Verdicts
Tuesday 21 May 2024
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"Russian Ambassador to Mozambique Surikov suddenly died in Maputo. Preliminary version - stroke. "
At the time of the Russian foreign ministry’s statement, the ambassador’s body was still in the hospital morgue in Mozambique’s capital Maputo with Russian embassy officials prohibiting medics from examining the body and refusing the police investigation. -
“Our cooperation in world affairs is one of the main stabilizing factors on the international stage. Together, we defend the principles of fairness and the democratic world order based on the multipolar realities and international law.”
Wanted for war crimes, Putin relies on China to wage Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine and undermine the rules-based global order. -
’’American foreign policy sees the Uranium in Niger… the oil in Escravos and the lithium in Kogi as valuable assets… A U.S. military base anywhere in Africa serves EXACTLY the same purpose that the old colonial military bases did - to protect the flow of African resources, and not the lives of African people which America considers to be less than worthless.”
China, France, and Spain are the largest extractors of uranium in Niger. China is also the single largest harvester of Nigeria’s lithium. A Nigerian subsidiary of a U.S. private firm Chevron is involved in that country’s oil production. -
“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...”
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. -
U.S. officials say that the United States is continuing talks with Nigerien officials, has not withdrawn any of U.S. military personnel from Niger and does not rule out a continued U.S. military presence there.
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“With all that, Zelenskyy regime will soon be provided with additional $61B financial aid from the U.S. Combating corruption and human rights violations, Western style."
The U.S. helps Ukraine defend itself from the Russian aggression. Washington is also actively assisting Kyiv’s efforts in developing democratic governance and bolstering civil society. -
“The deposits of JSC Dalur are located on a hill and away from the water. The flood did not affect them. There is no threat of flooding …”
Satellite images of flooded areas in the Kurgan region compared with the maps of Dobrovolnoye uranium deposits show part of Rosatom’s uranium wells covered in water. Environmentalists believe that the radioactive solution has been flowing into the Tobol River. -
"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.’’
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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“…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.’’
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. -
“No country has fallen into debt difficulties because of cooperation with China.”
At least two countries have declared bankruptcy due to an inability to repay foreign interest payments, primarily to China. -
“Russian delegation in the UN Security Council left the meeting before Israel's speech.”
Russia’s top diplomats walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting when Israel’s representative took the stage.