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Geopolitics is a freak, its about leverage inherent or acquired, its the art of the possible and impossible.

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Well, the Arab Gulf countries can see their billion dollar military purchase is working.

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"It's not about whether they can afford it. They have every right to spend their money however they choose.

It's about emotional intelligence and leadership."

How this is so difficult to understand, I don't know.

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@sefusekgala @tebiwater @daddyhope I'm not sure functional democracies allow illiterates and ex convicts to enforce morals and laws. South Africa is a failing democracy.

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@sefusekgala @tebiwater @daddyhope Such a low bar then, sadly its not.

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@sefusekgala @daddyhope SouthAfrica is a branch of Gupta family, the brits and the Boers(who run the country). Logic.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I have seen many of my followers on social media asking why Ghana and Nigeria have been vocal about the xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Africans living in South Africa, while Zimbabwe and Mozambique have remained largely silent.

The answer, in my view, lies in politics.

For years, the South African government and, in particular, the African National Congress (ANC), have consistently defended ZANUPF in Zimbabwe and FRELIMO in Mozambique. They have defended disputed and rigged elections, stood by those governments during periods of political repression, and maintained close political relationships despite repeated allegations of corruption, human rights abuses and democratic backsliding.

A good example is 2008, when then South African President Thabo Mbeki insisted there was “no crisis” in Zimbabwe, despite widespread political violence and hundreds of Zimbabweans being butchered following the disputed election in which Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC had outpolled ZANUPF in the first round. South Africa’s policy of “quiet diplomacy” was widely criticised for shielding the Zimbabwean government from stronger regional pressure.

Against that background, it is difficult to expect Harare or Maputo to publicly confront the ANC-led government over the treatment of their citizens in South Africa. The political relationships between those governing parties are deep and longstanding. Criticising Pretoria would inevitably strain alliances that have existed for decades and bring to the fore the root causes of illegal immigration in South Africa.

Ghana and Nigeria occupy a different political position. They do not depend on the ANC for political legitimacy or regional backing in the same way.

Both countries have experienced regular transfers of power through competitive elections, and neither government relies on South Africa to validate its democratic credentials. As a result, Accra and Abuja have greater political space to speak out when they believe their citizens are being mistreated abroad.

That difference helps explain why the strongest official reactions have come from Ghana and Nigeria, while Harare and Maputo have been far more restrained.

There is also another important reality. The overwhelming majority of migrants from elsewhere in Africa living in South Africa come from neighbouring countries, particularly Zimbabwe and Mozambique. That geographical reality means those two countries are central to any discussion about migration into South Africa. Their governments know this, which makes their diplomatic position even more complicated.

As I have argued before, South Africa’s immigration challenges are genuine and deserve serious policy solutions. However, genuine domestic problems can also be exploited by external actors seeking to deepen divisions or damage South Africa’s international standing as Israel is now doing. Recognising that possibility does not mean denying that the underlying challenges are real. It means understanding that geopolitical actors often exploit existing fault lines rather than creating them from scratch.

Whether one agrees with my analysis or not, I hope this explains why the official responses from Accra and Abuja have been much louder than those from Harare and Maputo.

Back home in Southern Africa, Botswana has also been very vocal against xenophobia and Afrophobia. Its President has publicly condemned attacks on African nationals living in South Africa. The ruling party in Botswana even invited South African opposition leader Julius Malema, who has consistently spoken out against Afrophobia and the targeting of fellow Africans, to address its annual conference this past week.

Botswana is able to do this because it is a functioning democracy. Unlike Zimbabwe and Mozambique, it has never depended on South Africa or the African National Congress (ANC) for political backing after disputed or rigged elections, allegations of electoral manipulation or the repression of its own citizens. It therefore has far greater diplomatic freedom to criticise South Africa when it believes fellow Africans are being mistreated.

That is why Botswana, like Ghana and Nigeria, has been prepared to speak out against what it perceives as black-on-black violence directed at African migrants. By contrast, the governments in Harare and Maputo have remained largely silent, reflecting the long-standing political relationships between their ruling parties and the ANC, which publicly backs rigged elections.

None of this requires a rocket scientist to understand. It simply requires an appreciation of how regional politics, diplomatic alliances and political interests shape the public positions that governments take.

Those who are prepared to look beyond the headlines and understand the underlying dynamics will appreciate the point. Those who focus only on the symptoms, while ignoring the political relationships and incentives that produce them, will continue to wander aimlessly through the political wilderness.

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

We Inserted ₦780 Million Into 2026 Budget To Buy Musical Instruments for Churches in Bende to Help Curb Narcotics, Sexual Offences and Violent Crimes Among Young People — Reps’ Deputy Speaker Kalu https://t.co/rWcqM8J8wE

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@ParallelFacts Lol smh

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One of the reasons I share almost everything we're doing in the South East is simple:

I want you to copy it.

If a strategy gets more children learning, gets more students excited about STEM, raises academic standards, or inspires excellence, don't admire it from afar or criticize Alex. Replicate it in your region. Improve it. Scale it.

Africa has spent too much time protecting ideas instead of spreading what works.

I don't want the South East to be the exception. I want it to become the template for Africa civilization.

Imagine every region in Nigeria building its own Olympiads, ranking schools, training teachers, identifying talent, and making education a public movement.

Imagine every African country adapting the same ideas to fit their own realities.

That's how continents change.

Education is Africa's greatest opportunity. If something works, copy it.

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@chibuikssss Americans that are divided or another one? This has been his stance and many others in America on this subject matter. Its not peculiar. Trump divided Americans more than he would.

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@sunda8431 @alexottiofr It will not happen at all.

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@ManFearsGod @cchukudebelu Their signalling suggests otherwise esp. Saudi Arabia. Prior to October 7 2023, that was the wave from the both sides esp from the Israeli side.
If you stress on the conditional aspect of American security guarantees, NATO and Europe especially aren't far from that orbit rn.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

You are almost never going to hear any criticism of Capitalism - and its excesses, from ANY American Evangelical / Pentecostal;

Not a word about capitalism's impact on environmental pollution, or unfair labour practices.

At a point, you wonder why this is so, after all, Jesus chased moneychangers from the Temple.

Their criticism of any socio-economic system, begins and ends with "socialism is bad".

Interestingly, there are quite a few European Evangelicals who do not view capitalism with the same rose tinted spectacles as their American Brethren - and this has deep historical roots;

After all, Keir Hardy, who founded the British Labour Party, was a Methodist Lay Preacher.

Guess which set of beliefs the average Nigerian Christian has imbibed, and who they imbibed them from?

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@ManFearsGod @cchukudebelu The Gulf states don't just want deterrents.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

Washington has security agreements with;

1. European nations.
2. South American nations.
3. Gulf nations.
4. Australia and New Zealand.
5. South Pacific Nations.
6. Southeast Asian Nations.
7. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

Can Washington honour all these security agreements? Hell, no.

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@Dharmilolarr01 Runway excursion.

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@DrDanny2030 Easy lol

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@ElanhoX @grok @Mmes0machukwu @dammiedammie35 No problem. Yeah you are right. A 17yr old aircraft is too old imo.

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@DonLove07 @dammiedammie35 The*

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@DonLove07 @dammiedammie35 I understand your concern. My issue is the system that envelopes these sectors, including Road, water and rail system of transport. It's yhe system that's the problem.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

This one that calls himself #6, whom I call a horseman of the apocalypse, was given N1b (N780m is you back out VAT) to empower his State'

He WASTED it on buying "evangelical" instruments for churches, giving N5m per church. Not to schools or hospitals owned by Churches but to buy microphones and speakers for the "yoot".

N1b will put working electrify all the schools and hospitals in his LGA ooh, but horseman don't have a developmental mindset.

This is the ideology you want to replace Alex Otti with?

God forbid