Ms Informed Newsletter| Mali, Haiti, and the Coup in Niger
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Shownotes
Did Osama bin Laden have Kim Kardashian’s sex tape or is Rina making it up? 🤷
Reuters on which foreign forces are present in Niger
The economist Podcast on Niger
The Intercept on the correlation between the Niger coup and U.S Military training
General info on Niger
Ulf Laessing on West Africa
Wohlstand für Alle on Niger
Wohlstand für Alle on Migration and injustice
Documentary: The battle for uranium in Niger
DW documentary on the crisis in Mali
DW documentary on the fight against terrorism in the Sahel
Democracy Now on the Niger coup
This week’s distraction
This week’s distraction is sad news from Cape Verde.
More than 60 people have died after the boat they were travelling on from Senegal was found off Cape Verde reported the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday.
At least 63 asylum seekers are thought to have died, while the 38 survivors include four children between the ages of 12 and 16.
The long wooden fishing vessel was spotted on Monday in the Atlantic Ocean off west Africa, about 150 nautical miles (277 kilometres) from the Cape Verdean island of Sal. Survivors said the boat left Senegal on 10 July with about 100 passengers on board.
Read more in the Guardian here.
This week Madhvi read
This week Madhvi read this amazing article on Haiti in the New Yorker. It really stayed with me, which is probably why I brought it up in this week’s episode.
This week Rina read
This week Rina started reading: The Bonds of Love by Jessica Benjamin. It was a gift from Madhvi and I am super excited about it! This book explores why we accept and perpetuate relationships of domination and submission. Super fascinating read so far.
This week’s inspiration
This week’s inspiration is great reporting by French media company Investigations et Enquêtes. Below is one of the documentaries we watched by them to research this week’s episode. Subscribe to their Youtube Channel for more.
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