Questions tagged [africa]
Questions relating to the government or politics of the continent of Africa
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Why did South African soldiers choose EO over UNITA?
This is a question concerning Executive Outcomes and UNITA. I concede this question is slightly Tom Clancy-esque, but I think now that these events have been largely declassified all these decades ...
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Why didn't the UN send peacekeepers to Rwanda in 1994?
In just 100 days in 1994, some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda.
Canadian General Romeo Dallaire was the overseer of the peacekeeping mission there. He had a small garrison of peacekeepers.
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What's the highest level of official recognition that an African country gave to their "brothers" in the US?
I'm guessing that some African countries might have given their "brothers" (see further below a discussion what this could possibly mean) over the Atlantic, meaning African Americans, some kind of ...
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MONUSCO: Member state reaction to UN offensive in the Congo
Last week in the DROC the UN suffered its greatest loss of peacekeeper life since the Battle of Mogadishu, with at least 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers being killed by the insurgent group Allied Democratic ...
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What pressure was President Clinton under when he refused to call the Rwandan Genocide by its name?
In 1994, between 500,000 and a million Rwandans were slaughtered by their country-men ... the international community stood by in quiet horror and watched. Most notably amongst them the United States ...
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What did Trump mean by "Nambia"? [closed]
The pronunciation suggests he meant either the Gambia, Namibia or Zambia. Which is most plausible, given his praising of the healthcare services in "Nambia"?
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Have states/companies placed a military/private security presence on oil platforms in the Gulf of Guinea to ensure security against piracy?
States with a coastline on the Gulf of Guinea have to deal with the tremendous problem of maritime piracy.
There are some regional cooperation programs as well as a EU special program to improve ...
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What were the effects of non-nationally divided states in Africa?
Many people today attribute the cause of the numerous conflicts especially in central Africa to be the division of the land to non-national states. And indeed, today the armed conflicts mostly consist ...
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Is Africa the only continent where chattel slavery still exists?
The only two places on earth I can find that still have chattel slavery are Sudan and Mauritania. I have read reports that it still occurs in the Sahel region in general but I can't find any concrete ...
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What did the Nigerien opposition coalition hope to gain by boycotting the 2016 runoff election?
I see on Wikipedia that in Niger's 2016 general elections, the incumbent president Issoufou won a plurality in the first round but failed to win a majority needed to actually win the election. A run-...
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Why hasn't Robert Mugabe ordered the death of all remaining European-descended Zimbabweans?
Robert Mugabe has basically become a pariah dictator in his country of Zimbabwe. There is now distrust, hostility, and complete separation between him and Europe.
His actions over the past decade ...
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Migrant from Africa to Europe by sea from North Africa
What policy could the European Union adopt to save the large numbers of migrants dying trying to gain access to the EU from northern Africa by sea, without opening the door to a flood on new migrant?
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Why is redrawing the artificial borders not a viable solution to conflicted states?
Multiple states in Middle East and Africa seem to be stuck in violent conflicts that seem to be reoccurring and nearly inevitable because of the unstable internal power balance of various ethnic or ...
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Why is the Sahel region important to western nations?
Recent news has shown that certain Western nations, especially within the EU, are attempting to step up their developmental and military aid in the Sahel region.
Why are they interested in the Sahel?...
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Why is the name of Kwame Nkrumah's ideology "consciencism"?
Why is Kwame Nkrumah's (the Ghanaian politician) ideology named 'consciencism'?
He was a pan-Africanist, what does that mean?
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