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Nigeria & African Countries That Voted for Hamas & Against Israel At U.N by KEVIND: 9:10pm On Dec 10, 2018 |
On Thursday, Nigeria and Zambia voted against an anti-Hamas resolution at the UN, helping to ensure that it would not be adopted. On Sunday, their representatives in an organization hoping to improve agriculture production in Africa arrived in Israel for a four-day seminar. Last Thursday’s vote in the UN on a resolution condemning Hamas that fell nine votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to be adopted had mixed results in Africa. Only seven of Africa’s 54 countries – Rwanda, South Sudan, Eritrea, Malawi, Liberia, Lesotho and Cabo Verde – voted with Israel and the US in support of the resolution, while 10 abstained and another 10 did not vote. The other 28 African states voted against the measure, including two countries that have representatives on the current trip: Zambia and Nigeria. What is striking is that Nigeria, which voted against a measure that would condemn Hamas terrorism, is itself in a bloody battle against the Boko Haram terrorist organization. Ten of Africa’s countries are in the Arab League, which voted as one against condemning Hamas. Eighty-seven countries voted for the anti-Hamas measure, while 57 voted against and 33 abstained. The necessity for a special two-thirds majority came about because a measure requiring such a special majority passed by a slim three-vote margin, 75-72. Had some of the countries with whom Israel has close relations in Africa and who have representatives on the current trip to learn about food technology – Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia – voted AGAINST the need for a two-thirds majority, then the anti-Hamas resolution would have passed with a simple majority. Kenya abstained, but Uganda and Ethiopia voted in favor of the special majority, a majority US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley denounced as a “double standard.” |
Re: Nigeria & African Countries That Voted for Hamas & Against Israel At U.N by KEVIND: 9:36pm On Dec 10, 2018 |
You want United State of America to sell weapon to your country and share intelligence with you about Boko haram but you voted against the interest of the country you seek help from. Nigeria is really a funny country. |
Re: Nigeria & African Countries That Voted for Hamas & Against Israel At U.N by Ovamboland(m): 7:08am On Dec 11, 2018 |
But you know you skewed the issues in consideration for vote to make it look appealing to your bias. Can the only issue be condemning of terrorism of Hamas or also about the right of Palestine to exist as a country? If ANC had done what Hamas did in their quest to shake off white minority rule, would you expect Nigeria to support UN vote to label them terrorist? Just because we want to learn how to grow food better from the apartheid regime? |
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