PhD and global health wonk. Principal Consultant @MatahariGlobal. Internationalist & humanist. 🇲🇾🇵🇸 🌍
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A colleague (@AyalMeskeremAk) recently raised how the Global North narrative of vaccine hesitancy in Africa affected Vx discourse in Africa. Last year I addressed this at a @devex event: Why was there such a preoccupation about vaccine hesitancy in Africa but not in Europe/US? 👇🏽
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The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.
#AmericaAlone
.@AmbUNReform: The UN human rights system has been losing credibility for decades.
Volker Türk led it to its deathbed.
Today’s vote kicked the bucket.
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This is your legacy on the occupied Palestinian territory, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. History will remember your complicity.
Despite a partial arms suspension in 2024, Keir Starmer's government has continued to enable Israel's atrocities against Palestinians, their families and children through the supply of F-35 fighter jet parts.
Nothing can change the horrors Palestinians have faced. But the next Prime Minister has an opportunity to put an end to the UK Government's role as an ally to atrocities.
The UK Government must:
🔴 Suspend all arms sales to Israel
🔴 Suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement
🔴 Ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements
To the next Prime Minister: what will your plaque say?
ALT A blue plaque mounted on a stone wall reads: "HISTORY WILL NOT FORGET COMPLICITY. KEIR STARMER witnessed 73,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, including 21,000 children, and kept supplying arms to Israel."
Still getting quite high-caliber connection requests on Twitter. Global health folks, please note that I do not post anymore on Twitter/X due to its ownership and the owner’s policies. Please head to my profile on BlueSky for technical content.
Appalling. Israel exists.
It’s Palestine that is being systematically destroyed. Does Palestine have the right to exist?
👀 SCOOP: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner told Politico staff Monday that those uncomfortable with the company's core values — including support for Israel's right to exist — should "work for other companies."
@matthewkassel reports: ji.news/427jz
Deeply concerning that the negotiator will not attend the Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing Negotiations. Anyone who has been involved in negotiations knows the important discussions happen in the hallways and over tea. Hoping @DrDzul can rethink this decision.
Critical WHO negotiations on the Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing system will soon begin in Geneva.
Developing countries will be present, but Malaysia won’t send a delegation.
Why @KKMPutrajaya @DrDzul? Who will safeguard Malaysia’s interests & sovereignty?
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A team of scientists from the Spanish Cancer Research Centre, led by the renowned Dr Mariano Barbacid, has achieved the complete and permanent disappearance of pancreatic cancer in experimental models.
This discovery could make a difference in the fight against this disease. 👏
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🇩🇪 firmly believes that African nations must finally be properly represented in international institutions. That is why we are in favour of two permanent African seats to the #UN Security Council. @AussenMinDE
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney notes that Trump has announced his "Board of Peace" while Israel still hasn't stopped obstructing humanitarian aid for Gaza. And he reiterates the goal, opposed by Israel, of a Palestinian state.
The Board of Peace has no democratic legitimacy.
Speaking to @NPR, Mary Robinson warns that President Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is a dangerous attempt to undermine the UN Security Council and concentrate power in his own hands.
🎧 Listen in full: npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-568…
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“What he [the European bourgeois] cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the Blacks of Africa.” - Aime Césaire.
Two truths can be acknowledged: 1) that this was a great speech; 2) Carney very recently propped up the actions of the state of Israel.
Imperialists are suddenly feeling the effects on the boomerang very acutely. Time will tell whether this morality applies more uniformly.
This is the best speech by a world leader that I have read in a very long time. More later, but for now, just read what @MarkJCarney has to say. Rhetorically, at least, he has met the geopolitical moment.
paulwells.substack.com/p/the…
How anyone can still support Israel is beyond me
I have to say the sight of Western leaders fumbling at the prospect of an additional colonisation of Greenland is remarkable to see.
They enabled (and continue enabling) colonisation in Gaza by Israel, and of course all of our countries from Malaysia to Nigeria to DRC.
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Yes indeed. The US is destroying world order.
And so did Israel for the last two years. With Germany support.
German and other European leaders cannot suddenly discover that the rule-based order is on its knee when they have governed over its demise for the last two years.
Complicity, tacit agreement, appeasement, silence: these have a cost. A high cost.
And you/we will all end up paying for it.
German president says US is destroying world order reut.rs/4aQ8fKc reut.rs/4aQ8fKc
The majority of Europe stood by as Israel massacred 80,000 Palestinians. Some helped finance the genocide. Europe’s response to Venezuela has been pathetic. I’m not entirely sure the response to the annexation of Greenland will be any better.
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Why is this blatantly ahistorical call for ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians from a minister in Netanyahu’s government not a headline across the globe?
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