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Persuasive rather than polarising . Kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. It is a great pleasure to have you. Now, youve been in the Theatre Business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. You know, i often hear politicians and im not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a Battering Ram to get ....
We start in niger, as the generals whove seized power there, say theyve closed the countrys airspace until further notice, in response to threat of Military Intervention against them. The announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the elected president or face possible action from the west African Regional grouping known as ecowas. A spokesman for the military junta, amadou abdramane, made the annoucement of the closure of the countrys airspace on television. He said the armed forces were ready to defend nigers territory, and said that any attempt to violate National Airspace will be met with an energetic and instantaneous response. Earlier thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta, despite Inter ....
We begin in niger, where the Breaking News in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the countrys airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. The announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west African Regional grouping known as ecowas. Earlier thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta, despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will ....
Or face the possibility of Military Action. Thousands of people gathered in the countrys capital to support the militaryjunta as that deadline expired. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore nigers elected president. Niger s Prime Minister was in paris on saturday 7 meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. Our reporter in lagos, in neighbouring nigeria, gave us this update. We are yet to hear from ecowas on what the decision would be concerning niger. The ultimatum has elapsed this sunday evening and we are yet to hear from ecowas. But we also know that there are ....