A warning, in advance: this turned into a much larger project than I had anticipated. But the activity was far more engaging and educational than I had foreseen. Also, if someone wants to pay for the inevitable overage charge on my data plan now from all this research, I’d appreciate it.

“Our defense and security forces shine in their capacity to pillage and kill their compatriots rather than defend our country,” wrote Burundian journalist Jean Claude Kavumbagu, in an article criticizing the military’s capacity to deal with outside threats from Somalia’s al-Shabaab, an article which led to his imprisonment on charges of treason, though he was eventually acquitted of that charge.

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