are the needs in the North, what are the needs even in East London?” Rajput repeatedly refused to condemn British women, some as young as 15, who have travelled to Syria to live in the Islamic State. “Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon his head, said you Muslims in a Christian-ruled country, you're not allowed to break the law. You’re bound by the law of the land, if you think by obeying the law of the land that prevents you from performing your religious duties: migrate to another country without making any trouble in that country,” he said. “That is the message, it's not me, that is the Prophet.” He did condemn those who take up weapons for ISIS but seemed to suggest there was some sort of conspiracy in the origins of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. “First of all I have to understand who created ISIS, you know?” he said. Pressed for further explanation, he said: “It’s OK I want to continue with my election. I don’t want to be blocked.” Surely he didn’t believe ludicrous theories that the CIA or Mossad was running ISIS as some kind of false flag operation? “I don’t want to mention anybody’s name.” As this increasingly bizarre conversation unfolded in the concrete pub garden, a fat-necked white man spotted the UKIP paraphernalia and offered his support. “Good luck, lads,” he said. “I’m voting for you and I’ve told the family to do the same. I get four votes, me.” The working class towns and cities of Northern England, where voters have placed their cross in Labour’s box as a matter of course for generations, are seen as fertile ground by UKIP. Farage wants to bolster his band of right-wing Conservative rebels in the South-East with disaffected Labour voters in the North. UKIP’s dreams of ten or more seats in Parliament after their victory in last year’s European elections may have faded, but the party is still scoring at around 15 percent in the opinion polls. This places it comfortably ahead of the Liberal Democrats, who currently form the coalition government along with the Conservatives. The British voting system means UKIP are unlikely to secure many more than the two MPs they already have. Their remarkable rise in the past five years, however, has already forced the ruling Conservative party to make impossible promises on reducing immigration and offer a referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union. If the party has moved into the mainstream, it was becoming increasingly obvious in Leeds that some of their candidates had yet to follow suit. Boota, a former curry house owner who had now joined us in the pub, took up the baton. “Terrorism was invented by Bush and Blair,” he announced. “It was revenge for 9/11. Whatever took place there, we do not know who was behind it. “The FBI took a lot of evidence away before they even bloody got there. Then you have this wonderful video of the whole thing taking place. It’s very convenient isn't it?” he said. “Now we have the Muslims [who carried out the attack]—whether they were hired, invented, created by the Establishment themselves because you know they can create anything they like. Let's say the FBI, for example. They don't give a monkey’s—they want to create this thing against Muslims, right? They want to create that illusion of what's taken place. They have got the capability and monies to do it. We can't, sitting here in Pudsey, know what's going on in those hidden corridors of the United States security service.” “People are getting brain-effed,” the self-proclaimed inventor of curryokeconcluded. According to Boota, one of the great things about UKIP is that candidates are able to speak out without fear of centralized party control. “If you line up members of all the parties you can tell which one is a Kipper because they are not stressed by which lie they have just told and which one they will tell next. We're not whipped and we don't have to tell lies,” he said. “Most of us are from other parties [originally], we shed all that shit of toeing the party line.” As the interview drew to a close, Rajput brought up one more topic he wanted to discuss: asylum seekers. “If a person whose life is in danger claims asylum here, [under a] UKIP government, if I get elected, my full support is with that person,” he said. “And asylum is not only for humans, asylum is for animals as well.” Sorry, animals should be able to seek asylum in Britain? "Yes, why not. A lot of people laugh at me,” he said. “They say, ‘You want welfare for horses as well?’ I say, ‘Listen: animals—they can't speak, you know?’”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/05/how-the-grateful-dead-s-cool-never-died.html

Nairobi - At least 46 people have been killed and many others injured when cattle raiders attacked a village in northern Kenya, reports said on Tuesday.

"The attack took place in a very remote zone," local official Osman Warfa told the Daily Nation newspaper.

Gunmen from the ethnic Turkana people are suspected of launching the attack on Monday against an ethnic Pokot village close to Nadome along the Turkana-East Pokot district border, an area where there are frequent deadly conflicts between the two communities.

Warfa, who is Rift Valley regional commissioner, said 46 people were killed and an unknown number of livestock stolen and that Kenya police and soldiers were hunting the attackers.

Another official, Baringo county commissioner Peter Okwanyo, said Monday's raid followed a previous attack by Pokot warriors on a Turkana village in which 100 goats were stolen.

"These are provocative attacks," Okwanyo said, calling on security forces to "pursue and arrest the culprits to quell the heightened tension".

Retaliatory cattle raids as well as armed disputes over water and pasture are common among Kenya's northern pastoralists.

AFP

DAKAR, Senegal – Senegal is sending 2,100 troops to help back the military intervention led by Saudi Arabia that is underway in Yemen, becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to contribute soldiers to the effort, the country's foreign minister said Monday.

The decision to deploy soldiers was announced by Foreign Affairs Minister Mankeur Ndiaye, who read a message from the president before the National Assembly.

Senegal, which is made up of mostly Sunni Muslims like Saudi Arabia, has received significant financial investments from the kingdom in recent years. Last month, Senegalese President Macky Sall met with the Saudi king, who solicited troop contributions.

The conflict in Yemen has heightened sectarian rhetoric in the Middle East region, with hard-liners in both Saudi Arabia and Iran essentially casting the war as a conflict between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia.

Senegal called Saudi Arabia a "dear friend," and warned that the Yemen rebels posed a serious threat to regional stability and to Islam's holy sites.

"This Senegalese contribution to the international coalition is equally aimed at protecting Islam's holy places Mecca and Medina which are also threatened by these terrorist groups," Ndiaye warned.

The move was swiftly condemned by Senegal's opposition parties. "Saudi Arabia isn't threatened and neither are Islam's holy sites. There is nothing to justify a military intervention by Senegal," said Modou Diagne, an opposition politician.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/04/senegal-pledges-2100-troops-to-aid-saudi-led-intervention-in-yemen-foreign/

PhysicsQED:
@ Shymexx

This source was written by a Nigerian, but the information seems to be credible (and academic/reputable) nonetheless:

https://books.google.com/books?id=_sDeDWCnnRAC&pg=PA93

Pages 90 through 94 discuss Nigeria's involvement.

I'm on my phone so I can't open your links, they might answer my question.

Do you think the fact that the list of countries is based on the help they gave to political parties is the reason Nigeria isn't included? Fighting apartheid doesn't mean helping any of those parties, people mention songs and nationalising companies, I don't see how that will get Nigeria included in that plaque.

hmmmm,
I just see political parties, much ado about nothing. next...

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File: A French soldier is pictured in the Central African Republic

French soldiers working as peacekeepers for the UN in the Central African Republic have been accused of raping and abusing desperately poor young children in exchange for food.,

According to an alleged internal report seen by The Guardian entitled Sexual Abuse on Children by International Armed Forces, children told human rights investigators they were sexually exploited, including rape and sodomy, in the capital Bangui in early 2014.

One nine-year-old boy reportedly described how French soldiers at a camp for internally displaced people forced him and his friend to perform a sex act when they went to look for food.

The leaking of the alleged report via the advocacy group Aids Free World comes as the UN Security Council approved maintaining the international force in the Central African Republic for another year.

In March it approved measures to provide an additional 1,000 personnel to the 12,000-strong peacekeeping force, which has been tasked with protecting the most vulnerable since it was set up in late 2013 following an unprecedented surge in violence between Christians and Muslims.

But besides the potential implications in the country for the report on abused children, it also threatens to cause a diplomatic row in Europe after a senior UN aid worker was suspended for allegedly passing it on to the French authorities.

Anders Kompass, a Swedish international, has been told “it was his duty to know and comply” with UN protocols that meant the report should have remained confidential, the Guardian reported.

An investigation by the French into allegations “of a very serious nature” is reportedly under way in the Central African Republic, while a spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed to The Guardian that a probe into “the leaking of confidential information by a staff member” was ongoing.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/french-soldiers-accused-of-raping-and-abusing-refugee-children-in-central-african-republic-in-exchange-for-food-in-leaked-un-report-10213197.html

Paris - A 15-year-old French Muslim girl has been banned from her classroom for wearing a long black skirt, seen as going against France's law guaranteeing secularism.

She missed two days this month in a dispute over her skirt, French education officials said on Wednesday, and the issue remains unresolved.

A popular Twitter hashtag #jeportemajupecommejeveux (I wear my skirt as I like) popped up on Wednesday after the dispute was made public in the girl's local newspaper in Charleville-Mezieres, in northeast France.

School officials say the skirt itself was not the issue. Rather, the problem was that the student had worn it specifically as a sign of her faith - contravening the 2004 law barring religious symbols in classrooms below university level.

The student, identified as Sarah, was among a group of at least five girls who arrived at the Leo Lagrange school in recent weeks with long skirts - and Islamic headscarves which they removed before entering school, the Reims Academy Services said.

The students were asked to change into "neutral clothing" before coming to class. Sarah complied, then stopped coming to class, the Academy Services said.

"It was a concerted action ... with a will to put a [religious] identity on display," Patrice Dutot, inspector of the Ardennes Academy which oversees schools in the area, said by telephone.

Unlike most European countries, France prohibits "ostentatious" religious symbols in classrooms. The 2004 law, which Muslims groups said at the time stigmatised them, was complemented with a 2010 law banning head-covering face veils in streets and other public places.

Dutot said the school has worked with the students and families for two weeks to explain why the long skirt contravened the law, but the family "wasn't satisfied".

"It is not the long skirt that is the problem," Dutot said. The issue is that the girls "had agreed to wear the same skirts... to display their belonging" to a religious group.

The incident comes as the issue of secularism rises to the fore in France following the deadly January attacks by three Muslim extremists, as politicians and others look to preserve the French identity, of which secularism is an integral part.

Scores of Muslim girls who refuse to remove their headscarves have left
schools due to enforcement of the 2004 law.

New questions are being asked as to whether a ban on religious symbols should be extended to universities, policed in businesses or whether school canteens should systematically offer alternative meals when pork is served.

AP

Cairo - Egypt jailed 69 Islamists for life on Wednesday for torching a church near Cairo in August 2013 during a crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, a judicial official said.

The Coptic church was set on fire and a police station was attacked when violence erupted in the town of Kerdasa on August 14 that year, after hundreds of Morsi supporters died in a crackdown on two protest camps in the capital the same day.

The court also sentenced two minors to 10 years in jail in the same case.

Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been given death sentences or life in jail after often speedy mass trials which the United Nations has called "unprecedented in recent history".

Morsi himself was given a 20-year prison term by a court last week for ordering the arrest and torture of demonstrators involved in clashes in 2012 when he was president.

The Islamist was ousted by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on July 3, 2013 after mass street protests against his year-long divisive rule.


AFP

okay, back to military.

I was enjoying the military discussion, but somebody had to derail.

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Credit: APTN

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he is recalling the nation's ambassador to Indonesia in protest against the execution of two Australian drug smugglers.

"We respect Indonesia's sovereignty but we do deplore what's been done and this cannot be simply business as usual, Abbott said.

"I want to stress that this is a very important relationship between Australia and Indonesia but it has suffered as a result of what's been done over the last few hours."

Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan were executed by firing squad along with six other drug convicts from several countries shortly after midnight on Wednesday.

Ambassador Paul Gibson will return to Australia at the end of the week, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said.

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2015-04-28/eight-of-the-bali-nine-executed-by-firing-squad/

Geneva (AFP) - More than 5,000 Burundians fled to Rwanda over the weekend following mounting tensions in the central African country, bringing the total number of arrivals in April to nearly 21,000, the UN said Tuesday.


"There has been a sharp increase in the number of Burundian refugees arriving in Rwanda," Ariane Rummery, spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency said.

"Five thousand people entering the country in two days is quite a significant jump... It is certainly concerning," she told reporters in Geneva.

The Rwandan government has put the number of Burundians arriving in the country since the beginning of April at 21,000, and expects the number could rise to 50,000.

Another 3,800 Burundian nationals have meanwhile fled to the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of the month, UNHCR said.

Most of the new arrivals in Rwanda are women and children, Rummery said, adding that the refugees had reported facing intimidation and threats of violence linked to upcoming elections.


The outflow came as the official list of candidates for Burundi's presidential elections on June 26 was published at the weekend, with President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid to cling to power for a third term sparking massive demonstrations.

At least five people have died since clashes broke out Sunday after the ruling CNDD-FDD party, which has been accused of intimidating opponents, confirmed Nkurunziza's candidacy.

The government has banned all protests and deployed large numbers of police and troops to quell the unrest. Some of those killed were shot at close range.

Hundreds of stone-throwing protesters have been arrested.

"The situation is quite chaotic at the moment," UNHCR spokeswoman Karin de Gruijl told reporters.

"We think that this violence might continue and this fear of violence might continue and that there might be a bigger outflux, particularly to Rwanda," she warned.

Rwanda, which is already hosting more than 74,000 refugees mainly from neighbouring DR Congo, has allocated land in Mahama in the Eastern Province for a new refugee camp, with the capacity to hold up to 50,000 people.

UNHCR said it was helping move refugees there in daily convoys of up to 1,500 people.

The guy speaks from his arse, he says whatever his peanut head thinks,
the title of cluelessness is very apt for him not Goodluck.

Nigeria revelling in chance to settle scores

April 27, 2015 at 04:03pm

By Peter Fabricius

Nigeria is using the xenophobia outbreak as an opportunity to settle scores with its biggest rival on the continent, writes Peter Fabricius.

Johannesburg - Nigeria is clearly having a field day with the xenophobic violence. Its government, parliament, civil society, business community and media are all climbing on the bandwagon, calling for a boycott of South African companies, the indictment of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly inciting Some Nigeria watchers think this is all an over-reaction. They say that some Nigerian media have been reporting that at least 10 Nigerians were killed. The truth, evidently, is that two were injured and treated and some businesses were attacked and destroyed.

“They are just happy to have a stick to beat us with,” one observer said, noting also, with some disgust, that the Nigerians were carrying on as though this was all about them – ignoring the other nationals who have suffered far worse.

Clearly the Nigerians are revelling in the opportunity to settle scores with their chief rival on the continent, a rival, it must be added, also in arrogance and condescension. None of this should be taken to suggest that the South African government, Zwelithini and indeed South Africans as a whole don’t deserve to be lashed. The government ignored loud warnings from the African Peer Review Panel before the huge eruption of xenophobia which killed over 60 people in 2008. And didn’t get the message even then.

This time we are seeing a dim dawning of realisation of the true nature of the problem and of a sense of responsibility for addressing it – though not without considerable residual denialism. Some in the government are still blaming criminals, the media – or even more astoundingly, conspirators deliberately trying to sabotage the government.

Those countries whose nationals have suffered are, of course, perfectly justified in feeling outraged. One can imagine how incensed we would be if South Africans were killed in their countries, simply for being foreign. But these countries also need to acknowledge one important socio-economic fact; xenophobia is happening here and not there – because we are uniquely experiencing a vast flood of illegal immigration.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s criticism is particularly hypocritical since it is his gross mismanagement of his own country which has propelled so many of his desperate people south.

In the end though, the outrage being expressed may jolt the country at last into acknowledging xenophobia by showing us the price. Relations with Africa have been harmed and the insincerity of making the continent our top foreign policy priority has been exposed. Some African leaders may even boycott the AU summit here in June. South Africa’s vast commerce with the continent has been threatened and tourism has also been jeopardised.

The government should involve all the countries whose nationals have been victims of xenophobia in the imbizo that it ought to be leading about how to solve this extremely difficult problem. That would show necessary respect. But it would also provide an opportunity also to discuss what they should be doing to make their countries more hospitable to their own people.

President Jacob Zuma’s government should also draw another important lesson from this ugly episode – humility. South Africans may not be quite the nasty ogres we are being portrayed as in places like Nigeria right now. But nor are we saints. Professing Afrophilia does not by itself prevent Afrophobia. Given the right – or wrong –conditions, we can and will do appalling things. The government must change those conditions and educate their people, not keep pretending they are simply incapable of such evil.

*Fabricius is Independent Media’s Foreign Editor.

People still talking about ongoing attacks when the last one happened two weeks ago,

Nigerians are more outraged about the xeno killings where 4 foreigners died (the other 3 are southy) and 0 were Nigerians, yet nothing on social media about the 30 killed by Fulani heardsmen in Benue. SMH

free2ryhme:
Over 10 killed by the Fulanis in just a day plus the 40 killed in Marte on Thursday by boko haram. These are Nigerians killing fellow Nigerians on daily bases for no sane reason but no one protests yet we protest against South Africans for killing 7 foriegners non of which were Nigerians.
Talk of hypocrisy at its peak.

correction 4 foreigners, the other 3 were south Africans, nothing wrong with protesting xenophobic violence, but people seem not to care when all these killings happen in Nigeria.

whoaaa, 30!! OMG,

the comment below explains why the xeno issue is still hot in Naija while everyone else has moved on, even the countries whose citizens were actually killed aren't as emotional about the issue as Nigeria seem to be. all because of fake news and images.

qoute is from 5 days ago, even today people believe attacks are still ongoing. SMH


"The situation in Durban had calmed down, but he was concerned about the Nigerians that were being repatriated, he wrote.

Nigerians were using social media to blow an already tense situation in South Africa out of proportion and stoking emotions.

This was why Nigerians maintained that their compatriots were being killed in South Africa daily, he said."

http://news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/SA-closes-consulate-in-Lagos-20150421

Is this racist?


(Family réunion in the
Mediterranean) )

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Russian hackers who gained access to the White House computer system last year were able to read President Obama's unclassified emails, the New York Times has reported.

It said the breach was far more intrusive than previously admitted.

Officials have conceded that sensitive information was in the unclassified system the hackers accessed.

The discovery of the hacking in October led to a partial shutdown of the White House email system.

Highly secure

"The hackers, who also got deeply into the State Department's unclassified system, do not appear to have penetrated closely guarded servers that control the message traffic from Mr Obama's BlackBerry, which he or an aide carries constantly," the New York Times said.

"But they obtained access to the email archives of people inside the White House, and perhaps some outside, with whom Mr Obama regularly communicated. From those accounts, they reached emails that the president had sent and received."

The paper quoted White House officials as saying that no classified networks were compromised, and that the hackers accessed no classified information.

Many senior officials have two computers in their offices, one which works on a highly secure classified network and another for unclassified communications, the paper said.

But it said that officials have conceded that the unclassified system often contains information that is considered highly sensitive, including schedules, email exchanges with ambassadors and diplomats, debate about policy and forthcoming personnel deployments and legislation.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32471408

Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he had no regrets over Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and that it was righting a historical injustice.

"I think we did the right thing and I don't regret a thing," Putin said of his decision to take back the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine, interviewed in a state television documentary.

"When we defend our [interests], we go to the end," Putin said.

"If people want to return to Russia and don't want to be under the authority of neo-Nazis, extreme nationalists and followers of [Stepan] Bandera, then we don't have the right to abandon them," Putin said.

Bandera was the hugely controversial anti-Soviet wartime leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which both fought against and collaborated with occupying Nazi forces.

Explaining the motivation behind Crimea's takeover, Putin said it was righting a historic wrong after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, then only a symbolic move since both were in the USSR.

"It's not because we want to bite something off, tear it off. And not even because Crimea has a strategic significance in the region around the Black Sea," Putin said.

"It's because it's an element of historical justice."

He insisted that Russia is not breaching international law in its actions in Ukraine, despite Western sanctions, as Moscow denies international accusations that it is backing pro-Russian separatists with arms and troops in east Ukraine.

He insisted that Russia is not breaching international law in its actions in Ukraine, despite Western sanctions, as Moscow denies international accusations that it is backing pro-Russian separatists with arms and troops in east Ukraine.

AFP

oismail:
Nigeria on every positive list these days, that's what CHANGE brings. But we don't want fake +ves oh #Isorite

Yep, light at the end of the tunnel.

things are looking up.

what do they think the 2months meant for. lol.

Surprising: Libya is the happiest country in Africa; Togo, Burundi gloomy, and Zimbabwe most improved

25 Apr 2015 10:50 Christine Mungai


In Africa, money doesn’t always buy you happiness – but happiness can almost buy you money.



THE situation in Libya right now is often described as fractured, chaotic, anarchic, and even bloody. But there is a big surprise awaiting us there.

The country is the epicentre of tragic news coming out of North Africa this week – first, an estimated 800 African migrants drowned in the Mediterranean, having set off sail from the Libyan coast hoping to reach Italy.

Then Islamic State militants beheaded and shot 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya, which sparked off protest marches in Addis Ababa.

After the fall of dictator Muammar Gadaffi in 2011, various armed groups that opposed him refused to disarm; they have now formed two parallel governments, both jostling for the control of Libya’s capital Tripoli.

The internationally-recognised administration headed by Abdullah al-Thinni was ousted from the capital Tripoli last year, and operates out of hotels in the eastern city of Benghazi – and all the while, the Islamic State has taken advantage of the anarchy to establish a foothold on the African continent.

So it’s entirely surprising that the just-released World Happiness Report would rank Libya as the happiest country in Africa.

Thrill and elation

It suggests that outsiders have probably underestimated the joy that came with the fall of Gadaffi - a strict, controlled and repressive society suddenly had its shackles cast off, like a child being set loose in a candy shop.

And even if it appears to be disorder and lawlessness ruling the day, in it all there’s likely to be an odd element of thrill and elation.

Algeria is the second-happiest country in Africa, and in contrast to Libya, has been spared most of the turmoil that has rocked North Africa in the past four years.

So depending on a country’s initial conditions, falling into near anarchy, or the opposite - remaining stable in a tumultuous neighbourhood, can strangely have the same happy result.

Africa, money doesn’t buy you happiness – at least, not always.

Mauritius comes third in Africa, the little island nation regularly tops all the “good” rankings in Africa.

In fourth place is Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, which remains happy despite the havoc wreaked by Boko Haram attacks in the north in recent years.

Fifth is Zambia, which tends to be a quiet land, at least by African standards. And the self-declared Somaliland republic comes in sixth.

The autonomous territory in the north of Somalia has a stable, functioning government, with several successful and democratic elections, a large contrast to the instability that has wracked southern Somalia, particularly in the past few years with the rise of the Shabaab terror group.

The most miserable countries in Africa are not the poorest, or even the ones most affected by terrorism, war or instability. They are a mixed bag, and in fact, some of them have posted strong economic growth figures.

Togo is the unhappiest country in Africa, and neighbouring Benin is third from last. It’s intriguing that two gloomy countries could be right next to the very happy Nigeria.

“Keeping up with the Awolowos”

Perhaps it’s a situation of relative, rather than absolute unhappiness: when the Togolese and Beninois see the opportunities and progress in Nigeria, and compare it with their own, their own countries seem dreary and lacklustre.

Burundi and Rwanda are the second and fourth unhappiest in Africa. Burundi’s president Pierre Nkurunziza is on a mission to run for a third term, cracking down on protesters, and the political space is constricting.

Rwanda’s case is somewhat unexpected, considering the immense progress that the country has achieved in the past few years.

Its economy has grown nearly 7% every year over the past decade, infant mortality has recorded the most precipitous decline ever recorded in the world, it regularly tops the World Bank’s ease of doing business rankings, and the social impact of ICT is the highest in Africa.

Still, there are many political and social restrictions – it is ranked “Not Free” by Freedom House. Rwanda has also recorded the second-largest drop in happiness in Africa from the previous World Happiness Report survey in 2005-2007.

It seems that you can’t substitute freewheeling personal freedoms for economic growth.

The biggest positive change from the previous happiness survey has been in Zimbabwe.

During the previous survey, Zimbabwe was in the depths of a financial crisis and near economic collapse; according to reports, inflation peaked at 79.6 billion percent in November 2008. The country abandoned its currency in 2009.

But since then the country’s economy has stabilised, various international currencies are in circulation, principally the US Dollar. A combination of debt-fuelled public spending, a spike in the international prices of its export minerals – diamond, gold and nickel – and Chinese investors with deep pockets has helped preside over an economic recovery.

Sierra Leone and Liberia, too, have recorded large increases in happiness, though the survey was done before the Ebola outbreak last year that killed at least 11,000 people in the two countries, as well as neighbouring Guinea.

The largest drop in happiness was in Egypt, which jubilantly ousted its long-serving dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011, only to be plunged into political and social unrest that would end up seeing democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi removed by military man Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who then became president in 2013.

The losses and gains in happiness are very large, the report says – for Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the average boosts in happiness exceeded what would be expected from a doubling of per capita incomes.

But for the countries with the biggest drops in average life evaluations, including Egypt, Rwanda, Senegal and Central African Republic, the losses were more than would be expected from a halving of GDP per capita.

So in Africa, you could say that money doesn’t always buy you happiness – but happiness can almost buy you money.

http://m.mgafrica.com/article/2015-04-24-surprising-libya-is-the-happiest-country-in-africa-togo-burundi-gloomy-and-zimbabwe-most-improved#.VTtwWenCTfo

1. Libya
2. Algeria
3. Mauritius
4. Nigeria
5. Zambia
6. Somaliland
7. Morocco
8. Mozambique
9. Lesotho
10. Swaziland


Unhappiest African countries:

1. Togo
2. Burundi
3. Benin
4. Rwanda
5. Burkino Faso
6. IC
7. Guinea
8. Chad
9. CAR
10. Madagascar


Most improved:

1. Zimbabwe
2. Sierra Leone
3. Liberia
4. Zambia
5. Nigeria

Steepest decline:

1. Egypt
2. Rwanda
3. Senegal
4. CAR
5. South Africa

http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-04-24-surprising-libya-is-the-happiest-country-in-africa-togo-burundi-gloomy-and-zimbabwe-most-improved

Nigerians love education.

They look great, they would have taken care of boko,

See my other thread about the so called xenophobic video.

youths burnt alive in South africa-video shows vigilantism not xenophobia
https://www.nairaland.com/2268102/youths-burnt-alive-south-africa