r/Africa • • 7h ago

News 📰 Akpabio Opposes Suicide Decriminalisation Bill, Says ‘If You Don’t Succeed, We Will Jail You’ | Senate President Godswill Akpabio opposes proposed suicide decriminalisation, insisting survivors should face imprisonment as lawmakers advance the bill.

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r/Africa • • 11h ago

Announcement 📢 Tigray's tragedy has been ignored by the world whether it be the past one or the current one and this is by default because as you all know, situations in Africa are readily dismissed and treated with contempt by the world. Please educate yourself by using r/Tigray and particularly its wiki page.

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Here's the wiki page. My recommendation is that you first go through section labelled "introductory material" before moving on to anything else since it will provide a solid base for further research. The "reading list" section in particular will provide the most amount of high quality information for those interested in in-depth research while the "news sources" section will help you keep up to date.

r/Tigray is the only subreddit on Reddit centered on Tigray from the pov of Tigrayans. The Tigray genocide was successfully hidden from the world due to both the regular contempt African tragedies are shown and the successful disinformation campaign (+ the blockade) waged by the neoliberal UAE backed Ethiopia together with many of its diaspora that presented the victim as the aggressor and the neoliberal regime as the anti-imperialist. For more on the West's role in everything, read this post here.

As an important sidenote, this post, the resources and the subreddit are not in blind defence of the TPLF but are instead about bringing awareness to Tigray's situation. The TPLF indeed have a muddy history (1, 2, 3) of their own and a minority of the resistance against the genocide did indeed commit war crimes (1) but this doesn't justify the Tigray genocide nor the undermining of its plight. They've also played a secondary role in Tigray's suffering by how they've responded to the conditions Abiy's placed on them as explained here which is why support toward them has dropped but this hasn't translated to support toward Abiy since most Tegaru correctly recognize that he's at the root of their problems. Many Tegaru also still support the resistance just while recognizing the fault of the TPLF and the next several months will show how much they have left. More here.

Often times, the West use the double standard "perfect victim" strategy which employs "bothsidism" in order to undermine tragedies they'd prefer to ignore or even outright support especially non-Western ones. Beyond Tigray and with much global awareness, you can see this when it comes to Palestine and Sudan.

Please consider reading through those resources on the wiki and spreading awareness where you can. Tigray hasn't recovered from the genocide plus 1/3 of its land has remained occupied and now all of it's towns and cities are under occupation once more and the people are beyond exhausted from everything they've had to endure.


r/Africa • • 11h ago

African Discussion 🎙️ Should Botswana Buy More Of De Beers? Sheila Khama, former De Beers Executive, On Botswana's Biggest Economic Decision.

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r/Africa • • 10h ago

Geopolitics & International Relations 🌐 ECOWAS opens talks with 3 Russia-backed Sahel nations as Nigeria moves to repair Africa’s biggest political split

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  • Nigeria has taken the lead in bridging West Africa's main political divide by initiating talks between ECOWAS and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

  • Delegations from Nigeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have gathered in Senegal to foster new ties and regional cohesion.

  • The talks aim to align ECOWAS and Sahel states' positions ahead of the upcoming end-of-year summit in Abuja.

  • A key goal of the dialogue is to reach agreement on a draft General Framework Agreement between ECOWAS and AES member states.


r/Africa • • 3h ago

Documentary 📽️ THE EYES OF GHANA (Official Trailer)

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Just released.


r/Africa • • 17h ago

African Discussion 🎙️ Is it really possible to prevent these ebola outbreaks in Congo?

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Recently i was reading a few articles on ebola in Congo, and wonder if outbreaks are gonna continue to re-occur, Congo has a large forest, and there is a lot of human/animal contact, added to that conflicts, lack of state resources.

What do u guys think?

* https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/health/3933456-why-congo-cant-escape-ebola-the-real-battle-against-poverty-and-weak-healthcare

* https://apnews.com/article/congo-ebola-funeral-politician-killed-1ff629474298a62db44438c6eb178270

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Tos3ad-nI


r/Africa • • 9h ago

History ⏪ The Illusion of "Africa": Why Continental Unity Just Perpetuates Our Colonial Pens

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The very concept of "Africa" is a foreign invention, born as a Roman administrative label for a conquered province and later used to corral thousands of distinct cultures into manageable pens for European resource extraction.

True liberation requires rejecting both the post-colonial state and forced continental unity, returning instead to the radical sovereignty of our immediate tribes and cultural heritage.

Edit:

What are your thoughts? Can true indigenous sovereignty ever be achieved within artificial, colonial borders, or do we need to radically rethink how we organize ourselves outside of the "continental" identity?