@MichaelHilliard
Michael Hilliard
@MichaelHilliardย ยทย 4:58

LAKE CHAD (BOKO HARAM and the FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION) ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ

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Cameroon is fighting its own civil war between the English and French speaking areas of Cameroon and Chad is in the middle of a number of problems with to the north being Libya and to the east being Sudan, particularly the Darfur problem. So effectively, every one of the nations on Lake Chad has got bigger fish to Fry than the internal problems brewing there. And there is no shortage of problems effectively, there are a couple of main contenders for biggest problems. One would be ISIS in Africa

https://s.swell.life/SSOyRKr3JozsaS1 #africa #chad #climatechange

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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardesย ยทย 2:19

Do you have ideal response / action from your listeners? @MichaelHilliard

Because I feel like there's actionable things here because every policy is created by people who are impacted by who votes for them or who helps shape the position they're in and the legacy of their careers. We're all in this together on some levels because it's always a domino effect. If someone messes up somewhere, it affects people down the line. So here you have listeners as well, who are a subgroup of your podcast listeners
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@Karan.Dev
Karan Dev
@Karan.Devย ยทย 0:35
Hey, Michael, thanks as always, for that great update. I just had a couple of questions. Firstly, in terms of similarities, do you think Chad is similar to Mali? Because I am aware of the fact that that the French Army is actively fighting in Mali as well. So they're involved in the conflict there in terms of ceasefire operations and all of that. So I was wondering if there are similarities between both of these places. And Secondly, is Chad mineral rich?
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Swell Team
@Swellย ยทย 0:15

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@MichaelHilliard
Michael Hilliard
@MichaelHilliardย ยทย 3:04

@DBPardes - Better US/Africa realtions is the key.

Hey, GB, how are you? Yes, obviously it's an incredibly complicated issue, and unfortunately, it's something that we can't really solve very easily, which is the main problem. As I said, the main issue is going to be climate change. Obviously, if there's no water that disappears, people that are going to turn to desperate measures, as we've seen, particularly in places in the west of Sudan like Darfur
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Michael Hilliard
@MichaelHilliardย ยทย 3:52

@Karan.Dev - Economics often drives Geopolitics

They do have oil, and they do pump a lot of oil out from the South Chad out through Cameroon. But again, it's not a substantial amount of oil. It's substantial chat. It's about 92% of the GDP, but it's not a substantial amount of oil in the grand scheme of things. And with the oil industry shrinking at the moment, it's not a long term solution for them, particularly with the fact that African demand for oil is going up
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