@ZescoL@_ZESCO 18 hours and counting with no supply. This is quite unacceptable especially when many areas around Lusaka don’t get loadshedding at all. @siphophiri
@_ZESCO have you extended load shedding hours again? Just out of 16 hours of no power, yet some areas in Showgrounds, Woodlands, Kabulonga, Leopards Hill Road have yet to experience what load shedding is.
Please enlighten us on why that is?
@siphophiri
The timing of the ban on charcoal is cruel. There's no mitigation strategy. Charcoal prices have skyrocketed at a time when household food security is so desperate & there's loadshedding. Policies must be situated in prevailing reality. Right now in Zambia the reality is hunger.
Burkina Faso has broken all ties with France, giving the french special forces to evacuate which have been carried out. Having expelled the french ambassador to the country.
It has become the 2nd francophone country to do that after Mali. The current president of Burkina Faso, captain traore is just 34 years, making him the youngest president in the world.
Just like Thomas Sankara, he has reduced his salary and that of his cabinet members.
During a meeting with his Malian counterpart , he hinted about forming a federation with Mali, since both economies has gold as its primary source of revenue.
They now plan to mine gold and print currencies in their respective countries rather than using the CFA currency that is printed and regulated by France.
I wish every country in Africa can emulate this. Long live Mali!!! Long live Burkina Faso!!!!
A football team from a refugee settlement in Zambia is fighting for promotion to the country’s top division, and fans from the local community are cheering them on.
The UN’s refugee agency @refugees says sport can play a key role in helping refugee inclusion in society.
Today @WHO led a very high risk @UN assessment mission to Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza.
The team saw a hospital no longer able to function: no water, no food, no electricity, no fuel, medical supplies depleted.
Given this deplorable situation and the condition of many patients, including babies, health workers requested support to evacuate patients who cannot receive lifesaving care there anymore.
We are working with partners to develop an urgent evacuation plan and ask for full facilitation of this plan.
We continue to call for protection of health and of civilians. The current situation is unbearable and unjustifiable.
Ceasefire. NOW.
#BREAKING It's official from Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Arab and Islamic countries foreign ministers will visit🇨🇳China from Nov. 20 to 21 to discuss resolving the🇮🇱#Israeli-🇵🇸#Palestinian conflict and ensuring civilian protection.
Delegation include foreign ministers from🇸🇦#SaudiArabia, 🇯🇴#Jordan,🇪🇬#Egypt, 🇮🇩#Indonesia, 🇵🇸#Palestine, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
This is IMMENSELY significant. And confirms Gaza could well prove to be the US's Suez crisis moment.
To "formulate an international action to stop the war on Gaza", Arab-Islamic Foreign Ministers represented by Saudi Arabia say "the first stop will be China" 👇
In other words they now recognize China's legitimity as the leading force for peace here. Meaning we effectively aren't in a US-led world order anymore, in fact they likely now see the US as a disrupter of order...
Let's see how this pans out. I wrote a couple of weeks back something like this could be happening (see next tweet) and it looks like it's slowly materializing.
A year ago, Ursula Von Der leyen, the unelected high Priestess of the EU had plenty to say about Russia.
Suddenly, she has nothing to say about the targeted Genoicide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
Astounding hypocrisy directed by her bosses in the Whitehouse and Jerusalem
Worth a watch: Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN criticising Canada's amendment to the UNGA resolution on Gaza, solely condemning Hamas.
All Western states voted for the amendment that nevertheless failed to pass.
Hamas fighters killed @maozinon’s parents when they infiltrated into Israel. Now he is calling on his gov't to stop the war on Gaza and end the cycle of suffering.
#AJOPINION