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lordm:
Russia will lose the war

Otobong3374:
Hahahahaha. Look At Boko Haram Meat Screaming Like My Puppet. What The Bleep Are You Talking About? Fucking Fool Is Think About The Poverty That Is Roaming In Nigeria. My Puppet, Sorry I'm In America & I'm Not Coming To Your Dirty Country That Fill Up With Brainless People. Bleep Your Head Down, Gun Is On Your Fucking Head. Bitch, Stop Screaming Is Not Read & I Know Food Shortage Is So Rampant In Shithole Countries.

Otobong3374:
Look At This Fucking Idiot That Is About To Die In Poor Country. I Know U Come From Nigeria That Is Ruled By Boko Haram Dictator. I Can See, Very Soon Boko Haram, Herds Men & Bandit Would Bucher You Like Cow Meat, Hahahahahaha. Instead Of Me To Remain As A Slave In Nigeria Let Me Remain As A Slave In America. Poverty Is Not Allow You To Obtain American Passport & Visa. I Know U Are Desperate About That, Idiot. I Have Seen What American Government Has Done In This World & And They Have Tried To Matigate Terrorist Organization Some Countries. Mention Good Things Russia Has Done To The World Let Me See. Most Of The Problem That Is Going On In Your Shithole Country Come From Russia. Russia Is A Country That Keep On Selling Ak 47 Gun For Nigerian Terrorists. America Can Never Come To Rescue Nigerians From Terrorist Organization Because So Many Nigerian Leaders Are Terrorist. The Election Has Come All Nigerian Leaders Are About To Import Ak 47 Gun.

tamdun:
Seriously ? Did u know that the Catholic killed more Jews than Hitler ?

Pope: Europe corrupts Africa
14/05/2005 12:13 - (SA)
Rome - In a stern criticism of colonialism, Pope Benedict XVI said on Friday that along with Christianity, Europe had brought corruption and violence to the African continent.

The newly-elected pontiff said in a meeting with Rome's clergy: "We have to confess that Europe has exported not only faith in Christ, but also all sorts of vices, the sense of corruption, and violence that devastates" the continent.

The German-born pope, answering a question of an African priest posted in the diocese of Rome, said: "Our responsibility is that the export of faith be stronger than the export of vice."
The pope said: "We trade in weapons, we abuse the treasures of this land, and we, Christians, must make sure that along with faith there be found the strength to resist the vices and to create a happy Christian Africa , a great continent of new humanism."
Source: https://www.laits.utexas.edu/africa/ads/695.html

Enugurangers:
You are right. If not for America, Africa itself would have been taken over by radical Muslim terrorists. Same as the middle East.

Zikojukwu:
The country belongs to the youths and we can't afford to vote a ghost because of tribalism or religion.
Our people have suffered enough, some can't afford two meals a day. In the last 7 years millions have died, kidnapped and punished by the government that swore to protect them, it must stop. We can be happy again.
The most worrisome is the planned and cruel attacks on farmers and sacking of villagers at night without arrest or trials. Yes, the end of the nonsense has come. We want a sincere government, not controlled by the cabals, not under the spell of foolish religiosity, ethnicity and greedy party men and women. We want a new Nigeria. Let's take back our country before they take our lives.

olugabbie:
There is no help Ukraine can get from any other country, that can be compared to the help they are getting from the US.

Faithful007:
You spread lies and misinformation with impunity. So disgusting.

Saddam was hanged by the Iraqi revolutionary forces and not by the USA. The seals who kept him under house arrest pleaded for his life to spared when they Iraqis came to arrest him. They wanted him exiled instead.

Datguy5:
except that it is from a medical standpoint and even in the bible it is not necessary

1 Corinthians 7:18

Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man uncircumcised when he was called? He should not be circumcised.

Ghana warning against harmful New Year prophecies
Published
December 27th, 2022

By Dickens Olewe
BBC News
Police in Ghana have warned faith leaders against making traditional New Year prophecies which can cause fear, anxiety or death.

The right of freedom of worship must not violate the rights of others, the police said in a statement.

Critics say the order violates the constitutional right for freedom of religion and it is therefore illegal.

Millions of Christians often gather in churches to hear their pastors make proclamations about the new year.

The messages often range from optimistic projections to those warning of impending doom.

The police order came into force last year after the public was inundated by predictions of deaths and calamity, local news site My Joy Online reported.

In a statement on Monday, the police commended religious groups for their "cooperation" and for "adopting legally acceptable means for communicating prophecies".

But Ghanaian lawyer Sammy Darko said the police order was "illegal."

"It is not even up for debate or interpretation by the highest court of Ghana. No law in Ghana grants the police administration any powers to regulate prophecies in the country," he wrote.

"Religious freedom is more than the 'freedom to worship' at a synagogue, church, or mosque. It means people shouldn't have to go against their core values and beliefs in order to conform to culture or government unless it violates a specific law," he added.

Mr Darko told the BBC that the police lost a case earlier this year against a pastor who had been charged for allegedly making an alarmist prophesy about a celebrity musician being shot.

"This was significant," he said.

The police said they had adopted 27 December as Prophecy Communication Compliance Day.

"This day is being set aside to remind all of us to practice our faith within the confines of the law to ensure safe, secure environment, free of anxiety generated from predictions of impending harm, danger or death," the statement said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64102094

The U.S. And China Are Rushing To Secure Resources In DR Congo
By ZeroHedge - Dec 27, 2022, 12:00 PM CST

The U.S. is looking to secure battery metals and other crucial commodities in Africa.
The DRC is sometimes called the “the Saudi Arabia of the electric vehicle age” because it produces roughly 70 percent of the world’s cobalt.
For more than a decade, Chinese companies have spent billions of dollars buying out U.S. and European miners in the DRC’s Cobalt belt.

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Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, As the US intensifies its efforts to cut China off from advanced semiconductors, it is also making a run at the world’s most important source of minerals used in tech: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

[b]The DRC is sometimes called the “the Saudi Arabia of the electric vehicle age” [/b]because it produces roughly 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, which is a key component in the production of lithium-ion batteries that power phones, computers, and electric vehicles. Electric vehicle sales are predicted to grow from 6.5 million in 2021 to 66 million in 2040.

The DRC is also Africa’s largest copper producer with some of the mines estimated to contain grades above 3 percent, significantly higher than the global average of 0.6 – 0.8 percent. It also has 70 percent of the world’s coltan, which is also critical to cell phone and computer manufacturing. All in all, it is estimated that the DRC has $24 trillion worth of untapped mineral resources.

On Dec.13, the US signed deals with the DRC and Zambia (the world’s sixth-largest copper producer and second-largest cobalt producer in Africa) that will see the US support the two countries in developing an electric vehicle value chain. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US Export-Import Bank and the International Development Finance Corporation will explore financing and support mechanisms, and the US Agency for International Development, commerce department and Trade and Development Agency will provide technical assistance.

Aside from a Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates-backed copper-cobalt mine in northern Zambia, details are sparse, but it does mark a major turning point for the DRC.

Related: WTI Oil Jumps Above $80 As China Scraps Covid Restrictions

For more than a decade, Chinese companies have spent billions of dollars buying out U.S. and European miners in the DRC’s Cobalt belt, leading to control of 15 of 19 of the primary cobalt mines in the country.

China sources 60 percent of its cobalt needs from the DRC, and about 80 percent of the world’s cobalt processing occurs in China before being incorporated into lithium-ion batteries.The DRC-China relationship is on the rocks, however, and Chinese mining is starting to encounter an increasing amount of bumps in the road.

In July the DRC halted exports from the world’s second biggest cobalt mine amid an ongoing dispute between the Chinese mining company and the DRC state mining company. (China Molybdenum bought the controlling stake in the project in 2016 from US company Freeport-McMoRan.)

With US encouragement, last year DRC President Felix Tshisekedi began accusing his predecessors of signing lopsided contracts with Chinese mining companies and is now attempting to renegotiate them. In a rare sign of DRC bipartisanship, opposition politician Adolphe Muzito who was prime minister at the time the deals were signed with China, has also come out in support of renegotiating the deals with Beijing.

China defends the deals, saying it has built several projects in the Central African nation despite obstacles, increased tax revenue, created more jobs, and provided investment in infrastructure projects such as roads, hospitals and hydropower stations.

But the spat over the Chinese deals comes at a time of increased Washington pressure on Beijing and when the cobalt supply chain is already under pressure due to increased demand from the battery sector and Covid-19 logistics issues.

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The Financial Times, citing a Goldman Sachs forecast, reported in November that the US and Europe could cut their dependence on China for electric vehicle batteries by 2030 through more than $160 billion of new capital spending. It appears the West is trying to recoup lost ground and erect roadblocks in China’s supply line from Africa.

The West has long criticized China for its loans to African nations, which it claims are designed to seize African assets offered as collateral. (African countries currently owe three times more debt to Western institutions compared to China.)

Deborah Bräutigam, the Director of the China Africa Research Initiative at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, has written that this is “ a lie, and a powerful one.” She wrote, “our research shows that Chinese banks are willing to restructure the terms of existing loans and have never actually seized an asset from any country.”

Even researchers at Chatham House admit that’s not the case, explaining that the lending has instead created a debt trap for China. That is becoming more evident as nations are unable to repay, largely due to the economic fallout from the pandemic and the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

While China’s initial instinct has been to try and tackle debt repayment issues at a bilateral level, typically by extending maturities rather than accepting write-downs on loans, it’s increasingly getting involved in multilateral talks that include US-backed institutions like the IMF. China (and the borrowing country) are often getting the short end of the stick.

Take the case of Zambia, which got a $1.3 billion loan from the IMF in September. From The Diplomat:

Zambia will shift its spending priorities from investment in public infrastructure – typically financed by Chinese stakeholders – to recurrent expenditures. Specifically, Zambia has announced it will totally cancel 12 planned projects, half of which were due to be financed by China EXIM Bank, alongside one by ICBC for a university and another by Jiangxi Corporation for a dual highway from the capital. The government has also canceled 20 undistributed loan balances – some of which were for the new projects but others for existing projects. While such cancellations are not unusual on Zambia’s part, Chinese partners account for the main bulk of these loans…

Read more @ https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-US-And-China-Are-Rushing-To-Secure-Resources-In-DR-Congo.html