🇲🇱 What the hell is going on in Mali?

Many will be asking this question as to the future of the UN’s mission there, after Germany just announced that intends to withdraw its troops from the mission.

💬 Martin Jay writes

#Mali #Germany #UN

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🌍 Sanctions on African children are like carpet bombing, just another useful weapon in NATO’s arsenal of democracy, which can be unleashed against impoverished upstarts when needed.

No matter whether Algeria, Russia, China, Iran, Uganda and Niger like it or not, that is the nature of the amoral beast they are dealing with. The problem then is to mitigate sanctions’ effects and, if possible, turn them on their heads.

The idea here would be that Algeria, China, Russia and allied nations would distribute, say, $1 billion of aid over a number of years of standarised packages of a narrow range of basic goods across the Sahel. These goods would consist of grain and other basic foods, cooking oil, generic medicines, hygiene, baby products and so on.

Russia has made a generous offer to Africa with its grain. Though that is a good start, it is only half the work 🤲

💬 Read more by Declan Hayes

#Africa #Sahel #Mali #Niger #Algeria #Uganda #colonialism

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