Senegal forces to enter Gambia at midnight unless President Jammeh

>>101288
It isn't just Senegal's forces. I don't know why that Reuters article didn't specify. There is a lot of coverage.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38672840
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/world/africa/gambia-yahya-jammeh-adama-barrow.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/tourists-evacuated-gambia-crisis-deepens-44848551
http://www.dw.com/en/african-troops-deploy-to-gambian-border-as-pressure-mounts-for-president-jammeh-to-step-down/a-37185166
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/gambia-mps-extend-president-jammeh-term-170118082031908.html
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/gambian-president-jammeh-declares-state-of-emergency/42860750
http://news.sky.com/story/yahya-jammeh-the-gambian-president-who-claimed-to-cure-aids-10733487
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/18/africa/gambia-jammeh-barrow/
From Nigeria:
https://leadership.ng/news/cover-stories/567806/ecowas-troops-move-to-the-gambia-border-as-parliament-extends-jammehs-tenure
From The Gambia:
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/jammeh-declares-state-of-emergency-civil-liberties-to-be-respected
http://www.africanews.com/2017/01/18/gambia-s-vice-president-resigns-a-day-before-contested-inauguration/


Also
>archive.is
Are we really doing this shit now?

jammy election dodger

Just saw on BBC that there's "thousands" of troops on the border and Nigeria has fighter jets and a "warship" in the area.

Anyone have any updates? Post if you got 'em.

>>101288
Here's hoping Senegal and Nigeria are stepping in because it's the right thing to do, not because it's financially beneficial to them. Could see Africa finally pull itself up in my lifetime.

>>101290
>Are we really doing this shit now?

"My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable. There are those who would douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men; for they are dangerous themselves -- and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember. And in those who seek the truth."

They finally have the technology to unwrite and rewrite history. In a way sho powerful that Stalin would actually perhaps crack a smile.

And they use it. All the time. Little, petty things too. It's a mindset and approach to the world. A frightening one. Don't trust anyone else with your history. Don't trust anyone else to guard Truth.

>>101394
At least OP copypasted the article, short as it was.

>>101392
>Could see Africa finally pull itself up in my lifetime.

It is though. Have you seem the massive changes from the 90s to now?

Seems as though a war's inevitable at this point. I wonder if he'll have enough allies to keep anything going for any length of time. Probably not though.

>>101466
I wouldn't say massive. Aside from major cities like Johannesburg, it's still extremely tribal.

>>101468
I mean his country is literally just a river

>>101389
>Gambia crisis: Senegal sends in troops to back elected leader
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38682184

update:
>Gambia crisis: Jammeh given last chance to resign as troops close in
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38686144
>Mr Jammeh was given until noon to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed regional forces, but the deadline was extended to allow last-ditch talks.

>Troops have been told to halt their advance until the talks are over.

>>101466
The 90s were a shit show for African nations. Genocide, corrupt governments, warlords taking control of large areas, the fact that much of Africa has rebounded so well and so quickly shows promise for their future

>>101394
Sorry...
Where is this quote from?

>>101394
>my people trust memory
shouldn't that be 'experience' instead of 'memory'
>should it be fixed?

>>101394
Can you put the original link next to the archive please.

I think that would please everyone.