Chitalu Andrew Kabalika

Well, what did you expect?

[Dean N Onyambu @InfinitelyDean]

Key phrase in this headline: “decoupling.”

Look, we said it this week. The bargaining power favoured the US. The government’s position was technically correct in the sense that critical minerals sit outside the health agreement, but strategically, this is an overall package. That is the obvious story here, and it really should not be a surprise.

The decoupling is procedural; the leverage was always package-level. Health financing and mineral access do not become independent simply because they sit in separate documents. The key to dispelling concerns is to publish all signed agreements, including any annexes and side letters.

[someone's momma @Mama2aKing]

@DD_eeyanac Actually the real meaning of that is those 40,000 are already being paid by the American govt currently! Mostly nurses under PEPFAR etc so in the next 5yrs they are slowly handing over that bill
To GRZ so essentially no one new is being hired - but people don’t know this 🫠

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

In May, the Congressional Research Service admitted that Iran’s Armed Forces had taken out 42 U.S. military aircraft. Now: 81.

Real toll is far higher.

Proof? CENTCOM won’t let a sitting Senator inspect bases it claims are fine.

You can fool all the people some of the time...

[T I M M I T O M 🤴 @timmosion]

"Look at Nigeria 45 million people, they don't enjoy our standard of living with vastttt natural resources...." Prime Minister of Singapore's speech still golden till today

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

🧵 THREAD

Israel killed some of its own citizens on October 7, 2023 through the deployment of the so-called Hannibal Directive.

Here's what we know about the military policy.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

These days I am frequently asked about the upcoming Israeli elections.

I think that they will likely bring people of this kind to the Knesset.

It's not just fugitive Netanyahu, but an entire class of established and emerging leaders calling for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Noteworthy:

The disgraced former head of German Intelligence, August Hanning, who is accused of having been a spy for an unnamed foreign government, also serves on the Advisory Board of UANI (United Against Nuclear Iran), which many suspect is an Israeli intelligence front in Washington.

https://t.co/USIQPiTYcW

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed 74,245 Palestinians in three years, Gaza’s health ministry says.

“There is a ceasefire in name only,” said a senior policy fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations. https://t.co/tFaEkFyDQX

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

“I’m certainly pro the state of Israel,” Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said at the party’s conference yesterday.

We can now reveal under her leadership, the Tories have accepted donations from JCB totalling more than £1.3m.

Amnesty International says JCB is “part of the machinery of ethnic cleansing” in the illegal West Bank settlements.

https://t.co/WUosvWZO3S

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israel’s expanding network of checkpoints is UNLAWFUL and must be dismantled immediately.

Part of the carceral geography of apartheid, it makes Palestiniams' daily life fully dependent on arbitrariness.

Thank you @WIRED for exposing this viciousness: https://t.co/b9kHQ4YHHe

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Exclusive: Britain launched a ‘world wide lobbying exercise’ to overturn a landmark United Nations (UN) resolution which recognised Zionism as racism, Declassified can reveal.

The information is in a private exchange between UK foreign secretary Douglas Hurd and pro-Israel lobbyist Sir Trevor Chinn in 1992.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/XXrBAHtw6G

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Israel Exposed, the anonymous collective behind one of the largest online archives of Gaza genocide documentation, has released a map placing more than 35,200 videos and photos at the locations in Gaza where they were filmed.

Every geolocated clip links to its original post and source. Users can filter by area, date and type of attack, and overlay UN satellite damage assessments (UNOSAT). The full dataset is downloadable.

The group launched its archive in July with more than 64,500 videos and 17,900 photos and says more footage will be added.

[Archie Mulunda @MulundaArchie]

How can a population of over 20 million people have less than 500 000 land titles? This tells a lot about the titling process and costs involved. The Ministry says about 1.2 million stands are numbered but not titled. Simplify the process and lower the cost for land titling.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Unfortunately Tinashe, you have gotten it wrong. The agreement placed before Zambia was not a continuation of what came before. It was something far more troubling and sinister, that is why Zimbabwe, Ghana and many other African governments refused to sign.

Yes, Zambia has shared health data with the United States for over two decades under PEPFAR. But that data is not the same as America is demanding in the agreements. The data shared that you wrongly tie to this new deal was programme reporting on HIV, TB and malaria, governed by Zambian law.

What Washington demanded this time was something else entirely, pathogen samples for 25 years and health data for 10 years, under an agreement that would last only for five years in remuneration for Zambia.
The data would flow one way, with no guarantee that Zambians would ever benefit from the vaccines, diagnostics or treatments it helped to produce. On top of that, the funding was tied to access to Zambia's copper and cobalt.

That is not partnership at all, and there is nothing progressive about being ripped in a one sided deal. It is a transaction in which a country's sick are used as leverage to extract its minerals and its citizens' medical records. There is nothing progressive about that.

As for the AI aspect that you are talking about, you have it backwards. In the age of AI, health data is one of the most valuable resources a nation holds. It trains the models that produce the medicines Africa will later be asked to pay for.

Insisting on ownership, consent and a fair share of the benefits is not hoarding. It is common sense. Africa has given away its minerals for centuries on terms written elsewhere. We should not repeat that mistake with our data. Your tweet shows that you didn’t read the draft agreement.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Hanning conspired in 2023 with Israel's former Shin Bet chief to assemble a team of Israeli agents to violently abduct the children of a wealthy German heiress from their dad, according to Hamburg's public prosecutor. That's what gave him up!

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Ex BND chief August Hanning has more Israeli ties than a Tel Aviv haberdashery

Hanning introduced German heiress Christina Block to the Israeli private spying firm CGI Group

Block used the Israelis to abduct her own children from her ex and plant fake images of child abuse on his phone

Hanning, who served on the board of another Israeli spying firm, arranged the operation through former Shin Bet chief Yaakov Peri

[Dean N Onyambu @InfinitelyDean]

"On calls for the MoU to be made public, professor Chilengi said it has not been the practice to make public any MoU signed between government and other institutions, and that anyone with specific concerns could engage the ministry privately."

Per my understanding, the administration's own Access to Information Act No. 24 of 2023, in force since June 2024, creates an enforceable right to information held by public bodies, built on a presumption of disclosure. Yes, there is an international relations exemption. But exemptions under the Act are claims to be justified request by request, subject to a public interest override. They are not a standing policy of non-disclosure. And the exemption most plausibly available here, ongoing negotiations, falls away once the MOU is signed on Thursday. "It has not been the practice" is not a legal position.

[Dylan Ali @dylanali_]

This who niggas was getting life advice from btw

[Kal-El @Malik_ZMB]

They said we didn’t understand economics lol

[Zed X Last Born @mutachali]

Sishuwa 10 - 0 Reuters, TRT, BBC, Al Jazera, Kalemba etc… give him the Ballon dor