Leila Benyoussef

Ports, pipelines, hot takes & a very spoiled cat 🇲🇦🇦🇪

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

Iran at 14 and UAE at 20? I've driven on both. Whoever made this list has clearly driven on neither.

[Cata Paul 🃏‍‍‍ @CataPaul2]

Top 20 countries with the best roads in the world 🛣️

1. 🇸🇰 Slovakia
2. 🇫🇷 France
3. 🇵🇱 Poland
4. 🇵🇹 Portugal
5. 🇭🇷 Croatia
6. 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
7. 🇩🇪 Germany
8. 🇭🇺 Hungary
9. 🇦🇹 Austria
10. 🇦🇺 Australia
11. 🇲🇦 Morocco
12. 🇮🇹 Italy
13. 🇷🇸 Serbia
14. 🇮🇷 Iran
15. 🇸🇪 Sweden
16. 🇪🇸 Spain
17. 🇴🇲 Oman
18. 🇿🇦 South Africa
19. 🇳🇦 Namibia
20. 🇦🇪 UAE

🖇️ Source: Yahoo Finance

📝 Note: Ranking based on road quality, infrastructure, and overall driving experience.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

Nothing threatens the NGO industrial complex like Africans building the biggest airport on the continent. Ethiopia doesn't need saving.

[Mbuso P Siera @mbuso_siera]

The largest construction sites in Africa are in Ethiopia, yet foreign funded NGOs in South Africa are saying Ethiopians are vulnerable individuals, not native communities!

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

She's literally right. Production, energy, manufacturing. That's how China did it. Your contribution is calling her a retard twice, which tells us everything about your own neurons.

[Abu The 𓃵 @Abu_The_Truth]

This retard actually believes neocolonizers aim to enrich their colonies until they’re productive and strong enough to resist. This particular retard is married to and in bed with a colonizer, so it’s no surprise that the neurons in her brain are in conflict with knowledge.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@denniskioko Public services over private investors is a false choice. That's literally what a PPP is. You don't generate $600M in annual trade by picking one over the other.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@Heal_within96 Right about Rwanda. Wrong about what it means. Sanctions only work when the target is too weak to absorb them. The answer is building economic weight, not posting about injustice from a comfortable couch.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@ntvkenya Interesting. If only there were words.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@OriginalKhutso5 @aseisheated Right, because Congo is so safe. That's literally why they left.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

This gets it backwards. Bahrain hosts the Fifth Fleet. Jordan's intelligence is among the best in the region. Iran isn't picking on soft targets, it's testing US deterrence thresholds and finding them elastic.

[Behnam Ben Taleblu بهنام بن طالب لو @therealBehnamBT]

Respectfully disagree.

The Islamic Republic is targeting states that it can treat as a punching bag with limited cost or consequence.

The new trio - Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan - constitute a soft underbelly for the pro-American order in the Arab world.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

Sudan's GERD position didn't change. The country that held it did. Collapse isn't a strategy.

[Analytica Today @analyticanew]

Sudan once backed Ethiopia's GERD, seeing opportunities for power, irrigation, and flood control. But after Bashir's fall and civil war, Khartoum aligned with Egypt against the dam. A dramatic shift in Nile geopolitics. #Ethiopia #GERD #Sudan #Egypt #Nile #Africa

[James Hall @hallaboutafrica]

Congrats Mozambique: Increased rail cargo volumes from 9.7million in 2024 to 11.7million in 2025 - a remarkable 17% growth for one year, as gov. pushes to move 45% of cargo in and out of Maputo's port using rail. Rail is more environmentally friendly and often more efficient than road, particularly for bulk shipments.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@Africa_Ni_Home Ethiopia had one of the first Christian kingdoms on earth. Egypt produced some of the earliest church fathers. This isn't erased history, it's just history you haven't read.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@JabarliB37177 Since when does 'getting your shit together' mean telling your neighbors to stay home? Garvey was about economic self-reliance, not segregation. That's not Pan-Africanism, that's just xenophobia.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

Nothing says legitimate policy debate quite like burning down businesses of people working harder than you. South Africa's problems are homegrown.

[Tomi Rikhotso @TomiRikhotso]

I love that the SA government will be forced to defend itself and prove how illegal immigration affects our country, basically they’ll be forced to side with us and state the facts.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@StandardKenya Sh109b to the Kenyatta and Ndegwa families. A Kenyan bank now controlled from Johannesburg. But by all means, keep calling this development.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@anthony_kerui Colonialism never left. It just got rebranded as a Defense Cooperation Agreement.

[Wey Practice @WeyPractice]

WELCOME BACK TO TOURISM TUESDAYS! 🤭🤭🎉

We're excited to begin a brand-new five-week series:

"From Visa to Value: What Nigeria Can Learn from the United States, UAE, Kenya and Rwanda in Building a Thriving Tourism Economy."

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@Ma_LoJ If the ANC's track record is anything to go by, how long before they mess this up too?

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@nnamanichi93717 Saudi Arabia doesn't send 1,000 African students to learn engineering or agriculture. They send them to study Sharia. The agenda couldn't be more transparent.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@StandardKenya Hard to attract serious investment when your own lawyers are boycotting the courts. Institutional rot has a price.

[Leila Benyoussef @leilaports]

@OriginalKhutso5 @aseisheated Safe to live and work without being burned alive. That's the ask.