Tem Fuh

Security, geopolitics and human rights enthausiast

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

Even as @ecowas_cedeao faces daunting challenges, it remains a viable model for regional integration in Africa. Happy to participate and contribute to debates on the future of an ECOWAS of the people🙂

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

@piersmorgan You are the stunningly deluded one, fanning the flames of war.

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

...No one can say anything other than that Cameroon is in safe & experienced hands!🤭

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

@SherryKyama 😂😂😂😂

[Alioune✊ @as_cleverO]

Les Images sont Fortes, le Moment Historique.
God bless you HE M Président FAYE

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

From toddler to President, @DiomayeFaye of #Senegal has achieved what many dream of. Meanwhile, @PaulBiya of #Cameroon, at 91, proves that age is just a number by eyeing yet another term😀. In politics, it seems, some play the long game while others start young.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Africa is the world's most sanctioned continent.

Think about that.

The world's poorest continent that supposedly survives on charity and desperately needs more trade is also the one that is hit with the most trade and travel restrictions of any continent.

Despite all the sanctions - ostensibly imposed for the benefit of human rights and democracy - Africa remains the least politically free continent in the world, which means the sanctions do not work.

African countries collectively are more sanctioned than even Russia and China - economically powerful, nuclear armed countries that the West sees as rivals and hostile rogue states.

Eritrea and Zimbabwe have almost as many sanctions imposed on them as Iran and North Korea. Clearly, Eritrea and Zimbabwe are nowhere near the same global conversation as Iran or North Korea, and the sanctions are NOT having any impact on their attitude toward democracy and human rights.

So this begs the question, why exactly is Africa the world's most sanctioned continent? If the motivation is not benevolent - because they do not deepen democracy or entrench human rights - then what other motivation could there be for these sanctions?

In whose interest is it for the world's poorest continent to have the most restrictions on its access to the global economy, travel, finance, and trade? Who benefits from Africans not being able to trade, travel, and grow?

Why does the continent with 3% of global trade have the highest number of economic and diplomatic sanctions? What are they sanctioning and why?

Food for thought.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I await a frenzied and irrational response from ECOWAS, as was the case with Niger. Democracy must be defended.

Oh, France doesn't disapprove of this particular coup? No promises to drug dealer presidents have been made in exchange for invading Senegal?

Right, OK. As you were.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

These are the "democrats" who wanted to send troops to Niger last year to "restore democracy".

Much election. Very democracy.

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

@TheRemiNTG @Wizarab10 Same here, very painful reality!

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

@cobbo3 Great move. But Gambia? Since when? I paid for a visa two months ago.

[ISS @issafrica]

ISS Today > Time to resolve Cameroon’s persistent yet forgotten crisis

The country is no closer to settling the destabilising seven-year Anglophone crisis that has claimed thousands of lives. https://t.co/54EAzN32s4

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is what BBC Africa excels at. Glorified tabloid journalism masquerading as important, hard-hitting stories.

They'll never do a documentary on how South Africa's 9% white minority STILL holds roughly 83% of the country's wealth 29 years after the end of apartheid.

They'll never do a documentary on how the typical black household in South Africa holds about 5% of the wealth of the typical white household, despite making up 85% of the population.

No documentary on how South Africa prefers to spend billions of rands annually on social welfare grants to a young and alarmingly unproductive population instead of investing in education (while tuition fees go up and increasingly exclude said unproductive majority population), effectively subsidising today by eating tomorrow and ensuring that defacto apartheid will remain in place for at least another generation.

No documentary about how deliberate policy choices and mismanagement since 1994 have made South Africa - a country which should have become Africa's first proper industrial economy with its existing nuclear reactors and an installed energy capacity of 40,000 MW - fail to achieve the needed growth velocity to escape poverty, and instead have a 13,000 MW energy shortfall and no prospect of industrialisation in future, which makes no sense.

No documentary on any of the actual economic issues that lead to scapegoating of poor immigrants by equally poor people. No documentary that provides any actionable insights or platform for actual broad-based societal change.

Just glossy outrage porn and elementary school analysis to feed hate clicks by those who lack knowledge of the actual issues and who erroneously think that what goes on at BBC Africa - a place where staff get fired for not getting enough clicks on their stories - can be classified as "journalism."

The Daily Mail of state-funded propaganda outfits.

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

Africa must practice polyandry - we must marry all our suitors to transform the continent -@NOIweala @unGa side event at @africacentre

[Clifford N. Akonteh @akonteh_n]

School Resumption has prompted more violations of the right to security and compromised civilian protection in the NW & SW Regions of #Cameroon Add your voice to the #ProtectOurOwn Campaign for our people are dying.

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

Just wondering why unlike in #Niger, no hysterical reaction from #France about coup in #Gabon, no call for release and reinstatement of #AliBongo, and no calls for military intervention to restore #democracy. Go figure!!

[Dr. Roselyn Akombe @DrRoselynAkombe]

The wave of coups shall continue until as a continent we have the courage to address the scourge of manipulated elections, constitutional coups and leadership/governance deficits.

[Tem Fuh @TemFuh]

When people are hopeless and desperate, they are likely to accept any kind of change. Political and business elite across Africa, along with their foreign accomplices have created enough desperation and hopelessness. The #meninuniform are taking full advantage to sell false hope.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.

[Spotlight Abby @Spotlight_Abby]

REUBEN ABATI: Is the ECOWAS military intervention a good idea?

Dr. QUAO: No, it is not. By forcing Niger to export all her natural resources to France, that's a coup.

By forcing Niger to deposit 50% of her reserves with France, that's a coup.

By France, placing thekr military in Niger and forcing Nigeriens to be trained By their military, that's a coup.

I want to ask those people (ECOWAS) sitting on the table and discussing military interventions against Niger what they're doing about the other coups we're not talking about.

Behind those coups, there are millions of children dying out of hunger. There are millions of women dying in childbirth. There are millions of African youths who are unemployed.

I want the ECOWAS and all those sitting on the table, to tell me what they are doing about the political and economic coups going on in all 14 former France colonies. If their interests are really true. Let's call a spade, a spade.

This moment is calling for meaningful leadership across Africa.

It's always a joy listening to this amazon, Dr. ARIKANA CHIHOMBORI QUAO.

#AllEyesOnJudiciary River Niger
#AllEyesOnTheJudiciary