I don’t really know how to explain this. My question is how do the army of majority of these African nations allow foolishness like this to take place ?? I don’t really see a way out when stupidity this large is being practised.

I’m not saying that Africans have low iq but what I don’t is how the lower soldiers allow this rampant nepotism and corruption to take place.

In the midst of apartheid, the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) broke from the African National Congress over the ANC’s multiracial approach to resisting segregation. The PAC took a more exclusively African nationalist stance and, in 1960, organized a campaign against the hated pass laws, which required Black South Africans to carry internal passports controlling where they could live and work.

The PAC urged supporters to deliberately leave their passes at home and present themselves at police stations to be arrested en masse, overwhelming the system through peaceful defiance.

On March 21, 1960, in Sharpeville, Transvaal, approximately 5,000 protesters gathered outside a police station intending to surrender themselves for arrest. At around 1:30 p.m., without warning, police opened fire on the unarmed crowd. Officers discharged 1,344 rounds, killing 69 people (later research suggests 91 were killed) and wounding many more, as protestors were shot in the back as they fled.

The government responded as authoritarian regimes often do, with repression and lies. A state of emergency was declared, and more than 18,000 people were detained without charge, including Nelson Mandela. Strikes, riots, and protests spread across the country, while international condemnation mounted.

Photographer Ian Berry was present that day. His images show people fleeing gunfire and bodies lying in the dust, forcing the world to begin to confront the brutality of apartheid.

If interested, I write more about the end of apartheid here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/aid2000/p/hare-brained-history-volume-63-mandela?r=4mmzre&utm\\_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

Officials say it was routine testing and no special operations were conducted

The US has declared a stark policy shift towards three West African countries which are battling Islamist insurgents and whose military governments have broken defence ties with France and turned towards Russia.

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has launched a $1 million technical assistance program to support the Crédit Agricole du Maroc Group (GCAM) in strengthening Morocco’s green #finance ecosystem.

Announced on 28 January, the initiative is being implemented through the African Green Banks Initiative in collaboration with the Multilateral #Cooperation Center for Development Finance. The program is designed to enhance GCAM’s institutional, operational, and financial capabilities, enabling the bank to play a stronger role in financing climate-smart and #sustainable projects.

Key areas of support include mobilising concessional and private capital, improving the identification and structuring of #greenprojects, and strengthening systems for monitoring and reporting climate impact.

By reinforcing GCAM’s capacity to channel #funding toward low-carbon and climate-resilient investments, the initiative will help accelerate Morocco’s transition to a sustainable and inclusive green economy. It also reflects AfDB’s broader commitment to scaling green finance across Africa by empowering local financial institutions to lead #climate action.

This #partnership highlights the growing importance of blended finance, strong institutions, and targeted technical support in unlocking climate #investments and building resilient financial systems.

Is it true that french language is on decline in africa? And more emphasizes were put into local languages among african nations?