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healtproblems · 4 years

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Hidden colonialism ... How does France absorb the bounties of Africa?

Economic colonialism has absorbed Africa for more than half a century, displaced by all of its interests.

What do you know about France's Africa networks? The stick of France, which ruled Africa in secret in the mid-1990s, coincidentally discovered massive money-laundering operations in France in just three years, infiltrating nearly half a billion dollars into the pockets of prominent political figures from France's left. It was shocking news for the French and the world, but most surprisingly, these funds came from the most capable on earth. Africa is a major scandal known as a scandal that revealed a suspicious pattern of relations built over 50 years between France and its former colonies on the black continent involving diplomats, military, intelligence agents, economists, and even mercenaries whose mission was the finest Africa under The Control of France for decades, which spanned more than a century in some regions, the territory of twenty African countries was subjected to French colonialism and with the remedy of the twentieth-century french military influence was taken into overland with the rise of national liberation movements and France had to look for a formula new to its relations with its colonies.

The new solution came in the year fifty-eight and nine hundred and a thousand with the return of Charles de Gaulle to power and the founding of the Fifth French Republic de Gaulle proposed to grant independence to fourteen African countries by the year 1990 and sixty-six hundred, but in secret, he was woven into Africa with new nets that would keep it in France's traps for the other half-century, i.e. De Gaulle that France was dependent on its ability to secure its raw material needs and accordingly established its new African colonial system, all to two men, Pierre Yuma, minister of hydrocarbons and Jacques Foucar, general secretary of the Elysee and the engineer. Real networks of France Africa. In a short period, these networks have become the most modern version of French colonialism with a dangerous task bag that is never subject to the institution of French politics or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but is directly managed by the President to arrange coups or fail them to appoint or overthrow presidents to finance or fight the political assassinations, all of which were legitimate tasks of Jacques Foucar's networks.

The starting point was in Guinea, which gained independence in 1998 thanks to its anti-French president Ahmed Sektori punishing Sekou Toure. The first task sought by France Afrique networks was assigned to former intelligence officer Maurice Roper, who flooded Guinea with a fake currency to destroy the economy and pushed for the departure of 3,000 French capitalists, trained a group of Guinean dissidents and provided them with weapons and equipment to overthrow Sekitori, but failed and Skitori succeeded in staying in power but turned into one of Africa's toughest dictators. In Cameroon, France has given the green light to assassinate dissident Felix Monnier with a poisonous dose in support of its ally President Ahmed.

In Nigeria, to preserve oil revenues from the territory in a raid on the former English colony, France trained a rebellion that caused a bloody civil war that claimed the lives of one million people, while in Benin, Jacques Foucar's former assistant orchestrated a failed intervention to overthrow President Matthew Rico, using an army of mercenaries led by Bob Dinar, alias The Dog of War. This entire army was trained in Gabon which had a very painful share of The French Gabonese sticks. Gabon is the most expressive example of the influence enjoyed by the Frans Afrique networks. John Leon was president and intervened by a military contingent to bring him back to power after the coup in 1994 and then protected him through the training of presidential guards Jaboni and Hinds, a constitutional amendment that was approved at the Embassy of Gabon in France.

Omar Bongo ascended to the post of Vice President, jumping immediately and without elections to the presidency in 1997. Things didn't go much differently in Central Africa, which hosted one of the largest French military bases on the continent, with France supporting a coup led by eccentric officer Jean-Biddle Bocasa, who proclaimed himself emperor like Napoleon. As African leaders complained about Bocasa's activities, France was forced to overthrow him through a paramilitary operation known as Operation Barracuda and brought his predecessor, David Duck back to power, several objectives that were driven by France Afrique's plots in Africa to preserve the flows of energy resources and raw materials, mainly uranium, as well as to ensure a pro-French voting network in international institutions, as well as to halt communist expansion in Africa during the Cold War.

But state interests are not all about the game' threads, which have spread to a network of special interests and financial bribes that have flowed into the pockets of loyal African leaders and extended to the coffers of French presidents such as Giscard d'Estaing, François Mitterrand, and Jacques Chirac. French companies in Africa played the role of that suspected transit body between those networks, notably the oil company Offtin, which owned its intelligence network. A scandal erupted in the 1990s that confused the whole of France to quickly contain the damage by liquidating the company and merging it with its smaller counterpart, Total, after which France's influence seemed to be waning in Africa and the balance of power was in favor of African leaders who took the opportunity to buy political allegiances in Paris. In 2000 and 400, France suffered a new blow, this time in Ivory Coast, when Laurent Fabius turned against The French's close friend Foné, sparking a real war with an airstrike by French troops in the country and nine soldiers killed. France then responded by destroying the Ivorian air force and sparking unprecedented tensions between the two countries as Baggio's supporters took to the streets of Paris. All developments suggested that the networks founded by Jacques Foucar were on the verge of death, but that never meant the end of France's domination of Africa. In Ivory Coast itself, the French group continued to strengthen its influence in the country, led by the subsidiaries of the influential French industrialist Vinson Laurier, who founded an unprecedented power empire in the Gulf of Guinea.

Sarkozy's rise to power ushered in a new era to support French industry emperors such as Blooria, Puig, and Total. He served as an envoy to protect their interests from the very first moment, in Angola, for example, Sarkozy brokered the granting of oil exploration concessions to Total, while in Niger, the French president intervened to preserve the uranium needed by his country's nuclear power plants. But the policy of colonizing companies did not mean that France would abandon its military presence in Africa, and the figures say otherwise, France intervened militarily in Africa on thirty-five occasions, including twice under Sarkozy and three times under François Hollande, who pledged to end the Afrique era.

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BOOK REVIEW: DAPPER DAN: MADE IN HARLEM

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

Many of the best clothing-industry memoirs, such as Martin Greenfield’s Measure of a Man, spend less time describing the writer’s time in the industry than they do the circumstances that led the writer to the business. Or, as Daniel “Dapper Dan” Day calls it in the fascinating Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem, the hustle. And for him, it was the attraction of, for the first time, carrying out “a hustle with no vic[tim]s.”

Bloated luxury brands begged to differ. Louis Vuitton, Gucci, the infamously creatively bankrupt MCM, and Fendi (represented by Sonia Sotomayor, whom Dan evokes with great respect) obtained numerous court orders against him and eventually caused him to shut his Harlem shop in the 1990s. His crime? Knocking “up,” rather than “off,” their logos and trademark prints in endlessly creative ways, exaggerated, amplified, repurposed, reimagined, reinvented for a client base all of those brands, still stagnating after the licensed and logo-happy 1970s ended, spurned: black people.

Dan has an uneasy relationship with the term “appropriation,” the borrowing of work and heritage that’s the easy characterization of what he did, unsanctioned, back then. He suggests that slavery was “the greatest appropriation ever,” and reminds the reader that, for its part, Louis Vuitton announced (without getting his permission) fashion collections inspired by the designs Dapper Dan had created using fake LV prints in the 1980s and 1990s. To him, appropriation is just an aspect of exploitation, and to characterize what Dan did as appropriation is to miss the central role of institutional exploitation in Dan’s life story, that of Harlem itself, that of black people in the United States, and of people of color all over the world. And these memoirs gracefully tie all of those themes together.

Well, as gracefully as Mike Tyson decking fellow boxer Mitch Green outside Dan’s shop late one night in 1988. Like Iron Mike (whom Green allegedly wouldn’t stop harassing after Tyson beat him by rare decision instead of knockout in 1986), Dan doesn’t pull punches, sharply pointing out that his parents arrived in Harlem during the Great Migration, the phenomenon of southern blacks braving poverty and uncertainty to leave the far more overtly racist South in the earlier 20th century, finding community in neighborhood after neighborhood of fellow immigrants – communities that would be destroyed by the creation of gigantic housing projects, ever-cheaper and more-addictive drugs, and increasingly harsh, brutal and punitive policing and laws. Dan wrenchingly recalls realizing he had to fend for himself as a small child, when his parents, unlike those of the other kids, were unable to give him change to buy sweets at school, despite working four jobs between them. If he wanted to eat well, or to wear shoes without cardboard-patched holes in the soles, he was going to have to find other ways to get by. His parents encouraged their children to read and learn in ways they themselves hadn’t had the opportunity to, a point driven home when the young Dan read the fine print of a finance agreement for a suit his father, a fellow sharp dresser, had been wanting to buy. Until Dan told him how unfair and expensive the installment payments would have been.

In these circumstances, the myth of the American Dream – that honest hard work is all it takes for advancement to a comfortable middle-class – shows its hideous falsity. Numbing – through gambling and alcoholism, in the case of Dan’s parents, and drug dealing and addiction, in the case of his brothers – in the face of this futility should be understandable. Dan notes, too, that the far more lenient drug laws of the late 1960s meant that once he was arrested and jailed at the Tombs for a month (instead of in prison for a lifetime, as he could have been once our current racially discriminatory drug laws were passed), he was able to get and stay clean, with a drive to improve himself once he got out.

And improve he did, using his incomparable skill as a dice player (based on years of study and practice) to make ends meet while taking college courses and becoming a journalist and activist, culminating in several trips to Africa where he first explored the postcolonial world of new leaders like Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere (trading in his Western clothes for African robes) and then, later, met his first custom tailors, Guinean expatriates in Liberia who made him flamboyant clothes to his exact design specifications and measurements.

All came together when he thought of leaving the dangerous hustle of fleecing gangsters and dealers in dice games to instead sell clothes using his unique eye. But “[f]ashion for me wasn't about expression. Fashion was about power,” “a vehicle to getting around my situation in life”: looking fly was essential to his identity, and the clothes the Dapper Dan store sold quickly became new claims to power in the face of adversity. He was able to retail high-quality furs because the quality fur merchants didn’t think black people would buy enough furs to be any threat to their other retailers. But Dan knew that customer base existed, people who knew and trusted him, at first the same gangsters and pushers whose money he’d been taking in illegal dice games. As Dan notes, they didn’t want the embarrassment of going to a downtown store to pay with a bagful of cash. But as he also noted, centuries after slave ships first landed in the New World, more than a century after Emancipation, decades after supposed civil rights victories half-heartedly implemented, Fifth Avenue luxury shops didn’t want African-American people shopping in them. On his first trip to Louis Vuitton, he felt the whole shop “tense up when I walked in” because he was the only African-American person in there. No way was a formal partnership, like he’d had with some new luxury brands, in the realm of possibility for him.

He made his own power. He studied fabric and leather printing techniques, found the best quality inks and machines, and began creating his own versions of the stamped and printed F’s, G’s, LV’s and MCMs that were those brands’ lazy shorthand. Once those prints had supposedly been the way makers attempted to protect the designs of their quality workmanship. By the 1980s, they were the main selling points for generally tacky branded items of often debatable quality. Dan created new items those brands didn’t sell, from jackets and sweat suits to cherry-red MCM-printed upholstery for his jeep. With Senegalese immigrant tailors worked around the clock to make up his clothing designs. He even created heritage crests for brands that didn’t have them. In addition to his earlier client base, music stars and pro athletes began to patronize him. Dapper Dan stayed open 24-hours a day to cater to them, so that they could stop by after the clubs closed. Dan kept a cot in the backroom to doze between their visits, but also promoted other local designers and artisans in his shop, and encouraged the local kids to get off the streets with movie nights and exercise programs to keep them out of trouble.

Like a good boxer, he didn’t stay down after the brands forced his shop to close. He relearned the clothing business, kept a trade in individual designs for personal clients, told Tommy Hilfiger to get bent, kept hustling – and now, with the official support of Gucci, reopened his shop to make clothes and designs that really are Gucci, thanks to the crazy faux-Gucci clothes he had invented decades ago. His shop’s community-centered activities are back, too. Dan ‘s not been appropriated into the system. Instead, it’s good it recognizes the creative power that reanimated their bankrupt shells.

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thesinglesjukebox · 6 years

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NAMIKA FT. BLACK M - JE NE PARLE PAS FRANçAIS (BEATGEES REMIX)

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Nous l’aimons (wir mögen es)...

Jonathan Bogart: For someone, like me, who finds himself constantly immersed in twentieth-century history, there's something so inexpressibly beautiful and even touching about a Frankfurter of Moroccan descent and a Parisian of Guinean descent scoring a massive pop hit with sounds from the Caribbean, West Africa, and North Africa while singing about how she doesn't speak French and he doesn't speak German, but that won't stop them from being friends. The very chintziness of the production, the way it refuses to stick to one sound throughout, is a selling point: pop is not inherently anti-nationalist, anti-colonialist, and pro-open borders, but at its best it can describe utopias we can dedicate lifetimes working toward. [10]

Iain Mew: Each of the three iterations of the song -- original, remix, remix+ -- adds a little more joy without losing anything. She could let the funky music do the talking, lilting and multifaceted as it is. But how much better to add Black M for an uproarious verse. [8]

Will Adams: I prefer the smoky, coffeehouse vibe of the original; Beatgees' remix teases out the sillier tone of the lyric concept via light EDM punch-ups. Black M's contribution leans into that, so this remix-to-the-remix is at least something, but imagining the contrast of him and the original production is more interesting. [6]

Hazel Southwell: Ballsy, to announce you cannot speak French while sampling the accordion of a Parisien busker. This sounded like it was going to be a banger but never quite delivers, the je ne sais quoi absent definitely a memorable chorus or significant key change. Nonetheless, enjoyable behind dark glasses with small coffee and smaller cigarette. [6]

Tim de Reuse: A bilingual romance over a color-by-numbers reggaeton beat. It could've been a little fun in theory but it's far, far too cute with its cultures-colliding premise; Black M's awkward specificity makes him sound like he's never actually set foot in France and just skimmed a Parisian tourist brochure ten minutes before the recording session. [3]

Jonathan Bradley: Almost more charming for the romance of its narrative than its music, though the blend of dem bow and Parisian accordion ultimately settles into a curious accord. It's almost kitsch, but the exoticisms of travel lend themselves to kitsch anyway. Black M in particular is a charmer, announcing his presence by rhyming "Hey miss, ich spreche nicht Deutsch" with "je vais te montrer ç'est quoi la French touch." He's a host happy to play up for the tourist's imagination: "Oui, Paris est magique, mais Paris est aussi dark/Le contraste entre Pigalle et l'Arc." [7]

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Guinean opposition leader supports coup against Alpha Condé

Cellou Dalein Diallo says coup ‘completes’ work opposition groups started The main Guinean opposition leader on Sunday welcomed the overthrow of President Alpha Condé, calling it an opportunity for a new start for the country. Cellou Dalein Diallo said the army had done “a historic act that ends the fight” started by pro-democracy groups. He urged the army to ensure national reconciliation. The…

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New Post has been published on https://freenews.today/2021/04/08/fake-news-on-social-media-is-hampering-vaccine-efforts-in-papua-new-guinea/

Fake news on social media is hampering vaccine efforts in Papua New Guinea

A health worker prepares to do tests for Covid-19 coronavirus outside a makeshift clinic in a sports stadium in Port Moresby on April 1, 2021.

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Misinformation on social media is hindering Papua New Guinea’s vaccination efforts.

Many people are hesitant about inoculation due to false information being spread about the vaccines even as coronavirus cases are surging, according to the PNG’s Covid-19 response controller.

The country reported 1,730 cases and 12 deaths between March 29 and April 4, according to a joint report from the World Health Organization and the PNG national health department.

Infection cases saw a fresh surge in February and PNG has reported 7,839 cases so far, data from Johns Hopkins University showed. However, the consensus is that the actual number is much higher, concealed by low testing capacity and other logistical difficulties.

“We have been lulled into sort of a sense of complacency, false sense of security that we have gotten over that first wave, that we were dreading,” David Manning, PNG’s Covid-19 national pandemic response controller, told CNBC’s Will Koulouris.

Located north of Australia, Papua New Guinea is an island country that’s heavily forested and has a population of fewer than 9 million people.

Of course, this is attributed to vaccine hesitancy, and you can attribute that to a lack of awareness.

David Manning

national pandemic response controller, Papua New Guinea

The National Capital District, home to PNG’s capital, Port Moresby, has the highest number of reported cases, followed by the Western province where the infection rate is also climbing.

A combination of events — funerals, holidays and the resumption of schools — led to the “continuous transmission of the virus,” William Pomat, director of PNG’s Institute of Medical Research, told CNBC last week.

Vaccine hesitancy

So-called “vaccine nationalism” has made it difficult for small, developing nations like PNG to access shots to inoculate their population. Many of them rely on an international vaccination initiative called Covax but that program’s vaccine supply is facing delays from India, which is also struggling to contain a surge in cases at home.

PNG rolled out a vaccination drive last week using about 8,000 doses of AstraZeneca‘s Covid-19 shots that were donated by neighboring Australia. More doses are reportedly expected in the coming weeks from China and India.

The island-nation has vaccinated fewer than 600 people so far, putting it way behind schedule, according to Manning.

“Of course, this is attributed to vaccine hesitancy, and you can attribute that to a lack of awareness — basically, information around, if there are any side effects of the vaccine and the false news that’s being propagated through social media,” he said, adding there’s comparatively less pushback from vaccine skeptics in urban areas.

Battling misinformation

Manning said Facebook reached out to PNG asking how the social network could help dispel some of the misinformation being spread, but he did not expand on the details of that conversation.

Facebook launched a public education campaign in PNG this week to help users there learn how to identify and combat health misinformation. It will run for five weeks and include graphics and videos in multiple languages.

“For this campaign, we are focusing our efforts further to target Covid-19 and vaccine related misinformation, ensuring that Papua New Guineans are able to scrutinise what they are seeing against official public health resources,” Mia Garlick, director of public policy for Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands at Facebook said in a statement Wednesday.

“This campaign also adds on to a prompt we launched in Papua New Guinea last week to provide local users with Covid-19 prevention tips,” Garlick added.

Stressed health-care infrastructure

The outbreak is putting excessive stress on PNG’s already poor health-care infrastructure.

International organizations such as Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have warned of an imminent collapse. Many frontline health-care workers, who are already few in numbers, are falling ill with Covid-19, experts said.

“If they get sick, then we won’t have anyone standing — not only for Covid, but other diseases and so on,” said Pomat from the Institute of Medical Research.

He explained that Covid testing is only being done for those who “might show up (at) a health facility when they are showing symptoms, and those who are volunteering to go in.”

Even then, hospitals and medical facilities are running out of components needed to carry out those tests.

While PNG is working with its development partners, including Australia, to secure supply of more test kits and components, it has also implemented tighter social restrictions. For example, shops have been asked to deny entry to people not wearing masks while inter-provincial travel is strictly regulated.

Manning said the pandemic response needs to be tailored to PNG’s coastal communities as well as the highlands region where even at the best of times, it’s tough to deliver health care, police or government services.

“So we’ve now shifted our focus from a national response to a provincial response, and working closely with those provincial health authorities that are currently being inundated with surges,” he said.

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#Asia Economy #AstraZeneca PLC #business news #COVID-19 #DAVID MANNING #Health care industry #New Zealand #Papua New Guinea

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adalidda · 4 years

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Illustration Photo: Pineapple production in Cameroon (credits: Ollivier Girard / CIFOR / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

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businessliveme · 4 years

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Political Events Set To Impact Emerging Markets in 2020

(Bloomberg) –It’s not just the U.S. presidential election that will dominate the political calendar in 2020. A slew of emerging markets face their own votes as investors embrace politics-inspired turbulence.

The first waymarker was Taiwan’s election this weekend, which saw voters convincingly re-elect President Tsai Ing-wen. In contrast with her China-friendly opposition challenger, Tsai favors continuing on a pro-independence path. The contest had added significance given the parallels with Hong Kong’s mass demonstrations against creeping Chinese encroachment.

The electoral schedule among major developing economies this year is thinner than in 2019, but last year’s rash of protests around the world means that political developments in countries including India, Egypt and across Latin America will still be closely watched.

Following is a timeline of the main elections in emerging and frontier markets through the rest of 2020:

Election Timetable

Jan. 11 Taiwan presidential election

The room for political and economic ambiguity occupied by Taiwan in recent decades is being squeezed amid a battle for supremacy between its two biggest trading partners. But voters chose to build on the best U.S.-Taiwan relations in 40 years under the current independence-supporting president, Tsai Ing-wen, rather than pivot to a greater focus on trade, investment and potentially political integration with China, as favored by the opposition Kuomintang.

Jan. 26 Peru parliamentary election

Corruption scandals have rocked Peru’s political establishment. President Martin Vizcarra dissolved Congress on Sept. 30 and January’s vote for its replacement will be a test of sentiment before the general election in 2021. An advance of leftist parties, some of which are calling for a new constitution, may rattle investors. They’ll also be closely watching proposed government changes to mining legislation in light of community protests.

Feb. 21 Iran parliamentary elections

The big theme to watch for will be the resurgence of hardliners in Iran’s parliament as a consequence of U.S. President Donald Trump’s maximum pressure strategy. The moderate, conservative-reformist bloc that backs President Hassan Rouhani and which has controlled the chamber since 2016 is expected to collapse. But the U.S. killing of commander Qassem Soleimani has overshadowed everything, and may have the effect of softening political divisions and uniting factions against the U.S.

Feb. 22 Togo Presidential election

The vote will take place against a backdrop of continuing discontent over constitutional reforms that lawmakers approved last year to limit the president to two terms. The change isn’t retroactive, however, which means President Faure Gnassingbe will run for a fourth time. The 53-year-old has ruled the phosphate-exporting nation since 2005.

March 2 Israel parliamentary elections

Israelis will head to the polls for an unprecedented third time in a year after previous rounds failed to produce a majority government. What’s different now is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been formally charged with bribery and fraud, a legal predicament that will follow him even if he manages to defeat his main challenger, former military chief Benny Gantz. Whoever wins, Israel sorely needs a functioning government after a year of deadlock.

April 15 South Korea parliamentary election

All 300 seats are up for grabs with President Moon Jae-in’s left-leaning Democratic Party of Korea trying to maintain control of the assembly. A setback for Moon could derail his policy priorities of increasing the minimum wage, reforming the property market and seeking rapprochement with North Korea as he serves out the remaining two years of his single, five-year term.

May 3 Bolivia

Bolivia plans to hold fresh elections after an Oct. 20 vote was annulled following accusations of vote-rigging, riots and the ouster of President Evo Morales. His socialist MAS party will field a new candidate. Luis Fernando Camacho, one of the leaders of the anti-Morales protests, will also run.

Before September Belarus presidential election

Having overseen 2019 parliamentary elections in which no opposition candidates won seats, President Alexander Lukashenko faces little prospect of a serious challenge when he seeks a sixth term this year. Lukashenko, who’s ruled since 1994, is under growing Kremlin pressure to agree to integrate Belarus more tightly with Russia.

September Russia regional elections

Gubernatorial elections in at least 15 regions will be a bellwether of the popular mood ahead of 2021 parliamentary elections seen as critical to Kremlin plans to manage the succession at the end of Vladimir Putin’s fourth presidential term in 2024. Simmering anger over living standards and rights sparked Moscow’s largest anti-Kremlin protests since 2011-2012 ahead of elections in September last year. The ruling United Russia party suffered setbacks despite tight control of the system.

Fall Moldova presidential elections

Pro-Russian incumbent Igor Dodon will likely seek a second term after winning the nation’s first direct presidential election in 20 years in 2016. He defeated pro-EU contender Maia Sandu, who stood down as prime minister in November 2019 when the government lost a no-confidence vote. Moldova has frequently been roiled by political instability and corruption scandals, and a 1 billion-euro ($1.1 billion) bank fraud from 2014 remains unsolved.

Sept. 23 Medan and Solo, Indonesia, mayoral elections

President Joko Widodo’s son Gibran Rakabuming Raka is running for mayor of Solo, while son-in-law Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution is seeking to become mayor of Medan. Since the president can only serve two terms, the results may presage a Jokowi family member’s bid for the presidency in 2024.

Oct. 4 Brazil municipal elections

The first electoral test for President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies. All eyes will be on the performance of candidates aligned with Bolsonaro’s far-right program, given that the president has lost popularity and the economy has been slow to recover. Similarly, investors will watch the Workers’ Party of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after his release from jail. Leftist advances could throw into doubt the government’s market-friendly reforms.

Oct. 4 Kyrgyzstan parliamentary elections

Public anger at the authorities may shape voting in this turbulent central Asian nation bordering China, with an alleged money-laundering scandal involving customs officials and former President Almazbek Atambayev on trial accused of abuse of power.

October Guinea presidential election

Guinean President Alpha Condé’s efforts to stay in power have sparked mass protests and unrest is likely to erupt again if the 81-year-old wins a referendum enabling him to seek a third term. Still, a Condé victory would be good news for Chinese and Russian companies that dominate mining in the country with the world’s biggest bauxite reserves.

October Tanzania presidential election

President John Magufuli is the favorite to win and serve another five years. In his first term, the 60-year-old leader was hailed for reducing state inefficiency, but criticized for increasing restrictions on civil liberties and the rewriting of commercial contracts to increase benefits to the government.

Oct. 31 Ivory Coast presidential election

The vote in Ivory Coast will be a crucial test for President Alassane Ouattara’s ruling party, which for the first time will be challenged by former allies. More importantly, the elections will determine whether the world’s top cocoa grower can preserve the stability it restored in 2011 after almost a decade of conflict.

October/November Egypt parliamentary elections

Parliamentary votes are expected once the current parliament finalizes the new elections law. The main change expected is the re-introduction of the legislature’s upper house, which was disbanded several years ago when Egypt was in the throes of unrest following the 2011 uprising. The current parliament is largely seen as a rubber-stamp legislature, walking in lock-step with the administration of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, who has been widely criticized for sharply curtailing freedoms as the country looks to revive its economy.

Nov. 29 Burkina Faso presidential and national assembly elections

President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, who will seek a second term, is struggling to halt an insurgency by Islamist militants and armed groups. The speed with which the fighters have expanded from northern Burkina Faso and into the eastern and southwestern regions have alarmed its southern coastal neighbors, including Ivory Coast, and left the government scrambling to halt the violence.

Dec. 7 Ghana presidential and national assembly elections

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo’s achievement of average economic growth of more than 6% over the past three years is no guarantee of re-election in one of Africa’s most competitive democracies. Likely to stand for a second term, Akufo-Addo will face his predecessor, John Mahama, in a race that’s too close to call. While Akufo-Addo can trumpet economic governance, his New Patriotic Party has so far failed to meet election pledges on infrastructure and building factories.

Unspecified date Romania parliamentary election

The election is likely to be a tricky one for the minority Liberal Party government that only took over in November. Its predecessors from the free-spending Social Democrats left behind a ballooning budget deficit that will probably require unpopular cuts to return to within European Union limits. The Liberals may push for a snap vote before the scheduled ballot in the fall to capitalize on their current high poll ratings before they tackle the fiscal mess. As always, discontent about corruption, health care and education will also steer voters, many of whom leave for the continent’s richer west every year.

Unspecified date Ethiopia general election

The success of Ethiopia’s swathe of political and economic reforms, spearheaded by Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, will hinge on whether his new Prosperity Party wins general elections this year. Ethiopia needs investor confidence amid fears of political violence. However, Abiy’s philosophy is facing opposition from the TPLF, prominent activists and even his close allies.

Unspecified date Kuwait parliamentary elections

The elections will likely have little impact on markets. Investors will be focused on the Gulf country’s inclusion in MSCI Inc’s main index tracking stocks in emerging markets in June 2020. The prime minister is appointed by the emir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, and governments routinely butt heads with an elected parliament filled with populist lawmakers. Parties are banned, so there’s no coherent opposition.

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Horoya, Pyramids FC- A lesson in ambition, investment and foresight

[caption id="attachment_632496" align="aligncenter" width="890"] Horoya AC[/caption] Former Hearts of Oak PRO Muheeb Saeed has detailed strides by Horoya Club of Guinea and Pyramids FC of Egypt to rival serial campaigners in CAF inter-clubs competitions. Horoya FC, Guinea' s hope for restoring glory in African club football The Coronavirus permitting, Horoya FC of Guinea and Pyramids FC of Egypt are set for a searing semi-final clash in the 2019/2020 CAF Confederation Cup. A curious encounter, given the near anonymity of the two sides, especially the latter, in continental football. The Egyptians topped their group with five wins and one loss, bagging 15 points, the biggest haul for the group stage. They went on to book the semi-final ticket with a 3-1 aggregate win against Zambia’s Zanaco. The Guineans, on the other hand, beat Nigerian giants Enyimba in the quarter final after topping their group with four wins and two draws. This novel Confederation Cup semi-final pairing pushed me to find out more about what these otherwise modest clubs have been doing to propel themselves to the cusp of continental glory. First, I googled Horoya FC and got attracted by a news story on the club’s website about ongoing infrastructure development at the club. ''Here you will find everything related to football administration, exercise rooms, three FIFA standard synthetic training fields, sand pits and the large stadium that we will open with 5,000 seats before its extension to 15,000 seats to enable us host international competitions,'' the story quotes Antonio Souare, President of the club, on a visit to the project site. Horoya FC, boasts 19 foreign players including six Ghanaians. It also has five Burkinabe’s including the captain, Ghana-born Mandela Ocansey and ex-Asec Mimosa, Augsburg, Dusseldorf and Samsunspor striker, Aristide Bance. [caption id="attachment_824920" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Pyramids FC[/caption] Pyrmids FC – The Third Wonder of Egyptian Football The emergence of Pyramids FC may have escaped many. Yet, it has been the defining feature of Egyptian club football for the past two seasons. When Ghanaian striker John Antwi joined Pyramids FC about a year ago, I reckoned that his new club must be well- resourced and forward-looking. The experienced Ghanaian was a coveted goal machine, having racked up an average of 12 goals per season for Misr Makassa over the three seasons he had spent there. But the exploits of Antwi’s new club in the Continental competition prompted me to take a closer look at the literal overnight transformation of what was formerly an also-run premier divison side called Assiouty FC based in Beni Suef. It all started in December 2018 when Saudi billionaire Turki Al-Sheikh bought the modest Assiouty FC. The deal sealed, the new owner changed both name and location. Declaring that it would take ''from three to five years'' to become a title-winning side, Al-Sheikh set to work at a blistering pace. Half-way through the season, Pyramids, under Argentine Manager Ramón Diaz, are living up to their hype, lying third behind Zamalek and Al Ahly and giving the duo a run for their money. Daring Deals The audacious signing of Ali Gabr and Ahmed Tawfik from the aristocrats and now city- neighbours, Zamalek, heralded the arrival of many more stars including Keno, a winger from Palmerais, at an African-record of $10m, followed by Carlos Eduardo, Lucas Ribamar, Arthur Caíke and Rodriguinho, all from Brazil. The South American gamble however tumbled as some of the imports failed to deliver on their promise and potential. Others including Ribamar, who was later sent back home on loan to Vas da Gama, Keno (on loan to Aljazira of Abu Dhabi) and the team coach, Carlos Valentim, fell victim to temperament, personal relationship, culture and adaptation issues. Valentim’s successor, Argentine Ricardo La Volpe, did not last either. But this high turnover of personnel in that short prologue apparently did affect the Pyramid project. In an incredible public relations and branding masterstroke, Al-Sheikh started a television channel that shows Spanish and English football and leveraging on the exotic appeal to showcase Pyramids' games. And guess the pundits for these games; Ronaldinho Gaúcho, John Terry, Roberto Carlos and Robbie Keane, with ex-Tottenham striker Mido as the host. In what best defines the audacity of Pyramids FC's ambitions, the nouveaux riches of Egyptian football managed to fly in ex- Chelsea legend, John Terry as the TV pundit for their first game. On July 4, 2019, the club officially announced that Salem Al Shamsi, had managed to buy the club from Al-Shaikh. The new owner, an Emirati, was Vice President of Pyramids FC, and so it was a seamless transition that allowed the club to maintain focus. More importantly, it brought at the helm another astute businessman with considerable resources. Al Shamsi is the founder and C.E.O of Emirati bank, Ajman Bank PJSC. With such a deep pocket backing their lofty ambitions, it is little wonder that Pyramids FC have come this far in only their maiden attempt in Africa. Will the Horoya and Pyramid model inspire sleeping giants, Asante Kotoko, Canon Yaounde, Union Doula, Nkana FC etc., to seek investment, smart management and refurbishment? By Muheed Saeed Former Hearts of Oak PRO Email: [email protected] source: https://ghanasoccernet.com/

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NBA Draft: Pistons Select Sekou Doumbouya with 15th Pick

The Detroit Pistons selected Guinean-born Sekou Doumbouya with the 15th overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. Doumbouya spent one season with Limoges CSP of LNB Pro A, the top basketball league in France.

The Detroit #Pistons have selected Sekou Doumbouya with the 15th pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. #DetroitBasketball pic.twitter.com/Cf293boUT3

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pros of the manga i got at the used book store yesterday: fucking amazing art and expressions, fun characters, decently engaging plot, hot samurai ghost and his smith boyfriend

cons: its called shaman king. appears to have zero to limited understanding of the frequent misuse and appropriation of the term. not even three chapters in there’s some intensely racist panels depicting new guinean natives.

#eeehhhhhhhhhhh #like. i want to know what happens next but probably not enough to go buy the next one #also i tried watching the anime and goddamn the art style doesnt translate well #also what the fuck? amidamaru has purple hair??#i thought he had blond or light brown hair lol #on the one hand hes japanese so hes only come into contact with japanese instances of spirit channeling #and so he bleives thats the ourpose of a shaman #on the other hand: this was written once the internet existed (although it didnt have as many resources as it does now)#hey there this is a personal post

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British boy who has lived in country since birth refused entry to UK on return from holiday

The Independent Sajid Javid opposes ‘hostile environment’ approach to UK immigration opting instead for a ‘compliant environment’ British boy who has lived in country since birth refused entry to UK on return from holiday Popular Videos A six-year-old boy who has lived in the UK all of his life has been prevented from returning home to his mother following a holiday after the Home Office revoked his passport. Mohamed Barrak Diallo Bangoura, who was born in Leeds in 2012, had been staying in Belgium with family friends for six weeks during the school holidays. He was due to board a flight home to his mother on Sunday, but officials at Zaventem airport in Brussels said the Home Office had instructed them he could not travel to the UK. Read more Home Office using immigrants as a ‘cash cow’ as citizenship fees soar Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott described the case as “truly shocking” and said the act of blocking a UK-born child from returning home was “exactly one of the effects” of the government’s hostile environment. The Home Office said they issued a letter to Hawa Keita, the boy’s mother, who is of Guinean origin and lives in Sheffield, in March informing her that her son’s passport had been issued in error and had been “revoked” due to questions surrounding his British citizenship . But Ms Keita told The Independent she had not received this letter until it was sent to her via email when she contacted the Home Office after her son was blocked from the flight on Sunday. The letter states that the child’s claim to British citizenship was no longer valid because it had “come to light” that the man Ms Keita was married to at the time of his birth was not settled in Britain. Since a change to legislation in 1983, children born in the UK will only have British citizenship if at least one of their parents is a British citizen or is living in the UK with permission to stay in the country permanently. The boy now remains in Brussels with the family he was staying with, friends of his mother. Ms Keita is in the UK and unable to travel because she was residing in the country based on her son’s British citizenship. Abdoul Diallo, a political advisor for the EU who has been looking after the child in his family home in Belgium and took him to the airport on Sunday, told The Independent he was shocked when he was preventing from boarding the flight. “We went through all checks and security controls in the airport, but as we were about to board plane, the staff said British authorities had sent them email saying the child cannot board,” he said. Home Office attempts to deport children ‘harmful and ineffective’ “It was a shock. We were told to go to the British embassy, but it was Sunday and the next day was a bank holiday. I had to call the Belgian police, who gave me a document saying I should look after the child until a solution is found.” Mr Diallo said that Mohamed appeared to be relaxed about the situation so far, but warned that it may become more difficult once his friends go back to school on Wednesday, at which point he will be looked after by Mr Diallo’s mother. “We’re going to have him for one more week. He has been happily playing with my eight-year-old daughter and my nephew who is six, but they will start school tomorrow. That’s when he will start realising the situation,” he said. “Hawa is residing in the UK based on his British nationality, so she cannot leave the country, meaning for the time being the child is stuck here. No matter what the parents have done, the child shouldn’t be separated from them.” Responding to the incident, Ms Abbott told The Independent : “This case is truly shocking. That this government would preside over a system blocking a six-year old born here from returning home is almost beyond belief. “We have ministers telling us they are sorting out the Windrush scandal, and their hostile environment isn’t to blame. But this shows their reassurances are worthless. “People being refused re-entry here is exactly one of the effects of their policies. It will keep on happening until they abandon the hostile environment altogether.” Chai Patel, legal policy director at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), called for a full and independent inquiry into “this shambles of a Home Office”, accusing the department of “stranding a young child in a foreign country, when the only home he knows is in the UK”. “He was born in Leeds. 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Khan angered some people in the British capital and elsewhere last month when he allowed a balloon caricaturing Donald Trump as an angry baby to float above the city while the U.S. president was in England. AP 5/50 31 August 2018 A can of Coca-Cola next to a cup of Costa coffee, as Whitbread has struck a deal to sell the Costa Coffee chain to Coca-Cola for £3.9 billion PA 6/50 30 August 2018 Frank Field MP in Westminster, London, after resigning from the Labour party over the anti-Semitism crisis. Field, who has represented Birkenhead from almost 40 years, revealed in a letter to party chief whip Nick Brown that he could no longer serve the party as the leadership was overseeing the “erosion of our core values” PA 7/50 29 August 2018 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex meeting ‘King George’ and the cast at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London after attending a gala performance of the musical Hamilton, in support of Sentebale. 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Nearly one million people are expected by the organizers over Sunday and Monday in the streets of west London to celebrate Caribbean culture, which is considered the largest street demonstration in Europe AFP/Getty 10/50 26 August 2018 The crowd pauses for 72 seconds silence in remembrance of all those lost in the Grenfell Tower fire at the Red Bull Music Academy Sound System at Notting Hill Getty 11/50 25 August 2018 Comedian Rose Matafeo is congratulated by Steve Coogan after winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award at the Dovecote Studio PA 12/50 24 August 2018 British Secretary of State for International Trade, Liam Fox, attends a signing ceremony for memorandums of understanding between British and Chinese firms and institutions at the British ambassador’s residence in Beijing AP 13/50 23 August 2018 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe hugs her daughter Gabriella, in Iran. She has been allowed to leave an Iranian prison for three days. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested during a holiday with her toddler daughter in April 2016. Iranian authorities accuse her of plotting against the government. Her family denies this, saying says she was in Iran to visit family Free Nazanin Campaign/AP 14/50 22 August 2018 Anti Brexit activists protest as they deliver a pile of medical supplies in cardboard boxes to the Department of Health and Social Care in London. Our Future, Our Choice (OFOC) Pro EU campaign group wants get its message to the public surrounding the predicted costs of Britain’s “No Deal Hard Brexit”, exit from the European Union AP 15/50 21 August 2018 Families enjoy rides on the dodgems during an Eid in the Park celebration marking Eid Al-Adha at the New River Sports ground in Wood Green, London. The traditional four-day celebratory festival marks one of the holiest days in the Islamic religious calendar Getty 16/50 20 August 2018 Jeremy Corbyn campaigns on Labour’s ‘Build it in Britain’ policy at Alexander Dennis bus manufacturers in Falkirk,Scotland. The Labour leader will spend the next four days in Scotland in an attempt to revitalize the party there Getty 17/50 19 August 2018 Manchester United women’s side walk out alongside Liverpool ahead of their first professional game since 2005. United disbanded their senior women’s team thirteen years ago and returned with a win, beating Liverpool in their Continental Tyres Cup match clash at Prenton Park PA 18/50 18 August 2018 Great Britain’s Reece Prescod, finishes second, to USA’s Christian Coleman, centre, in a photo finish after they both ran 9.94. With USA’s Noah Lyles, left, finishing third in the men’s 100m final during the Muller Grand Prix at Alexander Stadium, Birmingham PA 19/50 17 August 2018 Paul Elliott, right, carries the coffin of his brother Barry, 73, at the New York Stadium, Rotherham, for his funeral following his death on Sunday August 5. The veteran entertainer was one half of comedy duo the Chuckle Brothers with Paul PA 20/50 16 August 2018 Students react as they receive their ‘A’ level results at Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form in London. Universities accepted thousands fewer students as pass rates hit lowest level since 2010 Reuters 21/50 15 August 2018 People gather on Market Street, Omagh, for the ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the Omagh bombing on 15 August 1998. 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AFP/Getty 25/50 11 August 2018 Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith reacts after she won gold in the women’s 200m final at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, completing the sprint double after she won the 100m just days before Getty/European Athletics 26/50 10 August 2018 Pedestrians walk past the entrance of the retail store House of Fraser in central London. The Chinese-owned UK department store chain, entered administration on August 10 only to be swiftly snapped up by retailer Sports Direct for £90 million ($115 million, 100 million euros) AFP/Getty 27/50 9 August 2018 Local people protest outside the Hillingdon Conservative Association office on August 9, 2018 in Uxbridge, England. Today’s protest is being held following comments made by former Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, against the wearing of Burkas by Muslim women in the United Kingdom. An independent panel will investigate complaints made regarding Mr Johnson’s comments and possible breaches of the Conservative Party code of conduct. Getty 28/50 8 August 2018 Britain’s Prince William, right, and Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, walk past a German flag, left, and a Britain’s flag as they leave the Amiens cathedral, northern France. Prince William and Theresa May are marking the somber centenary of the Battle of Amiens, in France, a short, bloody and decisive battle that heralded the end of World War I AP 29/50 7 August 2018 Great Britain’s Jack Laugher and James Heatly pose with their Gold and Bronze medal’s respectively won in the 1 metre springboard men’s final at the European Diving Championships in Glasgow EPA 30/50 6 August 2018 England cricketer Ben Stokes arrives at Bristol Crown Court accused of affray. The 27-year-old all-rounder and two other men, Ryan Ali and Ryan Hale are jointly charged with affray in the Clifton Triangle area of Bristol on September 25 last year, several hours after England had played a one-day international against the West Indies in the city PA 31/50 5 August 2018 Great Britain’s Laura Kenny celebrates after winning the Women’s Elimination Race final at the European Championships in Glasgow 32/50 4 August 2018 Ben Stokes celebrates taking the wicket of India’s Hardik Pandya with team mates during the first test at Edgbaston Action Images via Reuters 33/50 3 August 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron waves to people as he arrives at the Fort de Bregancon for a meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May epa 34/50 2 August 2018 Brexit Minister Dominic Raab is welcomed by French Minister attached to the Foreign Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau prior to a meeting in Paris AFP/Getty 35/50 1 August 2018 Demonstrators against Tommy Robinson outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where the former English Defence League leader has been freed on bail by the Court of Appeal after winning a challenge against a finding of contempt of court PA 36/50 31 July 2018 Friends of Lucy McHugh gather in Mansel Park, Southampton to release balloons in her memory. Lucy disappeared from her Southampton home last Wednesday and her body was later found in woodland near Southampton Sports Centre at 7.45am on Thursday PA 37/50 30 July 2018 Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt followed in the footsteps of his gaffe-prone predecessor Boris Johnson as he mistakenly referred to his Chinese wife as Japanese whilst on his first diplomatic mission to China AP 38/50 29 July 2018 Britain’s Geraint Thomas, left, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey and Britain’s Luke Rowe hold the flag of Wales during the 21st and last stage of the 105th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Houilles and Paris Champs-Elysees. Thomas is the first Welshman to win the Tour de France AP 39/50 28 July 2018 Passengers wait and queue following flight disruption at London Stansted Airport. The British National Air Traffic Services (Nats) placed temporary restrictions during the adverse weather on 27 July leading to flight cancellations and delays across Britain EPA 40/50 27 July 2018 The scene on the A96 between Huntly and Keith in Moray where a five people have died and five more were injured after a crash between a minibus and a car. 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Six people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the woman was attacked inside the hotel PA 45/50 22 July 2018 Italy’s Francesco Molinari kisses the trophy after winning the 147th Open golf Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland AFP/Getty 46/50 21 July 2018 Great Britain’s Tom Bosworth poses after winning the men’s 3000m race walk with a new World Record time at the IAAF Diamond League athletics anniversary games meeting in London EPA 47/50 20 July 2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a keynote speech at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. The Prime Minister is on a two-day visit to Northern Ireland. During her visit, focusing on Brexit and the deadlock at Stormont, she will visit the Irish border and discuss the potential impact of Brexit with Northern Irish businesses Getty 48/50 19 July 2018 Britain’s newly appointed chief Brexit negotiator Dominic Raab, left, and EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speak to the media ahead of a meeting at the European Commission in Brussels. Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator David Davis resigned less than two weeks ago and his successor Raab met his EU counterpart Michel Barnier for the first time late Thursday. AP 49/50 18 July 2018 An emotional Sir Cliff Richard with his legal team outside the High Court in London after he was awarded £210,000 in damages in his privacy battle against the BBC over their coverage of a police raid of his home EPA Pro-EU demonstrators wave flags outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. Reuters “We have recently been made aware that passport number X issued on the 28/11/2017 should not have been issued,” it states. “In accordance with Section 9 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, any entitlement for British Citizenship for Mohamed would only have been able to come through you or your husband and it would appear that neither of you were settled in the UK at the time of the birth.” It continues: “I can therefore confirm that [the] passport has been revoked by Her Majesty’s Passport Office as Mohamed has no entitlement to the document.” In response, a Home Office spokesperson said: “A letter was sent to Mohamed’s mother in March advising her that her son’s passport had been revoked. We understand that despite this Mohamed was taken out of the UK in July and last Sunday was unable to re-enter as he did not hold a valid passport. “The Immigration Minister has asked officials to urgently look into all available options in this case to reunite Mohamed with his mother.”

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FEATURE: Africa’s lost generation?

African players wearing the national shirts of European nations seem to have become an accepted norm in football. This worrying trend that began during the middle of the 20th century looks to have gained much strength and while players in the Americas, Asia, and Europe have, for the most part, stayed patriotic to the nations of their descendants, this doesn’t seem to be the case on the continent where humanity itself began.

Here is African Football HQ’s selection of some top African talents that decided Europe to be a better fit.

Paul Pogba (France – Guinean)

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is arguably the most well-known player of Africa’s latest lost generation. Although his parents were born in Guinea, one of the world’s most expensive players traded the continent for Les Blues (a common theme in this article). He won the Golden Ball award at U20 level to lead France to a youth world title in 2013. He would go on to do one better in 2018 with a FIFA World Cup title in Russia. Suffice to say, one would hugely doubt whether the same success would have followed him, had he chosen Guinea.

Ansu Fati (Spain – Guinea-Bissau)

After being the youngest player at age 17 to make his Spanish debut in 84 years, Ansu Fati is a talent that had multiple options which included Portugal and Guinea-Bissau which was clearly bottom of the selection list. His father tried to persuade him to play for A Seleção but chose La Rojita instead.

Eduardo Camavinga (France – Angola)

Angolan-born midfielder Eduardo Camavinga has become the latest African talent to fall prey to the lure of the Gallic Rooster. Moving to France at the age of 10 after their home in Miconje burned down the teenager has pledged his international future to his clearly adopted home. Starting the new Ligue 1 season strongly after scoring a lovely solo goal for Rennes against Montpellier HSC, it’s sad that Camavinga will not grace an African Cup of Nations tournament.

N’golo Kante (France – Mali)

The beaming smile of the ever-present N’golo Kante could have easily shone in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Former Leicester City assistant manager Steve Walsh told the Sunday Times that Kante made his desire to play for Mali clear after the Chelsea player said, “I want to play for Mali, my parents are from Mali.” However, Walsh convinced the 31-year-old that France would be a better option which he subsequently chose.

Adama Traore (Spain – Mali)

Flying Wolverhampton Wanderers winger Adama Traore simply chose Spain over Mali. The FC Barcelona La Masia graduate was well aware of his Malian roots. The West African nation even approached him, telling Goal.com that he was given a Les Aigles shirt, but went against it and chose the country of his birth instead.

Houssem Aouar (France – Algeria)

Lyon midfielder Houssem Aouar has gone the same route as many Algerians choosing the blue of France over the Desert Foxes and current AFCON holders. Staking his claim as one of OL’s most influential players, the Lyon-born talent chose Europe and a very competitive midfield instead of virtually walking into the North African nation’s side. With the likes of Hillal Soudani and Adlène Guedioura having reached the twilights of their careers respectively, Aouar would have been a perfect long-term fixture alongside Ismaël Bennacer.

Blaise Matuidi (France – Angola/Congo)

World Cup winner and defensive midfielder Blaise Matuidi is also another lost son of the African soil. Born in Toulouse France, he had an option of three national teams, Angola, DRC, and Les Blues, of which he chose the latter. Although he now finds himself in the Major League Soccer with the newly formed Inter Miami, Matuidi became one of the key pillars during his time at Juventus and Paris-Saint Germain.

Abdoulaye Doucouré (France – Mali)

Although Abdoulaye Doucoure hasn’t won a cap for France yet, with his move to Everton he could certainly receive a call-up should Didier Dechamps rotate the squad during the UEFA Nations League campaign. The 27-year-old publically rejected Mali according to getfootballfrance in 2019 and is still hopeful of a Les Blues call-up.

Romelu Lukaku (Belgium – DRC)

Belgian born and bred Romelu Lukaku like many of the players on this list, received his football education in Europe. Storming onto the scene at R.S.C. Anderlecht as a teenager and taking the Jupiler Pro League by storm, the Red Devils insured that ‘The Rom’ would represent the small nation. Since then, he’s gone on to become the nation’s top goal scorer. I guess the path was set for him as a youngster.

Samuel Umtiti (France – Cameroon)

FC Barcelona central defender and French international Samuel Umtiti left Cameroon, the country of his birth at two as his parents relocated to Lyon in 1995. Since then, the defender has never considered playing for any other nation according to Spanish publication, Marca.

Where has it all gone wrong? Why are talented Africans turning their backs on the continent in their droves? Where do you think the problems lie and does it still have anything to do with colonialism or is it just the freedom of choice in the modern-day?

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French fans dared to dream of a World Cup victory on Sunday as they prepared to watch the game on a sunny summer weekend after a tournament that has lifted spirits and led to a rare sense of national unity.Football fever has slowly built over the last four weeks as the country took its young national team to heart, with ecstatic scenes after their semi-final victory, a sign of the country's hunger for success.On what is a traditional holiday weekend to mark France's national day, many families will watch from camp sites or hotels, while giant screens have been erected in cities nationwide under exceptionally tight security.The biggest gathering of all is expected in Paris where 90,000 will converge on a fanzone next to the Eiffel Tower -- walking distance from the Champs Elysees boulevard where all great national triumphs are celebrated.With success on the pitch, a country riven by tensions and still recovering from a series of terror attacks that have claimed nearly 250 lives since 2015 has been able to revel in a newfound feeling of togetherness."We must be proud to be French! We don't say it enough: We live well in France, we eat well, it's a beautiful country," star striker Antoine Griezmann reminded his compatriots on Friday.Despite the country's enviable lifestyle, it has lacked "joie de vivre" for years, as shown in numerous surveys finding its people to be among some of the most pessimistic on the planet.Much of this is down to decades of high unemployment, mounting public debt and the homegrown terror threat of late, which has fuelled fears about immigration and the success of far-right political parties.The national football squad, the majority of whom are non-white, has provided a tonic to a divisive debate about French identity after their impeccable performance on and off the pitch as national ambassadors."France today is a France full of colours," midfield star Paul Pogba, who is French of Guinean origin, told a press conference last week. "We all feel French, we're all happy to wear this jersey."I'm very happy to have grown up in France, to have the French culture, even if I went abroad very early. France is beautiful as it is, that's how we love it, and that's how we'll always love it."Such talk has led to inevitable comparisons to how France celebrated its diversity in 1998 when it last won the World Cup with its "Black, Blanc, Beur" (Black, White, north African) team led by Zinedine Zidane.The optimism was short-lived, however. - Political afterglow? - One person desperate for victory will be 40-year-old President Emmanuel Macron, a keen football supporter who will be watching in Moscow from the stands with his wife Brigitte.Former president Jacques Chirac enjoyed a surge in popularity following France's 1998 victory -- and Macron too will hope to benefit from the afterglow amid a poll ratings slump.The former investment banker is regularly targeted by critics for being elitist and out-of-touch -- an image the beautiful game can help to soften.A World Cup win "could indeed make him appear closer to voters. After all football is the sport where societal differences are blurred," said Frederic Dabi of the Ifop polling institute.Any boost to economic growth would also be highly welcome, with Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire saying a win could give GDP a further shot in the arm.Winning the World Cup would reinforce the message pro-business Macron has delivered to international investors since his election in May last year: that "France is back" as a dynamic, exciting place."There's an irrational element in the economy that is based on confidence, desire, enthusiasm," Le Maire told French television this week.One sector that is already booming is the sports apparel industry.Fans have been snapping up team jerseys, with the "authentic" Nike version repeatedly selling out despite its 160 euro ($185) price tag."It's not just buying a piece of cloth, it's more of a genuine transfer of emotion," claimed Virgile Caillet, who represents French sports goods stores, last week. - Terror fears - Despite the excitement, security will be in the back of fans' minds after the series of deadly terror attacks since 2015, often by individuals attacking crowds enjoying a night out.France has deployed 110,000 police and security forces across the country over the weekend, which coincided with the Bastille Day national holiday and military parade.At the huge gated fan zone near the Eiffel Tower, police will be carrying out pat-downs and searches, part of expanded powers granted by a tough anti-terror law passed last year.In case of a French victory some 4,000 police officers will be on duty Sunday night in Paris, and a huge perimeter surrounding the Champs Elysees will be blocked off to traffic, the first such operation in recent memory.

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AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK

Directed by Josh Fox, James Spione, Myron Dewey

Record of the massive peaceful resistance led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to the Dakota Access Pipeline through their land and underneath the Missouri River.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial project that brings fracked crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and eventually to Illinois. The Standing Rock Tribe and people all over the world oppose the project because the pipeline runs under the Missouri river, a source of drinking water for over 18 million people, and pipeline leaks are commonplace. Since 2010 over 3,300 oil spills and leaks have been reported.

Moving from summer 2016, when demonstrations over the Dakota Access Pipeline's demolishing of sacred Native burial grounds began, to the current and disheartening pipeline status, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock is a powerful visual poem in three parts that uncovers complex hidden truths with simplicity. The film is a collaboration between indigenous filmmakers: Director Myron Dewey and Executive Producer Doug Good Feather; and environmental Oscar-nominated filmmakers Josh Fox and James Spione.

The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. The film documents the story of Native-led defiance that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. It asks: "Are you ready to join the fight?"

DVD / 2017 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 84 minutes

BLUESPACE

Directed by Ian Cheney

Contrasts sci-fi ideas about terraforming Mars with the state of NYC's waterways, and questions the viability of colonizing Mars before making our own planet sustainable.

Could humans live on Mars? Would we want to? Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Ian Cheney, provides insight into our currently unsustainable relationship with our home planet by examining the sci-fi speculation of "terraforming," or making another planet Earth-like, by altering its atmosphere. He calls on a multifaceted brain trust to process this big idea including a desert camp of Mars hopefuls, a bevy of sci-fi writers, Hurricane Sandy survivors, the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, and a who's who of astrobiologists and earth scientists. BLUESPACE makes a strong case for taking better care of our water-rich planet so that future generations won't have to resort to interplanetary colonization.

At times whimsical and funny, serious and poignant and always stimulating, this is a unique exploration of current thinking about the origins and evolution of life and its relationship to water.

DVD includes both the original 73- minute version of the film and a 54- minute classroom version.

DVD / 2016 / (Grades 10 -12, College, Adults) / 73 minutes

AFTER THE SPILL

Directed by Jon Bowermaster

The oil and gas industry has historically dominated Louisiana politics and is largely responsible for the state's rapidly disappearing coastline.

Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast of Louisiana. Five years later the Deepwater Horizon exploded and spilled more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the worst ecologic disaster in North American history. Amazingly those aren't the worst things facing Louisiana's coastline today. It is that the state is fast disappearing through coastal erosion caused largely by oil and gas industry activity.

A follow-up to our 2010 film SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories, this film introduces us to some of the spill's most aggrieved victims as well as those who are desperately trying to save its coastline. Writer and historian John Barry who launched a suit against 97 oil and gas companies attempting to get them to pay their fair share for reparations caused by their explorations. Consultant and native son James Carville who manages to find some hope in new technologies that may save the coast. And Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, the man who saved New Orleans post-Katrina, whose new passion is for a Green Army he has recruited.

Fishermen, scientists, politicians, environmentalists, and oil-rig workers document how the coast of Louisiana has changed. What really happened to all that oil? What about the dispersant used to push it beneath the surface? How has the spill impacted local economies as well as human health and the health of both marine life and the Gulf itself? How much resilience is left in the people and coastline?

DVD / 2015 / (Grade Level: 7 -12, Colleges, Adults) / 62 minutes

SHOW ME SCIENCE ADVANCED - EARTH SCIENCE: PROPERTIES OF WATER

Over seventy percent of the Earth is covered with water around 326 million trillion gallons! Water is essential for life it gives plants ability to create sugar for food and it helps humans regulate temperatures and nourishes and protects the brain, spinal cord and other tissues. Water is equally important to the environment due to the intricate balance of the water cycle. This program takes an in-depth look at the chemistry of water and its different states and how each of them affects the world around us.

DVD / 2015 / (High School or above) / 12 minutes

DIVIDE IN CONCORD

Directed by Kris Kaczor

A fiery octogenarian activist spearheads a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in Concord, MA.

Jean Hill, a fiery octogenarian, is deeply concerned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the world's largest landfill. Since 2010, she has spearheaded a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in her hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. She spends her golden years attending city council meetings and cold calling residents. So far, her attempts to pass a municipal bylaw have failed.

As she prepares for one last town meeting, Jean faces the strongest opposition yet, from local merchants and the International Bottled Water Association. But her fiercest challenge comes from Adriana Cohen, mother, model and celebrity publicist-turned-pundit, who insists the bill is an attack on freedom.

When Adriana thrusts Jean's crusade into the national spotlight, it's silver-haired senior versus silver-tongued pro. In the same town that incited the American Revolution and inspired Thoreau's environmental movement, can one senior citizen make history? A tense nail-biter of a vote will decide.

DVD / 2014 / (Grades 5-12, College, Adult) / 142 minutes

ONE WATER

Narrated by Martin Sheen, One Water is a film that celebrates all the different ways water has touched human lives around the globe and explores our changing relationship to water as it grows ever more alarmingly scarce. The film leaves audiences with a series of provocative questions that culminate in one that will impact all of our futures: is water a human right or a commodity? Through a starkly emotional journey, the audience is invited to bear witness and encouraged to recognize this major global crisis at his or her very own.

The film highlights a world where water is exquisitely abundant in some places and dangerously lacking in others. Taps flowing with fresh, clean water are contrasted with toxic, polluted waterways that have turned the blue arteries of our planet murky.

DVD / 2014 / (Senior High, College) / 50 minutes

STANDING ON SACRED GROUND: PROFIT AND LOSS

Directed by Christopher McLeod

From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water, and health to mining and oil industries.

From New Guinean rainforests to Canada's tar sands, PROFIT AND LOSS exposes industrial threats to native peoples' health, livelihood and cultural survival. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese-government owned nickel mine has violently relocated villagers to a taboo sacred mountain, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their traditional hunting grounds are stripmined to unearth the world's third-largest oil reserve. Indigenous people tell their own stories-and confront us with the ethical consequences of our culture of consumption.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 57 minutes

CHASING WATER

Directed by Pete McBride

Breathtaking photography tells the story of the Colorado River, which flowed to the sea for 6 million years and now dries up 90 miles short of the Sea of Cortez.

After spending a decade working abroad as a photojournalist, Colorado native Pete McBride, decided to focus on something closer to his home and his heart: the Colorado River which cuts through his backyard. Taking nearly three years, McBride followed the river source to sea on a personal journey to see exactly where the river goes and what becomes of the irrigation water that flows across his family's cattle ranch in central Colorado after it returns to the creek. Recruiting hisfather, John, as his personal pilot McBride chose an aerial vantage to capture a unique and fresh view of the Colorado River Basin. He also partnered with Jon Waterman, an author who stayed stream level to paddle the entire length of the river.

This short film takes the viewer on a 1,500 mile adventure downstream, from mountains and cities and through canyons and across shrinking reservoirs. For 6 million years the Colorado River flowed to the sea. Today it runs dry some 90 miles shy of its historic terminus at the Sea of Cortez.

This visual journey is both revealing and alarming as it highlights the state of the river and the Southwest's drying future.

Featuring the photography of Pete McBride and music by Explosions In The Sky, This Will Destroy You, Jesse Cook, and Ludovico Einaudi.

DVD / 2011 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 18 minutes

SUSTAINABLE FUTURES: THE WATER ISSUES

While some regions of the world enjoy an abundance of water, one billion people live in areas struggling with drought and drinking water contamination. By 2025, two-thirds of the world's population is expected to face a water shortage. This episode profiles water purification and conservation projects throughout the world, which aim to reduce the environmental and economic threats of a future where water is a scarce commodity.

DVD / 2011 / (Senior High, College) / 24 minutes

ECO=KIDS EXPLORE II: WATER TREATMENT

Join the Eco=Kids Explorer team as they teach students about water treatment. After a brief history of clean water usage, our hosts visit a water treatment plant. We learn of two types of transforming water into usable water: purification and desalination. The hosts demonstrate how to do their own water filtration experiment from a class room or home.

DVD / 2010 / (Elementary, Senior High) / 20 minutes

SOLA: LOUISIANA WATER STORIES

Investigates how the exploitation of Southern Louisiana's abundant natural resources compromised the resiliency of its ecology and culture, multiplying the devastating impact of the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana there's water: rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three or more. Its waterways support the biggest economies in Louisiana - a $70 billion a year oil and gas industry, a $2.4 billion a year fishing business, tourism and recreational sports.

They are also home to some insidious polluters: the same oil and gas industry, 200 petrochemical plants along a 100-mile-long stretch of the Mississippi known "Cancer Alley," the world's largest Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and erosion that is costing the coastline twenty five square miles of wetlands a year. At the same time, SoLa is home to one of America's most vital and unique cultures; if everyone who lives there has a water story they can also most likely play the fiddle, waltz, cook an etoufee and hunt and fish.

DVD / 2010 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 62 minutes

WATER ON THE TABLE

An intimate portrait of international water activist Maude Barlow and the debate over whether water is a commercial good or a human right.

WATER ON THE TABLE features Maude Barlow, who is considered an "international water-warrior" for her crusade to have water declared a human right. "Water must be declared a public trust and a human right that belongs to the people, the ecosystem and the future, and preserved for all time and practice in law. Clean water must be delivered as a public service, not a profitable commodity."

The film intimately captures the public face of Maude Barlow as well as the unscripted woman behind the scenes. The camera shadows her life on the road in Canada -- including an eye-opening visit to Alberta's tar sands -- and the United States over the course of a year as she serves as the UN Senior Advisor on Water to Fr. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd Session of the United Nations.

More than a portrait of an activist, WATER ON THE TABLE presents several dramatic opposing arguments. Barlow's critics are policy and economic experts who argue water is no different than any other resource, and that the best way to protect freshwater is to privatize it. It is proposed that Canada bulk-export its water to the United States in the face of an imminent water crisis.

DVD / 2010 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 79 minutes

TAPPED

Directed by Stephanie Soechtig

An unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.

Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car? And I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of the bottled water industry -- an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water.

From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public's right to water.

DVD / 2009 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 75 minutes

WATERLIFE

Directed by Kevin McMahon

An epic cinematic poem that reveals the extraordinary beauty and complex toxicity of the Great Lakes, the largest remaining supply of fresh water (20%) on Earth.

The film tells the epic story of the Great Lakes by following the cascade of its water from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, through the lives of some of the 35 million people who rely on the lake for survival.

Providing earth with 20% of its surface fresh water and its third largest industrial economy, the Great Lakes are a unique and precious resource under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, evaporating water and profound apathy. They are also one of the planet's great preserves of extraordinary wilderness beauty and a bounty of unique species.

WATERLIFE blends these realities with a dreamlike fluidity as it pours through the lives of some amazing characters. We meet an Anishinabe medicine woman who walked 16,000 miles around the lakes to sympathize with them; the last of the great Michigan fishing families; a man whose lakefront home now borders a field thanks to sewer overflows; the people of a village where mysterious toxins ensure that most new babies are girls; and the residents of Love Canal, a notorious Niagara Falls neighborhood abandoned in the 1970s and now dubiously refurbished.

Along the way, WATERLIFE show viewers the Great Lakes as they might appear to a seagull, a fish or a water molecule...and from a myriad of other amazing perspectives. Filmed over a full year with a battery of specialty cameras and techniques, WATERLIFE provides an unprecedented view of an incredible ecosystem rarely seen by the city dwellers who form most of its population. From the ornate fountains of Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, viewers are carried through marsh and pipe, across pounding waves and through thunder clouds on a journey which, as the film says, has no "ending or beginning, that shapes every body it passes through and unites them all across space and time."

WATERLIFE's director, Kevin McMahon, is one of Canada's most innovative documentary filmmakers. Gord Downie, leader of The Tragically Hip and a Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, narrates the film. Topping off this epic cinematic poem is a fabulous soundtrack featuring Sam Roberts, The Allman Brothers, Dropkick Murphys, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur R, Robbie Robertson, Daniel Lanois, Phillip Glass, Brian Eno and a new song by The Tragically Hip. Plus check out the award-winning interactive website.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2009 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 109 minutes

FUTURE OF WATER, THE: PART 1 - THE WATERLORDS

Management of the world's fresh water supply will determine global political stability and economic development. Many countries will experience internal conflicts over rights to water. There is enough water for everyone in the world, however, the question is who should pay for it, how much it should cost, and who should receive it. For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, and supplying these cities with sufficient water will be a difficult task that has the potential to cause many social conflicts. This struggle for control of water has led to riots in many areas of the world including South Africa and Spain where water-rich regions hold power over water deficient regions. Disputes over water are also disputes between countries. This is taking place between the ten countries that share the Nile River Basin in Africa. In Asia, the fight over control of its large rivers is a struggle of life and death and will have enormous consequences for billions of people.

DVD / 2008 / (Senior High, College) / 52 minutes

FUTURE OF WATER, THE: PART 2 - THE NEW UNCERTAINTY

Climate change will greatly affect the world's water supply and societies in the future. We live in an age of climatic uncertainty and the future of the world's water supply will dominate political life and have enormous consequences for economies and cultures. Travel to Mali where lakes form and dry up each year and see how they confront the ever changing climactic conditions. Droughts or floods can be fatal to millions of people around in the world in poor countries. Uncertainty with water conditions will also pose new challenges to the world's most advanced societies. These challenges will affect international relations, migration patterns, and democratic systems all over the world. World renowned glaciologists speak about the drastic changes that are occurring in Asia and Europe due to glacier melting. Learn about the global consequences if Greenland's icecaps melt.

DVD / 2008 / (Senior High, College) / 52 minutes

FUTURE OF WATER, THE: PART 3 - THE WATER AGE

The uncertainty of climate change and the increasing need for water is bringing a renaissance of large new water transfer methods. Throughout history, transferring water has been vital to building civilizations. Travel to the Sahara desert and learn how Egypt's leaders envision creating huge towns and large areas of cultivated land by pumping in water from an artificial Nile lake to irrigate the desert. Examine Russia's plan to build canals for water transport to several countries in central Asia, which lack water. Travel to South America and see a complex hydrological system that guarantees Brazil and Argentina a sure source of water for the future. Scientists are studying ways to locate underground water deposits and transport this water to populated areas that lack water. Travel to Iceland and learn how they are using buses that are fueled by water.

DVD / 2008 / (Senior High, College) / 52 minutes

RETURN OF THE CUYAHOGA, THE

Directed by Lawrence R. Hott and Diane Garey

The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.

For centuries, the Cuyahoga River has been on the frontier. When the United States was a new nation, the river literally marked the western frontier. But "civilization" came to the river; by 1870 the river was on the industrial frontier. On the river's banks sprouted a multitude of factories, a booming display of what was called progress. The river, as it flowed through Cleveland, became a foul-smelling channel of sludge, with an oily surface that ignited with such regularity that river fires were treated as commonplace events by the local press.

But then, in 1969, the river burned again, just as a third kind of frontier swept across the nation: an environmental frontier. And the Cuyahoga River became a landmark on this frontier too -- a poster child for those trying to undo the destruction wrought by progress in America.

The Return of the Cuyahoga is a one-hour documentary about the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways. In its history we see the end of the American frontier, the growth of industry, the scourge of pollution and the advent of a political movement that sought to end pollution.

The Cuyahoga's story is a particularly apt example for future environmental efforts, because the once burning river can't just be cleaned up and "set aside" as a pristine wilderness park - it runs right through Cleveland, and like most American rivers, the Cuyahoga has to serve widely varying needs - aesthetic and economic, practical and natural, human and animal. The challenge: how to maintain industrial uses of the river near Lake Erie, encourage recreation and entertainment, and yet preserve the nature in and around the river. It's the same challenge that much of our riparian nation is facing today.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2008 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 57 minutes

HEADS UP! PART 10: IS THE EARTH THE ONLY PLANET WITH WATER?

Explore other worlds that have some form of H2O. We find a salt water ocean on a moon over 350 million miles away. Will water lead us to life on other planets?

DVD / 2007 / (Elementary, Senior High) / 28 minutes

http://www.learningemall.com/News/Water_1709.html

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