Agreeing with average ideas just to avoid awkwardness destroys your competitive edge. When you nod along to mediocrity to keep the peace, you train your own brain to accept low standards.
The diaspora is not treating investment like charity. It is literally replacing the state. That $100 billion is not going to consumption out of a lack of financial vision. It is keeping families alive because African governments have abdicated every responsibility they were supposed to carry. School fees, hospital bills, housing, food: the diaspora is subsidising what governance failed to provide, mostly while barely surviving themselves in expensive cities abroad.
I told yall it was a literacy issue and everyone wanted to rip my head off. Back in the day, rappers had vast and diverse vocabulary. They used figurative language, and literary devices. And this is not about AAVE, because that’s a dialect. the new cats are vastly illiterate.
Le Bénin est un partenaire clé de l’UE en Afrique de l’Ouest.
C’est une relation fondée sur la confiance mutuelle et la volonté d’améliorer la qualité de vie pour tous.
Et c’est toute l’essence de notre stratégie Global Gateway.
Ensemble, nous investissons au Bénin ↓
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@WadagniRomuald@UEauBenin
Happy birthday to Web inventor & MIT Professor Emeritus Tim Berners-Lee! Things besides the WWW that didn’t exist before TBL:
- Apple
- Google
- Facebook
- YouTube
- Instagram
- Netflix
- Uber
- Spotify
- & many other technologies we use today
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MERCI à chacune et chacun de vous pour tous vos vœux, prières et intentions à mon endroit.
En ce jour où nous devons célébrer le Travail, je souhaite que nous ayons conscience que ce sont nos efforts et sacrifices communs qui nous procurent les avancées saluées par nous-mêmes, mais aussi par-delà nos frontières.
Et je nous exhorte à nous engager à nouveau, toutes et tous ensemble, pour aller plus loin encore dans l'œuvre de développement de notre pays.
Merci
Patrice TALON
Président de la République du Bénin 🇧🇯
Behind that ranger sits part of 105 tonnes of ivory worth roughly $150 million on the black market. Days after this photo, Kenya soaked the lot in jet fuel and burned it. Critics warned it would backfire. A decade on, ivory prices have crashed and poaching is at a 20-year low.
The piles held the tusks of around 7,000 elephants and the horns of 343 rhinos. It was the biggest ivory burn in history. The full stockpile was about 5 percent of all the ivory sitting in African government storerooms at the time. Kenya's entire annual environment budget was smaller than what they were about to set on fire.
The argument against burning was simple. Cut the supply, push up the price, poachers come back harder. One conservation economist compared the move to Iraq going offline during the Iran-Iraq war, when oil prices spiked. Burn $150 million of ivory and the same shock should hit.
None of that happened. Raw ivory in China peaked at around $2,100 per kilogram in 2014. Then Kenya burned its stockpile in April 2016, China shut its legal ivory market in December 2017, and similar bans rolled through the US, Europe, and elsewhere. The price broke. By 2020, the going price across Africa had fallen to about $92 per kilogram. In Kenya specifically, what a poacher could get for a kilo of raw tusk dropped from $190 in 2014 to $52 by 2018. Inside China, the share of people saying they would ever buy ivory fell from 43 percent before the ban to 18 percent by 2020.
The bet was based on an old number. A 2014 Sheldrick Wildlife Trust study found that one live elephant brings in around $23,000 a year in tourism revenue. Across a 70-year lifespan, that is roughly $1.6 million. Its tusks, ripped out, sell for around $21,000. That is the 76-to-1 ratio that gets thrown around in conservation circles. Kenya runs around 10 percent of its economy on tourism today, almost all of it built around live wildlife.
The numbers since have backed the call. The UN's 2024 wildlife crime report says the global ivory market is shrinking, with seizures and poaching both down. A 2024 Colorado State study found African elephant numbers fell 77 percent on average between 1964 and 2016. After 2016, things turned. Forest elephant decline slowed from 7 percent a year to under 1. Savanna elephant poaching is at its lowest level since global tracking started in 2003.
The ranger in this photo is guarding ivory Kenya was about to destroy on purpose. Within four years, the market for what he was guarding had collapsed.
🇧🇯"Notre rêve : une cantine dans chaque grande ville du #Bénin pour offrir à manger aux personnes dans le besoin."
Depuis 2018, l'ONG Shine Together agit sur le terrain en apportant nourriture et vêtements aux enfants et personnes en situation difficile.
Brut. est allé à la rencontre de ceux qui portent cette initiative solidaire.
#Sawara
@djof228rvn@arthur_kengne Décembre 2025, c'était il y a quelques mois. Normalement, si tu étais intelligent tu aurais pris la peine de te renseigner avant de parler.
Les français étaient venus à quelle heure ? Je te l'ai pourtant demandé. Dis-moi tout, le français.