Angola riots, Chinese evacuate

from the Uganda Monitor:

China Under Fire: Angola Riots Trigger Mass Exodus and Factory Closures

a taxi driver strike over high fuel prices has escalated into a protest against Chinese investments:

the anger is by unemployed youth and the unemployed against Chinese businesses, which were looted etc.

 Over a thousand were arrested, and many Chinnese citizens are fleeing the country. 

Over 250 thousand CHinese are estimated living there, embedded into the economy, but the gap between rich and poor has caused a simmering anger that is now erupting

BBC Report here

"The fuel price issue is just the last straw that has reignited widespread public discontent... People are fed up. Hunger is rife, and the poor are becoming miserable," a prominent local activist, Laura Macedo, told the BBC....

AlJazeerah article here.

The Conservativetreehouse blog has a long economic analysis here from a geopolitical standpoint, which is of course from a capitalistic conservative point of view.

But unlike the other articles he puts it into perspective of China's world wide trade network:

 “One-Belt / One-Road” is essentially their ‘bully plan’ to ensure their supply chain and long-term economic viability.

essentially China is replacing colonial powers who were thrown out by the people: 

and like the colonial powers, they are exploiting poor people as cheap labor in their factories etc. and stealing mineral and oil resources to get rich.

but as one Mashona co worker advised me years ago: People get mad. 

And as the African proverb reminds one: Even a small snake has a fang...

Sudan's humanitarian crisis (again

The Spectator has an article on the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan...,

  Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Suppoort Forces (RSF) has unleashed a hellish vortex of starvation, violence, and disease upon tens of millions in Sudan.

 

The United Nations recently classified the situation in Sudan as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, but the international spotlight has rarely been focused on the issue due to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

 

25 million people, half of Sudan’s population, are currently experiencing famine conditions and acute food insecurity.

 

Food conditions for 8.1 million people are classified as Emergency (IPC Phase 4), and almost 700,000 as Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). Hunger levels for the same 25 million people are also considered at and above “Crisis” classification. Famine and starvation are also used as military tactics by the SAF and the RSF, as blockades are built and crops are burned. In many areas, particularly Darfur, aid delivery is obstructed, pushing populations into full-scale collapse due to a lack of access to food.

 

Additionally, 12 million people have been internally displaced in the country, forced out of their homes and into refugee camps. These camps provide no real measure of security, however, as in April, the RSF murdered 300 people in two days at one such camp in Darfur.

I don't know about the Sudan except that I worked with a Christian refugee from what is now South Sudan, who became a doctor... and that was 45 years ago...

 THe article points fingers at humanitarians whose aid gets ripped off to fight the war and the fact that the US is becoming isolationist.

This report is a more recent report on that confused but deadly war from last month from AlJezeerah:

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StrategayPage has an article from March about what was going on then and this most recent article is about the Islamicist groups exacerbating the fighting in various Sahel nations.

BBC article from 2023 on the Russian mercenaries fighting in that war.

Winston Churschill had a book on an earlier fight: When the local Islamic extremists planned to throw out the Ottomans but the end result was the Brits got involved.