We need to stop Colonialism! It’s outside countries and companies investing in Africa for profits!

Later that article

We need countries and companies investing in Africa … but without the expectation of profits!

The honest version of the mini-grid sector today is still heavily donor- and grant-dependent

You got Muslims invading the coup belt just under the Sahel, Muslims doing modern day slavery of Africans in Mauritania, you got Arabs killing Non-Arabs (as many as 70,000 a few months ago) in East Africa, civil wars, Muslim terrorists up and down the continent, endemic corruption everywhere, trillions donated from the west but no real progress, and you’re surprised no one is jumping at the opportunity to invest in this golden opportunity ?

Even golden money hands China has pulled out:

“Chinese banks lent so much in the past decade but are becoming more risk-averse because not every sum has been repaid,” Yue told Semafor. The lenders are feeling increased “pressure on their balance sheets and do not want so many non-performing or unpaid loans,” she said.

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/23/2026/china-pulls-back-on-funding-african-projects

If the author of the article feels so strongly he should send his own money over there and watch it disappear for decades then I’ll go bark at him about his lack of investment

Australia is on the edge of a water shortage crisis

no we’re not?

It’s all good man, enjoy your inoffensive monoculture

lemmy: institutes blasphemy rule straight out of 1600’s medieval europe

you: well you see it’s important we don’t offend anyone, i am very smart 🤓

if this is worse than reddit, why am i here?

anyway enjoy your overtly white sterile monoculture

I cannot be anti-religious?! Are you kidding me?!

This place is more overmoderated than the worst reddit subs WHAT the FUCK

thanks

Religious extremists suck, regardless of the religion

yes I know, all lives matter, thanks 🙄

I didn’t realise where I was this, this is great

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DAMNIT

The original article was on the australian news corp website, so it’s probably not true and/or exaggerated but anyway

ha ha ai bad

No political videos, post those to !politicalvideos@lemmy.world instead.

Guatemala

after attempting to register a motorcycle in a nearby town, Rolando Pérez Paz told the radio outlet. In the last few months, the family struggled with money and had trouble with violence and the federal government

What violence and why issues with the government?

@Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz this is what I mean, cunts everywhere in this place, why would I encourage anyone to come here?

I say, I really don’t get why so many people stay over on Reddit.

This place fuckin sucks man? It’s pretty much reddit for left wing progressives who specifically care about left wing American* politics, linux, and not much else

he’s been saying it for a while, I got the big sad because I was using them over paypal, now i’m like one is American and one is a Canadian cooker

it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

that’s a great image 🤣

Edit: looks like the lemmy autists who zoom in to 9999x level to spot photoshops are out in force

no, because you’re blocked 😀

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I’m absolutely done with it, Lemmy is so overwhelmed with Americans that literally any post featuring America gets upvoted

Kills me

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