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South Koreans relieved after martial law lifted
published at 20:40
20:40
David Oh
BBC Korean Service

South Koreans woke up with a bit of relief this morning, at the news Yoon had accepted that his bid for military rule had been overturned.

Yoon announced he would lift the martial law order after lawmakers unanimously rejected his decree, just hours after his surprising late night address on Tuesday.

For many here in South Korea, the declaration of martial law brings back memories of 1980, a time of military rule.

One person on social media posted "I just woke up and heard the news, and I was panicked".

"I didn't expect to see martial law in real life," another said.

The lifting of martial law gives a reprieve for now - but many are still pondering the question: what will happen next?

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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et

Impeachment complaint filed against Philippine Vice President Duterte after she threatened president
Story by JIM GOMEZ • 2h • 4 min read
December 2, 2024

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An impeachment complaint was filed Monday against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the president and her alleged role in extra-judicial killings of drug suspects, corruption and failure to stand up to Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea.


The impeachment bid filed by several prominent civil society activists in the House of Representatives accuses Duterte of violating the country’s Constitution, betrayal of public trust and other “high crimes,” including the death threats she made against the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives.

National security advisor Jake Sullivan says Biden told him to oversee a 'massive surge' of weapons deliveries to Ukraine before his term ends
Story by insider@insider.com (John L. Dorman) • 2h • 2 min read
National security advisor Jake Sullivan on Sunday said President Joe Biden was doing what he could to "strengthen" Ukraine's position as the commander-in-chief prepares to leave office in just under two months.

Sullivan made the remarks on ABC's "This Week," telling chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl that Biden aims to continue advancing his foreign policy objectives — which includes cease-fire discussions between Israel and Hamas — even as President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sworn back into office on January 20.

"We are going to do everything in our power for these 50 days to get Ukraine all the tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield so that they'll be stronger at the negotiating table," Sullivan said. "And President Biden directed me to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment that we are delivering to Ukraine so that we have spent every dollar that Congress has appropriated to us by the time that President Biden leaves office."
Last month, Biden greenlighted Ukraine's use of powerful US-supplied ATACMS long-range missiles to strike inside Russia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-says-biden-told-him-to-oversee-a-massive-surge-of-weapons-deliveries-to-ukraine-before-his-term-ends/ar-AA1v57w8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=600982570e194a5dabdc5351d56798d7&ei=13

If Ukraine were to join NATO, the alliance's Article 5 collective defense principle may not apply to Ukrainian territories facing active combat, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Dec. 1.

"We understand that Article 5, when you're a member of NATO, cannot apply to the entire territory of Ukraine during wartime, as countries are against the risks of being drawn into the war," Zelensky said during a news conference alongside Antonio Costa, the new President of the European Council, referring to occupied territory.
Zelensky's comments come as Ukraine has been urging NATO allies to invite Ukraine to join the alliance as early as next week, during the NATO Foreign Ministerial Meeting on Dec. 3-4.

"We believe that the invitation should be extended at this stage," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on Nov. 29.
Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-war-latest-article-5-cannot-apply-to-entire-territory-of-ukraine-during-wartime-zelensky-says-on-potential-nato-invite/ar-AA1v511f?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ad5372fe402c4f1797075c20b3c7aae2&ei=8

Reading.
The history of West Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the period of major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and finally the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed. West Africa is west of an imagined north–south axis lying close to 10° east longitude, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Sahara Desert. Colonial boundaries are reflected in the modern boundaries between contemporary West African states, cutting across ethnic and cultural lines, often dividing single ethnic groups between two or more states.

West African populations were considerably mobile and interacted with one another throughout the population history of West Africa.[1] Acheulean tool-using archaic humans may have dwelled throughout West Africa since at least between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP (Middle Pleistocene).[2] During the Pleistocene, Middle Stone Age peoples (e.g., Iwo Eleru people,[3] possibly Aterians), who dwelled throughout West Africa between MIS 4 and MIS 2,[4] were gradually replaced by incoming Late Stone Age peoples, who migrated into West Africa[5] as an increase in humid conditions resulted in the subsequent expansion of the West African forest.[6] West African hunter-gatherers occupied western Central Africa (e.g., Shum Laka) earlier than 32,000 BP,[3] dwelled throughout coastal West Africa by 12,000 BP,[7] migrated northward between 12,000 BP and 8000 BP as far as Mali, Burkina Faso,[7] and Mauritania,[8] and persisted as late as 1000 BP[7] or some period of time after 1500 CE.[9]

After the Kel Essuf Period, Round Head Period, and Pastoral Period of the Central Sahara,[10] sedentary farming developed in West Africa among the ancestors of modern West Africans. The Iron industry, in both smelting and forging for tools and weapons, emerged in West Africa as early as 2631 BCE,[11] and by 400 BCE, contact had been made with the Mediterranean civilizations, and a regular trade included exporting gold, cotton, metal, and leather in exchange for copper, horses, salt, textiles, beads, and slaves. The Tichitt culture developed in 2200 BCE[12][13] and lasted until around 200 BCE.[14][15] The Nok culture developed in 1500 BCE[16] and vanished under unknown circumstances around 500 CE.[17]

Serer people constructed the Senegambian stone circles between 3rd century BCE and 16th century CE. The Sahelian kingdoms were a series of kingdoms or empires that were built on the Sahel, the area of grasslands south of the Sahara. They controlled the trade routes across the desert, and were also quite decentralised, with member cities having a great deal of autonomy. The Ghana Empire may have been established as early as the 3rd century CE. It was succeeded by the Sosso in 1230, the Mali Empire in the 13th century CE, and later by the Songhai and Sokoto Caliphate. There were also a number of forest empires and states in this time period.
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Bebigiby1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-XB7GCb-c

Senegal and Chad sack French mlitary from their countries in huge blow as Tinubu embraces Macron.....

France is well known to be only interested in plundering African countries resources, what does Nigeria stand to gain from Tinubu's romantic relationship with Macron?

orisa37:
ALL THE ICC JUSTICES THAT MAKE SUCH JUDGEMENT AGAINST NETANYAHU SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND HUNG(HANGED) BY THEIR EARS.

God1000:
We need death penalty in Nigeria

Floky215:
You are no panafricanist...!!
You are just a furkking Islamist, period..!!!

misreal:
Just because france has refused to arrest the killer of all terrorist.

Is Namibia going to elect its first female leader?
2 days ago
Frauke Jensen
BBC News, Windhoek
If things work out as Namibia’s long-time governing party hopes, the country will be electing its first female head of state this week.

But a mood of disillusionment with liberation movements in southern Africa, coupled with the anti-incumbency feeling in many parts of the world, may pose a threat to what would be an historic achievement.

Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, is the flag-bearer for Swapo, which has led the country since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.

Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan is currently Africa's only female president, so Nandi-Ndaitwah would be joining an exclusive club if she is victorious.

Her party, totally dominant for three decades, saw a large drop in its support in the last general election. It goes into Wednesday’s vote amid an unemployment rate of 19% - almost the same as it was 30 years ago - troubled government finances, questions about corruption and high levels of inequality.

Standing in Nandi-Ndaitwah’s way is her main challenger among the 14 other candidates - Panduleni Itula of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) party.
She is also up against a traditional and male-dominated political culture in the country.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy5z9enx0do

Special counsel Jack Smith drops election subversion and classified documents cases against Donald Trump
Paula Reid Devan Cole
By Paula Reid, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN
5 minute read
Updated 4:49 PM EST, Mon November 25, 2024

Special counsel Jack Smith is dropping the federal election subversion and the mishandling of classified documents cases against President-elect Donald Trump, seeking the cases’ dismissal in court filings Monday.

Trump has said he would fire Smith once he retook the office, shattering previous norms around special counsel investigations.

“The (Justice) Department’s position is that the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated,” Smith wrote of the election subversion case in a six-page filing with US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, DC. “This outcome is not based on the merits or strength of the case against the defendant.”
Chutkan formally dismissed the case without prejudice Monday afternoon.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/politics/trump-special-counsel-jack-smith/index.html

" Only 22 countries escaped British invasion, according to The Telegraph. These findings are outlined in a new book, All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To.
Laycock believes that some of those countries, such as Mongolia, actually did host British invaders, but he could find no historical evidence to back up his hunch. In any event, here’s a list of the eclectic bunch that, at least for now, history says escaped the British:
Andorra
Belarus
Bolivia
Burundi
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo, Republic of
Guatemala
Ivory Coast
Kyrgyzstan
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Mali
Marshall Islands
Monaco
Mongolia
Paraguay
Sao Tome and Principe
Sweden
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Vatican City "
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brits-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-109283469

mysticwarrior:
You should be talking about the ICC going after George Bush and Tony Blair for the role they played in the invasion of Iraq. Over a million Iraqis died in that war which the US claimed their reason for the invasion was to disarmed Iraq of weapons of mass destruction which Iraq didn't even have. They should be trialed for crime against peace, planning, initiating, waging war of aggression and genocide.

HgAkpobomeEr:
They can never go after the president of Cote d'Ivoire.