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Monty

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Wim Vandevelde @wimvandevelde.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“Stopping such studies so abruptly is unethical, a huge waste of time and resources, and a violation of trust. It’s extremely complicated — and expensive — to restart them.” bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
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How the health department will deal with Pepfar’s near collapse - Bhekisisa
Offering state HIV patients who qualify a six-month supply of antiretroviral (ARVs) pills at a time, so that they only have to return to clinics or community pick-up points twice a year to collect the...
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Worker-lead environmental change... from the aviation industry. open.substack.com/pub/wcwd/p/a...
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A Safe Landing for Aviation
Aviation workers are working together to develop a sustainable future for their sector.
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This is bloody heartbreaking. More than 100,000 preventable deaths...
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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
@34thparallel.bsky.social Please Please Please Share. Share. Share. Enter February 28 into your Smart Phone Calendar. Say you're IN! WE REALLY CAN DO THIS TOGETHER!!!! Please Do This With ME!?!
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 16/02/2025
Across Africa, a growing number of people are struggling to meet their most basic needs. See Afrobarometer's latest survey in this week’s issue.
Afrobarometer: More people are going without the basics - and more often

The prospect of dramatic cuts in United
States international development assistance comes just as evidence is emerging from Afrobarometer’s on-the-ground data collection that the need for assistance continues to grow: Across Africa, lived poverty is surging.

The average rate of “going without” five basic life necessities at least once during
the previous year is now the highest ever
recorded by Afrobarometer since it began
its surveys in 1999.

Across 30 countries surveyed consistently for the past decade, experiences of shortages have risen significantly on all five essentials: to 57% of all respondents for food (up by 13 percentage points compared to 2014/2015), to 55% for clean water (+9
points), to 64% for medical care (+15 points), to 49% for cooking fuel (+12 points), and to 81% for a cash income (+7 points).

Overall, nine in 10 respondents report having faced at least one of these five forms of material deprivation in the previous year.

Even more troubling is the growing intensity of deprivation in most surveyed countries: One in four Africans (24%) now report frequent shortages, or severe lived poverty.



#LivedPoverty #VoicesAfrica
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Unscrambled @strandloper.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Lost in the fog of shock and awe, a major war is growing in scale in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bukavu - a provincial capital in the east of the country - has fallen to Rwandan-backed rebels. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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M23 rebels advance into eastern Congo's strategic city of Bukavu
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into the centre of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, meeting little resistance from government troops, witnesses and the armed group said.
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Occupy Wall Street @occupywallstnyc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Free movement for all.
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Shailly Gupta @shaillygupta.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
TB remains the world's deadliest infectious killer disease. While there are newer tests, drugs and regimens available, more research is needed for new drugs, tests and regimens to end this ancient disease. Check out this very good update of impact USAID fund freeze on all TB related work
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USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 14/02/2025
The Sudan conflict has been ignored enough. Attacking and killing civilians seeking safety in a displaced persons camp is unconscionable. The RSF and all other parties to the conflict must immediately end all attacks on civilians.
Sudan: Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have attacked a famine-stricken camp for displaced people
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Sana Bég @sana.msf.ca · 04/02/2025
"It starts w/ finding clean water, continues w/ finding food, & ends with finding a place to sleep. Is this the life I will live forever?” Zahra's story is one of millions. In parts of #Sudan, 1 in 3 kids under 5 are acutely malnourished. This crisis is happening now, and it's preventable. @msf.ca
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Sudan malnutrition crisis: MSF renews call for immediate action to prevent death and starvation | MSF
Action must be taken now to prevent even more avoidable death from malnutrition in Sudan.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 04/02/2025
#Migration: In recent months, our teams have identified more cases of women and girls who have repeatedly suffered extreme violence such as kidnapping and sexual assault, either on the migration route or in their home countries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0T...
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One and Thousands: Stories of Women on the Migration Route
YouTube video by Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Everyone asking the Dems to stop the unfolding coup: Don't you realise this couldn't have happened without them? They've long been whittling democracy down to oligarchy. They helped create & buttress a political system for the rich, funded by the rich. They aren't going to save anyone but themselves
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 04/02/2025
Global Warming Has Accelerated Groundbreaking new paper by James Hansen et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Let's talk about medical racism... SO much of it, but I've never seen anything about the fact that all medicine info sheets STILL are only in English & Afrikaans - 32 years post-apartheid.
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Enraged my local chat group by suggesting we maybe don't clean up our area by spraying a WHO-described "probable carcinogen" all over our streets. So tired of being pilloried for caring about reality and other people. How do you all manage?
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Law limits the definition of marriage to “a legal union between two persons of the opposite sex” and states that “a marriage or marital union between persons of the same sex wherever concluded” is not recognised in Namibia. www.mambaonline.com/2025/01/21/n...
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Namibia: Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Law Enacted
Activists have vowed to challenge a new law in Namibia that overturns a landmark Supreme Court ruling by outlawing same-sex marriage.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/01/2025
i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I keep imagining what the coverage would be like if wealthy white people had been forced into the mine, then trapped and starved by SAPS - and the 14-year-old who was down there had been a blonde white girl...
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is what I was writing about 20 years ago as a terrifying but far off prospect, a key tipping point in the climate crisis. Now it’s here. Report by my colleague @patrickgreenfield A third of Arctic’s vast carbon sink now source of emissions, study reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows
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singemonkey.bsky.social @singemonkey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In some ways I think Musk is the triumph of the Apartheid regime - to have placed someone raised in our rank stew of white supremacy in the position of Grand Vizier of the richest and most militarily powerful nation in the world. Verwoerd would be smiling today. #musk #southafrica #apartheid
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I kept wondering why the miners in Stilfontein didn't just come up, rather than starve to death. The South African Police Service cultivated the lie that they were callous criminals trying to force SAPS to back down. The media (aside from Ground Up) did nothing to dispel this. Here's the truth: 1/
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The violent underworld of Stilfontein’s zama zamas
South Africa’s illicit gold trade is lucrative and controlled by gangs
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
My research, and that of my colleagues, shows that we can achieve good lives for all within planetary boundaries. Our research (and reality) also exposes how those profiting from inequality, violence & plunder are doing EVERYTHING in their power to prevent us from getting there.
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I don't think the Syrian rebels who have toppled Assad are necessarily great people, just because Assad was monstrous, but Syria is still a sovereign nation. Invading it is illegal under international law, which the West supposedly supports.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 07/12/2024
Before you down tools for the holidays, please fill out our annual reader survey. Your responses will help us make the newspaper even better.
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The Continent Reader Survey 2024
All protocol observed. Our goal is for The Continent to be the most important source of African news for anyone, anywhere. To get there, we need your help and we want to learn from you. When we sta...
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This has been a favourite of mine since I read about it in 'The Book of Heroic Failures' as a child.
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Schmingy 🇨🇦 @sirschming.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I will always post about #Sudan because the world has forgotten them. I don't know what else to do. Click on the link to read more. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
The world's worst crisis is in Sudan.
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Monty @theviscountess.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It says a lot that their war crimes had to be so blatant and the evidence so great for even a *Western-backed* leader to be pursued by the ICC. Western leaders and media have been forced into such glaring hypocrisy that the myth of Western moral superiority may finally be starting to crack.
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