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[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​🇫🇷 France, with zero gold mines, ranks 4th in the world with 2,436 tons of gold reserves.

🇲🇱 Mali, which has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons of gold annually, has 0 (ZERO) gold reserves.

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

BREAKING: Étienne Davignon, 93 year old coloniser and former EU supremo, has been charged with complicity in the murder of Patrice Lumumba. This is genuinely huge news. Great news.

"Every day for the thief, one day for the owner" - African proverb.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

#BOYCOTTUAE: THE DUBAI THEY DON’T SHOW YOU

While influencers get paid to flaunt luxury hotels and gold-plated lattes, the reality of Dubai is built on the broken backs of the Global South. This is the "hidden side" of the UAE: a system of modern-day slavery designed to sustain a playground for the rich.

In a video that recently went viral, a British tourist explored the labour camps that host the migrant workers who, despite building Dubai with their blood, sweat and tears, never get even a glimpse at the glamour, let alone a taste.

Meet Tanveer. He lives in a dingy, airless room shared with 4 other men. There is no glamour here. There is only the exhaustion of workers tucked away from the sight of tourists.

One block holds 500 people. With 10 blocks in this camp alone, around 5,000 human beings are packed into a concrete warehouse. For these 5,000 workers, there is only one shared toilet block. This is how a "global hub" treats the people who built it. It denies them even basic human hygiene.

Beyond the conflicts the UAE funds abroad, the conditions migrant workers face at home reinforce why the #BoycottUAE campaign is necessary.

The UAE’s glitz and glamour is an artificial illusion built on stolen dignity, with the country’s "economic miracle" actually being a sub-imperial project that loots resources from Africa and exploits labour from Asia.

Rather than being monuments to progress, skyscrapers like Burj Khalifa are monuments to exploitation.

Until the UAE respects human life at home and abroad, the only ethical choice is to steer clear.

@venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The UAE has been sponsoring the RSF for years in order to secure gold from Sudan. After being bombed by Iran, they lost focus on supplying food and other necessities to the RSF, and the Sudanese army is now gaining ground like never before.

It has always been the UAE.

[Lou Calvey @LouCalvey]

Another exceptional piece from Yousra on the atrocities against Sudanese people, how they’re trapped & the impact of the UKs visa ban.

Years ago we would have at least pretended to enable refugee resettlement, now we won’t even give them visas for study.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

@YousraElbagir has been named television journalist of the year at the Royal Television Society awards.

Yousra has reported extensively on the war in Sudan over the last year, including an investigation into the "killing fields" where thousands have been targeted.

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

“UAE is the main cause of the genocide in Sudan. And there are 2 things that they are seeking.

Gold
And fertile land. “

[عمو حسام @3arabawy]

New book review dropping Thursday

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The BBC admits what many of us have been saying for some time: The damage Israel's war is inflicting on the US/EU's global standing due to their refusal to pressure Israel to stop the carnage will reach a point in which the West will be forced - out of pure self-interest - to stop Israel.

But apparently, not enough Palestinian children have died yet for this to happen.

[Nicholas Coghlan @NicholasCoghlan]

👏👏Almost unheard of! No logos of donors/INGOs....#Sudanese civil society shrugs off international indifference and with only modest external assistance, organises their own event aimed at improving the delivery of humanitarian assistance across the country.

[Mighty Moves @mightymoves]

@djmoma @CocaCola

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

Great work by @dalliasd and her team to create a much-needed solutions based forum around Sudan's ongoing humanitarian crisis.

[Nima Elbagir @nimaelbagir]

Ahead of a one hour documentary releasing Sunday on #Sudan our latest investigation- Survivors from El Geneina in #Darfur shared damning testimony exposing on an RSF-led campaign, enslaving men and women #Sudan. https://t.co/1ilUidqDkh

[Izzy @IrrumAli]

This is real journalism and it’s delicious to watch.

The BBC should take note.

[Daniel VO @daniel_van0]

A lament for the African Union.

I have never been a great admirer of the AU but I learned things in this article that made me more sympathetic. Some praiseworthy past efforts are cited here. https://t.co/L8q5I78Szt

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

Unimpeded humanitarian access is a pipe dream without a ceasefire agreement in place.

[لينة 🍉 @LeenaShibeika]

I refuse to even believe this as I translate it!

“RSF looted the National Museum and they’re selling the antiquities in the market for 500 pounds. They sold a stamp from 1842, [so old] the paper was yellow.”

I’ve no words.
#DontMuteUs
#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Architectural Icons @Archi_icons]

They demolished an entire neighbourhood to build this 1st year architecture school student F-grade fail project by Thomas Heatherwick

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

“Once you carry your own water, you will learn the value of every drop.” ~ African Proverb #Africa

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

The UN says nearly seven million people are now internally displaced within the Democratic Republic of Congo due to escalating violence.
According to the UN, the DRC is facing one of the world's biggest displacement and humanitarian crises. https://t.co/kvR4jg7itm