@UnkleAyo These are mere circuses, if Rwanda goes nuclear or nationalizes their resources we'll take them seriously.
You cannot seek sovereignty at home yet twerk for the imperialist capitalist ventures controlled by the same entities keeping your homeland dependent & underdeveloped.
INEC's new AI Division moves election verification from citizens with phones to an algorithm nobody can audit, smoothing out fake numbers and rubber-stamping results behind a digital wall no court can crack. Then comes the loophole: when real rigging footage leaks, they call it an AI deepfake, and the opposition has to prove otherwise. You cannot subpoena a source code. This is not election technology, this is a permanent power vault.
French journalist Marine Vlahovic was found dead in her home in Marseille while working on a documentary covering Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Sylvanus Olympio was shot on January 13, 1963. He was two days away from pulling Togo out of the CFA franc, when the imperialists struck.
The story that gets told is simple. A group of Togolese soldiers, led by Sergeant Étienne Eyadéma, stormed the presidential residence in Lomé. Olympio fled, hid in a car outside the US embassy, and was found and shot at the gate. Eyadéma admitted it: "He could not stay there. There would have been demonstrations. He would not move. I shot him" .
That is the version that fits the official record. It is also incomplete.
Olympio was not killed over a military pay dispute, though that is the trigger the soldiers used. He was killed because he was about to sign Togo's withdrawal from the CFA franc zone and launch a national currency backed by the Deutsche Mark. He had already founded the Banque Centrale du Togo in 1962. The agreement was days from being signed .
France had reasons to want him gone. De Gaulle's Africa advisor, Jacques Foccart, said it plainly after Olympio's death: "Sylvanus Olympio was not one of our friends" . The French ambassador in Lomé knew the coup plotters personally. They were former French army soldiers. France opposed an independent investigation into the assassination .
After Olympio was killed, his brother-in-law Nicolas Grunitzky was installed as president. He immediately abandoned the national currency plan and signed cooperation agreements reaffirming Togo's use of the CFA franc. The currency Olympio died trying to leave is still in use today .
The scholarship is careful. Historians like Skinner and Glasman argue the coup was rooted in the discontent of ex-French soldiers Olympio refused to integrate into Togo's tiny army. The monetary story is "an underlying factor," not the single bullet . But the timing is hard to ignore. Olympio was killed while negotiating monetary independence. The negotiations ended with his death. Togo stayed in the franc zone.
His brother-in-law took power. The man who pulled the trigger, Eyadéma, ruled Togo for 38 years after overthrowing Grunitzky in 1967.
Olympio's chair at the founding of the OAU in May 1963 was left empty. It was meant to be a warning. It became a template .
@MindChef_@Munnirsanda Is the govt not run by citizens too, Where is their own compassion?
Why are terrorists pampered?
Why is it easier to track dissidents than to track terrorists?
Why is it easier for terrorists to get high speed Internet in the bush than students on Uni campuses?
@Blackigbogal3 Is your God racist?
Why can't Hallelujah challenge simply fix your country so you don't have to japa to another country where they don't do hallelujah challenge.