Richard Mutale

[Richard Mutale @Richard24246428]

@phoenixfmzambia Tax hikes are necessary to fund development is broadly true at low levels of state capacity.

[Richard Mutale @Richard24246428]

@Mwebantu However, it does not claim nor should it be interpreted as showing that Zambia's general population is unaffected by the tax system .The broader economic impact depends on factors beyond this single statistic.

[Richard Mutale @Richard24246428]

@MAstronomers This stopped me mid scroll.

[Chonya @DrCh0nya]

It is difficult to understand the thinking of a Zambian.

On one hand, you grant tax holidays, remove export duty on emeralds and concentrates, and lose billions of dollars in the process. Not only that, but you worsen poverty by ensuring that Zambian minerals benefit foreigners.

Take note: billions are lost, yet we celebrate receiving 60 million euros.

It is hard being a Zambian right now. It is embarrassing to be called one, because the thinking of a Zambian is corrupt.

Nine times out of ten times, a Zambian struggles to do the right thing.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @beyondB_DAG]

A Gates Foundation-funded research team released about 16,000 genetically modified male mosquitoes in Bana village, near Souroukoudinga in western Burkina Faso On August 11, 2025. It was the first release of its kind in West Africa.

Eleven days later, the project was dead.

On August 18, judicial police raided the IRSS research institute in Bobo-Dioulasso. They sealed offices and laboratories, marked them as crime scenes, and searched scientists—including their vehicles—on the suspicion they might be carrying mosquitoes in their pockets.

On August 22, the Ministry of Higher Education terminated all Target Malaria activities across the entire national territory. The communiqué cited "national interests." The remaining mosquito samples were ordered destroyed.

The government did not accuse the researchers of a biosafety failure. It did not cite a regulatory breach. It said the project was over.

Target Malaria had operated in Burkina Faso for over a decade. It had approvals from the national biosafety agency. It had community consent from the villages where releases took place. None of that mattered in the end. A foreign-funded project had been conducting an experiment on Burkinabè soil, and the Burkinabè state decided it would no longer do so on terms set elsewhere.

This is what sovereignty looks like in a laboratory. Not a slogan about independence. A sealed door, a destroyed sample, and a ministry communiqué that says: not here, not on these terms.

The Gates Foundation has poured billions into African health research. Some of it has saved lives. But funding is not authority. A cheque does not buy the right to decide what happens inside a country's borders.

Burkina Faso made that clear in eleven days.

Africa is not a play ground !

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇬🇧 Iran officially designates the UK's Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as "terrorist organizations."

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇰🇵 North Korean hackers just pulled off the largest cryptocurrency theft in history, stealing roughly $6.36 billion from Binance in just 20 minutes.

Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has linked the attack with high confidence to TraderTraitor, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group associated with the notorious Lazarus Group.

The attackers reportedly drained Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, stealing approximately $3.79 billion from Ethereum, $1.47 billion in Bitcoin, $628 million from Tron and $296 million from the XRP Ledger.

The scale of the operation is staggering, with the amount stolen roughly four times greater than the $1.5 billion Bybit hack in February 2025, which was also attributed to North Korean hackers.

Binance's preliminary investigation suggests the attackers compromised an engineer's laptop, gaining access to systems used to authorize withdrawals rather than directly stealing wallet private keys.

On Ethereum, investigators found that attackers used 50 signed authorizations to gain control of a Binance wallet, allowing them to drain funds and intercept subsequent deposits.

More remarkably, that access reportedly remained active for nearly four hours, including more than 90 minutes after Binance suspended withdrawals.

The exchange has pledged to cover losses using its emergency SAFU fund and company reserves.

Meanwhile, cryptocurrency companies have reportedly helped freeze approximately $3 billion of the stolen assets, although billions remain outside their control.

Source: TRM Labs, @binance / Writer: Mhedi

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Britain killed over hundred thousand people in Kenya because they were fighting for freedom. France killed over one million Algerians because they were fighting for freedom. Belgium killed over ten million Congolese. The west has no right to call anybody a dictator.

[Richard Mutale @Richard24246428]

@kirya_ug We still have house negros around.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Africa doesn't need to become Europe, America, or China. It needs to become the best version of itself. Africa needs Africans who have its best interests at heart.

[RTRussia @RT_Russia_]

‘We help African nations LIBERATE themselves from the NEOCOLONIAL YOKE’ — Putin at the 3rd Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow

‘African countries throughout history have been friends of our country’

‘We have NEVER pursued colonial policies’

[Nyadawa X @Nyadawa2]

@ali_naka We have had:
Russia-Africa summit
US-Africa summit
China-Africa summit.

When will Africa have its own summit?

[Richard Mutale @Richard24246428]

@ali_naka Unlike the warmongers, Russians stand out as one of the few countries that have given Africans Liberation Movements weapons to fight off invaders.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Vladimir Putin warns European warmongers pushing for open conflict with Russia

“Russia is ready, but we do not want any war"

"Should it go too far, there will be no victors at all. Let no one forget that.”

[Gary Crosbie💙 @GaryCrosbie5]

@veritaswatchq If true,you mean a deal that Obama brokered without any deaths or a worldwide economic crisis?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Everyone needs to know what actually happened in Serbia.

Instead of students just protest against their government, the students organized themselves into a student list and ran in elections against their government—and they have just won.

Dear Serbia, congratulations on your victory; you have just opened a new door in protesting. This is history

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

They threw 133 living Africans into the ocean to drown.

Why? Because the British ship owners could claim insurance money for cargo lost at sea, but not for slaves who died of thirst on the ship.

They didn't see humans. They saw dollar signs. This is the true history of the British Empire. 🇬🇧🌍

Save this. They don't teach this in school. 🧵👇🏾

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

The most dangerous weapon used against Africa wasn't the gun.

It was the education system that taught us to hate our own history, worship their God, speak their language, and believe that their way is the only "civilized" way.

Decolonize your mind first. The rest will follow

[Richard Mutale @Richard24246428]

@PrinceKapz @znbctoday Several countries have siezed foreign owned Lithium Gold and Nickel assets. Why should strategic resources not be treated the same way?