#africa news by country

[lyss-sketchbox]

God I really hope they change the designs. We don't even need a lore reason, they aren't officially in the game yet. Just fuckin give the characters some melanin. And even if it wasn't just the cultural disrespect isn't everyone tired of the same pale character design at this point. And also you're definitely right about the character design in general. Some of the outfits and characters look like bad genshin ocs they shoved into the game.

I'm not even talking about the skin color at this point. I've accepted that hyv is a chinese company and wont do shit unless the CN community riots.

CASE in point. Spin-to-win Neuvi nerf was mass reported by the CN community as consumer fraud and I bet they're gonna fix that immediately.

It's just... idk common sense??? It may be a fictional world but it does take inspirations from Latin America / African that has... idk hot climates!! Therefore darker skin!! And for some reason you drop this pasty ass vampire cowboy lady???? In NATLAN???? Like they wouldn't get this much of a backlash if most of these characters we as black as Iansan atleast.

My gripe now is just the designs itself. The first 3 characters don't look that bad, i can get behind that. They're cute and colorwise very complimentary. Even the pyro archon(?) even though she looks like she doesn't even belong in Natlan, red black and yellow goes well together.

The cowboy and leopard lady tho...

ESPECIALLY the vampire cowboy goth lady. She literally is just beta clorinde they lazily put in Natlan for a bigger roster. I just hate how messy and out of place she looks even by Natlan's messy standards.

Feathery (?) strandy hat, very convoluted shirt (?), the long coat tails attacked to the short revealing shirt gimmick, pants that only has one leggings (????)

What is this? Genuinely. It's asymetry for the sake of asymetry. I hate it. Theres no purpose in this, this outfit highlights nothing. I see her and its just a blotch of black-purple-red with super contasting pasty pale skin. Worst of all she doesn't even look like she's from Natlan, she looks like a messy ruffed up travelling cowboy with none of those Natlan symbols or tattoos or patterns or anything. Just normal leather and straps.

It is ugly. It doesnt work. Its not nice to look at. I hope she doesnt play a role where she shows up on screen alot. Im sorry.

Same point for the leopard lady. Doesn't look Natlan at all. Just a leopard lady with revealing clothes. SHORT JEANS TOO MIGHT I ADD. Something you probably don't see in Natlan. She is less hated by me because atleast her color palette works.

Its facking Acheron again but I can excuse Archeron because ITS SPACE.

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Why are people who look at comic books from a “critical real-world lens” so obsessed with identifying the one person who is “100% right”. That doesn’t even exist in the real world.

Lost Days wasn’t made to protest global issues. It is a comic book exploring fictional character Jason’s mental journey after being resurrected and regaining consciousness against his will and/or power. Now how dare this character, in his own story where he has his own personal objective, not go out of his way to make sure each individual child from the collective hundreds he saved from traffickers and the likes gets adopted into nice homes. Obviously we have to disregard any good he did or that he cares at all because all he did was kill the fucker at the top who was responsible. Winick also never fleshed out all 42 of the trafficked children into nuanced characters with their own thoughts and feelings which was apparently neglectful lol.

In regards to utrh, Idk what this person read but there were more drug dealers Jason didn’t kill than those he did. Not once did he ever say he wanted to eliminate the flow of drugs in the community. He took over the trade. Not to mention he explicitly stated control vs elimination is where his goals differed from Bruce’s pipe dream hence why he’s successful and Bruce is still failing. Obviously if you completely misunderstand the character’s motivations you’ll find issues that don’t exist.

People just don’t want stories to be about what they are about, huh.

[sillythrn]

"King Charles diagnosed with cancer"

All the countries they invaded in past:

[kingdeath000]

this entire week scrolling tumblr ive just been bombarded with endless posts about the most racist arguments alive im really considering taking another break like

[idkimnotreal]

eu4 gives me performance anxiety. i always feel like i should be near a world conquest in 1550 and not enjoying the game like i want to (slow paced, realistic, chill).

maybe i should slow the play speed even more. i play on 3 which is already a slow speed.

[ynwa-chiesa]

THE NEW OVERWATCH HERO IS ANOTHER CANADIAN???? IM GOING TO START A BOYCOTT 😭😭😭

[psychosodomy]

lol im so excited tonight. i went to a small, online queer muslim atlanta meeting. I had met two of the organizers in 2020 when they had hosted a queer muslim event at my university as well!! I feel like dots are connecting in my life. the rain is on my skin and no one else can feel it for me….this is just so crazy cause ive met a total of two muslim lesbians in my life across 8 years but now its up to three, and the last two have been in the past MONTH

[cinematicnomad]

ok!! my flights are officially booked for my summer trip: i’m headed to dublin, lisbon, and bilbao with my siblings, brother-in-law, and niece this june ✌️

[nerdiwolverine]

Why is that some country's EAS alarms are like "sorry to bother you, but you're about to die and should evacuate. Again, sorry for the interruption. Please have a good day" and then other EAS alarms are like "You are already dead. There is no sleep when the rapture is on its way. Tell your family you love them and pray that any God let's you into heaven"

[mirrorofliterature]

when people complain about the un and international law being useless... look

I don't think (many) people fundamentally understand what the UN is, what international law is, and what they can and cannot do

the UN and international law in general are... quite imperfect and bureaucratic systems which are heavily politicised but it's like. a better world to be in where they do exist than one where there is not. I like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! I love the self-determination article in the subsequent human rights treaties and how decolonising countries in the 1940s-1970s played a crucial role in shaping the current system.

international law gives us benchmarks, lines in the sand to point out and articulate why someone something did was illegal without running into the issue of ex post facto law, which was an issue in the nuremberg trials, but I digress.

the UN is not a governing body. it has no independent political power.

international law, at the end of the day, is based on the consent of states. whether you like it or not, international law is a horizontal system.

most people are much more familiar with domestic law which is vertical and has clear enforcement mechanisms. international law, particularly international human rights law, has fucking shit enforcement mechanisms. it's all consent based, it's heavily politicised and it's woefully underfunded. sanctions are terrible. humanitarian interventions often go terribly wrong.

but they give structure, and guidelines, and things for civil society to point at and say: you have fucked up. you have breached xyz treaty article, as seen in abc treaty body decision or general comment.

I guess I'm real tired of people acting like international law and the UN are useless or a net negative. like. there are a lot of issues. but it's more complex than 'good' versus 'bad'.

the power imbalance between countries and the veto power of the security un council in particular are stupid but products of historical reality and compromise. international law is built on compromise.

anyway keep on holding the west accountable for the treaties they helped create and signed. unfortunately the united states is weak and has not ratified as many treaties as it should have but what state has ratified which treaty is publicly available information and so are the treaties.

[apricior]

i just learnt that the continents that you learn in school depend on the country, and that some countries teach in schools that there are 7 continents and other teach that there are 6, but there are also models that only count 5 or even 4 continents

[there-will-be-a-way]

I really do have a special talent of apparently being very approachable. When I was walking through the ward, I saw a person waving and smiling at me behind the glass door. I only saw him once before, briefly. He asked me if I wanna go outside to smoke and have a chat. I had just came back from smoking and had ergotherapy in like 2 minutes but if someone offers me to chat, who am I to turn it down? So we went downstairs and now we're friends and I'll bring him nail polish tomorrow 😅

[themthistles]

i understand that people generally don't mean for it to come off this way but it always peeves me when ameribrits and co talk about the state of lgbtqa+ rights in other counties as if homophobia and transphobia present there are a virus or some boogeyman that is going to breach containment and come for them. like oh what's this??? here comes christianity with a steel chair!! guess what our bigotry is your bigotry buddy. it always has been

[lessonincanvases]

every canadian whining in the notes of my world tour post about how only like one or two cities in their country get a show and therefore they shouldn’t be included in the ‘world tour!!!’ section over north america needs to know that i’m trying to explode them with my mind

[head-post]

Sri Lanka’s LTL Holdings targets African energy sector

Sri Lanka’s leading fully integrated power sector conglomerate, LTL Holdings, is expanding its presence in the power generation sector in Africa. The company plans to establish a $2.2m distribution transformer assembly plant in Tanzania.

Mohamed Jalaldeen Mohamed Nuhuman Marikkar, LTL Holdings’ chief executive officer and executive director, stated:

We are establishing a transformer assembly plant in Tanzania to serve this region, and the next step will be to move into power generation.

The Tanzanian plant with an annual capacity of 1,000 transformers aims to meet the growing demand for transformers in Tanzania and neighbouring countries such as Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, and Ethiopia.

The plant will initially operate as an assembly unit for transformer components imported from Sri Lanka at a leased facility. Over the next two years, it will be converted into a full-fledged assembly plant, with plans to expand to a fully operational facility in the future.

LTL Holdings recently commissioned the Sobadhanavi plant, the first gas-fired power plant in Sri Lanka, near Colombo. The company also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India’s Petronet LNG Limited (PLL) to supply liquefied natural gas to its Sobadhanavi power plant.

The Sobadhanavi power plant, is part of the government’s strategy to expand sustainable and cost-effective energy solutions. The strategy aims to add 350 MW to the national grid by the first quarter of 2025.

Read more HERE

[kosmicpowers]

Yeah you jerks the American education system failed me too that's why I'm like here on the Internet to learn things I think you're just really into being ignorant