pre-colonial maps of Africa on google search

This is great news! Thank you.

I thought Abiy was gonna be a good leader man

Yeah I'll have to look more into the situation or if you find out any further news that gives more detail please post it ITT

Some 5.2 million people – more than 90 percent of Tigray’s people – depend on external assistance, according to the UN.

Separately, a statement by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said Power, whose trip starts on Sunday, will meet officials in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, to “press for unimpeded humanitarian access to prevent famine in Tigray and meet urgent needs in other conflict-affected regions of the country”.

On Friday, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned than 100,000 children in Tigray could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a 10-fold jump over average annual levels.

UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado, speaking after returning from Tigray, told a UN briefing in Geneva that pregnant and breastfeeding women were acutely malnourished.

aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/30/new-push-for-tigray-access-as-un-us-aid-officials-visit-ethiopia

Well in the 14th and 15th century Europe had a slight advantage over Africa in terms of their system of production.

Only a select few areas were moving into a Fuedal means of production (Egypt and Ethiopia), compared to Europe which was moving into capitalism.

Europe was moving into statehood while national unification was a product of mature feudalism and of capitalism, so that was definitely a predisposition to being exploited.

Europe had the biggest advantage in ships. Europes took the initiative and went to other parts of the world. No Chinese boats ever reached Europe at this time, and if any African canoes reached the Americas, there was no two-way connection.

So Europe owned and directed the majority of the worlds sea-going vesselss and they controlled the financing of the trade between four continents.

Europe used the superiority of their ships and cannons to gain control of all the world's waterways, starting with the western Mediterranian and the Atlantic coast of North Africa. That was in the beginning of the 15th. The portugese captured Ceuta, near Gibaltrar, and other ports like Tangier. By the second half of the 15th century they controlled the atlantic coast of Morocco and used their economic advantages to carry ships around the cape of good hope in the beginning of the 16th. After this, they completely replaced the Arabs as the merchants who tied East Africa to India and the rest of Asia.

The trade in human beings from Africa was a response to extenral factors. Since Europe had such a small population compared to Africa and Asia, the labor was needed internally as well as externally for their colonies. First came the need for labor in Portugal, Spain, and in Atlantic islands like Cape Verde and the Canaries. Then came the period when the Antilles area of Latin America needed replacement for the Indians who were victims of genocide; and then the demands for plantation societies had to be met.

Once Europe became more industrialized they began flooding the markets with cheap goods that directly undercut traditional industries of Africa, leading to technological stagnation (why would you innovate, or even continue to work in an industry which you don't get any $ from?)

I posted the link on page 2

All of this information is in "How Europe underdeveloped Africa" btw

thetricontinental.org/dossier-42-militarisation-africa

good info

Great thread. Finally someone who shows interest to African politics on ktt

You know more bout the situation right now? I saw the national troops were losing or so? Know someone from Addis Ababa but no response for days already..

personal life hasn’t allowed for me to keep up as much as i should tbh

@Womanpuncher69
to be short, the un trust territories of the british southern cameroons & french cameroun were joined under a federal constitution in 1961 which was ilegally abolished by our neocolonialist autocratic president in 1972. this centralisation of power has resulted in the gross disrespect and encroachment on the anglophone minority's right to regional, cultural & political autonomy by way of the francophone government’s attempts at forced assimilation and social marginalization of anglophones. the expression of these grievances from the anglophone minority (in the form of a mass peaceful protest that was met with violent crackdown) have culminated in a civil war btwn anglo secessionist guerrillas and the cameroun army. the war has left 5k+ dead & 100k+ internally+externally displaced (including some of my family members).

ive compiled a drive w/ material abt my country's political history. click the sub-folder and click the external links doc for more articles:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NRzBqK3DlkupwpVbXVD8E0t-x8oezScF

I want to update soon with stuff relating to either pandemic type stuff or the climate/food crisis

If anybody has anything to add please do

Billions of people are facing the greatest cost of living crisis in a generation due to rising food and energy prices amid rapid inflation and increasing debt, leaving the most vulnerable consumers in a dire situation, said the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD.

UNCTAD's a***ysis shows that a 10 per cent increase in food prices will trigger a five per cent decrease in the incomes of the poorest families, roughly equivalent to the amount those families would normally spend on healthcare.

In Kenya, rising prices of basic commodities have left most citizens wondering what's going on. The price of a 2kg packet of maize and wheat flour hit 200 shillings (U.S.$2) from a low of 120 shillings in about three months. That is a 67 percent increase. The 12-month overall inflation rate reached 7.91 percent in June 2022. Kenya's average annual per capita income is US$5,270. With inflation, citizens lose even this limited purchasing power. The same money buys less. Wages and salaries do not go up fast enough.

Menawhile, approximately 11 percent of South Africa's 60 million people are hungry and food insecure, according to The Borgen Project nonprofit. Almost half of the population receives various social grants, but researchers have warned that government benefits are not keeping pace with inflation. The child support grant was 41 percent below the average cost of a basic nutritious diet for a child, according to the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity group

This comes as the European Union pledged to support Africa's efforts to achieving food security. The pledge will also help to decrease the continent's dependence on agricultural inputs that are exported from elsewhere in the world.

allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00082826.html

Maputo — The Mozambican government has requested assistance from China for the rehabilitation of the country's main north-south highway (EN1).

President Filipe Nyusi made the request in a meeting in Maputo on Monday with Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party, and the director of its Foreign Affairs Commission.

Speaking to reporters at the end of the meeting, Foreign Minister Veronica Macamo said that the total rehabilitation of EN1 was one of the matters discussed between Nyusi and Yang. "The question was put on the table, and the two governments will discuss it and find a solution", she said. "It is important to recall that China is a partner in the country's development programmes, and I believe that this case will be no exception".

Macamo said she could give no details since the matter is still under discussion, but she believed that a "satisfactory solution" will be found.

Much of EN1 is in a sorry state, with deep ruts and potholes compromising the transport of people and goods between the north, centre and south of the country. The road runs for over 2,000 kilometres from Maputo in the far south to Cabo Delgado province in the far north. A recent report by the independent television station STV showed the shocking condition of what should be the backbone of the Mozambican road network.

Since 2016, the government has not had the funds for far-reaching road reconstruction, because of the scandal of the country's "hidden debts". It was in April 2016 that the true extent of the illicit borrowing became publicly known - the previous government, under the then President Armando Guebuza, had given illicit loan guarantees that allowed three fraudulent, security-linked companies to borrow over two billion US dollars from the banks Credit Suisse and VTB of Russia. When the companies went predictably bankrupt, the loans became debts, and the creditors are demanding their money back plus extortionate sums in interest.

When the scandal hit the media, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suspended its programme with Mozambique, and all 14 donors who had given direct support to the Mozambican state budget halted all further disbursements. This abrupt cut in foreign aid meant that no funds were available for major infrastructure projects such as the rebuilding of EN1. -

Parts of the road, such as the stretch between the Inchope crossroads in Manica province to Caia on the south bank of the Zambezi, were rehabilitated in the late 1990s, but soon deteriorated because the government never implemented its own policy of making the users pay for the roads. So no tollgates were installed between Inchope and Caia.

It is not known whether any deal with the Chinese to rehabilitate EN1 will include toll gates, or whether the motoring lobby will be triumphant again in refusing to pay for the damage it causes. But without toll gates, any repairs to EN1 will be merely cosmetic.

allafrica.com/stories/202207050473.html

@Scratchin_Bandit do u have anything to add when it comes to ethiopia or otherwise

edit: found ur thread

ktt2.com/hundreds-of-amharas-massacred-in-ethiopia-by-ola-32525072/2#latest

@op do you know if there's been any updates to the Sahel Humanitarian Crisis? I was following it back in 2020 and from what I understand it's only gotten worse but I cannot find legitimately anyone talking about it anywhere despite it being one of the biggest crises in Africa in years.

I'm not too sure i cant find anything from 2022 just yet but

From reading this s*** from Dec 2021 apparently there's also dispute between US and Russia over it

I don't know much about it though

africatimes.com/2021/12/15/russia-us-spar-over-wagner-group-presence-in-sahel

It’s nuts there’s like a once in a generation level crisis there and there’s no reporting on it at all

2.4 million people displaced in the Central Sahel as of the end of May 2022

Violence in the Central Sahel and the Lake Chad basin shows no signs of abating: security incidents, attacks, and kidnappings are daily occurrences for millions of civilians caught up in conflict, between armed groups, the state, and military operations and in intercommunal violence, and forced to flee their homes in search of safety. Conflict and worsening insecurity in the Sahel have driven over 6.3 million people from their homes, more than ever before.

As of the end of May 2022, the number of people displaced by the crisis in the Central Sahel reached 2.4 million, with women and children accounting for more than half.

This represents a 40 per cent increase in a single year, and a 56 per cent increase in Burkina Faso, the country with the highest caseload in the region. The Central Sahel is a region characterized by mixed migrations with large refugee populations, creating a complex protection environment.

For example, in addition to the 370,548 internally displaced persons in Mali at the end of April 2022, the country was hosting nearly 13,000 refugees from Niger and over 17,000 refugees from Burkina Faso.

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reliefweb.int/report/burkina-faso/sahel-crisis-humanitarian-needs-and-requirements-overview-2022

I'll come w some Ethiopia and other East Africa updates soon