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[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

Reporter of China State Television CGTN, broadcasting in front of Gaza Shifa Hospital:

"I saw with my own eyes that there were at least 10 Palestinian children under the age of 5 without heads."

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This isn’t war. This is genocide.

Repeat it. Spread it. Let the world know.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Riding high 🏆

[Ballers In God @BallersinGod]

The Bible Brothers ✝️❤️

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Free Palestine. Free Lebanon. Up The Arsenal.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We all deserve this ❤️

[Tommy Pigott @statedeptspox]

The @StateDept is designating Tanzanian Police Force Senior Assistant Commissioner Faustine Jackson Mafwele for involvement in gross violations of human rights.

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

The first former Premier League player to win the Premier League as a manager 🏆

The rest tried, failed and went back to the studio to criticise him.

[Polymarket FC @PolymarketFC]

🚨 HISTORY! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Max Dowman becomes the YOUNGEST EVER Premier League winner. 🤯

16 years old and 139 days. 📍

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

BUKAYO YOU DID IT ❤️

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A legacy written.

[Premier League @premierleague]

🏆 ARSENAL ARE CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

The reported opposition by the World Bank and the IMF to Dangote’s proposed 1.2 million-barrel-per-day refinery in East Africa raises serious questions about who really benefits when Africa remains dependent on imported refined fuel.

Their stated concern is that such a refinery could create an energy monopoly. But that argument rings hollow.

For decades, African oil producers have exported crude oil, watched it refined elsewhere, and then bought back finished petroleum products at a premium. European and multinational oil interests have dominated refining, trading, shipping, storage, and pricing across the continent with little objection from the same institutions now warning Africa about “monopoly risk.”

Where was this concern when African countries were unable to secure financing for large-scale refineries? Where was the urgency when most African refineries remained small, undercapitalized, inefficient, or commercially uncompetitive? Where was the outrage when Nigeria’s crude was shipped to Europe, refined by global giants, and sold back into Nigeria and ECOWAS markets?
It took one African industrialist, Aliko Dangote, using private capital and extraordinary risk appetite, to disrupt that broken model.

Today, the Dangote Refinery is not just changing Nigeria’s fuel equation; it is forcing the world to rethink Africa’s place in the global energy value chain.

So when institutions like the World Bank and IMF suddenly become anxious about African refining capacity, Africans must ask a harder question: are they worried about monopoly, or are they worried about Africa finally controlling more of its own energy future?

Africa does not need lectures against scale. Africa needs capital, infrastructure, refining capacity, and value addition. The continent cannot industrialize by exporting raw materials and importing finished products forever.

The real monopoly that should concern everyone is not an African-built refinery. It is the historic monopoly of external control over Africa’s resources, supply chains, pricing systems, and industrial destiny.

[Kaguya’s Top Gal @hayasaka_aryan]

This was an antisemitic conspiracy theory yesterday

[Frank Mwiti @frank_mwiti]

For the space enthusiasts amongst us:

✅ #ArtemisII update:

Countdown is on for humanity’s thrilling return to the Moon.

Liftoff for the crewed lunar mission is scheduled for 2 April at 01:24 a.m. Kenya time (EAT), and NASA is currently forecasting an 80% chance of favourable weather for launch.

[NASA @NASA]

Action. Wonder. Adventure. Artemis II has got it all. Don't miss the moment. Our crewed Moon mission will launch as early as April 1.

Learn how to watch: https://t.co/fAg0bGAqEc

[Nora @Heal_within96]

This result tells us three things my dear Africans;

1) We are all on our own.

2) Every European nation that systematically benefited from slavery abstained.

3) Oman abstained because they were leading the Arab slave trade (18 million lives lost).

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Are we clear who the bad guy is now 🥴