Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Ethiopia is returning to civil war with an alliance of many groups with different interests working against the central government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abf8ty-cKI8
Trump’s ICE is deporting people who have lived most of their lives in the US, working legitimate jobs, and sending them to countries where their lives may be in danger, separating them from their families and the lives they have built in the US.
Trump uses economic benefits to bribe African countries into taking US deportees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXpzZVMW8og
Western countries like France were not doing a great job helping African Sahel countries, but after those countries switched to Russia, things got much worse. Uprisings, insurgents, and terrorists including Al Qaeda and ISIS are causing a lot of trouble for these regimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWiMs0KeF7k
Turkey is working hard to maintain and expand its influence in Africa, sometimes at the expense of France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-DUMEg-x4
Egypt is allowing China to test their planes against Western fighters. This makes China better able to defeat Western countries in war. Egypt is not a good friend to the United States even though the US gives $1.4 to $2 billion in foreign assistance to Egypt each year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjfZUmJu6eE
“A June 29 ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court stopped authorities from summarily returning migrants who arrive in Ceuta and Melilla by sea, at least not without due process. While it did not legalize irregular entry or guarantee that those swimmers could remain in Spain, Spanish broadcaster RTVE reported on Thursday that the ruling spread on Moroccan social media, reportedly prompting people to try to enter Spain by swimming to Ceuta.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/why-thousands-moroccan-migrants-crossed-113754933.html
A primer on Mali.
Mali is complicated with many competing groups, cultures, and tribes. One part of the story is that Muslims got radicalized and became terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgpyAtRxY0
Mali’s military junta decided to make its military supporter Russia instead of France. Now it is facing a country-wide coordinated attack from terrorists and ethno-national rebels that the military was not ready for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdamyTthomc
Mali is losing territory to Islamist and terrorist forces. Russia has forces there helping the government, but they are failing to prevent this. Mali’s government previously rejected Western help in favor of Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXgqHgXbHYU
“Hundreds of Afghan refugees who helped the United States fight the Taliban may be sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo after the Trump administration halted their U.S. resettlement, an advocacy group said.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African country where the Afghans have no ties, is experiencing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with more than 600,000 refugees there already after decades of armed conflict.
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Trump has blocked virtually all paths to the U.S. for Afghan allies, more than 190,000 of whom were resettled in the U.S. from August 2021 until mid-2025. Afghan allies and their family members have been detained by U.S. immigration officials, with one of them dying last month after less than 24 hours in custody. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the death of Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, was being investigated.)”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-may-send-afghan-allies-081118731.html