Do you feel so small as an African president that you rush to meet the son of another nation’s president when he visits your country for a vacation and post the photo on social media ? Think about it for a moment. Do you truly believe that if your own child were to spend a holiday in the United States, Donald Trump would interrupt his plans to come and greet them? Dear African leaders : Respect Yourselves!
1/3 - Ethiopian doctors, some earning just US$56 a month, protested last month. Over 150 were arrested. Last year striking doctors in Kenya rejected a govt offer of US$550 of monthly wages - demanding nearly triple that figure, almost 20 times what most Ethiopian doctors earn. No Kenyan doctors were arrested.
Over the weekend, I uncovered a photo of an elderly Palestinian man being used as a human shield by Israeli troops in Jabalia. Forced to dress in IDF military uniform
Days ago, [@alaafromgaza92] interviewed him — a powerful and deeply moving story.
African countries only fund about 15% of the AU's annual budget. The remaining 85% is donated from the EU, multilateral organisations (U.S. government with extra steps), and to a lesser extent, China.
That's why the AU passport was supposed to launch on Janurary 1, 2014, and 11 years later nobody knows what happened to it. The AU works for who funds it. Not for you.
One of the worst and most dehumanizing genres of IDF soldiers' "genocide fun" posts is when they mock photos that random genocide victims left behind when they were uprooted or murdered.
Via @tamerqdh:
"Israeli soldiers from the 424th Battalion of the Givati Brigade hold a picture of a Palestinian girl whose fate is unknown inside a house in northern Gaza."