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Nemesis4you:
What kind of invasion is this by the Russians


https://mobile.twitter.com/cryptical_fish/status/1498690724346441728?

This sort of explains to an extent why they have been slow

The official visuals of Ukrainians blocking Africans from getting on trains. #AfricansinUkraine pic.twitter.com/hJYpM3LY0A

— DEECHI (@DamilareArah) February 26, 2022

Faithti:
(NEO-NAZI) just look at how an African adult male is being brainwashed.....

kabe1:
Not true, just a morale boosting tale for the Ukrainians. Same as the bombardment of Snake island, with all the border guards giving their lives in battle.

Besides only the Ukrainians currently fly MIG-29s in this conflict.

What appears to be footage of the Ukrainian garrison of Snake Island surrendering to Russian troops has surfaced; earlier the Ukrainian government had claimed they they refused to surrender and had all died heroically pic.twitter.com/6I6tbQS0Fx

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) February 26, 2022

jl115:
impossible to say with 100% certainty since we are not there and certainly don't know the facts however logically I tend to agree that it is implausible But it's been making headlines all over so we'll have to wait and see for all the facts

GreenandGold:
The Russians have taken back the Antonov Airport


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLkHC2SROY

kabe1:
The rust on some US Navy Destroyers on deployment is something else.

Mzal3ndo:
You know I was thinking about this the other day and it kinda came and struck me a bit. For this lets take Tanzania as a case study. The GDP ppp of Tanzania in 2019 was $150B. If Tanzania was effective at collecting taxes she should be collecting at least $30B per year. Also taking account that 40% of the Tanzanian economy is informal (unregistered and unregulated) her true GDP ppp figure should be something like $210B in 2019.
So what can she and the rest of the continent do for better tax collecting? Going fully digital and ditching paper money for Transactions. And with my rough estimation this could be a game changer for a lot of countries. I did a rough number analysis of the public transportation in Dar es salaam. About 4M people use public transport in Dar es salaam, with Tsh.800 as the go and return fare on average, is the state had a complete digital payment system, also collecting 30% of the total revenue (1USD=Tsh.2300 average) the state could be collecting close to $150M per year in revenue.
The average cost of building a tarmacked road in Tanzania is $500K and Dar es salaam having approximately 600km of unpaved road, they could have enough money to pave all roads in 2 years. Imagine if we did this in every sector of the economy, with good money managment Africa could have better infrastructure at 0 debt compared to first world countries.

dragon2:
If true,another reason to be wary of the China debt honey trap.

Home - Dailytrust

China To Take Over Uganda’s Lone International Airport Over Failure To Repay Loan
The Ugandan government has lost its most important airport to Chinese loan…....

By
Abdulyassar Abdulhamid
Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:40:58 GMT

The Ugandan government is on the verge of losing its major airport to China for failing to repay a loan.

The government has failed to reverse a loan agreement with the Chinese which had repayment conditions of attaching its only airport.

Entebbe International Airport and other Ugandan assets were attached and agreed to be taken over by Chinese lenders upon arbitration of the loan.

According reports, President Yoweri Museveni had sent a delegation to Beijing hoping to renegotiate the toxic clauses.

The visit was unsuccessful as China authorities refused to allow any alteration in the original terms of the deal.

The Uganda government, represented by the finance ministry and the Civil Aviation Authority at the time, had on 17 November 2015, signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow U$207 million at two per cent upon disbursement; with a maturity period of 20 years including a seven-year grace period.

The deal signed with the Chinese lenders virtually means Uganda “surrendered” its most prominent airport to China.

The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) said some provisions in the Financing Agreement expose Entebbe International Airport and other Ugandan assets to be attached and taken over by Chinese lenders upon arbitration in Beijing.

The rejection of Uganda’s plea to renegotiate the toxic clauses of the 2015 loan has left Museveni’s administration in limbo.

According to the Daily Monitor of Uganda, the Ugandan government waived international immunity in the agreements it signed to secure the loans, exposing Entebbe International Airport to take over without international protection.

Last week, Uganda’s Finance Minister Matia Kasaija apologised to parliament for the “mishandling of the $207 million loan” from the China Exim Bank to expand Entebbe International Airport.

“I apologise that we shouldn’t have accepted some of the clauses,” Kasaija told members of the committee in response to questions asked by the legislators.

There were also questions over the interest rate that was set by the China Exim Bank for the funds placed in an off-shore Standard Bank account that was used as collateral for the project.

Built in 1972, Entebbe International Airport handles over 1,9 million passengers per year.

Editor’s note: This story has been modified to reflect that China is on the verge of taking over the airport

jl115:
the man lives for the moments where he can post something even slightly negative about South Africa

dragon2:
Still have to be careful,if history is a guide.When china rises to empire status( very close) all her wars will be fought by and on the land of vassal states. All she has to do first is to drag them into enormous debt;resource and tech dependency.
First strikes,heavy defences and choke points will occur on these vassal states to drag the war away from china,the home resource base.
Modified.
All the while these vassal states will be paying tribute.( Interest on debt).Both individual and state.

Lurker4Long:
Video of British soldier confessing to killing a Kenyan sex worker.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-army-soldier-murder-mother-kenya-9hffnjqqv

kikuyu1:
Correct. One good thing Uhunye has done is establishing the Ruiru small arms factory. Ofc, its his and IDGAF: the facility can be upscaled to produce other military products incl aerospace parts.
There's a 500k USD 5 axis CNC onsite. Coupled with trained cadre, political will and quality material the sky is literally the limit.

Stargate254:
Man, the video from the same almost makes you feel like its just an exercise, I almost forgot that what I was watching was real and if those guys had not been intercepted, we would be having a different conversation right now. There target was probably some niche hotel in South Coast, There have been a lot of tourists arrivals since last month. Some blogs are saying that the intel came from an al-Shabaab returnee

Stargate254:
I think specialized units have been given leeway to get away with non-standardized gear. A unit in Liboi can have tottaly different kit from another one in Kiunga yet they are from the same regiment.