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Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
Back in 2009, South African Breweries 🇿🇦🍻 had a dream for South Sudan 🇸🇸.
Within 7 years.. the dream was dead.
@grok tell us more about White Bull Lager and the history of beer production in southern Sudan.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
Kenya and South Sudan are back on the board to see through the completion of 365 km Nadapal - Juba road. The section is the missing part of 945 km Kenya - South Sudan.
Kenya is upgrading and finalizing her over 580 km section with support from AfDB and World Bank.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
Together, we can keep The Last Train 🚂 of peace going forward. #TheLastTrain #PeacePhilosophy #SaveTheLastTrain @SaveLastTrain
The Last Train a.co/d/020r61Tm
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
Kenya and South Sudan are back on the Nadapal-Juba highway after the World Bank through AfDB tasked Kenya to handle the process.
The entire 960 km stretch was estimated at $1.3 billion. Over $700 million awarded to Kenya and $350m to South Sudan for her 341 km stretch.
The cost has now risen to over $400m.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
In December 2025, the board of directors of African Development Bank (AfDB) approved $214.47 million for the South Sudan-Ethiopia-Djibouti Transport Corridor with Ethiopia receiving $181.5 million, Djibouti with $29.7 million and South Sudan takes $1.96 million.
Ethiopia and Djibouti have started phase II of the construction of a 67km expressway and upgrading of 18km Mouloud section in Ethiopia and Djibouti respectively. The $1.96m for South Sudan is purposely to upgrade the studies of a 280km road from Kapoeta-Raad. Juba is as silent as a grave.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
Yesterday June 11, the East African member countries presented their 2026/27 budget to their respective assemblies. The summary is as follows:
• Kenya (KES 4.8 trillion) ≈ $37.06 billion
• Tanzania (TZS 62.3 trillion) ≈ $24 billion
• Uganda (UGX 84.3 trillion) ≈ $22 billion
• Rwanda (RWF 7,796billion) ≈ $5.3 billion
• Burundi (unknown)
Meanwhile, South Sudan presented a SSP 11.335 trillion (~$2.4 billion) budget estimates to economic cluster of the cabinet.
Again we are really behind in catching up with the rest of the countries when it comes to fiscal discipline. The presentation of the budget on time is a constitutional obligation which we have not been respecting for many years. This exercise does not entirely depend on the Minister for Finance and Planning, so the frequent changes in the personalities in that docket is not an excuse for this fiscal indiscipline. We must improve.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
As expected, China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) has been awarded the contract for the expansion of JKIA by Kenya. The airport will be expanded in two phases and will run from 2026-2045.
The 12 million passengers annually capacity will now cost $2.9 billion rather than the original $2 billion.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
“This How a Capital City of a Oil Producing Country Should Look Like” — Luanda, Angola.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
We concluded that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility, and that genocide may still be occurring.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
President Samia Suluhu Hassan's visit to Russia fetches $2 billion investment by Russia in Tanzania for the next 3-5 years.
Russia will invest in health sector, mining, agriculture and technology. This has just added to $10.9 billion investment Tanzania has attracted in her mining sector alone.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
Highways that just don't connect cities....They connect ambition to progress 🇧🇫
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
President Kagame sits along with his people and enjoy the game in crowd, wow🙌
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
South Sudan’s Nilepet says it has cleared $172 million in arrears and exited default status across its joint operating companies months after PETRONAS exited the country’s oil sector.#SouthSudan #Oil
#Energy
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
When #Senegal’s government uncovered $13 billion in hidden, unrecorded debt left behind by former President Macky Sall’s regime, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko led debt audit revealed part of the national debt had been concealed, prompting the International Monetary Fund, IMF to immediately freeze and suspend its $1.8 billion lending programme.
Then disagreements emerged regarding the handling of this issue.
President Faye insisted on a pragmatic, compromise-driven path. He was willing to accept IMF-mandated austerity measures, including politically sensitive cuts to energy and fuel subsidies, to steady the economy and unlock the frozen funds to get more funding from IMF.
Prime Minister Sonko declined this approach and instead advocated for a sovereignist approach. Sonko fiercely opposed bowing to foreign lenders. He resisted cutting subsidies, imposing taxes and demanded a renegotiation of oil, gas and mining contracts with multinational companies.
Then a complete deadlock in the government.
Their disagreements also extend to the handling of legal cases.
Several former officials who served under President Macky Sall are accused of mismanagement and involvement in the political violence that claimed dozens of lives between 2021 and 2024.
President Faye favored a more cautious, reconciled approach. Fearing that aggressive prosecutions of the former regime would destabilize the state, fracture the security apparatus and alienate key institutional actors, Faye resisted hardline judicial purges.
As Prime Minister, Sonko pushed heavily for accountability, retributive justice, demanding that the amnesty law (passed by Sall's regime to shield his officials upon exit) be repealed so that Sall's former ministers, police chiefs and judicial officials could be tried for corruption, financial mismanagement and the deaths of youth protesters.
Ultimately, the government became entirely dysfunctional.
Faye used his executive power to reclaim sole control of the state, firing Sonko to build a government in his own image.
By securing the second-highest political office in the country, Sonko has effectively flipped the power dynamic. He went from a subordinate role inside the executive branch to leading an independent branch of government.
Faye will find his executive powers severely limited by a hostile legislature, and a ruling party that is not his own, leaving him with no choice but to wait until November 2026 to legally dissolve parliament.
Source: Local sources, @France24 (Debt crisis).
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
East African Community nations will spend a combined total of $7.54 billion on infrastructure particularly on construction of roads and railways in 2026/27 FY. Uganda and Kenya lead with allocations of $2.3 billion and $1.77 billion respectively.
Burundi, South Sudan and Somalia rock the bottom in the allocation.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
In two years, Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso
1. Burkina Faso's GDP grew from approximately $18.8 billion to $22.1 billion.
2. He has rejected loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. He said, "Africa doesn't need the World Bank, IMF, Europe, or America."
3. He reduced the salaries of ministers and parliamentarians by 30% and increased the salaries of civil servants by 50%.
4. He paid off Burkina Faso's local debts.
5. He established two tomato processing plants, the first-ever in Burkina Faso.
6. In 2023, he inaugurated a state-of-the-art gold mine to enhance local processing capabilities.
7. He stopped the export of unrefined Burkina Faso gold to Europe.
8. He built Burkina Faso’s second cotton processing plant. Previously, the country had only one.
9. He opened the first-ever National Support Center for Artisanal Cotton Processing to assist local cotton farmers.
10. He banned the wearing of British legal wigs and gowns in local courts and introduced traditional Burkinabé attire.
11. He prioritized agriculture by distributing over 400 tractors, 239 tillers, 710 motor pumps, and 714 motorcycles to boost production and support rural stakeholders.
12. He provided access to improved seeds and other farm inputs to maximize agricultural output.
13. Tomato production in Burkina Faso increased from 315,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 360,000 metric tonnes in 2024.
14. Millet production rose from 907,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 1.1 million metric tonnes in 2024.
15. Rice production increased from 280,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 326,000 metric tonnes in 2024.
16. He banned French military operations in Burkina Faso.
17. He banned French media in Burkina Faso.
18. He expelled French troops from Burkina Faso.
19. His government is constructing new roads, widening existing ones, and upgrading gravel roads to paved surfaces.
20. He is building a new airport, the Ouagadougou-Donsin Airport, which is expected to be completed in 2025 with a capacity to handle 1 million passengers annually.
Maal Maker Thiong🇸🇸🌹 retweeted
Ethiopia is still willing to fund and construct the 220km Ethiopia-South Sudan highway but on conditions South Sudan provides security and right of way (ROW) for the project.
Ethiopia has already allocated $738 million loan for the project that South Sudan will repay over 10 years period using crude oil. Ethiopia is offering South Sudan 5 years of grace period.
