Testing my product Manipulation skills. everything was from scratch.
Thanks to Nour for the headsup
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Femi Falana stated that Ali Modu Sheriff, the former governor of Borno State, founded Boko Haram. He was arrested in Cameroon over his links to the group, but the Nigerian government stepped in and negotiated his release. Falana challenged Sheriff to sue him if the claims are untrue.
"I read that Burkina Faso is building closer ties to Israel..."
Kindly read and heal yourself from exposure to the latest propaganda campaign by your friendly, neighbourhood zionist psyop account. 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
"Art is for escapism"
Look at her galavanting with a mass murdering criminal like Obama. Nigerian artists are being used as US cultural agents to destroy the minds of young people in Africa. Fools
The Israelis don't care about any of these common-sense considerations because they are literally the exact kind of brainwashed, fanatic extremists that they spent decades telling us the Muslims are.
Every accusation = public confession as usual.
Look at this epic backtracking and ass covering! Same people who a few weeks back were on about "destroy Iranian civilisation" have been so humbled! 😂
Iran can do no wrong in my eyes at this point! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Aloy Chife: "The U.S. government through its Commercial Service and Embassies, has left no stone unturned to make this project successful.
Can you guess what it takes to secure a regulatory license in Africa? 3- 4 years of undiluted pain and a boatload of money. (The process takes about 3 months here in the U.S.)"
Sir, please permit me to enlighten you that just because a commercial service desk or a foreign embassy approved your big, beautiful project does not mean anything in the brutal grand scheme of global finance.
An embassy's singular job is to protect the public image of their home country and project soft diplomatic power. They will definitely write glowing recommendations in colorful brochures, they will shake your hand for the cameras, and they will invite you to elite networking dinners, but technically speaking, that diplomatic applause does not mean anything.
The embassy decides nothing.
The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury decide everything, and no international financial platform is considered viable or "concrete" until it is structurally built to ensure the U.S. Treasury has no reason to veto, sanction, or completely destroy it.
Commercial banks in Africa and the rest of the Global South know and understand this. They are not foolish people.
They will not roll out a red carpet for you just because a naive rookie in an irrelevant US diplomatic agency rubber-stamped your paperwork. The reason these local banks take so much time, the reason they drag their feet on compliance, is because they have to be meticulously detailed and extremely thorough in their risk analysis. Any slight mistake, no matter how practically irrelevant, gives the US Treasury the power to abruptly announce that the bank is facilitating international money laundering through your app. They will mercilessly cut them off from the SWIFT system overnight, their correspondent banking licenses will be permanently revoked, and the bank's stock price will plunge into absolute oblivion in a matter of nanoseconds.
The idea you have for Africa, which involves trying to build a sovereign financial app that African countries can use to facilitate cross-border payments and completely bypass the US dollar, is a very impressive one, but even you have to admit that it is not a profoundly unique idea.
Everybody knows we badly need that exact level of flexibility in our continental business. If I am a business owner in Lagos and I want to send money to a trade partner in Egypt, the money will first of all be forcefully converted to US dollars, it will be routed through a Western clearing bank, then sent to the Egyptian bank, where the bank in Egypt will convert it back to the local Egyptian pound. At the end of the day, we both collectively pay at least a 5-10 percent extortion commission to America simply for engaging in normal, bilateral African trade.
This financial arrangement is entirely suicidal, it is pure economic parasitism, and it obviously has to be completely scrapped before we can even begin to talk about genuine development across Africa. But do you really think you are the only one who has thought about this? Do you really think the elite tech teams at Opay are just blind fools who do not see this massive multi-billion dollar opportunity?
Opay is an established, heavily funded tech giant. They have massive pools of liquid capital, they have thousands of the most brilliant software engineers on their payroll, they possess impenetrable data servers, and they already hold the lion's share of the domestic digital payment market across multiple African states.
So they obviously possess the raw technical and financial capacity to handle this exact project efficiently. But they will not dare touch it. This is not because they are a circle of clowns, but because they fully know that global finance is not about a local embassy giving you a superficial approval. They know and understand perfectly well that the U.S. Treasury's absolute control over global transactions does not operate through active, positive approval, but rather through a silent, lethal veto power.
The US officials will gladly approve everything for you with a big, patronizing smile and even call you a tech genius. But as soon as that app becomes fully functional, as soon as it actually starts helping Africa grow and completely bypasses the dollar, the US Treasury will simply veto it. They will officially designate your platform as a high-risk entity, and every single commercial bank will immediately stop doing business with you because they know the terrifying details of how utterly ruthless the Federal Reserve is. You will then be forced to spend tens of millions of dollars to aggressively lobby corrupt US lawmakers to review the app just to prove your basic innocence. You will have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire a massive army of corporate lawyers to navigate the brutal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations, to defend you against manufactured federal indictments, to testify before hostile congressional committees, and to desperately negotiate your survival against astronomical compliance fines.
By the time you manage to temporarily prove your innocence, you will have spent every single kobo in your pocket, your investors will have fled in absolute terror, and you will not even have any spare change left to keep the servers of your big, beautiful project running.
This is why Opay is strictly focused on local transfers, they know that app can operate completely independent of the U.S. Treasury only if it remains strictly local, low-value, and entirely disconnected from the global economy. Any attempt to do more than this is tantamount to opening the window to all manner of sanctions and indictments from the US treasury.
It is actually painfully funny that you genuinely believe it is our cautious African banks holding you back.
You actually believe that you have already gotten a genuine blessing from Washington to build a payment system that directly challenges their absolute financial hegemony in Africa and explicitly denies them the massive percentage commissions they steal from every single transaction we make here.
I am more than convinced that after they stamped their worthless approval on your file, the exact second you walked out of that air-conditioned office, they all burst out laughing at your monumental level of geopolitical delusion. America sends nuclear-powered submarines worth billions of dollars, highly advanced stealth fighter jets, lethal drone swarms, heavily armed Carrier Strike Groups, and CIA operatives to aggressively terrorize nations that dare to challenge the US dollar dominance in their region. And somehow, you naively believe they have given you their diplomatic approval to create a mobile app that directly challenges their absolute imperial primacy in Africa?
What do you actually think is the real reason America is ruthlessly blockading Iranian ports and forcefully cutting the Islamic Republic off from all international trade? Do you honestly think it is just about the crude oil? Oil is certainly important, but what is infinitely more important to the empire is the specific currency that the oil is sold in. America is violently invading sovereign nations, orchestrating bloody political coups, funding proxy wars, assassinating visionary foreign leaders, imposing crippling economic sanctions, and toppling legitimate regimes all to guarantee with absolute force that their fiat USD currency is exclusively used for global energy trades. This artificial global demand is the only thing that allows them to print trillions of dollars endlessly to fund their military without facing a severe, hyper-inflationary financial collapse at home. And somehow, you genuinely believe they have given you their honest approval to build a rival continental system, and that your local commercial banks, which are effectively nothing more than terrified subsidiaries of the main US financial empire, are the real problem here.
This is truly a breathtakingly bold, dangerously naive assumption, my dear Sir.
Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor.
"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..."
This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo).
Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure.
As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on.
@magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy.
But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.
Earlier today in Oyster Bay, Dar es Salaam, Joshua Maponga and I addressed a press conference concerning yesterday's Tanzania premiere of 'What Happened On October 29'.
Our message to the African press was simple - learn to be unapologetic about pursuing your African interests like everyone else is about theirs so, and stop eating out of the hands of CNN, BBC, DW, Al-Jazeera and their many friends across the western media landscape.
They are not your friends, their interests do not match with yours, they are not better journalists than you are, and they can never be better at telling your own story than you are!
🇮🇷🇲🇽 Mexico Hires 300 Guards to Protect Iran's World Cup Team
The agents are deploying to lock down Tijuana, working alongside FIFA personnel and the delegation's own security.
The U.S. refused to let Iran's team sleep a single night on its soil, so Iran will cross the border to play and cross back to rest.
Trump is a JOKE for making a team that qualified for the World Cup jump through hoops to play, just to be petty.
@PstKraft@hostis_black Yeah we did.... What other options do we have seems my time with Google is coming to an end. Android has Google in its operating system already is there anyway to escape using it?
You heard that Tanzania had a flawed election last year, followed by post-election violence from disgruntled young Tanzanians protesting against Africa's first female dictator. You heard that thousands of people were massacred and dumped in mass graves. You heard that this was "Democracy" versus "Dictatorship."
But what if you found out that everything you have heard about what happened from October 29 to the first week of November in Tanzania was completely fabricated? What if everything you "know" about Tanzania's 2025 election is the result of a brutal information campaign waged by an adversary more powerful than any African government?
The Spearhead has spent 7 months working onsite across Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya to produce our first feature-length documentary titled "What Happened On October 29?"
The documentary will premiere in Accra at 5PM on Tuesday May 26 at the WAGMC Auditorium, University of Ghana. Subsequently, it will also premiere in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi before going up for general viewership on YouTube on May 31.
Explain it to me like I'm 5:
Cuba has significant natural wealth -- sugar, tobacco, nickel.
American corporations extracted that wealth while ordinary Cubans lived in poverty.
Cubans revolute and kick the U.S. out.
The U.S. places a 67-year embargo on them, forcing them into deeper poverty.Then tightens it with a specific embargo on oil.
Now threatens military action if Cuba doesn't let us back in "to help the Cuban people."
If we want to help them, why don't we start by lifting the embargo?
Cristiano Ronaldo, the ethical free-kick scorer.
He doesn’t move the ball forward every two seconds or sneak it around when the referee isn’t looking. No cheating, no fooling. Pure ethical.
Dear Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia and Kenya, Emmanuel Macron is not your friend and France is not your partner - he is your predator and France is what France has always been.
Nothing has changed.