Oil, coups, misery and power struggles in Africa...

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Oil, coups, misery and power struggles in Africa...

#1 Post by TheGreenAnger » Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm

PBS documentary on the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004.

Some scenes may be distressing. Well worth watching though. It sums up the hypocrisy of the West when it comes to oil and notes the rise of China in Africa.


https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/vide ... sode/5496/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea
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