About three years ago, I reviewed the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA). It was one of the most corrupt agencies I have ever seen…and I have seen many!
The corruption was brazen. It wasn’t sophisticated at all. You could see it from miles away. They were still using emergency COVID procurement protocols FOUR years after COVID ended! The head of the Zambian Procurement Agency was sacked and even the head of the Zambian Anti-Corruption Agency was removed for corruption and the board was dissolved.
Donors paid for most medicines and medical supplies in Zambia, and citizens receive all medicines free of charge.
Because Zambian public servants are constitutionally allowed to run ANY business on the side, many public servants owned pharmacies. So, the drugs were never available in public pharmacies but you could just cross the road and get them in a private pharmacy owned by a public servant…for a fee, of course. Even when you label the drugs as free and not for sale, they simply removed them from the packs and sold them in jars.
We recommended changing the Constitution to remove that incentive for public servants, changing the procurement regime, tracking the medicines from the ports all the way through the stores to the dispensaries, etc, but senior politicians were alleged to be benefiting directly from the fraud and there was no political will to end it.
So, we recommended a reset of the entire agency. From the law setting it up, to its management and governance, to its staffing, to its funding.
Now, following elections about a month ago, the new Minister has sacked ALL the staff in ZAMMSA and is starting the agency afresh!
When you do good reform work, your recommendations may not be implemented immediately but time does not diminish their relevance. One day, somebody will pick it up and implement it.
I am Ezemmuo. I know things.
A photo went viral of a Palestinian boy hiding from Israeli forces on his way home from class in the occupied West Bank. When soldiers discovered him they beat him. Now he says he’s afraid to return to school.
Al Jazeera's @nida_journo reports.
@DavidHundeyin This people are just fools. Does you spreading whatever message you want to spread stops your development. The GB was developing while there missionaries were colonising(spreading gospel to) the world.
Google Maps updated satellite imagery of the Gaza Strip has left people shocked by the scale of destruction visible across the besieged territory after Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
Yet even these images show only a fraction of the devastation. The updated satellite view does not capture the full extent of the destruction across Gaza, where entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble and vast areas have been wiped out.
You people keep deliberately misreporting and mis-framing this situation as a "Tinubu" issue instead of a "who put Tinubu in office for what reason" issue, and you know exactly what you are doing.
As if anybody "elected" Tinubu. Which election did he win?! Did you vote for him?? Because you are desperately avoiding the elephant in the room - that the US government PUT HIM THERE SPECIFICALLY TO SIGN EXTRACTIVE "DEALS" LIKE THIS - the next trick is to frame it deceptively like this.
You're busy beating the actual oyibo thief with a feather and making this about Tinubu, as if that incontinent old baga is the one making any decisions in Nigeria. K'eyin kuro fucking l'ona jor! Disingenuous asshats
More than 100 young people in Gaza City are presenting over 45 projects, from robots that inspect damaged buildings and assist the elderly to smart farming and water treatment tools, despite power cuts and costly equipment.
Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reports.
During a visit to an Israeli prison, far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stood behind armed guards and told Palestinian prisoner Hassan Salameh he wanted him killed. “I want to kill you. I want to have you executed,” he said, adding that he wanted Salameh to experience “hell here.”
The Knesset passed a Ben-Gvir-backed law in March 2026 making hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in occupied West Bank military courts
The Iphone Cult Phenomenon And Its Hidden Cost in Africa
The recent launch of Apple's iPhone 18 predictably became another installment in the now-familiar annual consumerist spectacle that characterises Apple device launches, complete with live in-store events and smug influencers unboxing their new gadgets in front of their drooling audience.
To many, this familiar yearly routine is just a routine consumer event that hurts nobody and has no wider significance. To those in the know however, there are multiple sinister undertones of African child exploitation, brutal colonial economics, and severe African cultural degradation that are hiding under the cover of the seemingly harmless festival of consumerism surrounding Apple, its business model and its device launches.
Senior reporter @Big_Mck goes under the hood to examine what exactly makes this annual consumer extravaganza possible, and why from an African perspective, there is absolutely nothing to celebrate here.
Disabled and amputee children injured in Israeli attacks in Gaza are unable to get new wheelchairs, because Israel is refusing to allow them in.
We spoke to 8-year-old Layan Asaliya, who urges Israeli authorities to let wheelchairs in.
This is the same man telling India that it will not be allowed to develop.
That America will not allow India to grow and build markets like China.
That same man is the representative sent to sign a deal with Nigeria on its mineral resources.
Again where are those bastards that keep asking what is special about Nigeria
We have mineral resources to the tune of 700 billion dollars.
We just signed it off to the people who would never allow you grow.
Noticed they use the word allow.
Now Nigerians are we going to watch this and just move on.
Where are those shouting for us to hold our government accountable
Come outside.
How do we hold the government accountable in this matter.
When we tell you that our biggest enemies are not the ones here , you think we are lying
That criminal in Aso rock closed a deal that he won’t be alive to witness damages 30 years from now.
When will we have a plan for ourselves and our people
When will we sit up?
When will we say no to this kind of things.
Nigeria Hands Over Its $700 Billion Minerals Sector To The US On A Plate
11 days after its mainstream news outlets scrubbed a story about this very development off their websites – for as yet undetermined reasons – Nigeria has officially handed its $700 billion-estimated minerals sector to the US on a plate. The “memorandum of understanding (MoU)” was signed by Nigerian Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, and US Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, on the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly.
Just as the previously-deleted reports said it would be.
This “MoU” effectively gives the US free reign over Nigeria’s critical minerals, and comes at the tail-end of a series of events stretching from October 2025 to July 2026. First, the US peddled a false narrative of a “Christian g*nocide” in Nigeria. Then, the US dropped bombs on Northern Nigeria, under this false pretext. Then, the US deployed its troops to Nigeria, as its officials “recommended” that the West African country end its strategic relationships with China and Russia – two of its largest economic and defense partners – in exchange for US military “support”. Then, the US withdrew its troops, leaving Nigeria no safer. Then @terraindustries, a CIA-linked Nigerian defense tech startup, secured a $2 million deal to “protect lithium mining operations in Nigeria”.
All of this happened with the full knowledge and consent of the current Nigerian government, and here we are today. It will come as no surprise if the “Christian g*nocide in Nigeria” narrative disappears from the vocabulary of Washington in the coming weeks – like so many false pretexts before it. The US finally got what it was after all along.
The people of Nigeria would do well to see this theater production for what it always was, and take the necessary action to install a leadership that actually answers to them. The people of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) did precisely this between 2021 and 2023, and the sky has yet to fall down.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a video of himself planting an olive tree alongside Palestinian families from Gaza, hours after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accused him of anti-Semitism in his speech at the UN General Assembly.
What is so special about your country that’s attracting the interest of the CIA or the U.S government, if you like?
Well, here’s your answer. This is perhaps the most simplified explanation. Even someone in kindergarten should understand it, after watching this video.
Mandy Patinkin is an incredibly brave Jewish man. You can hear the heartbreak in his voice every time he speaks about what’s happening to Palestinians. He cares so deeply, and he refuses to stay quiet about it. Protect this man at all costs. ❤️