Next on #DaringAbroad: Despite being homeless in Canada, Canada-based Samuel Kariuki rose above his challenges to establish Northward Logistic Solutions, a thriving shipping company specializing in salvaged cars and parts. @MTsimangi@AlexChamwada
Today, I was happy to join the @KMCLandTrust and St. Clare’s Multifaith Housing Society to announce the construction of 78 affordable non-market units at 35 Bellevue Ave in Kensington.
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I am humbled to be President & CEO of @cdnwomenfdn. I commit to doing everything possible to improve lives of girls, women, & gender-diverse people in Canada. Despite hard-fought gains of the past, we must be vigilant in supporting women's equality, justice, & economic progress.
Cheat sheet for what’s happening in Kenya
1. Kenya is owning billions
2. Kenya decides to raise taxes to cover debt
3. Protesters who are taxpayers say No. The protesters tell their government to “cut spending instead of raising taxes.”
4. Government and taxpayers disagree
5. Taxpayers protest
6. Their government kills them for protesting
Just TWO days until @TAIBU_CHC hosts the second annual ACT Now! Black Mental Health and Wellness Conference. With themes such as "Power of Community" and "Rest Is Liberation", the conference runs March 20-22. Learn more + register here: https://t.co/U6DBj0bWEz #BlackHealth
Despite 5 years of the 'Alberta Model,' drug deaths have never been higher. Thanks to @CBC's @ianhanomansing for illustrating the human cost of a myopic focus on treatment at the expense of a comprehensive public health response. #ableg#cdnpoli
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Regarding the richness of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and what the West actually needs from the DRC, which is what is driving a genocide there.
1. With an estimated $23 trillion in undeveloped mineral deposits, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the richest country in the world in terms of material resources. With appropriate use, Democratic Republic of the Congo has the potential to become the world's largest net exporter of natural resources and producer of finished commodities.
2. The Congo Nearly 60% of the cobalt produced worldwide comes from DR, making it the greatest producer in the world. Regretfully, it is exported to produce ceramics, batteries for electrical goods, and engines for automobiles and aircraft.
3. The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces 80% of the world's coltan, which is used to make high-end brands' phones, computers, and accessories at the expense of child labour.
4. A sizable uranium deposit exists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In truth, Congo DR's mineral resources were used to make the atomic bombs for World War 2, which accounted for 80% of US nuclear weapons.
5. DR Congo is the third-largest producer of diamonds in the world, after Botswana and Russia, and possesses the second-largest diamond reserves in the world.
6. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the world's top producers of gold; most of the gold that is smuggled out of Africa and into Dubai passes through Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda. One of the most sought after types of gold is its handmade gold.
7. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is supposedly so rich that one may extract minerals with just their hands.
8. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the 80th-largest oil producer, generating more than 4.1% of its reserves annually.
9. There are 10,000 animal species and 600 tree species in the Congo rainforest. Forest elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, okapi, leopards, hippos, and lions are among its most well-known inhabitants.
10. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the top exporters of wood, and the Congo basin contains the world's greatest mineral reserve, which includes wood, oil, diamonds, gold, and coltan.
11. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a net exporter of entertainment; music was primarily exported in the 1990s.
12. Congo DR has the world's highest power production capacity of 40GW. #CongoIsBleeding
The Congolese are taking their destiny into their own hands, they are demonstrating in numbers. And yet not a single journalist to talk about Kivu, about the criminal regime of Kagame which kills and pillages in eastern Congo, financing and piloting the M23.
Everything is attested by NGOs and UN institutions but the silence remains deadly. The suitcase carriers of Kagame are powerful.
As for this EU which sullies the honor of our nation, it allows itself to negotiate an agreement on critical materials with Rwanda which does not even produce them but obtains them through terror in the DR Congo 🇨🇩 .
The war and killing in Congo never cease since 2002. We all know the reason why the world remain silent.
Congo women took it to the streets to protest on 14th February saying the USA 🇺🇸, Rwanda 🇷🇼, France 🇫🇷, United Kingdom 🇬🇧, Poland 🇵🇱 and Belgium 🇧🇪 are the main sponsors of the war going on in Congo.
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
There is a Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩
#CongoIsBleeding
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Women and children are suffering in Congo. They are being tortured and rape, killed, and separated from their parents, there is a genocide still ongoing in Congo and the main reason is natural resources. #CongoIsBleeding
AFRICAN QUOTES OF WISDOM
1. "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
2. "Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand." - Guinean Proverb
3. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - African Proverb
4. "A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Nigerian Proverb
5. "When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you." - African Proverb
6. "Unity is strength, division is weakness." - Swahili Proverb
7. "The fool speaks, the wise man listens." - Ethiopian Proverb
8. "A bird that flies off the earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground." - African Proverb
9. "Do not look where you fell but where you slipped." - African Proverb
10. "The strength of a crocodile is in the water." - Malawian Proverb #Africa
"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." —Malcolm X