Arthur Muliro

[Mwangi @MwangiMaina_]

The UN SG Africa never had.

Tanzanian diplomat Salim Ahmed Salim’s bid to lead the UN was derailed by Cold War geopolitics after the United States repeatedly vetoed his candidacy.

He was just 39 when he first emerged as a contender for the world’s top diplomatic post.

[Abdullahi Halakhe @QulshTM]

Africa’s solutions to Africa’s problems
Is on trial!

[Rashid Abdi @RAbdiAnalyst]

I met a schoolmate this week who is now a relief worker in northern Kenya.

He told me something fascinating; something that haunts me since then.

"Do you know how we measure severity of hunger in pastoral nomadic communities?

We count number of mothers who have died. The more mothers dying of hunger the greater the famine.

Among the pastoralists, the womenfolk are trained from infancy to repress hunger; while men are allowed to 'act on their hunger' by raiding a neighbours' cattle.

There is a piece of cloth women are given before marriage for tying their stomachs to gird themselves against hunger.

Girls and women are the last ones to eat - they only eat after the menfolk have finished eating.

Paradoxically, it is women who are least vulnerable to hunger by death. They are accustomed to extreme hunger and have devised various mechanisms for coping."

Wow !

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

In Rwinkwavu, one of the poorest villages in Rwanda, doctors and nurses were commuting long distances to staff a hospital the community desperately needed. The answer was to build them housing and to build it from everything the land and the people already had.

The women made the bricks. The bricks built the walls. The walls now house the doctors saving lives next door. Stone quarried from the hillside for the foundations. Hand-woven eucalyptus screens wrapping the balconies, a reference to traditional Rwandan thatching, shading the corridors in the dry heat. Clay tiles forming a ventilated roof cavity that keeps the building cool and quiet enough to rest in after a twelve-hour shift. 90 percent of the labour came from Rwinkwavu residents. Women represented at least one third of hires throughout construction.

This is what it looks like when architecture treats a community as the resource and not the recipient.

Partners in Health Share Houses, Rwinkwavu, Rwanda 🇷🇼 | Sharon Davis Design | Rwanda Village Enterprise + Partners in Health + Rwandan Ministry of Health | 6,900 sq.ft | 2015 | 📷 Bruce Engel

[Wallace Kantai @wgkantai]

Sabastian Sawe’s performance yesterday was one for the ages. A literal once-in-a-lifetime accomplishment that will prompt many to ask in years to come: ‘Where were you when Sawe broke 2:00?’

But our newspapers? They failed. A failure that will live forever in editorial infamy.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Ivar The Boneless @roomthinker]

Another painful reminder that this government is just a rent-seeking, avaricious, opportunistic, parasite that does not care about you!

Godspeed Kevin! For you to be there at all is testament to your grit, passion and determination.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

🚨 There’s a SACCO bill in Parliament today, and most Kenyans don’t even know what’s coming.

Quietly... with almost no public attention…
A system is being introduced that will centralize SACCO money, and Govt will now have a massive say in it.

Think of it as a “Super SACCO” for all SACCOs.

It will:
- Hold funds from different SACCOs
- Manage liquidity
- Run payments
- Lend to SACCOs
- Invest your money

Sounds safe? Here’s the reality:
❗ SACCOs could lose some operational independence
❗ Oversight becomes much heavier (via Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority)
❗ Leaders must meet “fit & proper” approval
❗ Strict reporting & constant supervision

And yes, this could mean slower access to your money in some situations.
Now the part they won’t emphasize:

Your savings are only protected up to KSh 100,000

If a SACCO collapses?
Anything above that = your risk.

Even worse:

⚠️ Payouts are NOT immediate
⚠️ Must be approved & gazetted first
⚠️ You could wait while your money is locked

So ask yourself:
Why centralize SACCO money...
But limit protection for members?

This bill is being sold as “safety.”
But it also introduces control by the government, delays, and new risks for ordinary Kenyans.

This is how systems change,
slowly, quietly... then permanently

[IX™ @TweetingPundit]

Why has Kenyan public policy become so cynical? It's never, 'to flourish & advance society', but to, 'deter, desist, control, limit'....

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇱🇧 Photographer Rodrigue Najarian took this picture of a young girl just 7 minutes after she survived the blast in Beirut. He captioned it:

"Between blood, tears and a lost smile"

[F. Golooba-Mutebi @FGoloobaMutebi]

Western experts are now flooding academic journals with papers on how Africa shld put its critical minerals 2 use. They pushed 4 structural adjustment, decentralisation, privatisation, centering NGOs in policy implementation, & multi-partism.

We are still picking up the pieces.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

My piece on the unravelling of the global economic system. Written a week ago but seems to be going according to plan (or rather, no plan)

[Kanthan Pillay 🇿🇦 @KanthanPillay]

I’ve been attending Abdullah Ibrahim’s concerts for the past 40 years. I was in tears tonight watching him perform in his 90s. His legs have failed him but his mind and fingers have rule over realm of their own. Thank you, Maestro.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

The Sociable Weaver bird builds a nest that houses 500 birds and regulates its own temperature.
An architect in Namibia studied it. Then built this.
The Nest Sossus is a double-skin thatch structure, reed on the inside and reed on the outside, insulating air gap in between. The desert does the rest.
No AC. Just biomimicry done right.

This is what happens when Africa stops borrowing solutions and starts reading its own landscape.

Architect: Porky Hefer Design
📍 Namib Desert, Namibia
📸 Katinka Bester

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Oops! The Tale of the Great African Triple-Booking

A local African chief recently discovered that his backyard was simultaneously a Chinese mine, a US airbase, and a Gulf tomato farm, all while India swapped software for soup and Turkish drones patrolled forests that had already been shipped to the EU as furniture. We investigated how this happened:

EU to Africa: “We offer a Preferred Partnership: long-term, sustainable, and neatly wrapped in human rights. We don’t want your soul, just your lithium and a pinky-promise to stop the migrant boats.”

US counter-offer: “We’ll build a shiny Lobito railway for those minerals, call it ‘Prosper Africa’, and throw in a used F-16 if you promise to block Beijing’s number.”

China: “Whatever they promised, I’ll do in half the time with zero lectures. No questions asked about your elections—just sign this 99-year lease on the copper belt. I’ve brought my own lunch and my own workers.”

Gulf States: “Forget railways. We want the dirt. We’ll turn your savannah into a giant vegetable patch for our desert supermarkets and build a seven-star hotel where that forest used to be.”

India: “Let’s talk human capital! We’ll give you low-cost generic pills and high-speed IT hubs. In exchange, we just need all your beans and lentils to feed Mumbai. Let’s trade software for soup.”

Japan: ”Quality over quantity, please. We’ll give you a high-tech bridge that lasts 100 years, provided you fill our hydrogen tanks and let us study your rare earths in peace.”

Türkiye: “Drones! You need drones to protect the wood. And a very large mosque in the capital to look at from the drones. We are brothers, after all.”

African Bigman: “Oops. I think I’ve accidentally sold the same acre of land and mines to all seven of you. Actually, blame my predecessor. He sold half of them; I didn’t know.”

[Amani Africa @africa_amani]

Nicholas “Fink” Haysom: A Diplomat of Conscience in a Time of Diminishing Craft
https://t.co/geuOzFox28

[Fra Francis U. Ezeh OFM Cap @FrCescoofmcap]

South Sudanese Catholic Bishop rides on Bicycle to visit his Faithful.
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala (Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala) is the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Tambura-Yambio in South Sudan. #CatholicTwitter

[Kigonyi Wa Nduthi 🏍 @rex_maina]

I saw it with my own eyes, an elderly woman, trembling bila nguvu, clutching her granddaughter’s hand. Aliambiwa cost ya treatment. She looked at her with quiet despair and whispered: “Wacha nikakufie kwa nyumba”.

I hope when anyone defends SHA or the Ministry for not equipping hospitals, they remember this: lives are being lost.

This isn’t a conversation of what SHA is or isn't. It is a choice between life and death forced by a broken system.

If systems and structures are valued more than the people they were built to serve, then the system itself has failed and must be scrapped.
We cannot let a system kill the very citizens it was meant to protect.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

The Milei miracle: Argentina registers the second largest industrial decline in the world, 2,436 companies have closed down with 73,000 jobs lost.

[Al-Shabaka الشبكة @AlShabaka]

🧵 The war on Iran cannot be understood in isolation. It is the product of a deliberate strategy, designed to eliminate resistance and consolidate regional dominance. As Tareq Baconi wrote, this reflects "a continuation of colonial logic." (1/6) https://t.co/BZb6wkgcjD