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Such a move by West African leaders “would be an unprecedented contradiction,” according to a policy analyst The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union has come out against the deployment of armed troops in Niger to free ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and restore constitutional order, the French outlet Le Monde reported on
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“The worst thing that can happen to a leader is to look back; and find that nobody is following.” US President Lyndon B Johnson, 1908-1973. Talk is cheap. Nigeria is not Lagos. Presidents don’t talk first and think later. Those are three pieces of advice President Bola Tinubu should bear in mind whenever making announcements.
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In an exclusive revelation by SaharaReporters, a total of 25 soldiers hailing from the Nigerian Army Armoured Corps (NAAC) are set to exit the Nigerian Army, a move that raises questions amidst the prevailing security challenges that the military is grappling with across various regions of the nation. The departing soldiers, all belonging to junior
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The former US president says his ‘corrupt’ successor will be brought to justice under his administration US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told an audience in Alabama on Friday that he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate potential illegality perpetrated by the “Biden crime family” on his first day in office, if he reclaims the White
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The ‘new’ head of the ‘highly sensitive’ investigation hasn’t been given any powers that he didn’t supposedly have before US Attorney General Merrick Garland, who works for President Joe Biden, desperately wants the world to know that the government’s investigation of his boss’ son is utterly apolitical. America’s top law-enforcement official is so desperate, in
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“Zelensky relaunches the war on corruption. “Zero tolerance against corrupts and against those who get rich with war”: this is the title of the daily newspaper L’Avvenire giving the image of a simple and honest President who renounces any privilege and fights corruption. This image, conveyed by the entire political mainstream media coverage, is demolished
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Ditching the American currency in trade will diminish Washington’s ability to impose its will China and Brazil have secured a deal to conduct bilateral trade in their own respective currencies, eliminating the US dollar as an intermediary. The agreement between the two BRICS countries, which have $150 billion in annual trade, would probably have been signed in
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President Lula da Silva has kicked off his first state visit to China with a BRICS bank event Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has stated that developing nations should move away from the US dollar in favor of their own currencies in order to push back against American dominance over the global financial
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The Brazilian leader delivered the comments as he concluded a state visit to China The United States and its allies should focus on promoting peace instead of fueling the Ukraine conflict by arming Kiev, Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on Saturday as he concluded a state visit to China, his country’s primary trading partner. “The United
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The Brazilian leader has claimed that he will try to persuade the US president to focus on investment rather than conflict Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has unveiled a new campaign to boost infrastructure spending and attract foreign investment, partly by making an anti-war appeal to US commander-in-chief Joe Biden. “We are going
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Around $450 million worth of foreign currency was converted into rubles last month, data shows The drop in the ruble exchange rate against major foreign currencies has prompted many Russians to sell off their dollar and euro holdings, the Bank of Russia said in its monthly financial risks review published this week. According to the
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PACTA SUNT SERVANDA VERSUS CLAUSULA REBUS SIC STANTIBUS PRINCIPLES The developing story after the 26 July 2023 military putsch in Niger Republic cannot escape the attention of any well-meaning Nigerian for obvious reasons. Beside the point that military rule is generally regarded as an aberration and antithetical to democracy, Nigerians know at close quarters what
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After listening closely to the news and factual reports emanating from all around. I can state with a certain degree of accuracy, that war or no war, we are in for a very very rough time in the near future. The whole war with Niger scenario is in my opinion a mere distraction. As it
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Former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai’s rumored withdrawal from consideration as a minister in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government because high-tensile inter-elite intrigues torpedoed his senate confirmation and caused the president to sour on him is the bluntest, crudest, most double-dyed political treachery I’ve seen in a long time. Sure, El-Rufai is a detestable, self-important,
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One cannot be envious of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), as the 180 days that the current laws give the Presidential Election Tribunal to render verdict are about to expire. The concern, however, is that the high hopes are progressively giving way to perceived uncertainties that the country would be forced to deal with
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Kyiv wants U.S.-made fighter jets as fast as possible, but the first pilots to undergo training probably won’t be ready to fly them until next summer A report entitled F-16 Training for Ukrainian Pilots Faces Delays and Uncertainty (Washington Post) reveals that the training of Ukrainian pilots for F-16 jets Made in America will be delayed for almost
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No one in British parliament has been more aggressive in inciting ethnic tensions in Kosovo than Alicia Kearns. A closer look at her record reveals intelligence ties and “probably illegal” regime change activities. In a remarkable turnaround, after over two decades of turning a blind eye to the slow-motion erasure of Serbs in Kosovo, the EU
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Observers have drawn a number of conclusions based on a recent series of visits to the site of the Nord Stream pipeline rupture via drone. There’s just one problem: all of them seemed to have missed the location of the explosions. After a recent underwater expedition, we can now reveal where they went wrong, and
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British intelligence freelancers collaborating with Ukraine’s Security Service to destroy Kerch Bridge have been exposed. Leaked documents suggest they played a role in the latest attack on the bridge, and may be helping Kiev hunt down accused collaborators. On July 16, a predawn assault on the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea with mainland Russia left two
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Former Ukrainian diplomat and political insider Andrii Telizhenko — now under US sanctions on what he says are false grounds — speaks out. Former Ukrainian government official and diplomat Andrii Telizhenko joins Aaron Maté to discuss how, in his view, powerful US figures including Joe Biden have used Ukraine for personal corruption and the geopolitical
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Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor joined Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate for a candid, live discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war. Col. Macgregor analyzed the battlefront as Russia advanced on Ukrainian positions and offered a withering assessment of the “NATOization” of Ukraine and the role of neoconservatives and the “uni-party” in
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Days before Nuland’s comment, the Russian military claimed it had uncovered 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine linked to the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland said Tuesday that there are “biological research facilities” in Ukraine the US is concerned Russian forces might seize. She made the comments when asked by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
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Staffed by British special forces veterans, Pilgrims’ Group quietly shaped international coverage of the MH17 disaster as it shepherded journalists to and from the crash site. In November of 2022, a final judgment arrived in the trial of alleged perpetrators of the attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). Russian nationals Igor Girkin and Sergey
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While average Ukrainians suffer amid NATO’s proxy war against Russia, business is booming for the surrogate baby industry, which requires a steady supply of healthy and financially desperate women willing to lease their wombs to affluent foreigners. Surrogates “have to be from poorer places than our clients,” explained the medical director of Kiev’s largest “baby
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The main goal of the bloc is to find ways towards development without domination by superpowers, be it the US or China Western pundits are arguing that BRICS nations “risk becoming vassals of China,” claiming that other members of the group (Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa) are comprehensively dominated by Beijing in terms of economic clout
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John Kiriakou looked up from his desk at CIA headquarters and was stunned to see The Washington Post investigative reporter, Bob Woodward, walking through the secure area without an agency escort. On another occasion, Kiriakou—who rose at the CIA to become executive assistant to the deputy in charge of operations, the spy agency’s dark activities—saw
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The Government is Arresting People for Saying Things that the White Houses Does Not Like The original source of this article is Elon Musk Zone Copyright © Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk Zone, 2023
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“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today. Instead of being taught the three R’s of education
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Washington has called for a meeting to focus on how sexual orientation and gender identity figure in the context of armed conflict The US has called for an informal meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the integration of the human rights of LGBTQ and intersex individuals (also known as ‘LGBTI’) into
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Despite the threat of sanctions, the parliament is set to vote on an anti-LGBTQ bill Western countries should stop “wasting the time of humanity” by trying to impose their beliefs and practices, including homosexuality, on other people, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said. The president of the East African country made the comments in a parliamentary address
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The legislation undermines the bank’s values of “inclusion and non-discrimination,” the institution has said The World Bank has announced a halt to new funding for Uganda, citing the country’s anti-homosexuality bill passed earlier this year as the reason for the decision. The global financing body concluded in a statement on Tuesday that the East African
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US, EU, and UK defense contractors have been major beneficiaries of weapons sales to Ukraine The revenues of the top Western defense contractors have been soaring, with American weapons makers dominating the global arms industry, Defense News reported on Monday. According to the magazine’s new ranking of the top 100 defense firms, in 2022, America’s
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The country’s new military government understands the risk of inviting the defense contractor, Victoria Nuland believes Acting US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has traveled to Niger where she met with the new military government and warned against enlisting the help of Russian defense contractor Wagner Group. Nuland, who spoke to her hosts of
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The mere mention of the Wagner PMC has caused the US to consider recognizing the new government in Niger, Evgeny Prigozhin has said Wagner chief Evgeny Prigozhin says he is proud of the members of his private military company as simply mentioning their name can compel Washington to reassess its positions. Acting US Deputy Secretary
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The US secretary of state has accused the Russian PMC of taking advantage of the instability in Niger Washington does not believe that Moscow or Evgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group were connected to the military coup in Niger, but is nevertheless concerned the African nation could come under Russian influence, said US state secretary Antony Blinken.
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The West supports the destruction of Ukraine Misinformed Westerners are led to believe that their governments support Ukraine. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the West supports the destruction of Ukraine and its peoples. Amply documented, the West never wanted peace for Ukraine(1). Instead, Western policymakers seek to “fight to the last
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Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland of “EuroMaidan” infamy traveled to Niger to hold discussions with its interim military-led government after the expiry of ECOWAS’ one-week deadline for reinstalling ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. A regional war is looming over West Africa in the event that this NATO-backed bloc invades like it earlier threatened and/or that country’s former French colonizer
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Ukraine’s war started in February 2014, not in 2022. As NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on 9 May 2023, “The war started in 2014.” He even was explicit that “You have to remember that the war didn’t start in 2022” (which was when Russia responded on 24 February 2022 by invading Ukraine). Here is the best short video (only ten minutes
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An enhanced transcript of a PressTV Interview By Peter Koenig and Press TV Background Most Americans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, as the public splits over whether the US has already done enough to assist Ukraine. Overall, 55%
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After months and months of US media lies about how “phantastic” Ukraine is doing, it is for the cynical a fun to watch how the US narrative is breaking down these days. After months of heavy losses and no gain, the US belief that Ukraine can ever win is vanishing – even CNN cannot keep
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A former rebel leader and politician in Niger has launched a movement opposing the junta that took power in a July 26 coup. This is a first sign of internal resistance to army rule in the strategically important Sahel country. Rhissa Ag Boula said in a statement on Wednesday that his new Council of Resistance
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One day in August 1995 a man called Foutanga Babani Sissoko walked into the head office of the Dubai Islamic Bank and asked for a loan to buy a car. The manager agreed, and Sissoko invited him home for dinner. It was the prelude, writes the BBC’s Brigitte Scheffer, to one of the most audacious
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Potential for foreign intervention exists as 2 million are displaced with hundreds of thousands fleeing across several borders In a recent report published by the South African-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS), an argument was made for the mobilization and deployment of an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in the Republic of Sudan. Since April
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Seeing as how Egypt, Ethiopia, Russia, the UAE, and the US all have important interests in Sudan, it’s clear that this latest African conflict could indeed have far-reaching consequences if it continues and especially if its “deep state” war descends into a civil war. In that event, this geostrategic country could suddenly become an object
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Recent events in the affairs of our nation, most especially the risk of destabilising the entire West African region by the ECOWAS leaders necessitates the need to once again speak out and to call on all Nigerians to stand united in calling the ECOWAS leaders to order by denouncing violence, and by addressing the devastating
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Washington believes it has a divine right to send its warships wherever it wants, but when ‘rivals’ do the same it’s deemed a threat Last week, the US sent a group of warships and a reconnaissance plane to waters off the coast of Alaska after Chinese and Russian vessels conducted a joint naval patrol in
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A “wind of change” is blowing across Africa but this time around, it is not the same wind of change that erstwhile British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, spoke about – the positive wind of change blowing away colonial rule and ushering in Independence to the African colonies of Britain. Macmillan made his famous speech to
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China and Russia’s third joint naval patrol that allegedly reached international waters near Alaska last week has touched the nerves of US media, which hyped the voyage as “highly provocative,” ignoring the fact that the US constantly sends warships and warplanes to China’s doorsteps for close-in reconnaissance and military exercises under the so-called freedom of
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Anil Sooklal, Pretoria’s envoy to Asia and BRICS, says his country will not succumb to Washington’s push to abandon Huawei South Africa will continue to use technology made by Chinese company Huawei despite pressure from the US, Pretoria’s ambassador to Asia and BRICS, Anil Sooklal, has said. Speaking at the University of KwaZulu-Natal last week,
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The right-wing Alternative for Germany wants the bloc to focus on border security and strategic autonomy The European Union’s migration, climate, and monetary policies have “completely failed,” according to a policy document adopted by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Sunday. However, the party aims to change the EU from within rather than withdraw from
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A woman allegedly feeding information on the president’s whereabouts has been arrested The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Monday that it had arrested a woman who had passed intelligence to the Russians about the location of President Vladimir Zelensky, so they could try and kill him. The suspect is a resident of the
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On the night of August 4, the Kiev regime launched a sea drone attack against a Russian tanker. Luckily, the resulting damage was insufficient to sink the ship or cause any casualties among the 11 crew members, but it did hinder its operation. The attack happened at about 23:20 just south of the Kerch Strait, according
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In an article recently published by Politico, it was said that Kiev already has a secret plan in case the Ukrainian president is assassinated. Although it is normal for countries at war to think about the possibility of their leaders dying, the way that media is reporting the case suggests a kind of attempt to prepare public opinion
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Washington exerts more control over the Kiev regime, establishing its own military command, increasing the presence of numerous foreign-backed NGOs, as well as sending US corporate advisers and representatives. Ukraine was never seen as a particularly sovereign country. However, in 2014 any semblance of independence was lost for good when the political West used the
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The patterns of neocolonial intervention in the majority world by the United States and its allies since their victories over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945 are very clear. Almost immediately the Western countries started a cycle of bloody aggression against peoples resisting colonialism, followed later by the dependence of most African and Asian
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Community of citizens would be able to do this The Role of Power in People’s Lives The following lines – regardless of the problem of violence – are meant to encourage and tie in with Albert Camus and his passion to revolt against injustice. Camus’ justice dared to engage in the necessary struggle with the unjust world
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Some international human rights and rule of law groups have stated that the rigging of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Polls is worse than the military coups experienced in the Republics of Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso. The groups are the International College of Democracy and Human Rights, the Eastern Nigerian Democracy and Human Rights Coalition;
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The Senate has dropped the nomination of former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai over “security” petition against him. The Senate on Monday night approved the nomination of 45 out of the 48 initial nominees sent to it by President Bola Tinubu. Other nominees dropped are Ms Stella Okotete who was replaced by former minister
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Judgement is around the corner. In the weeks ahead the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) will deliver its verdict on the controversial 2023 presidential election. What will the decision of the court portend for Nigeria’s political growth and democracy consolidation? Whether President Tinubu triumphs over his adversaries or the other way round, given the presence of
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President Bola Tinubu has filed a motion seeking to prevent a federal court in the United States from releasing his university academic records to Atiku Abubakar, his principal opponent during Nigeria’s February 2023 presidential election. According to the newspaper, a document obtained by it showed Mr Abubakar, on August 2, approached the States District Court
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In a previous article (August 3, 2023) I explained why the indictments of President Trump are entirely fabrications for political and propagandistic reasons. Today I will answer the question how it is possible for a President of the United States to be indicted multiple times for behavior while in office. A US president is surrounded by
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West Africa’s regional bloc has imposed a Sunday deadline for coup leaders to stand down Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has warned that a potential intervention to reverse the coup in Niger could have significant ramifications for regional stability, as a Sunday threat looms for the West African nation to restore its elected leadership. “A military
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Threatened with invasion by their Western-backed neighbors, Niger’s military rulers have vowed to “stand and fight” The military putschists running Niger have refused to relinquish power, as an ultimatum set by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) expired on Sunday. The coup leaders have vowed to rid Niger of colonial influence, reportedly turning
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Paris has vowed to protect its interests in the country, which cut off supplies of the critical material after a coup French President Emmanuel Macron was quick to react to a domestic conflict happening 6,000km away from Paris, saying that France would respond immediately to any violence towards French interests in the wake of a
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With the diminishing influence of France, the increasing weight of Nigeria and other long-term interests, several overlapping scenarios are possible On July 26, 2023, the presidential guard of the Republic of Niger detained President Mohamed Bazoum. The army did not take the insurgents’ side at first, taking a guarded position instead at the strategically important
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Regional bloc ECOWAS needs more time to build military strength, a source told the outlet Members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are not ready to stage a full-scale intervention in Niger, where a military junta has seized power, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources. Last month, ECOWAS, a
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Energy and utility groups account for more than half of the lost earnings, the FT’s analysis shows Major European companies have incurred at least €100 billion ($110 billion) in direct losses from their Russia operations as a result of Western sanctions, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The newspaper’s survey of 600 European groups’ annual
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Ukraine has become a world leader in black-market organ trafficking, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claims The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has alleged that members of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s administration are personally engaged in, and are covering up, the illicit export of human organs. In an article published on the Foreign Ministry’s website, Maria Zakharova cited
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One of the bitter lessons Bola Tinubu may have learnt in his abortive war against Niger Republic’s military junta is that with northern Nigeria, blood will always be thicker than water. In this matter, Niger Republic is blood; Nigeria, especially the part of it outside the Muslim north, is water. Northern Nigerians will not sacrifice
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Amid concerns around the high cost of governance, the 48 ministerial nominees whose names were forwarded to the Senate for clearance by President Bola Tinubu, and about 560 commissioners-designates in 27 states of the federation, where elections held in May this year may cost the country about N23.4bn in salaries, findings by Saturday PUNCH have shown. The
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According to the French ambassador to Niger, the Commander of Iran’s Qods Force, General Qaani, was on board the LN422 flight from Tripoli to Niger last night. This news comes at a time of heightened tension in the West African region following the coup which led to the ousting of President Bouzim of Niger and
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Mali, Burkina Faso and the CNSP based in Niamey have cautioned ECOWAS, France and the United States to refrain from any attempt to reinstall the administration of ousted President Mohamed Bazoum General Abdourahamane Tchiane, the chairman of the ruling military administration in the West African state of Niger, has rejected the call by the Economic
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Ukrainian forces apparently already used SCALP-EGs in strikes on civilian infrastructure in Crimea President Emmanuel Macron has delivered on his promise to supply Kiev with the French variant of Storm Shadow missile, according to footage by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in which President Vladimir Zelensky is seen posing for a photo op with a rocket
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1 August 2023 Who & Why Among the Deep State Are Inexorably Leading the World Towards Nuclear War? For whatever unknown reason, the totalitarian “puppet master” entities within the Deep State, clearly, are unequivocally intent, at some rapidly approaching moment in time, to bring about a climatic Nuclear WWIII, with Ukraine its intended epicenter. By
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First published on October 1, 2022 The war in Ukraine is basically about the US-NATO’s long-term plan to destroy Russia’s rise as a major player on the world stage. In 2019, The Rand Corporation published ‘Overextending and Unbalancing Russia: Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options’ which recommended several measures that would essentially disrupt Russia’s inevitable rise. The
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5 June 2011 -The use of Western troops in Africa – particularly in the case of France – the use of its paratroopers, first in Ivory Coast, and now in Libya, represents a new strategic declaration of war against Africa, the African interest, and the African continent. In NATO’s disregard of AU, there is without
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16 September 2011 -Using the War on Terror and the wars in Afghanistan as the justification, the rationale of the militarists for a global role of NATO began to take shape and the idea of NATO was debated in military journals. One of the writers on this concept was Ivo Daalder, the US ambassador to
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11 May 2010 China’s bid for Nigeria’s six billion barrels of oil from the reserve blocks may have been consigned to the shelves, as talks over the interest have been stalled, over alleged dispute on bid offer. China, last year, offered to invest as much as $50 billion to acquire a large stake in
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January 2, 2017 In early 2001 following a visit to Moscow, President Vladimir Putin sent 40 experts from TPE (TyazhPromExport), the original builders of the Ajaokuta Steel Company to assess the plant and determine what was required to revive and commission it but thereafter, President Olusegun Obasanjo failed to provide the funds required. Findings by
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22 June 2021 New leader was trained by the Pentagon and subsidized by France In the aftermath of a second military coup within nine months in the West African state of Mali both the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) are calling for a speedy return to civilian rule.
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AFRICOM and “Vanguard Africa” usher in a renewed phase of neo-colonial dominance Ousted Gambian President Yahya Jammeh was flown out of his country on Friday January 20 after the military intervention of troops from neighboring Senegal and air support from the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Reports surfaced that Jammeh will be taken to Equatorial Guinea
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AFRICOM and “Vanguard Africa” usher in a renewed phase of neo-colonial dominance Ousted Gambian President Yahya Jammeh was flown out of his country on Friday January 20 after the military intervention of troops from neighboring Senegal and air support from the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Reports surfaced that Jammeh will be taken to Equatorial Guinea
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AFRICOM is ready to begin this year’s annual special operations training for African military leaders, dubbed ‘Flintlock.’ The program is labeled as part of America’s counter-terrorism strategy on the continent, yet its graduates often have goals other than fighting jihadists. Most recently, two-time Flintlock grad Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba seized power in Burkina Faso, ousting President Roch Marc
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What these two outlets’ pieces on this subject show is that newly inaugurated Nigerian President Tinubu might invade Niger out of desperation to distract from economic and political problems at home despite telling the world that this is to defend democracy in that neighboring nation. The corrupt confluence of his domestic interests and the West’s
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The main goal of the bloc is to find ways towards development without domination by superpowers, be it the US or China Western pundits are arguing that BRICS nations “risk becoming vassals of China,” claiming that other members of the group (Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa) are comprehensively dominated by Beijing in terms of economic clout
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Since the overthrow of Niger’s US-friendly government, West African nations of the ECOWAS bloc have threatened an invasion of their neighbor. Before leading the charge for intervention, ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago, and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals. Hours after Niger’s Western-backed leader was
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The last two years of Awolowo as Premier of Western Region was concentrated on efforts to write his name in the book of Legends. He incorporated: Western Hotels which invested in:1) _Premier Hotel,2) _Lafia hotels in Ibadan3) _Lagos Airport Hotel respectively. He set up:Western Nigeria Development Corporation to finance mega corporations. This was established in
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The Pentagon has warned that a political impasse over top commander appointments may jeopardize troop readiness The US Army and Marine Corps are both without a top leader for the first time in history because of a political row in Washington, potentially undermining efforts to recruit troops and ensure that they’re ready to defend the
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Turnover hit all-time highs last year and continues to grow despite Western sanctions on Moscow Economic cooperation between Russia and the United Arab Emirates has been on the rise despite Ukraine-related Western sanctions on Moscow, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The outlet cited the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as saying that the flow of Russian
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Washington is seeking to incite a new major conflict because global hegemony is slipping out of its grasp, Vyacheslav Volodin has said The United Nations must condemn the US for purchasing weapons for Taiwan because these “provocative actions” risk triggering a major conflict involving China, the speaker of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, has said. Writing
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The British Monarchy is one of the world’s more malignant forces and we are thoroughly entitled to say so. Quite contrary to its micromanaged image of a kindly benefactor, serving the best interests of the people, it is the apotheosis of rot, corruption and evil, an outdated institution harking back to the middle ages, steeped
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There seems to be no limit to the crimes and anti-humanitarian practices committed by the Kiev regime. In addition to torture, extrajudicial execution and human rights violations, Ukraine is also being denounced by insiders for involvement in an international child trafficking scheme. Several criminal networks are operating in Ukrainian territory, profiting from the conflict by
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Civilian targets were affected in the Saturday night shelling Ukrainian forces have reportedly fired cluster munitions into Donetsk city, striking a private residence, a university and other civilian targets. Four rounds of 155mm cluster bombs were fired into the center of the city on Saturday night, triggering fires in three districts, the Joint Center of
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Arm, train and provide logistical support for Taiwan separatists who will spearhead Washington’s proxy war on China The Biden Administration is implementing a plan to draw Taiwan into a direct military confrontation with the People’s Republic of China. The plan bears many similarities to the strategy that was used in Ukraine where Russia was goaded into
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The former cricket star claims his conviction for illegally profiting from state gifts was politically motivated Imran Khan meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (not pictured) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on October 9, 2019 in Beijing, China © Getty Images / Parker Song-Pool/Getty Images Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was issued with a three-year jail sentence
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France has pledged to uphold military deals made with Niger’s ‘legitimate authorities’ France has said it is standing by five military cooperation agreements with Niger, because the accords were signed with the West African state’s ‘legitimate authorities,’ despite the former colony’s newly installed junta calling for the deals to be revoked. “France recalls that the
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Kiev has lost over 43,000 troops since it launched its push against Russian positions in June, the Defense Ministry reported. Ukraine sustained, the losses of more than 43,000 troops during June and July, as it continued its attempted counteroffensive against Russian positions, the Russian Defense Ministry has estimated. The casualty rate was mirrored by the
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The U.S. has a 1.3 Trillion Dollar project assigned solely to nuclear weapons, which constitutes Big Money for the US-NATO defense contractors. We are at a dangerous crossroads. Western Politicians believe that they can win a nuclear war. With the war in Ukraine, Nazism has reemerged, now they call it Neo-Nazism? The U.S. financial establishment
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Russia has signed agreements for military cooperation with over 40 African countries, President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday in St Petersburg. He made the announcement during the second and final day of the second Russia-Africa Summit, saying “we are developing partnerships in military and military-technical cooperation with more than 40 African states to strengthen the
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