#Internal Coup
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Note: I super don't like the framing of this headline. "Here's why it matters" idk it's almost like there's an entire country's worth of people who get to keep their democracy! Clearly! But there are few good articles on this in English, so we're going with this one anyway.
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2024 is the biggest global election year in history and the future of democracy is on every ballot. But amid an international backsliding in democratic norms, including in countries with a longer history of democracy like India, Senegal’s election last week was a major win for democracy. It’s also an indication that a new political class is coming of age in Africa, exemplified by Senegal’s new 44-year-old president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye.
The West African nation managed to pull off a free and fair election on March 24 despite significant obstacles, including efforts by former President Macky Sall to delay the elections and imprison or disqualify opposition candidates. Add those challenges to the fact that many neighboring countries in West Africa — most prominently Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, but other nations across the region too — have been repeatedly undermined by military coups since 2020.
Sall had been in power since 2012, serving two terms. He declined to seek a third term following years of speculation that he would do so despite a constitutional two-term limit. But he attempted to extend his term, announcing in February that elections (originally to be held that month) would be pushed off until the end of the year in defiance of the electoral schedule.
Sall’s allies in the National Assembly approved the measure, but only after security forces removed opposition politicians, who vociferously protested the delay. Senegalese society came out in droves to protest Sall’s attempted self-coup, and the Constitutional Council ruled in late February that Sall’s attempt to stay in power could not stand.
That itself was a win for democracy. Still, opposition candidates, including Faye, though legally able to run, remained imprisoned until just days before the election — while others were barred from running at all. The future of Senegal’s democracy seemed uncertain at best.
Cut to Tuesday [April 2, 2024], when Sall stepped down and handed power to Faye, a former tax examiner who won on a campaign of combating corruption, as well as greater sovereignty and economic opportunity for the Senegalese. And it was young voters who carried Faye to victory...
“This election showed the resilience of the democracy in Senegal that resisted the shock of an unexpected postponement,” Adele Ravidà, Senegal country director at the lnternational Foundation for Electoral Systems, told Vox via email. “... after a couple of years of unprecedented episodes of violence [the Senegalese people] turned the page smoothly, allowing a peaceful transfer of power.”
And though Faye’s aims won’t be easy to achieve, his win can tell us not only about how Senegal managed to establish its young democracy, but also about the positive trend of democratic entrenchment and international cooperation in African nations, and the power of young Africans...
Senegal and Democracy in Africa
Since it gained independence from France in 1960, Senegal has never had a coup — military or civilian. Increasingly strong and competitive democracy has been the norm for Senegal, and the country’s civil society went out in great force over the past three years of Sall’s term to enforce those norms.
“I think that it is really the victory of the democratic institutions — the government, but also civil society organization,” Sany said. “They were mobilized, from the unions, teacher unions, workers, NGOs. The civil society in Senegal is one of the most experienced, well-organized democratic institutions on the continent.” Senegalese civil society also pushed back against former President Abdoulaye Wade’s attempt to cling to power back in 2012, and the Senegalese people voted him out...
Faye will still have his work cut out for him accomplishing the goals he campaigned on, including economic prosperity, transparency, food security, increased sovereignty, and the strengthening of democratic institutions. This will be important, especially for Senegal’s young people, who are at the forefront of another major trend.
Young Africans will play an increasingly key role in the coming decades, both on the continent and on the global stage; Africa’s youth population (people aged 15 to 24) will make up approximately 35 percent of the world’s youth population by 2050, and Africa’s population is expected to grow from 1.5 billion to 2.5 billion during that time. In Senegal, people aged 10 to 24 make up 32 percent of the population, according to the UN.
“These young people have connected to the rest of the world,” Sany said. “They see what’s happening. They are interested. They are smart. They are more educated.” And they have high expectations not only for their economic future but also for their civil rights and autonomy.
The reality of government is always different from the promise of campaigning, but Faye’s election is part of a promising trend of democratic entrenchment in Africa, exemplified by successful transitions of power in Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone over the past year. To be sure, those elections were not without challenges, but on the whole, they provide an important counterweight to democratic backsliding.
Senegalese people, especially the younger generation, have high expectations for what democracy can and should deliver for them. It’s up to Faye and his government to follow."
-via Vox, April 4, 2024
#senegal#africa#bassirou diomaye faye#elections#2024 elections#democracy#voting matters#young people#political corruption#coup attempt#good news#hope#international politics#african politics#fair elections#autocracy#macky sall
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can we stop speedrunning history on repeat, please
#russia#russian coup#ukraine#pandemic#international conflict#economic crash#government corruption#stock market
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Sudan’s struggle is obscured by political upheavals, displacements, and hunger after the fall of President Omar al-Bashir and the 2021 coup, but why has the world turned a blind eye to the ‘forgotten war’?
#sudan crisis#forgotten war#political upheaval#displacement#hunger#omar al bashir#sudan 2021 coup#international neglect#humanitarian crisis#global awareness#conflict zone#world responsibility#peacebuilding#crisis ignored#media focus#human rights#sudanese people#global indifference#awareness gap#urgent action
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Supposedly evil bad guys Grime and Sasha having a much healthier and more loving father-daughter relationship than supposedly good guys Andrias and Marcy is something so precious to me.
#i'm talking more like in the context of an AU not necessarily like#specifically canon#i just !!! i love it when the good guys are more evil than the bad guys#sure they're trying to pull a coup and take over a country but look at how supportive they are of each other!!#look at how he gifted her a second sword because he knew she was bisexual!!#unlike andrias who projects his own internalized polyphobia (is that a word???) onto his very obviously repressed polyamorous daughter#🥰🥰🥰#my posts#amphibia#marcy wu#sasha waybright#captain grime#king andrias
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Coup De Foudre
Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park
Photographer: Dean Lhospital
The International Photo Awards 2022
#dean lhospital#photographer#coup de foudre#jackson lake lodge#grand teton national park#wyoming#storm#lightning#landscape#nature#mountains#the international photo awards
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Bravo Australia 👏👏👏 for calling a spade a spade:
More countries should do it too. No more two-tiered system of international law.
#palestine#israeli apartheid#palestinians#israeli occupation#illegal settlements#justice#free palestine#australia#labour party#jerusalem#rightwing extremism#judicial coup#judicial highjacking#un violations#international law
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Via PSG on Instagram
#psg#kylian mbappe#leaving#celebration#football#france#paris saint germain#instagram#7#futbol#soccer#coupe de france#2-1#lyon#win#🇫🇷#french international#young talent#goal#le football#the beautiful game#french cup champions#CHAMPIONES
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Neo-Colonialism
#niger#niger coup#niger republic#niger news#ecowas#west africa#african#africa#news#international news#art#caricatures#caricature#cartoon#political cartoon#france#french#diplomacy#international politics#international relations#international affairs#coups and attempted coups#coup attempt#coup d'etat#coup in niger#emmanuel macron#colonialization#colonization#colonialism#neocolonialism
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"In reality Richard III invented a Woodville scare as a screen for his own conspiracy"
-A.J Pollard, "Richard III and the Princes in the Tower"
#lmao#richard iii#my post#I think that's true for all usurpations and coups to an extent#but its 10x more applicable and accurate for Richard III#Not only because of the compressed length of time (a mere 3 months as opposed to years of back-and-forth tensions)#but also because ultimately one of the key reasons Richard could do what he did was because he did it from the heart of the political#institution (ie he was an internal threat rather than an external one)#and he was someone who was trusted and loved rather than mistrusted and hated. His betrayal was political but it also had far more personal#ramifications for everyone involved - most people simply did not expect it from him and cooperated with him precisely because of that#which enabled him to seize power before most people even realized what he was doing#And there's the fact that he actually did stage a conspiracy by accusing the Woodvilles of plotting to attack and ambush him#and produced weapons from his own war in Scotland as fake 'proof' - when in fact we know that HE deceived and ambushed THEM#there's also the (propagandic) lie that they usurped him from the position as Lord Protector when they certainly didn't#either Edward IV didn't appoint Richard Lord Protector meaning the Woodvilles denied him nothing#OR the council collectively chose to have a council rule during Edward V's minority rather than a Protector (something they were entirely#within their rights to do both socially and legally)#so claims that they wrongly defied Edward IV's last wishes or broke the law (which Mancini repeats in his account) must be seen as exactly#that - propagandic lies to vilify EW and her family#when in fact Richard was the one plotting a seizure of power - whether it was as Lord Protector or as King#(of course these are just two things - there's a whole laundry list of others)#so this is definitely applicable to him
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🇳🇪🇪🇺 Ousted President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum has filed a lawsuit, appealing to the Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to free him from "arbitrary arrest", accusing the coup government of Niger of violating his "freedom of movement."
President Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown in a military coup on July 26th and has been detained with his wife and child since.
The lawsuit was filed with the ECOWAS bloc's Court based in Abuja, the Nigerian Capital, on Sept 18th according to his Senegalese lawyer, Seydou Diagne.
"We request... in view of the violation of political Rights, that the State of Niger be ordered to immediately restore Constitutional order by handing over power to President Bazoum, who must continue to exercise it until the end of his mandate."
Since the coup succeeded in July, ECOWAS has imposed Sanctions against Niger and has warned the coup leaders that it could intervene militarily if President Bazoum is not restored to power and if all diplomatic manipulations fail.
The Niger coup took place in the context of a wave of anti-colonial sentiment that has led to anti-government protests and a series of military coups that saw the region's former Colonial masters (mainly the French) losing their power over West African States it has exploited for centuries.
Just since 2020, there have been 6 coups in former French Colonies. This includes: Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan.
#west africa#africa news#niger#niger coup#niger news#global news#international news#international affairs#international politics#socialism#communism#marxism leninism#socialist politics#socialist news#socialist worker#socialist revolution#socialist#communist#marxism#marxist leninist#politics#geopolitics#geopolitical news#geopolitics news#news#workersolidarity#worker solidarity#WorkerSolidarityNews#ecowas#french imperialism
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this bodes
#rwby v9 spoilers#i mean it’s a reversal. true.#people coming together#reaching out across national borders#humanity’s last stand and all#but it’s also. um.#there’s no visible threat#no grimm. vacuo isn’t under siege#you have this ragtag bunch of ships#arranged in a military formation#looking outward toward an external threat#that isn’t actually there#in a kingdom that barely survived a coup#like a few months to a year ago. lmao#‘when youre needed most’ is perhaps#more about vacuo’s internal dysfunction#than the distant threat of salem#Who Is Probably At Beacon
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"the difference between a conspiracy and fact is time" isnt always true because some things are just genuinely loony and wrong but. boy oh boy is it true in too many cases
#remember when mass surveillance was considered a crazy conspiracy theory? right. thanks snowden#remember when international elite pedophilie rings and islands were a crazy conspiracy? thanks epstein#remember when mind control and government experimentation on people and Mind Control were a conspiracy? right. thanks mkultra and proof of#postmodernism being infiltrated into everything artificially#remember when saying the war on terror is bullshit and the wars were faught for oil and infleunce would get u called crazy? welpppp yea mos#of us sure agree today. hey. u know theres government documents which talk about funding extremist rebel groups in south america in order t#justify us fucking around? hey. u know how many governments around the world the us collapsed?#.#hey?#what exactly makes the idea that they killed kennedy who was trying to stop the cia bullshit - and then the cia director he fired oversaw#the case crazy? and what makes the idea that they were involed in 911 crazy exactly?#and its allllll coincidence right. right#right...... you notice how with a lotta these fuckin things they ended up being very much true?#...... theyve got no fucking morals and an insanely bad track record#theyre responsable for how many wars deaths genocides rapes tortures coups throughout the world#i dont trust shit and there aint a think i think is too bad for them to do#anyway. ill place my bets on israel knowing the 8th was gonna happen and wanting it to#why fund hamas for years then. and how the fuck did all their intelligence and surveillance and million high tech american inventions miss#this
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#sudan crisis#civil war#abdelfattah alburhan#mohamed hamdandagalo#humanitarian crisis#peacebuilding#conflict resolution#international response#regional powers#sudanese people#conflict intervention#bashir regime#military coup#political unrest#human rights#crisis management#diplomatic efforts#peace process#international community
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All right, we need to have a talk about democracy in Africa. Specifically, we need to talk about there isn't a lot of it and how the recent rash of coups there isn't a threat to it.
Let's look at Gabon where President Ali Bongo has been overthrown by members of his own army and is now confined to his home. I'm sure his title, "President", makes you think that he has something to do with democracy in the country, but he's been ruling the country for 14 years during which he's "won" two elections, neither of which met any international standards for being free or fair. Oh, and his father ruled the country for more than 40 years before dying and passing rulership to his son.
Does that sound like Gabon was a thriving democracy? It doesn't to me either. And you can do a similar examination of Niger, where President Mohamed Bazoum was taken hostage by his own presidential guard, Burkina Faso, where President Kabore was deposed by soldiers in his army, Guinea, where special forces arrested President Conde, or Mali, where a coup brought to power a guy who had already conducted one coup.
I get it, it would be good for Africa and for the world if these countries had solid, democratic institutions, but they don't, and we need to stop pretending that they do. For all the faults of the military leaders of the various coups, at least we don't pretend that they have the legitimacy of the people. Maybe if we did the same for obviously corrupt and undemocratic regimes that put up the façade then we could actually do something to alleviate the grinding poverty that many of these nations face.
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#went down a wikipedia rabbithole tonight and learned some chilean history#specifically around project cybersyn#President Salvador Allende#and the 1973 Military coup#and uh#fucking tragic#i think ive existed in a strange(? maybe its actually relatively common idrk) position as an American leftist where like#the crimes of american imperialism feel so innumerable to where at a certain point you stop learning about them on purpose#so like for years ive 'known' that what the USG has done to South America was awful#i 'learned' about honduras and so I just applied that as a template and went 'yeah some awful shit happened and its the CIAs fault'#but uh getting a bit more detailed knowledge about what our government did in chile has made me realize how callous that was#i dont know that ive nessecarily earned my previous attitude of 'cold detached and depressed' given#that not only did I not live through any of it but also that it was done in my benefit#god maybe this is some milquetoast shit#idk#I think being a leftist in the US is having to fight the passivating force of imperialism constantly#like lose sight of it for a second and it just fucking blends back in with the landscape#the internally defensive structure you build in your brain to protect yourself from complete emotional collapse while buying food#will equally be effective in ignoring the role of imperialism in everything else#anyway#I think this is perhaps a good opportunity to learn more about the other crimes the USG has committed in South America#to actually know the names and pronunciation of the deomcratically elected socialist leaders we deposed and what they really wanted to do#to know how their people felt and thought about things rather than imposing my own assumptions onto a reigon I am utterly ignorant of#it is embarrassing now to know the fullness of history I have ignored#Salvador Allendes words really fucking got to me and to think that there are men like him who I cannot even name is really disappointing#im going to stop self flaggellating and see about that reading#just my thoughts#feeling a little blue tonight
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