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The Lamido horse guard, skillful, proud and merry men The Fula, Fulani or Fulbe people entered history as a horse riding people, and northern Cameroon was part of they core area within the Sokoto Caliphate. They cultural origin was as a nomadic people herding animals along with their own movements. Their largest tactic advance was their trained cavalry, horses and arabic swords of high quality and design. Fulbe as an ethnic group are still among the largest group in the Sahel area, with up to 50 million spread in nations across Africa from West-Africa to Sudan and Ethiopia. The Fulfulde language is still an international language in the region, but most Fulbe are bi- and trilingual, and often speaks French, English or Hausa as well. Islam is the dominant religion. The historic and cultural origin of Fulbe points to a wide intermix of Berber, Egypt, Arabic Jordan and Senegal background, and their ability to move fast as skillful riders means Fulbe people has been and is important members of former and current states and nations all over the region. These horseback-guards are in service of the Lamido in Nguandere. The remains of this tradition are still there with the courts of the chieftains/lesser kings, lamidos. As an important regional fulbe leader, the Lamido in Ngaoundéré still has this horse riding guard, and we attended one of their parade showing their skill and pride as horsemen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_people #horse #guard #guardforce #lamido #riders #riding #fulan #skills #parade #demonstration #2015CE #horsesoninstagram #2015CE #Kamerun #cameroon #birdphotography #animalphotography #lamidat #ngaoundere (ved Haut Plateau Ngaoundere) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRuQD7_pK_R/?utm_medium=tumblr

After listing in New York through a reverse merger, then going private in 2012 with CDB money, chairman Tu Guoshen 涂国身 is now marching a subsidiary of China Security and Surveillance Technology (中国安防技术有限公司) towards another reverse takeover - only this time in Shanghai. CSST had aired an intention to list domestically right after going private, but an IPO is not an option at the moment: a 900-long queue has grown since China suspended IPOs last year. It's a peculiar operation. First, Feilo (上海飞乐股份有限公司), the Shanghai-listed auto part manufacturer expected to buy CSST subsidiary China Security and Fire Technology (中安消技术有限公司), isn't quite a shell: it's reported to have a higher revenue than CSST, yet they're planning to abandon their current business. Shanghai city gov't-owned Inesa (上海仪电控股集团公司) owns about a sixth of Feilo. Second, Feilo is said to be paying about $750m for one unit of CSST. That's a third more than gu it cost Mr Tu to delist the whole company last year, and more than ten times Security & Fire's June net asset value. Rumours that have been around for some time, now joined by unnamed sources on Chinese media, claim that Mr Tu's success in listing CSST back in 2010 owed more than a bit to creative accounting, and that it was fear of SEC scrutiny what led him to delist it two years later. CSST's activities abroad have included purchasing a row of Asian security firms (UTC's HK unit Guardforce among them), as well as some involvement in (not always successful) construction projects in Iceland, Hungary, Australia, Bulgaria and Henderson, Nevada.