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Padipadi:
Africa should first work on alleviating poverty. When ya economy is strong, you will subjugate ya enemies and people wey you get past scores to settle with.

HITdemUP:
You need your brain examined

Skoonheid:
Creatures of doom. Doomed to lose eternally but will never give up without war.

Donald Trump has blamed the US, and more specifically Joe Biden, for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

The president-elect was outlining his plan for his second administration on Tuesday when he decided to express some sympathy with the Russian dictator almost three years after Putin began the bloody war.

Trump told journalists: “A big part of the problem was Russia, for many many years, long before Putin said, ‘You could never have Nato involved in Ukraine,’ no, like that’s been written in stone.

“Somewhere along the line, Biden said, ‘No they should be allowed to join Nato’.

“Well, then Russia has someone right on their doorstep. I could understand their feelings about that.

“But there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation and when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating, I said, ‘You’re going to end up in a war,’ and it turned out to be a very bad war.
“It could escalate, that war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now.”

He added: “I believe they had a deal and then Biden broke it.”

Trump suggested that “deal” would have been “satisfactory” to Ukraine and everyone else.

Putin made a similar claim in December, telling reporters: “I know that the current President Biden spoke about this, it is no secret, back in 2021.

“He proposed exactly this to me – to delay Ukraine’s admission to NATO for 10-15 years, because it is not ready yet.”

However, the Russian president did not say Biden then went back on the deal.

Instead, he added: “For us, it makes no difference – today, tomorrow or in 10 years’ time.”

It’s widely thought in the west that Putin invaded Ukraine in a land grab. Moscow has denied such a claim, but continues pushing its troops forward to seize more territories.
Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-has-decided-who-is-responsible-for-russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine-and-it-s-not-putin/ar-AA1xan6q?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=953b4709c39c4bcf8c2acdf16979e014&ei=18

Nigerian atheist freed from prison but fears for his life


A prominent Nigerian atheist, who has just been freed after serving more than four years in prison for blasphemy, is now living in a safe house as his legal team fear his life may be in danger.

Mubarak Bala, 40, was convicted in a court in the northern city of Kano after, in a surprise move, he pleaded guilty to 18 charges relating to a controversial Facebook post shared in 2020.

"The concern about my safety is always there," he told the BBC in an exclusive interview as he tucked into his first meal as a free man.

Nigeria is a deeply religious society and those who may be seen as having insulted a religion - whether Islam or Christianity – face being shunned and discriminated against.

Blasphemy is an offence under Islamic law – Sharia - which operates alongside secular law in 12 states in the north. It is also an offence under Nigeria's criminal law.

Bala, who renounced Islam in 2014, said there were times during his incarceration that he felt he "may not get out alive". He feared he could have been targeted by guards or fellow inmates in the first prison he was in, in Kano, which is a mainly Muslim city.

"Freedom is here, but also there is an underlying threat I now have to face," he said. "All those years, those threats, maybe they're out there."

He could have been inside for much longer if it was not for an appeals court judge who reduced the initial 24-year sentence last year, describing it as "excessive".

Walking out of the prison in the capital, Abuja, Bala looked tired, but cheerful dressed in a white T-shirt, khaki shorts and flip-flops. He emerged with his beaming lawyer by his side.

"Everything is new to me. Everything is new," he said as he took in his new-found liberty.
Bala, an outspoken religious critic, was arrested after a group of lawyers filed a complaint with the police about the social media post.
He then spent two years in prison awaiting trial before being convicted in 2022.

At the time Bala's guilty plea baffled many, even his legal team, but he stands by his decision, saying that it relieved the pressure on those who stood by him, including his lawyers, friends and family.

"I believe what I did saved not only my life, but people in Kano," he said.
"Especially those that were attached to my case, because they are also a target."

His conviction was widely condemned by international rights groups and sparked a debate about freedom of speech in Nigeria.
His detention also sent shockwaves across Nigeria's small atheist and humanist communities, and his release has come as a relief to many, but there are still concerns.

"It's thanks and no thanks," said Leo Igwe, the founder of the Humanist Association of Nigeria.
"Thanks, that he's out, thanks that he's a free man. But no thanks, because there is a dent on him as if he committed a crime. For us at the Humanist Association, he committed no crime."

As for Bala, he is keen to catch up on lost time – including getting to know his young son who was just six weeks old when he was imprisoned. But he said he had no regrets.

"My activism, my posting on social media, I always knew the worst would happen, When I made the decision to come out, I knew I could be killed. I knew the dangers, and I still decided to do it."

sunboy:
NATO is not in Ukraine. The US and allies are supporting Ukraine. Yes they happened to be NATO members.

Ecomog got no business in DRC, no political or economic relevance for us. Ecowas is not rich enough to send money to East Africa when bokoharam is still alive across the ecowas borders. Charity begins at home.

mysticwarrior:
Ecomog is for west Africa and not central Africa.

A dawn stand-off, a human wall and a failed arrest: South Korea enters uncharted territory
5 hours ago
Friday January 3rd, 2025
BBC

Jean Mackenzie
Seoul Correspondent
Reporting from Seoul

The stand-off started long before dawn. By the time we arrived in the dark, an army of police had pushed back suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol's angry supporters, who'd camped out overnight hoping to stop his arrest. Some of those I spoke to were crying, others wailing, at what they feared was about to unfold.
As dawn broke, the first officers ran up to the house, but were instantly thwarted - blocked by a wall of soldiers protecting the compound. Reinforcements came, but could not help. The doors to Yoon's house stayed tightly sealed, his security team refusing the police officers entry.

For several hours the investigators waited, the crowds outside growing more agitated - until, after a series of scuffles between the police and security officials, they decided their mission was futile, and gave up.
This is totally uncharted territory for South Korea. It is the first time a sitting president has ever faced arrest, so there is no rule book to follow - but the current situation is nonetheless astonishing.

When Yoon was impeached three weeks ago, he was supposedly stripped of his power. So to have law enforcement officers trying to carry out an arrest - which they have legal warrant for - only to be blocked by Yoon's security team raises serious and uncomfortable questions about who is in charge here.
The investigating officers said they abandoned efforts to arrest Yoon not only because it looked impossible, but because they were concerned for their safety. They said 200 soldiers and security officers linked arms, forming a human wall to block the entrance to the presidential residence, with some carrying guns.
Source : https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp5xe1zwgo

bookson:
Long overdue... Truth may be slow but it will surely catch up with lies and disgrace it.
Aljazeera, the media of Hamas and Hezbollah.. SMH

Guantanamo Bay's longest-serving inmate sent back to Tunisia without charge

Guantanamo Bay detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi - one of the longest-serving inmates at the notorious detention facility - has been repatriated to Tunisia without charge.

The US Pentagon said his transfer was approved after a "rigorous interagency review process."

However, the statement did not indicate whether the 59-year-old had admitted to any wrongdoing.
Al-Yazidi, who had been held at Guantanamo Bay since its establishment in 2002, spent over two decades at the detention camp without ever being formally charged.

He had been cleared for transfer more than a decade ago, though bureaucratic delays and political hurdles prolonged his detention.
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner and survivor of CIA Black sites, Mansoor Adayfi, said: "Ridah Bin Saleh al Yazidi's transfer to Tunisia raises serious concerns about his safety and future, as little is known about his life there or any guarantees for his well-being. The U.S. has not disclosed details about the security arrangements for his return, leaving his protection uncertain. This case underscores broader issues of accountability and responsibility, as detainees like Yazidi are released without clear assurances of safety, leaving their fates in jeopardy."
Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/guantanamo-bay-s-longest-serving-inmate-sent-back-to-tunisia-without-charge/ar-AA1wKRWj?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=d48f47700b3243a0ab66ed3ce6ac2d29&ei=24

Elusive001:
Go and rest.

Let them attack Israel now, you start cheering them as freedom fighters.

N 1905-6 BENGAL was partitioned, by the British imperialists, violence, migration, riots etc took place, both Hindus and Muslims united to oppose the partition, and the British relented and reunited Bengal.
From that partition everything the Imperialist wanted to know - to learn was gained, all recorded for future use.
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In 1880 a member of the British wrote to the government in London, asking for permission to set up a ' new political party, they agreed, the Congress party was founded.
In between 1880 and 1885 the question of Partition of India itself on ''religious lines'' had been discussed, no Muslims involved, recorded in the Congress party minutes.
Soldiers who fought in the 2nd stage of the 'great war' in the East stated that arena was the worst of all, not Europe.
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A major reason for the British imperialist to move forwards the date of partition, was PALESTINE, the demands of the Zionist who wanted to 'strike while the iron was hot'.
Basing themselves on the mass distorted propaganda of what took place in Europe, the fiction of six million dead.
In 1918 American newspapers recorded there were six million jews in Europe.
By 1939 around one million had migrated out of Europe.
In 1945 it was recorded three and a half million jews were in Europe, the Zionist were terrified that the fictionalised propaganda would collapse and be destroyed, so losing the mass sympathy of none jews..
As British imperialism had promised, by the Balfour declaration, a ''homeland'', then they too would have been at least 'worried''.
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On the afternoon of February 20, 1947, the British Prime Minister, Clement Atlee, announced before Parliament that British rule would end on “a date not later than June, 1948.
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In March, 1947, a glamorous minor royal named Lord Louis Mountbatten flew into Delhi as Britain’s final Viceroy, -------
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In early June, Mountbatten stunned everyone by announcing August 15, 1947, as the date for the transfer of power—ten months earlier than expected.
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Some British soldiers and journalists who had witnessed the Nazi death camps claimed Partition’s brutalities were worse:
pregnant women had their breasts cut off and babies hacked out of their bellies; infants were found literally roasted on spits.”
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Ayesha Jalal has called Partition “the central historical event in twentieth century South Asia.” She writes, “A defining moment that is neither beginning nor end, partition continues to influence how the peoples and states of postcolonial South Asia envisage their past, present and future.”
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Similarly, although the conquests themselves were marked by carnage and by the destruction of Hindu and Buddhist sites, India soon embraced and transformed the new arrivals. Within a few centuries, a hybrid Indo-Islamic civilization emerged, along with hybrid languages—notably Deccani and Urdu—which mixed the Sanskrit-derived vernaculars of India with Turkish, Persian, and Arabic words.
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The American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, who had witnessed the opening of the gates of a Nazi concentration camp a year earlier, wrote that Calcutta’s streets “looked like Buchenwald.”
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Elusive001:
Unfortunately for you, the creator of every single thing is the GOD of israel.
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