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2024-01-25 Africa North

A new turn in Africa: the 'French gendarme' goes over to the side of Russia

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Posted by badanov 2024-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [39 views ] Top

#1 Vlad is forgetting that Soviet Union went bankrupt trying to maintain all these ~~bandarlog packs~~ third world countries?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-25 00:33|| 2024-01-25 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Alliance, or early surrender.
How does one pronounce gendar-me?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 05:03|| 2024-01-25 05:03|| Front Page Top

#3 The Zaghawa of the Debi clan that rule Chad (and their numbers are under-represented in this essay) are the same African Islamic ethnicity as the Sudanese rebels that have recently defeated the Khartoum government of the Sudan at every turn. One wonders if the end-game will be the creation of a Zaghawa homeland composed of western Darfur and eastern Chad? The Zaghawa are excellent business people, but the creation of such a polity would still would be the creation of yet another economic basket case.

Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-01-25 08:41|| 2024-01-25 08:41|| Front Page Top

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