Dr Aloy Chife
@ChifeDr
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Entrepreneur. Humanist. Philosopher.
Princeton, NJ
Joined August 2013
@bobbyr75 @washingtonpost So, there’s that
"We take no responsibility for the utterances of the American politicians; we don't know where they got the information from," says Flip Buys, Chairperson of the Solidarity Movement.
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A lyric poem “Fire burning bright and the ashes is white The dry is long and the weed is strong… I plant the seed and grow the weed Buy da the weed da columbian weed, (the somai weed) You feel the riddim? (you feel the rhythm?) -“Smokey Room.” Max Romeo’s and the Upsetters
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RT @healthertainer: About 40% of Nigerians live below the poverty line, forcing families to choose between essential needs like food and he…
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It is not going to end well for Apartheid boy. Shakespeare already told this tale in “King Lear.” And we know that the scheming Edmund, motivated only by selfish ambition will meet a tragic end. “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…
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All aid is tied and their grant component is usually less than 1%. Beyond the obvious loss of goodwill, the most damaging impact of the dismantling of USAID will be domestic - the suppliers of products and services that make up the aid. Eg $2 billion in American farm products
BREAKING: USAID employees have just been told via email that “all direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs" on Friday, February 7. Already, some USAID employees’ email and systems access have been abruptly cut off, making it harder to get official information about what might happen next. “Everybody is rightfully very concerned for our overseas staff that are essentially just being left stranded,” a current USAID employee in the US told WIRED. “We're not sure how we're going to get them home safe.”
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It’s now politically expedient to demonize the USAID but it certainly played a very important role in maintaining stability in the world -keeping client states’ middle class contained and functioning. The shock waves to their economies will be seismic; a Tsunami with no warning
Thousands of Kenyan healthcare workers face layoffs after President Trump froze US aid, affecting 35,000 jobs under PEPFAR. The affected include: —1,952 doctors —1,234 nurses —578 lab staff —340 pharmacists —24,577 community health workers
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Brother @Julius_S_Malema we have many problems in Africa -mass poverty, unemployment, high inflation etc- that require our urgent attention. And we now have to contend with the emergence of Fascism and Nativism and other atavistic forms in the West. We need a war on development
“It was Rwanda, it was Paul Kagame who killed our soldiers, the support he gave to M23 and M23 acting in a disrespectful manner they did to the South African soldiers” EFF President Julius Malema “I'm saying withdraw, let's regroup and retrain and if Rwanda has got anything to do with this let's go for them, cause we not going to have Rwanda dictating to us and Paul Kagame speaking to Cyril Ramaphosa the way he doing” @Julius_S_Malema
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