Storyteller -just some personal views RT aren't endorsements
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This is my message to anyone who has chosen the path of hate. Please listen.
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Remembering today one of my patients. I was discussing the risk of an operation and she simply showed me her tattoo and replied “don’t worry, I understand risk” #LestWeForget
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Emissions from a half-hour of yard work with a gas leaf blower are about the same as a 3,900-mile drive from Texas to Alaska in a pickup truck.
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Hi 35-49 friends.
In the USA, 99.8% of current COVID hospitalisations are people not vaccinated.
Just saying 💉💉💉
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The death rate for the Nipah virus is up to 75%, and there is no vaccine. Teams around the world are working hard to make sure it doesn’t cause the next pandemic. bbc.com/future/article/20210…
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South African manufacturing sentiment jumps to a 13-year high trib.al/Qrr9Pca
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A few years ago this would have been unimaginable in Angola.
#Angola has sentenced Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the ex-head of the country's $5bn sovereign wealth fund, to five years in prison after a judge found him guilty of embezzlement and fraud. buff.ly/3kKNrHu
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Die Deutsche Botschaft Pretoria sucht eine/n Mitarbeiter/in für das Büromanagement in den Arbeitseinheiten Landwirtschaft und Millitärattaché-Stab. Bewerbungsschluss: 10.08.2020 southafrica.diplo.de/blob/23…
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Everyone needs to watch this interview as my colleague @sarasidnerCNN passes along questions from George Floyd’s family directly to the Minneapolis Chief of Police in real time. Wow. #GeorgeFloyd
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#IfBafanaBeatsEgyptIWill invite one person who retweets this to my house for a football reception. Good luck. 😉 ⚽️
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Almost 10 percent of seeds sold in Africa and South Asia are fake. That huge cost for farmers, if they are tricked, is the reason @Goldkeys and @BBSimons are working to stop #agriculture counterfeiting. @TRF_Stories @lauriegoering news.trust.org/item/20190410…
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The Reserve Bank is looking for up to 35 matrics to receive bursaries worth R121,000 per year and then possibly get jobs – here is how to apply now | @BISouthAfrica
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Nigeria spends billions importing SIM, ATM cards from China. Mrs Akinkugbe built a factory in 2015 that was inaugurated in Dec 2016, as west Africa's first smart-card plant. It produces 200 million cards. Now her company exports to 21 African countries, as well as to Nigerians.
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Security services reportedly found a $130 million cash hoard while searching the home of ousted Sudan president Omar al-Bashir. bbc.com/news/world-africa-47…
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Due to the high levels of unemployment I’ve come across, I’ve decided to compile vacancies, internships, learnerships etc, into a thread and hope this gets to those that really need it.❤️
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“Morit International School, Ajegunle, Lagos [Nigeria] now allows parents to pay their children’s fees with cleanly-sorted plastic bottles...” sunnewsonline.com/in-ajegunl…
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READ: @Tim_Bousquet exposes the nefarious links between Canadian billionaire, John Risley, & his financing of arms middleman, Jorge Pinhol's legal bid to get R8bn in profit for a sanctions-busting apartheid-era arms deal. #ApartheidGunsandMoney
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Cameroon has SIX ministries that deal with Education. SIX!
Other than the obvious issue of cost, this is example of cognitive dissonance. We need one clear, strong vision for building young minds where budget goes to improve education, increase research, not admin costs.
