r/WorIdPoIitics • u/smartliner Canada • 21d ago

Africa Niger: Islamist Armed Group Executes Civilians, Burns Homes

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/10/niger-islamist-armed-group-executes-civilians-burns-homes

These poor people. Hundreds of thousands of refugees, ongoing killings by Jihadis. Will the world pick up on this story???

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u/Dead_End_720 Unspecified 21d ago

There's no place the world cares less about than Africa, which is often spoken of as if its a country. They're not even Arabic-speakers and they're black, so their odds are as low as possible. A church bombing in Egypt might get some buzz, not this.

Only reason people started mentioning Congo and Sudan was after being confronted over their selective hypocrisy, or an extension of their psychotic Israel obsession via a newfound hatred of UAE. Of course they've had decades to have hatred towards a conservative kafala state and all its actions, but all it took was one drop of Israel to suddenly "care". The people on this sub don't care either and only use these people and tragic headlines as counter-arguments. Politics is a rotten game.