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Though Scotland will not be able to exempt itself from the Brexit proceedings or have another independence referendum, its parliament drew up a new independence bill in October anyway.
The campaign supporting California's secession opened its first embassy in, yes, you guessed it, Moscow.
“Certainly it’s controversial,” the campaign's leader told Vice News on the choice. “But we can’t become a country just by saying it. Countries like Russia need to help.”
The English-speaking secessionist movement in largely francophone Cameroon—known as the "Anglophone Problem"—is reaching a boiling point.
Opposition politician Wirba Joseph gave an impassioned 11-minute speech on the floor of the National Assembly accusing the Cameroonian Army of acting like a "police state" and raping children.
Dec 16, 2016This is not revenge. This is an adequate response to the aggression that comes from the US.
↩︎ Bloomberg Businessweek
A brief history of Rough and Ready, a small town northeast of Sacramento that seceded until it ran out of booze.
The latest news out of the world's newest country, South Sudan:
1. New UNICEF figures put the total amount of child soldiers enlisted in South Sudan's bloody civil war (since 2013) at over 17,000, some 1,300 this year alone. Around 2,000 have been released.
"You either die, or kill your enemy. Everyone is treated the same way, whether young or old," a 16-year-old soldier told Human Rights Watch last year.
2. The UN mission in South Sudan provided arms to a rebel general whose troops committed some of the war's worst atrocities, per a Small Arms Survey report. The UN Security Council later sanctioned him.
3. Government agents forcibly removed an Associated Press reporter this month, putting him on a flight to Uganda.
4. "There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several areas of South Sudan using starvation, gang rape and the burning of villages," a UN commission found last month.
Dec 16, 2016The institutions of the [Spanish] state should know that they cannot silence the will of a majority of our people.
↩︎ Financial Times
