Conflict
Tuesday 30 April 2024
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Rachel Ruto
Kenyan first lady
"In Kenya, we see our President talk about fertilizers for our farmers. In Uganda, they do not use fertilizers. Their land is very fertile and there is enough rain.’’
Read more...Uganda has been using fertilizers since World War II. The first lady's comments came amid a fake fertilizer scandal unfolding in Kenya's presidential administration. -
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Souleymane Amzat
Beninese Analyst
“…Unlike Western troops which were always often on the opposite side of the fighting in the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Russian troops have helped various states to regain the territory.’’
Read more...The U.S. invested more than $3 billion in Sahel’s security and trained nearly 86,000 counterterrorism troops in the region over the last two decades. Russia’s military presence is linked with aggravated violence and war crimes. -
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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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Sprinter Factory
X content creator
“After Iran attacked Israel, the focus shifted away from Gaza and Gaza children were able to play on the beaches.”
Read more...There is no connection between Iranian strikes on Israel and the Palestinians’ ability to go to the beach in central Gaza. -
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Evghenia Guțul
Gagauzian Governor
"…I and many residents, and even the majority of residents of Gagauzia, and even of Moldova, are against Moldova joining the European Union.”
Read more...Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for the nation's accession to the European Union. -
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Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
“…American private military companies, under the guidance of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, have begun to recruit Mexican and Colombian drug cartels' members, who are serving their sentence in American prisons, to take part in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of Kyiv’s degrading regime.”
Read more...Contrary to Russia’s well-documented state-backed campaign to enlist criminals and foreigners to fight in Ukraine, Russian foreign intelligence provided no evidence to support its allegations against the United States. -
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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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Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
"Recently, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko adopted a resolution prohibiting any cultural or educational events in Russian from being held in Kyiv. Even in everyday life, if anyone speaks Russian at school during breaks, or addresses a shop assistant in Russian, they can face administrative charges.”
Read more...In July 2023, the Kyiv City Council introduced a moratorium on the use of “Russian-language cultural products,” such as books, songs, and films, in the city. While people are permitted to speak Russian in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, as of 2023, most Ukrainians spoke only Ukrainian in daily life. -
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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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Sergey Naryshkin
Director, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service
"The FSB had received certain information from US intelligence services that, unfortunately, such [an attack] was possible. But, as our Russian counterparts have said, that information was very vague and it did not allow us to identify those behind the deadly crime."
Read more...The U.S. warned Russia that Crocus City Hall was a potential target of a terror attack weeks in advance, officials say. -
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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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Alex_Oloyede2
Blue-checked X user
“BREAKING: Possible Sea Confrontation between Russia and NATO…”
Read more...Verified X user pushes old photo of Russian military parade, and alarmist claim, to mislead followers about routine Russian naval exercises in the Red Sea.
