₦airaland Forum

uncleck:
you welcomed them out of ignorance. They came very prepared so that if you don't accept them peacefully they'll do it forcefully. Your people were naive so they penetrated with almost no resistance. Same thing is still happening today with the way China is penetrating...

Blue3k2:
The cult of victimhood dont read. Cape verde pegs its currency to the Euro and nobody claiming Portugal is forcing them. It's simply wrong to make every little issue frances fault.

Should:
Nobody betrayed you, your Fathers, Uncles, Brothers did fomere Mirrors and cheap vodka.

uncleck:
If you were in their shoes you would do the same thing. Africa did it before Europe. Egypt enslaved both Whites and blacks. The Egyptian pyramids were built by slave labor. If you're in a position, my guy, you'll do worse.

December Democratic debate: Bernie Sanders calls Israeli PM Netanyahu ‘racist’
By Kenneth Garger

December 19, 2019 | 9:32pm

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “racist” in front of a national audience at the Democratic debates Thursday night.

The Vermont senator was fielding a question about how he would handle US foreign policy in the Middle East when he made the shocking declaration.

“We must understand that right now in Israel we have leadership who has been indicted for bribery, who, in my view, is a racist,” said Sanders.

Before the accusation, Sanders explained that the US should craft foreign policy that is favorable to both Israel and Palestine.

“Israel has the right not only to exist, but to exist in peace and security,” said Sanders, who spent time on a kibbutz in Israel as a young man.

“But, what US foreign policy must be about is not just being pro-Israel. We must be pro-Palestinian as well.”
https://nypost.com/2019/12/19/bernie-sanders-calls-israeli-pm-netanyahu-a-racist-at-democratic-debate/amp/#aoh=15770674113890&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

BabaRamota1980:
If France supported Biafra for secession it would have happened, or at the minimum Biafra would have been put under UN supervision as a mandate.

France needed to sell weapon and also prevent the struggle from spreading into Cameroon and create a problem for its control in that country.

Their support of Biafra was selfish, they sabotaged the secession struggle.

uncleck:
It's all about interest. Slave holding served their interest then so they welcomed it. Trump's racism doesn't serve their current interest so they oppose it. This defines humans: both Trump, Americans, Europeans, you, I etc

CSTR2:
I have never seen a more subservient country like ivory coast.
They just don't like independence.

What is macron doing there even on this historic occasion?

Read this
https://www.nairaland.com/5578811/icc-bans-former-president-politics

and this
https://www.nairaland.com/4998777/chile-eboe-osuji-nigerian-head-icc

grandstar:
The combined GDP of the 150m CFA countries $235b. That is barely 10% of the size of France's GDP. How exactly is France dependent on them?

Vortex369:
This is NOT good for Nigeria.

France is playing a serious game here. Who ever prints those pieces of papers holds the database. Nigeria should have taken initiatve to handle the server of ECO and generate notes and prosper the Region.

Why would France, a non African Entity dictate and handle our treasury?

We must reject the ECO

seguno2:
Impoverish African countries who spend their time doing research tirelessly to improve their societies?
Or what are you ranting about please?
By the way, is Houphouët-Boigny the same person as Michel Camdessus?

December 19, 2019 - 01:13 PM EST
Buttigieg edges out Sanders, Warren to top new Iowa poll
The Hill

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) has a small lead in a new survey of Iowa, but Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are close behind.

The latest Iowa State University-Civiqs poll finds Buttigieg at 24 percent, followed by Sanders at 21 percent, Warren at 18 percent and former Vice President Joe Biden at 15 percent. The poll has a 4.9 percentage point margin of error.

No other candidate is polling above 4 percent in the survey.

The results are similar to other recent polls in the Hawkeye State.


The RealClearPolitics average of Iowa polls finds Buttigieg at 22 percent, followed by Sanders at 20 percent, Biden at 18 percent and Warren at 16 percent. Warren has fallen off in recent weeks as Buttigieg has been on the rise.

Warren led the Iowa State University survey from October at 28 percent support but has dropped 10 points in that time as Buttigieg, Sanders and Biden have all gained.

Still, many voters remain undecided, and Warren is the top second choice for voters, at 20 percent, followed by Sanders at 14 percent, Biden at 13 percent and Buttigieg at 10 percent.


Buttigieg leads the field among self-described Democrats at 25 percent and among women at 25 percent. Sanders leads among independents at 28 percent and among men, with 24 percent support.

Sanders does the best among young people, posting big margins over the field among voters aged 18 to 49. Buttigieg leads with voters over the age of 50.

Sanders also has a big lead among nonwhite voters in Iowa at 34 percent, followed by Biden at 23. Warren and Buttigieg are at 11 percent each.


But Iowa is predominantly white, and Buttigieg leads here at 25 percent support, followed by Warren at 19 percent, Sanders at 18 percent and Biden 15 percent.

Buttigieg leads among college graduates and post-graduates. Sanders and Buttigieg are tied among noncollege graduates at 21 percent each.

The Iowa State University-Civiqs poll of 632 likely caucusgoers was conducted from Dec. 12 to Dec.


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/475316-buttigieg-edges-out-sanders-warren-to-top-new-iowa-poll?amp#referrer=https://www.google.com

SNC-Lavalin division pleads guilty to fraud over Libya activities
18 December 2019 US & Canada
BBC


SNC-Lavalin is a Montreal-based engineering and construction firm
A division of Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin has pleaded guilty to a single fraud charge related to its Libya dealings between 2001 and 2011.

The plea comes as part of a settlement that saw other charges faced by the Montreal-based company withdrawn.

The firm's construction division will pay a C$280m ($213m; £163m) fine and faces a probation period.

The case embroiled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a political crisis last year.

In August, a federal ethics commissioner found Mr Trudeau had breached ethics rules by improperly trying to influence a former minister in the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould had accused Mr Trudeau and his staff of spending months trying to convince her that taking SNC-Lavalin to trial would cost Canadians jobs, and their party votes.

Mr Trudeau has maintained that he was looking to protect jobs after the company warned a conviction at trial risked damaging its business.

The company and two of its subsidiaries were facing fraud and corruption charges in relation to bribes offered to Libyan officials between 2001-11.

SNC-Lavalin had openly lobbied for an agreement that would allow it to avoid prosecution and instead face alternative penalties. It has said it had cleaned house and changed its ways since 2012

What is the background?
In 2015, SNC-Lavalin and two of its subsidiaries - SNC-Lavalin Construction and SNC-Lavalin International - were charged with corruption of a foreign public official and fraud.

In a statement of facts filed in the Court of Quebec on Wednesday, the company admitted that over the course of a decade almost C$48m ($36m; £28m) was directed to Saadi Gaddafi, one of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons.

The Gaddafi family tree
In exchange for the payments, Mr Gaddafi used his influence to secure construction contracts for the benefit of SNC-Lavalin's construction division, "altering the competitive bidding process and causing a loss or a risk of loss to the Libyan people", according to a statement from the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

Amounts totalling over C$73m were also paid through two representative companies to two former SNC-Lavalin executives, Ben Aissa and Sami Bebawi "for their personal benefit".

Aissa pleaded guilty in Switzerland in 2014 to charges that included corruption, fraud, and money laundering.

A Quebec jury found Bebawi guilty of fraud, corruption of a foreign public official, laundering proceeds of crime and two counts of possession of proceeds of crime on 15 December.

What is the reaction?
SNC-Lavalin is one of the world's largest engineering and construction companies and employs some 9,000 people in Canada.

The company said it did not anticipate the case having any long-term adverse affect on its overall business.

"This is a game changer for the company and finally allows us to put this issue behind us," said SNC-Lavalin president Ian Edwards in a statement.


"I apologise for this past misconduct and welcome the opportunity to move forward."

Trading of the firm's stocks was briefly halted on the Toronto Stock Exchange prior to the news.

The head of the public prosecution service, Kathleen Roussel, praised the federal prosecutors for their work "in the face of unprecedented public attention".

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-50751905#referrer=https://www.google.com