As the United States retreats from its postwar leadership role under Donald Trump, Japan must overcome domestic constraints and step up with partners to help sustain the global order it has long quietly supported. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/12/31/it-is-japans-time-to-step-out/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #us #donaldtrump #nationalsecuritystrategy #worldwarii #apec #shinzoabe #tpp #china #africa #developmentaid #article9 #constitution #coldwar #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #shinzoabe
Hundreds of Colombian ex-soldiers have been drawn to Sudan with the promise of Emirati paychecks. What many found instead was death in a faraway war marked by mass killing, rape, famine and child recruitment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/world/colombia-soldiers-sudan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #colombia #sudan #uae #africa #middleeast #latinamerica
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@workersrights @povertyandinequality #china #asia #russia #iran #yemen #africa #sudan #europeanunion #southkorea #nato #war #genocide #stopgenocide #gazagenocide #mexico #colombia #honduras #trinidad #haiti #fediverse #socialjustice #resistance #protest #freespeech #censorship #trump #fascism #westasia #progressive #antifa #lawfare #ruleoflaw #politics #geopolitics #ndp #ndp2026 #government #foreignpolicy #surveillance #security #tech #ai #climateCrisis #uk #tiktok @environment @blackvoices
U.S. President Donald Trump’s mass recall of ambassadors will leave Washington without top-level presence in more than half of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/world/politics/trump-ambassadors-recall-africa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #africa
GenZ Madagascar taxi driver — skull-and crossbones-symbol under the dashboard.
#GenZMadagascar #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Malagasy #Photography #OriginalPhoto #HalfHeartedFanatic
@workersrights @povertyandinequality #china #asia #russia #iran #yemen #africa #sudan #europeanunion #southkorea #nato #war #genocide #stopgenocide #gazagenocide #mexico #colombia #honduras #trinidad #haiti #fediverse #socialjustice #resistance #protest #freespeech #censorship #trump #fascism #westasia #progressive #antifa #lawfare #ruleoflaw #politics #geopolitics #ndp #ndp2026 #government #foreignpolicy #surveillance #security #tech #ai #climateCrisis #uk #tiktok @environment @blackvoices
Trump & RFK are bringing back the worst of U.S. criminal racist medical abuses of the past, like the Tuskegee experiment that killed over 100 African American men the South.
This time, in the name of proving that vaccines are unnecessary, or dangerous, they've awarded a $1.6 million grant to a group of controversial Danish researchers (The Bandim group) to delay the hepatitis B vaccine to children in Guinea-Bissau, despite the fact that it has already been proven safe and effective, particularly when given to newborns. This is in a region with high endemic hepatitis B prevalence (up to 20% of the population is infected). And it is particularly unethical and cruel, when any delay in vaccination increases the risk of lifelong, irreversible hepatitis infection and premature death.
Past studies by the Bandim researchers have been challenged by mainstream scientists, but championed by anti-vaccine activists like RFK Jr. The grant smacks of corruption and cronyism, as it was awarded to the Danish team without any competition from any other scientists. A review published in Vaccine last month found that the Bandim researchers “have systematically over-interpreted the findings from their randomized trials” for 25 years.
#publichealth #hepatitis #vaccines #antivax #rfkjr #trump #cdc #africa #racism #children #ethics
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Le Kenya, premier pays africain à voir sa santé cofinancée par les Etats-Unis de Donald Trump
L’accord bilatéral, conclu le 4 décembre, est le premier en la matière depuis la dissolution de l’Agence américaine pour le développement international survenue en février. Deux jours plus tard, le Rwanda a, lui aussi, signé un accord avec les Américains.
Le Monde : https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/12/08/le-kenya-premier-pays-africain-a-voir-sa-sante-cofinancee-par-les-etats-unis-de-donald-trump_6656493_3212.html
Archive : https://archive.is/RZjlz
(cf. mon thread du weekend a ce sujet)
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The programme for the workshop ‘Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990’ is now available on our website.
It aims to critically examine the fertile intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of the revolution in/and/between Africa and Latin America.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/intellectual-exchanges-afam/
#Histodons #AntiColonialism #Solidarity #Africa #LatinAmerica #LiberationWars #CulturalHistory #IntelectualHistory #PoliticalViolence
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Listen to the African youth hey! This is one of my favourite creators and hip hop journalists right now
So they want to amend the #Abortion Laws in #Zimbabwe
The reforms seek to allow abortion on request up to 12 weeks of gestation and up to 20 weeks in cases where the pregnancy poses a risk to the woman’s health, mental well-being, or socio-economic stability.
https://saafund.org/zimbabwe-is-due-to-reform-its-abortion-law/
This is honestly sooo amazing and gives me sooo much hope! But surprise surprise- the christians and catholic come out of their little gremlin holes to oppose this hugeeee step in Womens Rights and autonomy.
I really for the love of all things sacred hope that the lawmakers just ignore these religious bigots cause wtfff!
Brazil, the most diverse country in the world: Study reveals eight million new genetic variants
Article on Science: Admixture’s impact on Brazilian population evolution and health
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl3564
#Brazil #Immigration #genetics #colonization #Africa #Europe #Indigenous
Listen to the African youth hey! This is one of my favourite creators and hip hop journalists right now
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and slash global aid programs severed a lifeline for undernourished children, current and former aid officials have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/world/society/us-aid-children-kenya/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #kenya #us #africa #aid
Trump's National Security Strategy 2025 emphasizes tactical priorities over grand strategy, shifting focus to the Western Hemisphere and Asia, while keeping the overall limits of U.S. policy largely unchanged. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/12/world/reading-trumps-national-security-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #joebiden #defense #eu #indopacific #usjapanrelations #russiaukrainewar #europe #china #africa #asia #middleeast
The programme for the workshop ‘Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990’ is now available on our website.
It aims to critically examine the fertile intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of the revolution in/and/between Africa and Latin America.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/intellectual-exchanges-afam/
#Histodons #AntiColonialism #Solidarity #Africa #LatinAmerica #LiberationWars #CulturalHistory #IntelectualHistory #PoliticalViolence
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60,000 #penguins in #Africa starved to death after sardine #fish numbers collapsed
Just think if the immidiate pleasure of having on your plate a piece of a dead #animal and #cheese made of a tortured animal is worth ecosystems collapsing
Go #plantbased for the #planet, which we're part of.
#Govegan for the animals, for they're not resources but sensual beings
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/05/african-penguins-starve-to-death-south-africa-sardine-population-aoe
Le Kenya, premier pays africain à voir sa santé cofinancée par les Etats-Unis de Donald Trump
L’accord bilatéral, conclu le 4 décembre, est le premier en la matière depuis la dissolution de l’Agence américaine pour le développement international survenue en février. Deux jours plus tard, le Rwanda a, lui aussi, signé un accord avec les Américains.
Le Monde : https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/12/08/le-kenya-premier-pays-africain-a-voir-sa-sante-cofinancee-par-les-etats-unis-de-donald-trump_6656493_3212.html
Archive : https://archive.is/RZjlz
(cf. mon thread du weekend a ce sujet)