Media
Saturday 18 May 2024
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Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo
Burkina Faso Minister of Communications
“HRW alleges that the Burkinabe army deliberately massacred 223 civilians including more than fifty children in the villages of Nodin and Soro on February 24... The government of Burkina Faso firmly rejects such baseless accusations. The media campaign around these accusations clearly demonstrates the intention of its authors, which is to discredit our fighting forces engaged on the frontline...”
Read more...Witnesses and survivor accounts, photographs, and videos as well as satellite images place Burkina Faso troops at the scene of the attack reported by Human Rights Watch, an international watchdog with a decades-long history of documenting abuses. -
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BreakThrough News
Media outlet
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Read more...U.S. officials say that the United States is continuing talks with Nigerien officials, has not withdrawn any of U.S. military personnel from Niger and does not rule out a continued U.S. military presence there. -
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Lord Bebo
X influencer
“Russian delegation in the UN Security Council left the meeting before Israel's speech.”
Read more...Russia’s top diplomats walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting when Israel’s representative took the stage. -
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Paul Kagame
,Rwandan president
“…. Why are we being accused of supporting M23. ... For those accusing us, actually, I should accuse them of not supporting M23 because it is as if they agree with the injustice that is being done to this community.’’
Read more...Kagame is condoning and supporting a group that stands accused of serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The U.S. and the U.N., both of which have sanctioned the M23 militants, have accused Kagame’s government of supporting the group. -
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Bayo Onanuga
special adviser to the Nigerian president
“Nigeria is safe… It’s one of the safest countries in the world… [r]elatively safer [compared to South Africa and the United States], because I am in Abuja now, I’m safe. I go to my town, I’m safe. I go to Lagos, I’m safe.”
Read more...The Global Terrorism Index ranks Nigeria eighth among the ten countries most impacted by terrorism, while, according to the Global Organized Crime Index, Nigeria has the world’s sixth highest criminality rate, far worse than the U.S., which is ranked 67th. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
"Peskov, commenting on the U.N. report on the torture of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, said that this is not news to Moscow, all crimes of the Kyiv regime are documented."
Read more...RIA Novosti distorted the U.N. report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, covering only alleged violations by Kyiv while omitting the bulk of the report, which focused on violations by Moscow. -
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Anita Among
Ugandan Parliament Speaker.
“I am among the first speakers to be banned from traveling to the Western countries because I do not believe in homosexuality,” she said.
Source: Uganda Parliament, March 12, 2024Read more...The U.S. and U.K. imposed travel ban on Ugandan officials involved in violating human rights and undermining democracy. Ugandan rights activists also accuse Among of gross corruption. -
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Wang Wenbin
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“…the U.S. has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to the U.S.’ national security…”
Read more...ByteDance may be using the app to collect data on Americans and pass it on to the Chinese government. The app’s algorithms also are capable of influencing public opinion in the United States, where the platform has about 170 million users. -
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African Stream
Pan-African Digital Media Organization
''Washington also allegedly uses Rwanda and Uganda as conduits for arms shipments to militia groups in the DRC.''
Read more...Western governments have for years tried to end the violence in Congo. Rwanda, on the other hand, has been involved both directly and indirectly in the violence. -
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Simon Ateba
owner of the Today News Africa website
"BREAKING – ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TUCKER CARLSON: A man has just been arrested in Moscow, accused of being paid by Ukrainian intelligence to plant an explosive device on Tucker Carlson's vehicle and assassinate the prominent American journalist while he was there to interview Putin.”
Read more...The digitally manipulated origins and distribution patterns of the original report about this alleged assassination attempt display characteristics of the tactic known as disinformation laundering, which Russian state propaganda networks frequently employ. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
"Here is a clear example of how 'freedom of speech and assembly' is respected and not violated in the United States: the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe marched yesterday in Nashville from the local State Capitol to ‘downtown’ ... Of course, everyone will remain silent ... Look carefully, no one calls the police: freedom, everyone does what they want. It just turns out that this applies exclusively to the forces of evil - such as neo-Nazism, gender experiments on children, legalization of drugs, Satanism, and so on.”
Read more...Contrary to Russia, where freedom of speech has become a defunct constitutional article, in the U.S. it is a powerful instrument of democracy that applies indiscriminately. -
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Maria Zakharova
spokeswoman, Russian Foreign Ministry
"The American video hosting platform YouTube has launched a fresh wave of account bans targeting Russian media. … It is the ruthless weeding out of any seedlings of dissent in the media space. Arbitrary actions and political censorship…"
Read more...YouTube blocked Russian state media channels for violating its community guidelines.
