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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by iblawi(m): 10:14am On Oct 02, 2017 |
newafricaken254:All the countries you mentioned are sub-sahara African countries. 7 Likes
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 10:27am On Oct 02, 2017 |
a Sudan soldier armed with a QBZ-97 bullpup rifle,at the shooting range 1 Like
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 10:39am On Oct 02, 2017 |
iblawi:It appears increasingly fashionable in the West for a number of broadcasters, websites, news agencies, newspapers and magazines, the United Nations/allied agencies and some governments, writers and academics to use the term ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ to refer to all of Africa except the five predominantly Arab states of north Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt) and the Sudan, a north-central African country. Even though its territory is mostly located south of the Sahara Desert, the Sudan is excluded from the ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ tagging by those who promote the use of the epithet because the regime in power in Khartoum describes the country as ‘Arab’ despite its majority African population. But the concept ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ is absurd and misleading, if not a meaningless classificatory schema. Its use defies the science of the fundamentals of geography but prioritises hackneyed and stereotypical racist labelling. It is not obvious, on the face of it, which of the four possible meanings of the prefix ‘sub’ its users attach to the ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ labelling. Is it ‘under’ the Sahara Desert or ‘part of’/‘partly’ the Sahara Desert? Or, presumably, ‘partially’/‘nearly’ the Sahara Desert or even the very unlikely (hopefully!) application of ‘in the style of, but inferior to’ the Sahara Desert, especially considering that there is an Arab people sandwiched between Morocco and Mauritania (northwest Africa) called Saharan? PRE-LIBERATION SOUTH AFRICA The example of South Africa is appropriate here. Prior to the formal restoration of African majority government in 1994, South Africa was never designated ‘sub-Sahara Africa’, unlike the rest of the 13 African-led states in southern Africa, which were also often referred to at the time as the ‘frontline states’. South Africa then was either termed ‘white South Africa’ or the ‘South Africa sub-continent’ (as in the ‘India sub-continent’ usage, for instance), meaning ‘almost’/‘partially’ a continent - quite clearly a usage of ‘admiration’ or ‘compliment’ employed by its subscribers to essentially project and valorise the perceived geostrategic potentials or capabilities of the erstwhile regime. But soon after the triumph of the African freedom movement there, South Africa became ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ in the quickly adjusted schema of this representation. What happened suddenly to South Africa’s geography for it to be so differently classified? Is it African liberation/rule that renders an African state ‘sub-Sahara’? Does this post-1994 West-inflected South Africa-changed classification make ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ any more intelligible? Interestingly, just as in the South Africa ‘sub-continent’ example, the application of the ‘almost’/‘partially’ or indeed ‘part of’/‘partly’ meaning of prefix ‘sub-’ to ‘Sahara Africa’ focuses unambiguously on the following countries of Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, each of which has 25-75 per cent of its territory (especially to the south) covered by the Sahara Desert. It also focuses on Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and the Sudan, which variously have 25-75 per cent of their territories (to the north) covered by the same desert. In effect, these 10 states would make up sub-Sahara Africa. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, the five Arab north Africa countries, do not, correctly, describe themselves as Africans even though they unquestionably habituate African geography, the African continent, since the Arab conquest and occupation of this north one-third of African territory in the 7th century CE. The Western governments, press and the transnational bodies (which are led predominantly by Western personnel and interests) have consistently ‘conceded’ to this Arab cultural insistence on racial identity. Presumably, this accounts for the West’s non-designation of its ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ dogma to these countries as well as the Sudan, whose successive Arab-minority regimes since January 1956 have claimed, but incorrectly, that the Sudan ‘belongs’ to the Arab world. On this subject, the West does no doubt know that what it has been engaged in, all along, is blatant sophistry and not science. This, however, conveniently suits its current propaganda packaging on Africa, which we shall be elaborating on shortly. It would appear that we still don’t seem to be any closer to establishing, conclusively, what its users mean by ‘sub-Sahara Africa’. Could it, perhaps, just be a benign reference to all the countries ‘under’ the Sahara, whatever their distances from this desert, to interrogate our final, fourth probability? Presently, there are 53 so-called sovereign states in Africa. If the five north Africa Arab states are said to be located ‘above’ the Sahara, then 48 are positioned ‘under’. The latter would therefore include all the five countries mentioned above whose north frontiers incorporate the southern stretches of the desert (namely, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and the Sudan), countries in central Africa (the Congos, Rwanda, Burundi, etc., etc), for instance, despite being 2000-2500 miles away, and even the southern African states situated 3000-3500 miles away. In fact, all these 48 countries, except the Sudan (alas, not included for the plausible reason already cited), which is clearly ‘under’ the Sahara and situated within the same latitudes as Mali, Niger and Chad (i.e., between 10 and 20 degrees north of the equator), are all categorised by the ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ users as ‘sub-Sahara Africa’.So, rather than some benign construct, ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ is, in the end, an outlandish nomenclatural code that its users employ to depict an African-led ‘sovereign’ state - anywhere in Africa, as distinct from an Arab-led one. More seriously to the point, ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ is employed to create the stunning effect of a supposedly shrinking African geographical landmass in the popular imagination, coupled with the continent’s supposedly attendant geostrategic global ‘irrelevance’. ‘Sub-Sahara Africa’ is undoubtedly a racist geopolitical signature in which its users aim repeatedly to present the imagery of the desolation, aridity, and hopelessness of a desert environment. This is despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of one billion Africans do not live anywhere close to the Sahara, nor are their lives so affected by the implied impact of the very loaded meaning that this dogma intends to convey. Except this steadily pervasive use of ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ is robustly challenged by rigorous African-centred scholarship and publicity work, its proponents will succeed, eventually, in substituting the name of the continent ‘Africa’ with ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ and the name of its peoples, ‘Africans’, with ‘sub-Sahara Africans’ or, worse still, ‘sub-Saharans’ in the realm of public memory and reckoning. link [url]https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/what-exactly-does-‘sub-sahara-africa’-mean[/url] 1 Like |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 10:43am On Oct 02, 2017 |
Egyptian road construction company being provided security by Egyptian soldiers in Sinai
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 10:46am On Oct 02, 2017 |
MIG-29M2 fighter jets for Egyptian air force with their Final camouflage during flight tests in Russia 5 Likes
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 10:58am On Oct 02, 2017 |
Egypt armed forces
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by iblawi(m): 11:16am On Oct 02, 2017 |
newafricaken254: This is someone's writeup and doesn't hold enough water to pull weight. Mixing history and personal opinion won't change fact on ground. Is like saying Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Morrocco and Tunisia are not African countries because they don't like people calling them Africans. Morrocco at so point even pulled out of OAU then. African history changes with time and another person might bring up another story which is also correct but at a different time. Still non of these history would change the reality of today. Another important thing is that, regional grouping of countries doesn't necessarily mean that country is located in that region. We can twist this anyhow just to suit our purpose. Morrocco, burundi, Ethiopia, Sudan etc can be used as example in this case. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 11:43am On Oct 02, 2017 |
DoD wants to put Africa Truck into production The South African Department of Defence (DoD) aims to put Denel’s Africa Truck into production from next year for the South African Army. http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49428:dod-wants-to-put-africa-truck-into-production&catid=50:Land&Itemid=105 4 Likes
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 12:01pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Further on Uvira, DRC: Congo naval boats battle rebels on Lake Tanganyika http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49422:congo-naval-boats-battle-rebels-on-lake-tanganyika&catid=108:maritime-security&Itemid=233 2 Likes
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 12:45pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
iblawi:wait for my reply,next week |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 12:46pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Meet an American citizen born in south sudan ,fighting with South Sudan’s rebels
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 12:57pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
off topic :there is actually little anyone can do to protect civilians,during an active shooter incident.the death toll in los vegas is almost 50 dead |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 1:01pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
sudan armed forces 9K33 Osa(SA-8 Gecko)highly mobile, low-altitude, short-range tactical surface-to-air missile system 1 Like
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by patches689: 2:01pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
newafricaken254: "everything is racist" - I knew you were a keyboard warrior, but I never took you for a social-justice warrior So what then do you mean, when you say "Sub-Saharan" and how then does that exclude South Africa? |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by patches689: 2:05pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
frumentius: Nice. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 2:59pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
patches689:are you talking to me !? |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 3:00pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 3:07pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
uganda UPDF recruits
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 3:09pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
continue....
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Tinfoil: 3:34pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
patches689: Yes indeed, my broda Africaken is very biased and an especially intense one towards Somali. Please tone it down we are all on the same side 1 Like |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by tdayof(m): 4:07pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by kikuyu1(m): 5:20pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
newafricaken254: Err....no. Actually,the Pumas used as battle taxis in the NE in the 70s against Somali shiftas often had DG guys. When the MD 500s came in the beginning of the 80s DG use declined drastically. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 5:21pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Tinfoil:fiantahe |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 5:24pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by LTGEN: 5:27pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2017/10/suspected-boko-haram-member-arrested-in-ondo.html Something is going on. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 5:39pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
LTGEN:Second BHT commander... wonder what is attracting them to Ondo State, good news is that they are in disarray seeking refuge with new identities. 1 Like |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 5:42pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
tdayof:they took it down with a MANPAD ,Damn !? |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 5:50pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Kenya Defence Forces soldiers and Jordanian Armed Forces have started a 2-week joint 'Exercise Swift Eagle' in Aqaba,the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. 1 Like
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by tdayof(m): 5:50pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
newafricaken254: Obviously, most likely a Russian manpad. 1 Like |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Troop101: 6:10pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
newafricaken254:hey go fu@k your.................. dumb motherfu@ker |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by jteku(m): 6:34pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
watch out for the documentary on “Capacity Building in the Nigerian Air Force” on TVC (Channel 418 on DSTV) on Wednesday 4 October 2017 from 8-9pm. Kindly help spread the information. Thanks. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by newafricaken254: 6:38pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Troop101:mekenda ya mimiyako |
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