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Venezuelan style elections?
Breaking News: In Wayne County Michigan, over 700 Republicans applied to be poll watchers and out of the 2,350 poll watchers they hired, only 50 out of the 700+ applicants were Republicans.
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A long time ago a number of republicans in swing states should have registered as Democrats. Play the long game people. Maybe you'll even get the other team to elect you if you say the right things. Doesn't matter if they toss you out after one term you will have done your job and gotten juicy gov retirement. I'm pretty sure this has been the Dem gameplan for decades.
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#5. A long time ago, you should've passed a law that poll watchers should be representatives of each party. Nominated by the party, not some bureaurat.
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And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand-off sighs
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She'll let you take her home
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She'll lay you on a throne
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She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come up blue
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She'll expose you
When she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes
And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please you
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you
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DETROIT — Michigan’s biggest city hasn’t met its legal duty to hire roughly equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans as election inspectors, the local, state and national GOP argue in a lawsuit filed Friday.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) threatened on Saturday to declare a government in the capital Khartoum if the army continues to refuse negotiations to end their 16-month conflict.
The RSF, led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, said such a move would aim to protect civilians and delegitimize army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who they claim controls only 20% of Sudan.
''The army's refusal to negotiate could lead to the declaration of a government in Khartoum,'' said Elbasha Mohmed Tbaeq, an advisor to Daglo, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
He accused the army and its allies of ignoring the humanitarian crisis and prioritizing a return to power, even at the cost of the Sudanese people and the potential fragmentation of the country.
Al-Bashir said a potential RSF-led government would establish diplomatic relations, create a banking system, and open markets for exports in areas under its control.
''All options are open in the coming weeks,'' he warned.
The threat comes as Burhan, in a separate press conference, indicated a willingness to form a transitional technocratic government.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] An gang has kidnapped a journalist in an area of Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's capital controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and is demanding a ransom for his release, the Sudanese journalists' union said on Sunday.
The union said Alaa El-Din Abu Harba was taken from his home in east Khartoum on Friday.
It said the kidnappers initially demanded a ransom of 1 million Sudanese pounds ($365) and after receiving it were now demanding a further billion pounds. "One million Sudanese pounds!"
"Yeah. Okay, Doctor Evil. We can swing that!"
"Oh, sorry! I meant a billion! With a 'b'!"
''This puts the life of Abu Harba in grave danger,'' the union said in a statement, holding the RSF responsible for his safety.
The RSF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There has been widespread lawlessness in the capital since war broke out in Sudan in April between the army and the RSF.
The journalists' union has recorded 438 violations against journalists since the conflict began, including four killings.
Earlier this month, another journalist in east Khartoum, Abdel Rahman Hanin, had his home raided by an gang who looted valuables and cash, the union said.
The men terrorized Hanin's wife and children and stole laptops, mobile phones, cash and gold jewellery, it added.
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The General Administration for Coastal Security in Libya announced the rescue of 51 irregular migrants near the coast of Qarabulli on Sunday.
According to the Administration, the boat “Wadi Kaam 300p” successfully rescued the migrants, who hailed from various nationalities, after their boat came to a halt. The migrants were brought ashore at the Shaab Port Point, which is part of the Tripoli branch, where legal procedures were undertaken, and they were handed over to the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration.
Earlier on the same day, Coastal Security reported the rescue of 123 irregular migrants, who were on board a dilapidated boat off the coast of Zuwara.
[AlJazeera] An gang linked to al-Qaeda, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM), has grabbed credit for what it says was an attack that killed up to 200 people and injured at least 140 in central Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... .The attack took place on Saturday in the region of Barsalogho, about 40km (25 miles) north of the strategic town of Kaya, which analysts said is home to the last standing force protecting the capital, Ouagadougou.
Fighters opened fire on teams of people digging trenches designed to protect security outposts. Several soldiers were missing after the attack, and the attackers took weapons and a military ambulance.
Reporting from Dakar, Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Al Jazeera's Nicholas Haque said JNIM posted gruesome videos of the aftermath of the attack.
''We see men, women and kiddies laying inside the trenches they were digging themselves. Effectively, they have turned into mass graves,'' he said, adding that the hospital in the area has called doctors, nurses and other medical staff from Kaya to treat those who have been injured in the attack.
Haque noted that the Burkina Faso army knew on Friday that an attack was going to happen and called on the population to dig trenches.
''That shows the desperation of Burkina Faso's forces, who have lost control of half of their territory to gangs linked to al-Qaeda,'' he added.
Burkina Faso has severed its ties with Western countries such as La Belle France that had been involved in helping the country's security forces tackle gangs.
Haque said that recently the government had been calling on the help of Russian mercenary fighters to support it strategically but also to help stem the attacks.
''Despite that help, it seems that those attacks are getting closer and closer to the capital,'' Haque said. He noted that the country's military leaders, who came to power in a coup in 2022, have also had to face down several attempted coups due to discontent with the way it has struggled with the fight against gangs.
[ARABNEWS] An attack by an outlawed pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Nigerian Shiite group on Sunday killed at least two law enforcement officers, police said, with three more found unconscious in the capital Abuja.
The capital's police force confirmed ''an unprovoked attack by the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN)... on some personnel of the Nigeria Police Force,'' said a statement by police spokeswoman Josephine Adeh.
Sounds about right for Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky’s crew. Try ‘em fair, then hang ‘em high. That lot aren’t hanged nearly often enough.
During the attack on a police checkpoint, ''two police personnel were killed, three left unconscious in the hospital, and three police patrol vehicles set ablaze,'' Adeh added.
Inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the late 1970s, the IMN still maintains close ties with Tehran.
It has long been at loggerheads with Nigeria's secular authorities and was banned in 2019.
Sunday's attackers carried out their assault wielding machetes, knives and improvised bombs, according to the police.
With several arrests made, Abuja's police commissioner, Benneth C. Igweh, condemned the ''unprovoked attack,'' vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice.
''The situation is presently under control and normality restored,'' the police statement added.
In July 2021, after more than five years in prison, IMN leader Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife were released by a court in Kaduna, in the north of the country.
A Shiite holy man, Zakzaky has repeatedly called for an Iranian-style Islamic revolution in Nigeria — where the Moslem population is predominantly Sunni.
Don’t forget to add mopery and dopery on the spaceways — that one’s always good for an extra seven years, even without a shutter gun and matching rounds of bullet.
[NewAgeBD] At least ten more murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister the loathesomeSheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... and her aides on Sunday, taking the number of cases filed against her to 66 after the fall of her government on August 5 amid a mass uprising led by students.
Hasina is accused in 56 murder cases, seven cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, one case of shooting at students and public, one case of abduction, and one case of attacking the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia ...Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, Pak foil, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... The first murder case was filed against the fallen prime minister on August 13, more than a week after she had resigned and fled to India.
On Sunday, a murder case was filed against Hasina and 48 others for killing Sheikh Ashabul Yeamin, a student of Military Institute of Science and Technology, on July 18 during the movement of the Student Movement Agaisnt Discrimination platform.
Victim's uncle Abdullah-Al Kabir filed an application with the Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Saiful Islam's court appealing to lodge a murder case against the 49 accused.
Accepting the plea, the court ordered the Savar Model police to record the statement of the plaintiff and register the complaint as a First Information Report.
Awami League general secretary and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, among others, were made accused in the case.
According to the case statement, Yeamin, a student of MIST, was shot from an armoured car while he was attending a peaceful protest rally on July 18.
On the same day, a case was filed against 25 people, including Sheikh Hasina, over the killing of auto-rickshaw driver Babu Mollah in the capital during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.
Masud Rana, brother in-law of victim Babu Mollah, filed the complaint with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
The court, after recording the statement of the complainant, asked the Hatirjheel police to accept the matter as First Information Report.
The other prominent accused in the case include Asaduzzaman Khan, Mohammad A Arafat and Jahangir Kabir Nanak.
According to the case documents, Babu Mollah and Masud Rana went for Jumma prayers on July 19 and when they were returning home after the prayers, the police opened fire on them, killing Babu on the spot.
A case was filed against Sheikh Hasina and 33 others with Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court for killing online news portal Dhaka Times journalist Mehedi Hasan near Kazla Toll Plaza on the Mayor Hanif flyover in Jatrabari during quota protests on July 18.
Rizia Begum, 36, filed the case with the court over the death of her nephew.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain asked the Jatrabari police to record the complaint as First Information Report.
Two other cases were also filed with the same magistrate court, in one of which Babul Mia, 42, filed a case against Hasina and 26 others over killing Jisan in Matuail on July 20.
On Sunday, yet another case was filed against Hasina and 27 others over the killing of Md Eusuf Sanowar, a seller of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh products, in the capital during recent student movement on July 20.
Mamunur Rashid, brother-in-law of victim Md Eusuf Sanowar, filed the complaint with Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain. The court after recording statement of the complainant, asked the Jatrabari police to accept the matter as FIR.
Obaidul Quader and former law minister Anisul Huq were among other accused in the case.
A case was filed against 13 people, including Sheikh Hasina and erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles director general Aziz Ahmed, over killing BDR Mutiny accused and the force's former deputy assistant director Abdur Rahim in jail custody.
Abdur Rahim's son advocate Abdul Aziz filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Akteruzzaman.
A murder case was filed against Hasina and 21 others also on Sunday with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court for killing Jasim Uddin, 35, on July 18 in the capital's Uttara.
[NEWAGEBD] Thousands of Ansar personnel on Sunday kept all the entrances of the Bangladesh Secretariat blocked even after the office hours pressing for nationalisation of their jobs and later clashed with students, who rushed to get the leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement out of the administrative hub.
About 35 students and six Ansar members were maimed in the clash and were taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital before the protesting Ansar members were removed from the place at about 10:40pm.
The situation came under control as additional police and army personnel were deployed and those who were confined in the secretariat were brought out.
The agitating Ansar members blocked the roads of the secretariat holding a sit-in at around 12:00pm and also confined the secretariat officials blocking all the gates of the secretariat in the afternoon to press home their one-point demand.
Some officials, however, were seen leaving the secretariat without their vehicles in the evening. Later, the other confined officials came out in the vehicles under the protection of the army.
Several meeting were held with representative of coordinators of Ansar and interim government home affairs adviser Md Jahangir Alam, information adviser Nahid Islam, sports adviser Asif Mahmud and Ansar-VDP director general Abdul Motaleb Sajjad Mahmud.
At first, a seven-member representative of Ansar met with the home adviser and discussed their demands.
Following the meeting, a representative Moniruzzaman announced the protesters that the authorities revoked the six-month rest rule and they would look into the demands gradually.
The protesters, however, rejected the announcement chanting slogans for nationalisation of their jobs.
Newly appointed DG Sajjad talked with the Ansar in front of the secretariat entrance and announced that he was very much aware of the discriminations in the troupe and the initiative to abolish those discriminations were already begun.
He also assured the Ansar that he would see the results of the initiatives within seven days but protesters again rejected the assurance demanding written assurance.
Ansar personnel effused to leave the street till nationalisation of their jobs.
He said that Ansar members from across the country, including Dhaka, Chattogram, Barishal, Narayanganj and Noakhali joined their protest, which began on August 11.
A seven-member committee was also formed on Saturday to examine logical demands of Ansar-VDP.
They began their protests about a week after former prime minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... resigned and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
They have been continuing their protests for more than two weeks demanding job regularisation, cancelling vacation in every three years and others.
According to Ansar VDP officials, 98,000—99,000 trained Ansar members are active in the force with 55,000 now employed in different government and private establishments.
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[AFRICANEWS] It was another dramatic night on the central Mediterranean Sea on Friday with NGO Doctors Without Borders rescuing nearly 200 migrants colonists in five operations.
One of the survivors said they had spent four days stranded at sea after the boat they were on suffered engine failure.
Some people in distress on a fibreglass boat had to be plucked from the water.
A total of 191 migrants colonists were brought to safety on board the NGOs ship, Geo Barents, which is now sailing towards the Italian port of Salerno.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people attempt to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from North Africa by crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
The UN's International Organization for Migration's Missing Migrants Project found that 3,041 people were dead or went missing in the Mediterranean last year.
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[Regnum] Terminals 2 and 3 of Orly Airport in Paris were evacuated on the evening of August 25 due to a bomb threat, the newspaper Parisien reported, citing sources.
“The complainant called and said that he had planted a bomb in the airport toilet,” the publication quoted the source as saying. "I just had Taco Bell. Nobody is safe!"
He said that the anonymous message was received at 18:00 local time (19:00 Moscow time). The premises are being examined by specialized teams with dog handlers.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 6, a stampede occurred at the Koltsovo airport in Yekaterinburg due to panic caused by one of the passengers. Two people were injured as a result. Presumably, the incident occurred due to a loud noise from a falling trash can.
In April, Bullund Airport in Denmark was evacuated due to a bomb threat. Security forces detained a man and an investigation was launched.
[GEOTV] ThePunjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Police have rescued a cop from a gang of notorious Katcha (riverine area) dacoits of Machka in District Rahim Yar Khan, a police spokesperson said on Sunday.
On Thursday, a group of Katcha bandidos blew up two police vehicles with a rocket in Machka, martyring 12 cops and wounding six others.
Constable Ahmed Nawaz was kidnapped by robbers heavily armed with sophisticated modern weaponry after the attack on police mobile.
In a statement, Rizwan Omar Gondal, District Police Officer (DPO) Rahim Yar Khan, said that the police department was working with full strength in the riverine areas.
Constable Nawaz was reportedly released in exchange for dacoit Jabbar Lolai, who had been in police custody, according to sources cited by Geo News. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the police have neither confirmed nor denied this exchange.
A video circulating on social media showed Katcha bandidos celebrating with gunfire following the release of their accomplice.
After Nawaz's release, Punjab Police Inspector General (IG) Dr Usman Anwar met with the constable's family to inform them of his safe return.
Dr Anwar stated that every member of the Punjab Police was crucial to the force, and Nawaz's recovery was a top priority for his department. He also emphasised that the Punjab Police were prepared to deal firmly with terrorists, assailants, and criminals.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz appreciated the police on a successful operation in Katcha to safely recover the kidnapped constable.
At least two people were killed and nine others maimed in deadly festivities between two groups in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Golimar area on Sunday, Geo News reported citing police personnel.
The casualties resulted when two gangs opened fire on each other, with some angry members setting various vehicles on fire and blocking both lanes of the main artery leading to Nazimabad from Lasbella.
Confirming the number of fatalities, Chief Police Surgeon Dr Sumaiyya Syed stated that one body was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and the other to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, while the injured were being treated at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
Taking notice of the matter, Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar has sought a report on the incident from the Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Additional Inspector General (AIG), directing law enforcement agencies to bring the situation under control immediately.
Saying that no one would be allowed to take the law into their own hands or disturb the law and order situation, Lanjar also instructed the authorities to arrest the perpetrators as soon as possible.
Later, Karachi AIG Javed Alam Odho stated that the situation in the affected area was under control and the Central Superintendent of Police (SSP) was on site.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... West DIG Irfan Baloch stated that the gangs clashed over the movement of a procession.
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[GEOTV] Israeli troops battled Palestinian fighters in Khan Younis in southern Gaza and destroyed tunnels and other infrastructure, as they sought to suppress small units that have continued to hit troops with mortar fire, the military said on Friday.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) said troops had killed around 100 Palestinian fighters since Israeli troops began their latest operation in Khan Younis on Monday, which continued as pressure mounted for a deal to halt the fighting.
It said seven small units that had been firing mortars at the troops were hit in an air strike, while further south, in Rafah, four fighters were also killed in air strikes.
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[GEOTV] Hassan Nasrallah in his televised speech claims that they had no plans to target Tel Aviv, the Ben Gurion airport or the Israeli Defence Ministry building, as per Al Jazeera.
He added that the Hezbollah group hadn't used precision missiles in today's attack, they may use them in the near future.
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[Regnum] The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed three militant bases in Syria. This was announced during a briefing on August 24 by Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy head of the Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides (CROS) in the Arab Republic.
“On August 23, strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed three locations where militants had been based, having left the At-Tanf zone and taken refuge in hard-to-reach areas of the Syrian White Desert, ” Ignasyuk reported.
He added that over the past 24 hours, the Center for Strategic and Inter-Agency Cooperation has not recorded any instances of shelling of positions of Syrian government troops by terrorist groups in the Idlib de-escalation zone.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 10, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out high-precision strikes on targets of illegal armed groups in the Syrian province of Idlib, including a militant training camp near the settlement of Ashkhani-Takhtani and a workshop for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles. As a result of the strikes, 15 militants were eliminated and another 20 were wounded.
On July 23, the deputy head of the Center for Strategic and Intervention Studies in Syria reported that the Russian Forpost-R unmanned aerial vehicle, in response to the ongoing attempts by radical groups to use UAVs and multiple launch rocket systems to attack targets in the territory controlled by the Syrian government, struck a militant base in Idlib province.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
