Twoafros @ Twoafros @lemmy.world

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Good to see people calling out NYT for their nonsense

I misread the title and thought it said 9.4% of its energy from renewables not just solar. Way to go Chile!

Homophobia unfortunately has a strong hold through most of Africa at the moment. Hopefully we will overcome it as a continent. Anyways, I wish Senegal success in curbing corruption and looting.

"The German government has said the deal does not specify the number of workers who will be allowed in. "

I think BBC edited the article after you posted this but I couldn't find the 250000 number from the title.

In any case this is great news for both countries.

I definitely hear the influence

Thanks for the recommendation! Also for the heads up on the sound sound like its time

I've been meaning to check it out but his catalogue is intimidating. Whats one album you recommend based on this album

This is the first LL album I listened to and I was thoroughly impressed by the production and the verses!

This price is impossibly cheap even compared to other Chinese built trains in other African countries. Something must be off

Makes sense! I think France, and all countries that had slave colonies, should pay back the equivalent of the profits they made from slavery with interest. It won't take away the atrocities that were committed but it is part of justice.

More rail infrastructure in Africa is great news!

For everyone commenting about debt traps, from an African perspective both Western debt and Chinese debt (or any type of debt) favor the creditors but Chinese loans are relatively advantages because

(1) they tend to focus on infrastructure that the respective countries can use to their advantage as opposed to the WB or IMF loans which promote neoliberalism that has never worked in Africa (or really any other place) and push Africa in a position to only be able to provide raw materials and never be able to switch to value added products.

(2) They push other richer countries interested in African to invest more if they want to compete with China. The US for example has made plans to invest in African infrastructure to compete with China:

https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/03/us-plans-build-africas-infrastructure-bring-opportunities-challenges

(3) If the debtor countries default on the loan or want to renegotiate, China (at least so far) doesn't use its intelligence agencies and military agencies to destabilize your country or force regime change

https://www.politico.eu/article/anne-hildago-paris-mayor-olympics-opening-ceremony-critics/

I was sure this was fake until I saw some of the comments and looked it up. This is amazing!

Thanks so much for sharing and taking the time to break it down for the layperson!

This is the first time I'm hearing of e waste mining, do you recommend doing it at a small scale? and if so, do you need any special material for the set up?

I like that Lemmy is independent and Im not providing free content for a giant corporation

Thanks! First time hearing of this.

Thanks. I didn't know about Venezuela's history at all. But I meant not more on a policy level to mandate that all companies must be owned equally by employees instead of shareholders

Are there movements in the US or globally to force all business into worker coops? Unions are good but I think this is their ultimate limitation, that employers can just offshore their jobs

Kendrick performed Not like Us five times during his Juneteenth concert. The joke here is Drake writing his lyrics saying that he didn't perform it a sixth time bc he is afraid of "the six" which is term that Drake often uses to refer to his hometown, Toronto.

Ethiopian here, Ethiopia was never colonized but unfortunately we've managed to be incredibly anti-lgbtq all on our own.

Personally, I blame our long history of Christianity and Islam which both carry anti-lgbtq beliefs.