As a #Japan-led conference discusses funding for #African development, #thisweekthosebooks has 2 interesting voices that know of what they speak – Jong-Dae Park, Korean envoy to #Uganda & South Africa, & Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone novelist

Ghislaine Maxwell’s character reference for Donald #Trump has to be one of the most jaw-dropping pieces of audio you can expect to hear.

Deeply saddened to hear of Lord Paul's passing.

Look who's giving #Trump a character reference

As @bill_emmott says, the Saudis are key on #Palestine. Unfortunately, hard to believe they have the guts or the will

True @TracklessWild and I’ve done and am doing both trad and indie.

Just how many #peace deals has #Trump done? You might find the answer surprising but then Obama won a #Nobel Prize for less

All hail #Trump, peacemaker-in-chief

The Japan-led Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development has adopted the Yokohama Declaration to strengthen links between Africa and the Indo-Pacific. #thisweekthosebooks has context

Per @TheAtlantic: Every time I hear about the quest for a “liberal Joe Rogan,” I’m reminded of a passage by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who quoted Saul Bellow dismissing African culture by asking, “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?”.

Alfredo Carquez Saavedra, Últimas Noticias: Trump wants to remove poor from DC “like Pinochet once did in Santiago de Chile so that those who pass through the centre of the empire don’t have the unpleasant experience of seeing one of the cruelest stains on the American dream".

As #Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba proposes a new Indian Ocean–Africa economic zone to linking economies across the Indian Ocean—including #India and the Middle East—with African nations, here’s #thisweekthosebooks with two great reads

"You wouldn’t know it from the Mercator map but #Africa is actually larger than the USA, China, India, Japan and all of Europe — combined."

#africa #development #thisweekthosebooks

#Africa is in focus with a #Japan-led conference on funding development at a time of shrinking foreign aid. And African leaders are pushing for a bigger place (literally) on the world map. #thisweekthosebooks has two great reads via @Medium

Look what's dropping on #thisweekthosebooks. #africa #ticad9 #map

The #India-#Pakistan conflict is one that #Trump lumps with, in his words, the six wars “I've settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster". #thisweekthosebooks offers context from two authors who know what’s what. Please read

Happy to say @shrabanibasu_'s book Victoria & Abdul has been shared in our @LtlFreeLibrary. Our neighbourhood is thrilled to expand 📚 access & build community with a movement that has more than 210,000 little free libraries in 128 countries (there's one even at the South Pole!)

Per @FinancialTimes 's Moral Money: But the uproar in #Norway suggests that the idea of profiting from the #Gaza conflict — however slightly — will prove unacceptable to many individual investors and pension fund beneficiaries.

Via @TansyHoskins :"In May NEXT announced record level profits at its AGM. A few days later, NEXT shut down a factory that it owns in Sri Lanka citing ‘high costs’ – plot twist, the factory was unionised. 1,416 workers were fired by WhatsApp message."