Aly-Khan Satchu
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Looks like Kenya has the most useless Pollsters in the World
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Yesterday was such an emotional day. My eldest Daughter
@AyshaSatchu
received her First Class Honours Degree at my alma Mater
@durham_uni
sitting in that 1000 year old Cathedral thinking of my Friend Bob
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Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunzinza Now Tests Positive For Covid-19
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Of particular and profound concern are the massive miscalculations that have been made: first, regarding the uprising in Hong Kong; Viral Alarm:
#COVID19
I am sure Xi sees Hong Kong and Taiwan like a virus
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Nearly half of the atoms that make up our bodies may have formed beyond Milky Way and travelled to the solar system on intergalactic winds
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I have never seen
@MusaliaMudavadi
so energized!
For the first time in his political history of threatening to run for presidency, Musalia mudavadi has never pulled such a crowd. There’s always time for everything.
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Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki have not relaxed their starvation siege on five million people.
Isaias remains determined to crush Tigray. His troops are still fighting inside Tigray, and his agents are all over Ethiopia, sowing discord and running illicit businesses
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I have found that 68 per cent of all earliest Aids cases in Africa (and therefore, with minor exceptions, the world), and 76 per cent of all the earliest HIV infections in the continent, come from the very same towns and villages where CHAT was administered between 1957 and 1960
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Pivotal to Ruto’s campaign is his bottom-up economic model. Its pillars are the dispersal of economic and political opportunities, and dignifying the poor. It invokes equity, inclusivity, social justice and fair play.
@TC_Africa
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As soon as NIH and CDC knew the furin cleveage site was the key to transmission, they knew they funded the research. This was in Dec/Jan 2020. Since then you've been lied to every step of the way.
@still_a_nerd
H/T
@CharlesRixey
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“What is the threat from China at this point?” Chomsky asks me. “The threat is coming from the US with, of course, Britain following. [The UK] is just a lackey at this point. It’s not an independent country anymore.”
Noam Chomsky
@NewStatesman
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Dear
@Jemima_Khan
why don’t you also recommend whom we can donate to? I think that would be a good public service.
One third of Pakistan is underwater.
33 MILLION PEOPLE (1 in 7 Pakistanis) are affected.
2,000 + people so far killed, one third of whom are believed to be children.
Please help by donating.
#Pakistan
🇵🇰⚠️❤️🙏🏼
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Abiy made it perfectly clear that he intended to crush the sprite of resistance to subjugation in Tigray through a starvation siege.
@gentsadkan
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned
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.
@BorisJohnson
planned rise in National Insurance (NI) contributions, which breaks the contract he made with voters, will see nursing staff and other NHS workers now funding their own pay rise
@PeterStefanovi2
Boris Johnson’s planned rise in National Insurance (NI) contributions, which breaks the contract he made with voters, will see nursing staff and other NHS workers now funding their own pay rise
How is he getting away with it?
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At least 143 people have been killed and 213 wounded in air strikes in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since October last year, according to aid agencies.
@bpolitics
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He had caught COVID-19, he had miraculously recovered after two weeks in ICU, we had spoken and he had asked many deep and meaningful questions and then a few days later he was gone and there I was in front of a screen looking at My Father in a coffin
thousands of kilometres away
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My Daughter
@laylasatchu1
who is so intuitive and can read my heart and mind from 1000s of miles away and whom I adore graduated with a 2:1 yesterday I love you my Jaan
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Chinese telecom titan ZTE sold Ethiopia a wireless network with built-in backdoor access for the government. In a later crackdown, dissidents were rounded up for brutal interrogations, during which they were played audio from recent phone calls they’d made
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“The Ethiopian government has been very efficient in shielding Tigray from outside eyes,” Prof. Nyssen said
@globeandmail
@geoffreyyork
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
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UAE Air Bridge Supports Ethiopian Military in Tigray War - Oryx Blog
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Foreign diplomats and political colleagues have told Tundu Lissu, 51, that “the order is out that I be killed on arrival”, he told
@thetimes
from Belgium, where he has been recuperating
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Coronovirus: Bill Gates warns of 10 million deaths as virus spreads to Africa
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Dear
@DavidNdii
Your Team might consider flying to Germany and speaking with the Industrialists about relocating to Kenya where they can plug into an infinite amount of Geothermal energy cc
@ahmednasirlaw
@Bundeskanzler
because given where energy prices are they are going to move
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The first meeting, with Nigeria’s ailing 75-year-old Muhammadu Buhari in April, ended with the US president telling aides he never wanted to meet someone so lifeless again, according to three people familiar with the matter. via
@FT
.
@realDonaldTrump
will welcome Kenya’s
@UKenyatta
to the
@WhiteHouse
on Monday FT - Events appear to presenting
@UKenyatta
with an opening to position himself as the African Interlocutor for Africa
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@TunduALissu
was grabbed by police in front of European embassies where he was seeking refuge having been turned away by American embassy. Mr Lissu was interrogated, but not charged—perhaps because German diplomats were waiting outside the police station
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Algorithmic Master [Blaster] and Sun Tzu Maestro ''
''The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting''
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@DrLiMengYAN1
CHINESE VIROLOGIST: BEIJING GOVERNMENT 'INTENTIONALLY' RELEASED COVID-19
On 2nd Dec:
"Tucker Carlson Tonight" interviewed a Chinese virologist, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who fled her country with this message for us: This virus came from a government lab in China.
CHINESE VIROLOGIST: BEIJING GOVERNMENT 'INTENTIONALLY' RELEASED COVID-19
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Chimpanzees overthrow, kill and then eat their tyrannical leader
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As noted, Eritrea has no constitution, no parliament, no press, no independent judiciary. All eleventh graders must join the army for indefinite national service, which is cruel and dehumanizing. So Eritrea became a garrison state, maintaining its trenches and its artillery.
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Cutting brokerage across the board right sizes this economy in 24 months I venture
@ahmednasirlaw
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She then studied computer science at the Kim Il-sung University, named after her grandfather who founded North Korea with the assistance of the Soviet Union in 1948.
It is also believed she underwent some form of military training.
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Kenyan opposition leader
@RailaOdinga
has a playbook he turns to when he loses an election. He calls supporters onto the streets until he’s given a share of power.
@business
Next Africa
@AntonySguazzin
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Turkey expands armed drone sales to Ethiopia and Morocco - sources
@Reuters
Any drone shipments to Ethiopia risk stoking friction in already strained relations between Ankara and Cairo
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Then I was in my ride in Nairobi just now and chatting with the Driver and he understood European Geoeconomics better than an Ambassador I had been debating last night. What a World! & why betting on African Human Capital is in my view a real solid bet
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What a Photo H/T
@LindaOwino
''Notch was thought to be dead for two years until he returned - having raised his five cubs alone. He conquered 12 prides out of the 22 in the Maasai Mara'' Who's your Daddy?
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Dear
@RailaOdinga
Debt to GDP has never been at 18% in my living memory and its above 48% currently.
4yrs ago, debt:GDP ratio was 18%, today it’s 48% on track to hit 60% next year. We are in a debt cycle because of YOUR heedless borrowing
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JUDGE COGAN: All right. Mr. Guzman, you have the right to be heard. Is there anything that you would like to say?
EL CHAPO: Yes, Your Honor. Thank you very much.
I thank you, Your Honor, for allowing me to say a few words. Do I stand?
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“The Emirates effectively disarmed Tigray. [Their drones] started killing tanks, then howitzers, then fuel, then ammunition. Then they started hunting small vehicles, targeting leaders, all over.”
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Prince Harry & Namibian activist Reinhold Mangundu: "The Okavango River Basin is under siege by ReconAfrica a Canadian oil company. We believe this would pillage ecosystem for potential profit. Some things in life best left undisturbed."
@geoffreyyork
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Prince Harry and Namibian activist Reinhold Mangundu: "The Okavango River Basin is under siege by ReconAfrica, a Canadian oil company. We believe this would pillage the ecosystem for potential profit. Some things in life are best left undisturbed."
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Debretsion [has] called on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to “stop the madness” and withdraw troops
The fight is about self-determination of the region of around 6 million people, the Tigray leader said, and it “will continue until the invaders are out.”
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#Ethiopia
: 48hrs after PM
@AbiyAhmedAli
visited President Erdogan, Turkey has delivered a consignment of Bayraktar TB2 combat drones.
'War makes for bitter men. Heartless and savage men,” Abiy said in his
@NobelPrize
lecture
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@DrLiMengYAN1
@nytimes
@nytchinese
You are more patriotic towards the US Than the
@nytimes
and all these other “pseudo” paid for scientists
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United Arab Emirates have begun conducting drone strikes against Tigray with its Wing Loong II UCAVs stationed in Eritrea. Eritrea Hub
20 JAN 20 :: The Intrusion of Middle Powers
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Report that the UAE operating from the Eritrean port of Assab is continuing to use drones to drop explosives on Tigray
@martinplaut
20 JAN 20 :: The Intrusion of Middle Powers
Report that the UAE operating from the Eritrean port of Assab is continuing to use drones to drop explosives on Tigray
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Tanzanian Police Arrest Opposition Leaders as Tensions Rise Video clips showed
@zittokabwe
surrounded by armed officers on the back of a police truck, with his supporters along the road chanting: “We won’t allow ourselves to be oppressed.”
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Ethiopia: Eritrean troops’ massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity |
@amnesty
International
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Baby desert locusts in Somalia will become East Africa's next plague wave,
@UN
agronomy experts have warned. Climate change-driven rain has triggered "unprecedented" breeding, says
@antonioguterres
@dwnews
"semiotic arousal"
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its a good old-fashioned Purge
@PreetBharara
@realDonaldTrump
#BREAKING
:
@PreetBharara
convicted Russian mobster who ran biggest NYC illegal gambling ring—from inside of Trump Towers
#trumprussia
#resist
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Red dots represent fully loaded oil tanker ships "stranded" at sea due to no global demand for oil - approx cost per day per ship is $30,000/-.
@subnut
return to a hyper connected 100m barrels per day world is not going to happen for the foreseeable future
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“We want to leave a huge impact on the consciousness of coming generations of Yemenis, and we want their children and women, indeed, their men, to shiver every time Saudi Arabia is mentioned.” MBS ''Shiver'' Philosophy
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President Edgar Lungu's brand new Gulfstream G650 business jet Although the ticket price is US$65 million, insiders say the enhancements, which include sophisticated radar systems and a maintenance package, bring the total up to $400m.
@Africa_Conf
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If they were telling us the truth about Russia they wouldn't be censoring Russian media.
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Kinda odd how defending freedom and democracy requires such copious amounts of censorship.
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PM Abiy is the great master of illusion. The Harry Houdini of the Horn. His peace is a game of smoke and mirrors.
@RAbdiAnalyst
It is strange that the lifting of the state of emergency is considered as important. Purely cosmetic.
@rene_renelefort
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This is another subsidy. However, with a limited envelope, by removing the subsidy on Fuel, the subsidy reshuffle means a net gain for the Treasury and in the context of this being an Agri economy, the fertilizer subsidy is more coherent.
Where is the money for this lower fertilizer prices going to be coming from? Isn't this just another subsidy under a different name?
Cc:
@DavidNdii
@WehliyeMohamed
@ill_dduor
@alykhansatchu
@nderi_j
@coldtusker
@IEAKwame
@LeoKemboi
@Ramah_Nyang
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The yield on Kenya’s $2 billion of eurobonds due 2024 climbed 267 basis points this week to 13.67% after presidential candidate
@RailaOdinga
said he plans to restructure debt if he wins the Aug. 9 election.
@BloombergAfrica
Next Africa By Antony Sguazzin
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The latest information is that the militias have been similarly decimated and it won’t be long before Addis runs out of fuel because the route to Djibouti is going to be cut off imminently
@RAbdiAnalyst
There is no ENDF capable of fighting anymore. The Ethiopian army has collapsed, will take 10 years to rebuild it to fighting shape.
Explains why Abiy had to cobble together the army of the wretched drawn from ethnic states to fight in Tigray.
What a depressing state of affairs.
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Tanzania's
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said on Saturday the government would reduce the income tax rate by 1 percentage point to 8%, in the 2021/22 financial year beginning in July, and also planned to remove "unfriendly taxes and charges to Tanzanians".
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Mr.
@bobcollymore
was a Friend and a class Act. he had empathy and he cared and he was a whizz CEO ~ May his Soul rest in eternal Peace Ameen
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#Kenya
-
#Tanzania
trade: Kenya has 513 investments in Tanzania worth USD1.7B employing 51,000 Tanzanians. Tanzania has 30 investments in Kenya worth KShs.19.3B employing 2,600 Kenyans.
@NdunguWainaina
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The lack of effective term limits has resulted in Africa having 10 leaders who have ruled for over 20 years and two family dynasties that have been in power for more than 50 years:
@AfricaACSS
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On November 16, 2019, in the United States—November 17 in China—a fifty-five-year-old resident of China’s Hubei province is put “under medical surveillance” for an unexplained ailment, according to The Guardian
@SethAbramson
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Merkel “You cannot fight the pandemic with lies & disinformation..the limits of Populism are being laid bare.”
Doctors forbidden to list Covid-19 as cause of death encouraged instead to write “acute pneumonia” on death certificates
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Fathers and their Daughters Speech Day Kenton College Nairobi
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Its clear Prime Minister has no Agency in Tigray Province now.
@PMEthiopia
has launched an unwinnable War on Tigray Province.
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I still can’t get over the crazy “ opaque” Chaplinesque Putschists cc
@hervegogo
@ahmednasirlaw
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Wow — another AMAZING
@JoeBiden
ad. Spot on!
@joncoopertweets
A reality TV star botched the response to a global pandemic and now we are all imprisoned in our homes and forced to watch him daily.
@JenaFriedman
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A one-bedroom apartment at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa would fetch $1 million back in 2014. Today the same apartment goes for less than $550,000
@ahmed
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"The African delegation had no goal of settling the conflict or finding a solution. Obviously, this is not their task. It is not at their level or competency. They just want to be on the misinformation agenda and resolve their own issues"
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“Camel milk is forever on my list to work with,” he says. “The flavour profile is very different from cow’s milk . . . grassy, lean and unique.” Camel milk:
@FT
@MADarbyshire
Roadtrip to Garissa
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The Debre Damo Monastery in Tigray can only be reached by scaling 80ft cliffs Ancient monastery ‘looted and bombed’ in Ethiopia
@thetimes
Tigray Province.
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“I just don’t have time for ideological conversations at the moment”
@tito_mboweni
said. “Some of us are getting old, we don’t have time to debate the issues we were debating at high school. We have to grab the animal by the scruff of the neck.”
@BBGAfrica
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Dawit Toba, a glum 20-year-old from the Oromia region said he had surrendered without firing a shot. War in Tigray was not like he had imagined it. “We were told there would be fighting, But when we got here it was looting, robbery, attacks on women.”
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An Ethiopian Orthodox priest sits in front of Abuna Yemeta Guh, a church hewn from the caves some 800-1000 years ago Hawzen woreda Tigray region, Ethiopia. © Greg Metro
@africageo
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The most infamous example of all, of course, is when a faction within Malawi’s government tried to keep the death in office of Bingu wa Mutharika a secret. They even flew his corpse to South Africa for “medical treatment”.
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One thing we can say is we have Institutions that are independent.
That’s a serious Plus
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Wakariru Exhibition
@RossylnRiviera
@WambuiKamiru
Powerful remembering and naming the forgotten
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Hunter S. Thompson, “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
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“Protecting Taiwan from Chinese aggression is essential to preventing an outright conflict with Communist China,”
@NikkiHaley
@BW
Fast Forward it has come to a Put Up or Shut Up moment Matters India Taiwan South China Sea et al
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He predicted that unless Mr
@MagufuliJP
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@thetimes
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"If it is written in your identity card that you are Tigrayan, there is no mercy," said another.
@Telegraph
'War makes for bitter men. Heartless and savage men,” Abiy said in his Nobel prize lecture.
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.
@WehliyeMohamed
: How The Goverment, CBK And Commercial Banks Working Together Can Salvage The Economy From Covid-19 Pandemic | Kenya Insights
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These rural folk singing whilst waiting for the
@mdczimbabwe
leader
@nelsonchamisa
in Douglas Mwonzora’s backyard of Nyanga. This continues to burst the myth that the opposition has no support in rural areas.
@daddyhope
These rural folk singing whilst waiting for the
@mdczimbabwe
leader
@nelsonchamisa
in Douglas Mwonzora’s backyard of Nyanga.
This continues to burst the myth that the opposition has no support in rural areas.
It also shows that rural folk are aware of what is causing their pain
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Unfortunately, no matter how well intentioned, the
@IMFNews
toolkit is limited – the austerity spanner, loan wrench, conditionality screwdrivers and advisory nuts and bolts, these have been used before
@theelephantinfo
IMF's calculation is geoeconomics
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Afewerki, has been stonily silent on this: his modus operandi is to say nothing & expect world to accept new arrangements. His army of brutalised young conscripts are terrorising the area An Eritrean soldier who deserted front line told me they had been ordered to ‘crush’ Tigray
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I feel sorry for Zelensky. He did everything he was told to do but he knows the show cannot go on any more.
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“I told him [Lungu] afterwards, ‘I didn’t like the way you ran the country, you were heavy-handed and autocratic, but I don’t hate you and I will not do to you what you did to me and others,”
@HHichilema
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@EdgarCLungu
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In 1720 Marseille allowed a ship from plague-ridden Cyprus into port, under pressure from merchants who wanted the goods and didn’t want to wait for the usual quarantine. More than half the population of Marseille died in the next two years
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What a headline!
"Two weeks since Kenya's
#COVID19
curfew began, and so far the police have already killed more people than the illness." —
#AJOpinion
, by
@Nanjala1
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Yes, Ukrainian soldiers standing up to Putin are very brave, but it was Americans that put them in harm’s way by using their country as a weapon, first against Russia and then against each other, with little consideration for the Ukrainian people who are now paying the price
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