In the new scramble for Africa, the Kremlin definitely don't want to be left out. In fact, Russia has quickly become a huge power broker in Africa and the consequences are already showing especially in countries already struggling with violence and corruption.
Russian mercenaries (the Wagner group) in the Central African Republic are facing multiple allegations of war crimes including torture
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Every now and then we hear about foreign ships getting attacked by pirates in Somalia, Nigeria and some other parts of Africa. There are several thousands of hostage stories online today and the story is almost always the same.
In almost all these stories, pirates in Africa attack foreign ships, take hostages and demand huge sums of money as ransom. CNN, BBC, Fox News, etc. are full of such
Not long ago, president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, threatened to leave the UN (using some very insultive words and calling president Obama the "son of a bi*ch") and the media went wild on him for that statement. I sided with the media because of the childish way Duterte put his words. That aside, the media also went wild on Duterte for another reason.
According to the media, it is
It is larger markets that enable economies to grow and larger markets generally depend on regional integration. In other words, if you don’t integrate, you fragment your markets leaving your economy at the mercy of external forces. One way western countries control poor third world countries in Africa is by controlling the markets of those poor countries. Once the markets of a country are
An elephant is killed every 15 minutes in Africa. China is slaughtering all of Africa's elephants. Yes China is killing all of Africa's elephants not for food and not for clothing but just for their tusks/ivory. In the last 3 years alone, Tanzania has lost more than 40% of its elephants and the simple reason is that, China has taken over Africa's wildlife. The international ban on ivory trade
There are poor people in Africa and Africa needs help. However, there are even poorer people elsewhere in the world who need much more help than the poor in Africa. The western media often portray Africa as the dark continent full of nothing but poverty, hunger, pain and misery which is not the case.
It is true there is poverty in Africa but not all countries in Africa are poor. Some countries
