Continued......https://www.voanews.com/a/key-chinese-belt-and-road-projects-underway-in-africa/7767507.html
https://www.ustda.gov/business_opp_oversea/zambia-lobito-railway-environmental-and-social-impact-assessment/
https://www.dfc.gov/sites/default/files/media/documents/BDR%2824%2931%20Lobito%20Atlantic%20Railway%20S.A.pdf
https://railmarket.com/news/freight-rail/6816-lobito-atlantic-railway-begins-operations-on-angola-s-key-rail-corridor
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/13/fact-sheet-partnership-for-global-infrastructure-and-investment-at-the-g7-summit-2/
https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/dfc-announces-new-us-financing-africas-lobito-corridor
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241203-biden-kicks-off-two-day-angola-visit
https://www.ustda.gov/business_opp_oversea/zambia-lobito-railway-environmental-and-social-impact-assessment/
https://www.dfc.gov/sites/default/files/media/documents/BDR%2824%2931%20Lobito%20Atlantic%20Railway%20S.A.pdf
https://railmarket.com/news/freight-rail/6816-lobito-atlantic-railway-begins-operations-on-angola-s-key-rail-corridor
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/13/fact-sheet-partnership-for-global-infrastructure-and-investment-at-the-g7-summit-2/
https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/dfc-announces-new-us-financing-africas-lobito-corridor
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241203-biden-kicks-off-two-day-angola-visit
Voice of America
5 key Chinese 'Belt and Road' projects underway in Africa
The continent is already a key BRI region, with Chinese companies signing contracts there worth more than $700 billion between 2013 and 2023, according to Beijing's commerce ministry
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South Africa-based civil society organisation Open Secrets’ investigation has revealed Africa’s corrupt political elites have laundered embezzled public funds through South Africa’s real estate sector while large sections of their populations live in abject poverty.
These leaders and their associates—often family members—acquire luxury properties in affluent parts of South Africa’s Johannesburg and Cape Town.
In their report, Open Secrets presents case studies from three countries: Mozambique's outgoing President Filipe Nyusi, former Democratic Republic of the Congo President Joseph Kabila and Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodorín Obiang.
The @opensecretsZA (X) report also accuses South African authorities and banks of complicity by failing to adhere to regulatory checks and balances.
Here’s a closer look at the findings.
These leaders and their associates—often family members—acquire luxury properties in affluent parts of South Africa’s Johannesburg and Cape Town.
In their report, Open Secrets presents case studies from three countries: Mozambique's outgoing President Filipe Nyusi, former Democratic Republic of the Congo President Joseph Kabila and Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodorín Obiang.
The @opensecretsZA (X) report also accuses South African authorities and banks of complicity by failing to adhere to regulatory checks and balances.
Here’s a closer look at the findings.
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Continued........Sources:
https://www.opensecrets.org.za/property-laundromat/
https://www.theafricareport.com/127303/mozambique-nyusis-alleged-involvement-in-hidden-debt-scandal/
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/southern-africa/mozambique-president-sued-in-uk-over-2-billion-debt-scandal-3599702
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59343922
https://thesentry.org/reports/bank-scandal-in-congo/
https://redress.org/news/how-to-return-teodorin-obiangs-ill-gotten-assets-to-their-rightful-recipients-the-people-of-equatorial-guinea/
https://star.worldbank.org/asset-recovery-watch-database/teodoro-nguema-obiang-mangue-11-luxury-cars-seized-geneva-switzerland
https://www.opensecrets.org.za/property-laundromat/
https://www.theafricareport.com/127303/mozambique-nyusis-alleged-involvement-in-hidden-debt-scandal/
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/southern-africa/mozambique-president-sued-in-uk-over-2-billion-debt-scandal-3599702
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59343922
https://thesentry.org/reports/bank-scandal-in-congo/
https://redress.org/news/how-to-return-teodorin-obiangs-ill-gotten-assets-to-their-rightful-recipients-the-people-of-equatorial-guinea/
https://star.worldbank.org/asset-recovery-watch-database/teodoro-nguema-obiang-mangue-11-luxury-cars-seized-geneva-switzerland
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In 2023, there were loud demands from the West for South Africa to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin and hand him to the International Criminal Court (ICC), should he step foot in the country to attend that year’s BRICS summit. The ICC was - and is - after the Russian leader for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Many in the West - including US politicians - argued that Pretoria had a moral and legal obligation to enforce the ICC warrant against Putin.
One year down the line, and key figures in the West are making very different noises when it comes to enforcing the latest ICC arrest warrants - for Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his ex-defence minister Yoav Gallant. The pair are wanted in connection with alleged genocidal atrocities during Tel Aviv’s 14-month military assault on Gaza.
On 2 December, ICC president Tomoko Akane revealed that the Hague-based court had become the subject of threats, coercive measures and acts of sabotage in recent months.
One year down the line, and key figures in the West are making very different noises when it comes to enforcing the latest ICC arrest warrants - for Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his ex-defence minister Yoav Gallant. The pair are wanted in connection with alleged genocidal atrocities during Tel Aviv’s 14-month military assault on Gaza.
On 2 December, ICC president Tomoko Akane revealed that the Hague-based court had become the subject of threats, coercive measures and acts of sabotage in recent months.
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Continued……She did not directly name who’d made the threats but said they are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Only two members of the Security Council have recently butted heads with the ICC: Russia and the United States. Washington has made it loud and clear that it disapproves of the latest warrants.
Sources:
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/hague-invasion-act-us-senator-threatens-icc-with-military-force/
https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/137454-pressure-mounts-icc.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/international-criminal-court-chief-lashes-out-at-u-s-and-russia-over-threats-and-accusations
https://www.dw.com/en/icc-chief-criticizes-us-and-russia-over-threats/a-70939061
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-passes-republican-bill-sanction-international-criminal-court-over-2024-06-04/
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/sep/02/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-fatou-bensouda
Only two members of the Security Council have recently butted heads with the ICC: Russia and the United States. Washington has made it loud and clear that it disapproves of the latest warrants.
Sources:
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/hague-invasion-act-us-senator-threatens-icc-with-military-force/
https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/137454-pressure-mounts-icc.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/international-criminal-court-chief-lashes-out-at-u-s-and-russia-over-threats-and-accusations
https://www.dw.com/en/icc-chief-criticizes-us-and-russia-over-threats/a-70939061
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-passes-republican-bill-sanction-international-criminal-court-over-2024-06-04/
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/sep/02/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-fatou-bensouda
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JOE BIDEN SAVES SON FROM LAW HE CREATED
In a stunning display of nepotism and implicit racism, US president Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, saving him from the consequences of a crime law he - as senator - helped author. Hunter was facing charges (among others) of knowingly lying on federal paperwork when he said he was not a drug user in order to buy a revolver and ammunition.
In this video of Joe Biden making the case for the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the future American leader proposes harsh terms for drug possession, including asset seizures by the state. There would be no chance of clemency - the judge had to issue the full five years.
The law also created a big sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. This sentencing disparity in turn fuelled huge racial disparities in incarceration.
In a stunning display of nepotism and implicit racism, US president Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, saving him from the consequences of a crime law he - as senator - helped author. Hunter was facing charges (among others) of knowingly lying on federal paperwork when he said he was not a drug user in order to buy a revolver and ammunition.
In this video of Joe Biden making the case for the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the future American leader proposes harsh terms for drug possession, including asset seizures by the state. There would be no chance of clemency - the judge had to issue the full five years.
The law also created a big sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. This sentencing disparity in turn fuelled huge racial disparities in incarceration.
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Continued….. Additionally, Biden was not interested in solving the root cause of the problem, his simplistic answer being: take ‘offenders’ off the streets. This encouraged states to build more prisons, ramp up cop recruitment and back programmes that promoted increasing drug-related arrests.
It is therefore both ironic and insulting for President Biden to save his son from the same law he created, which broke many families through the prison industrial-complex pipeline.
Sources:
Video
https://x.com/brixwe/status/1662832564837441541?t=4Dts5iq6yA7by0zVfgHIcw
Hunter drug related charges
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw55ngde0qwo
Harsh terms
https://x.com/brixwe/status/1662832564837441541?t=4Dts5iq6yA7by0zVfgHIcw
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration
Sentencing disparity
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration
Crime bill effect on Black communities
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/3-ways-1994-crime-bill-continues-hurt-communities-color/
It is therefore both ironic and insulting for President Biden to save his son from the same law he created, which broke many families through the prison industrial-complex pipeline.
Sources:
Video
https://x.com/brixwe/status/1662832564837441541?t=4Dts5iq6yA7by0zVfgHIcw
Hunter drug related charges
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw55ngde0qwo
Harsh terms
https://x.com/brixwe/status/1662832564837441541?t=4Dts5iq6yA7by0zVfgHIcw
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration
Sentencing disparity
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration
Crime bill effect on Black communities
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/3-ways-1994-crime-bill-continues-hurt-communities-color/
Bbc
Hunter Biden used crack 'every 20 minutes or so', court hears
A trial continued on Wednesday of the US president's son, charged with gun offences which he denies.
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WATCHING GAZA G*NOCIDE IN REAL-TIME FROM ISRAEL’S OBSERVATION DECK
During a 19 November livestream with US judge Andrew Napolitano (@judgenap on X), a former US Marine recounted a chilling moment from his recent trip to Israel.
Matthew Hoh (@MatthewPHoh on X), now an Eisenhower Media Network (@MediaEisenhower on X) associate director, told of visiting an observation deck in Israel overlooking Gaza, where Israel’s military onslaught since 8 October 2023 has k*lled more than 186,000 people as of early July, according to the Lancet medical journal.
During a 19 November livestream with US judge Andrew Napolitano (@judgenap on X), a former US Marine recounted a chilling moment from his recent trip to Israel.
Matthew Hoh (@MatthewPHoh on X), now an Eisenhower Media Network (@MediaEisenhower on X) associate director, told of visiting an observation deck in Israel overlooking Gaza, where Israel’s military onslaught since 8 October 2023 has k*lled more than 186,000 people as of early July, according to the Lancet medical journal.
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Continued……Hoh said the observation deck is so far removed from the horrors of Palestinian suffering in Gaza, such that one cannot hear the muffled screams and cries as buildings filled with people fall to the ground or bullets rip through humans. It is a place where g*nocide is transformed into a ‘picturesque’ sight, the equivalent of an action movie at the cinemas.
While there, he saw Israeli schoolchildren on a field trip celebrating the scene.
Video credit: Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom (YouTube)
While there, he saw Israeli schoolchildren on a field trip celebrating the scene.
Video credit: Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom (YouTube)
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UGANDA HAS NO JURISDICTION IN KENYA - KIZZA BESIGYE'S LAWYER
On 2 December, Kenyan lawyer Martha Karua announced she has gathered a ‘Pan-African’ group of lawyers to defend Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye (@kizzabesigye1 of @FDCOfficial1 on X), whom Ugandan operatives abducted on 16 November in Nairobi while attending a book launch hosted by Kenyan politician @MarthaKarua (X).
The legal team has condemned the lack of due process and questioned Uganda’s jurisdiction over alleged offences committed in Kenya, Greece and Switzerland.
Kenya initially denied involvement, stating its security agencies were not responsible, though Uganda later claimed the operation was a joint effort.
The abduction adds to Kenya’s growing reputation for controversial cross-border actions, including deporting four Turkish nationals and Kenyan police killing Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in 2022.
On 2 December, Kenyan lawyer Martha Karua announced she has gathered a ‘Pan-African’ group of lawyers to defend Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye (@kizzabesigye1 of @FDCOfficial1 on X), whom Ugandan operatives abducted on 16 November in Nairobi while attending a book launch hosted by Kenyan politician @MarthaKarua (X).
The legal team has condemned the lack of due process and questioned Uganda’s jurisdiction over alleged offences committed in Kenya, Greece and Switzerland.
Kenya initially denied involvement, stating its security agencies were not responsible, though Uganda later claimed the operation was a joint effort.
The abduction adds to Kenya’s growing reputation for controversial cross-border actions, including deporting four Turkish nationals and Kenyan police killing Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in 2022.
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