Abba Kyari: Cabal or Patriot?

Yemi Olakitan

 A look through the social media on the event of Abba Kyari’s death will reveal divergent views among Nigerians. While some praised him, others mourned him. There are some who actually celebrated his death. A twitter user compared him to Adolf Hitler. A commissioner received the sacked letter for openly celebrating Abba Kyari’s death.

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State brazenly sacked his Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, Engineer Mu’azu Magaji for celebrating the death of late Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. The Kano state Commissioner was said to have taken to his Facebook and twitter accounts to celebrate the death of late Abba Kyari.

 Governor Ganduje in a swift reaction through a statement by his Commissioner of Information, Muhammad Garba relieved Kano state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Muazu Magaji of his appointment with immediate effect.

 The Governor said, “Late Abba Kyari had led a life worthy of emulation by serving his country to the best of his ability,”

 Mr. Magaji had while reacting to Kyari’s death in a Facebook post said Nigeria was now free. He said, Abba Kyari had so much power that he decided the fate of Nigerians.  Magaji said, “Win-win. Nigeria is free. You can’t change history. You are who you are, and what you do define who you are dead or alive!

“There is a world of difference between a good person and a good leader. Leadership is an aggregated quality of mass empathy and personal favours. Nigeria is bigger than any individual. While praying for the President’s late support staff. Ours is to prevent a repeat of a non-accountable domineering era.  Abba Kyari is no ordinary citizen. He amassed so much power that he decided the fate of my nation and its people. Hence the death is never a personal thing.” he added. The Commissioner paid dearly for his reckless statements when he received the sack notice. A testimony to the fact that Abba Kyari is still powerful even in death.

Abba Kyari was the trusted friend of President Mohammadu Buhari and his Chief of Staff.  He died from complications related to Covid-19 after a nearly month-long battle with the virus.  Kyari had widely been seen as one of the three most powerful people in Nigeria and said to have the complete trust of President Buhari. Some had even described him as the defacto Head of the Government. 

Although he held so much power and influence, he was not keen on political limelight. Reports reveal that an average Nigerian does not know his name although they are familiar with names like Bola Tinubu, Lai Moahmed, Moahmed Buhari, Nasir Elrufai and others.

There are few official public photographs of him and even his official age was not readily available in the early obituaries, though a tweet on from President Buhari confirmed he was 67.

Kyari contracted this virus while on an official assignment. Alongside Sale Mamman, minister of power, he had attended a meeting in Germany with officials of Siemens to discuss issues relating to the Nigerian power sector. After returning from the trip he had himself tested – though he showed no symptoms. This shows responsibility on the path of the chief of staff at a time when some members of the elite have willed to be irresponsible.

A memo Kyari wrote to the leadership of the National Assembly on how federal lawmakers returning from abroad were evading screening had gone viral earlier. It was reported that 35 senators had not complied with the procedure to determine their coronavirus status.

Kyari, who graduated from Cambridge and Warwick universities in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, was often described as an intellectual by those who dealt with him.

In a chat with Felix Ademola, a young APC politician based in Igbesa, Ogun state, he said, ‘It is an irony to many that the man played against the expectation of Nigerians. The expectation is that the highly educated people must come from Southern Nigeria. Not many expected the weight of Abba Kyari’s academic credentials.

 ‘’The kind of education that the President himself cannot compete with, no wonder he drew him close, the education that Mohamadu Buhari does not have. Abba Kyari had them. He supported his friend with his intellectual prowess. He was the pillar behind Mohamadu Buhari, his personal adviser.  No wonder many hated him, purely out of political envy.’’

Reports say, Kyari’s passing is a major blow to the Buhari presidency. It leaves a gaping hole in the administration as it juggles responding to a coronavirus outbreak—which is likely to tip Nigeria’s economy into its worst recession in 30 years according to the IMF and insecurity caused by Boko Haram insurgency that has the military stretched. Kyari’s passing may force President Buhari into a quick shake-up of his cabinet.

Kyari was one of several high profile political figures in Nigeria to have contracted the virus. The state governors of Bauchi (Bala Mohammed) and Oyo (Seyi Makinde) both contracted the virus in March and have recovered. The Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai.

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Kyari was born on September 23^RD 1952, to a Kanuri family from Borno. He was educated in St. Paul’s College in Wusasa. In 1976, he met General Muhammadu Buhari who was then Governor of Borno State.  He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Warwick in 1980, and also obtained a law degree from the University of Cambridge. Kyari was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1983 after attending the Nigerian Law School.

In 1984, he obtained a Master's degree in law from the University of Cambridge. He later attended the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, and in 1992 and 1994 participated in the Harvard Business School's Program for Leadership Development.   Kyari worked as a lawyer for some time after his return to Nigeria.

From 1988 to 1990, he was Editor with the New Africa Holdings Limited Kaduna. He also served as a Commissioner for Forestry and Animal Resources in Borno State in 1990s.  From 1990 to 1995, Kyari was the secretary to the board of African International Bank Limited, a subsidiary of Bank of Credit and Commerce International.   Kyari was an Executive Director in charge of management services at the United Bank for Africa, and was later appointed the chief executive officer. In 2002, he was appointed a board director of Unilever Nigeria, and later served on the board of Exxon Mobil Nigeria.

In August 2015, Kyari was appointed Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.  Kyari was an influential figure within the Buhari administration. During the administration's first term, he worked mainly behind the scenes to implement the president's agenda. In 2019 with Buhari's re-election for a second term, he ordered his cabinet to channel all requests through Kyari's office.  Further enhancing his influence within government circles, and being labelled as the de facto head of government.  In 2017, following a leaked memo, Kyari became embroiled in a public argument with the Head of Civil Service, who was later removed from office and arrested. In 2020, in another leaked memo, Babagana Monguno the National Security Adviser accused Kyari of meddling in matters of national security.

Kyari was married to the sister-in-law of Ibrahim Tahir, and had four children.  On 24 March 2020, it was made public that Kyari tested positive for COVID-19 on March 23, following an official trip to Germany nine days before.

 There were reports that he had been flown out of the country for treatment and Reuters later reported he had "a history of medical complications, including diabetes".  On 29 March 2020, in an official statement, Kyari announced he was being moved from isolation in Abuja to Lagos for "preventive treatment” Kyari died on the evening of April 17^TH 2020 at age 67.

President Mohamadu Buahri who spoke about him said, ‘’Mallam Abba Kyari, who died on 17th April, 2020, at the age of 67 from complications caused by the Coronavirus, was a true Nigerian patriot. My loyal friend and compatriot for the last 42 years – and my Chief-of-Staff – he never wavered in his commitment to the betterment of every one of us.

‘’He was only in his twenties when we first met. A diligent student, soon after he was blessed with the opportunity to study abroad – first at Warwick and then law at the University of Cambridge. But there was never any question Abba would bring his first-rate skills and newly acquired world-class knowledge back to Nigeria – which he did –

‘’immediately upon graduation.  Whilst possessing the sharpest legal and organizational mind, Abba’s true focus was always the development of infrastructure and the assurance of security for the people of this nation he served so faithfully. For he knew that without both in tandem there can never be the development of the respectful society and vibrant economy that all Nigerian citizens deserve.’’

 In political life, Abba never sought elective office for himself. Rather, he set himself against the view and conduct of two generations of Nigeria’s political establishment – who saw corruption as an entitlement and its practice a byproduct of possessing political office.  Becoming my Chief of Staff in 2015, he strove quietly and without any interest in publicity or personal gain to implement my agenda.’

’ The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello in is own assessment of the man said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari was a ‘cabal’ in this present administration.’’ 

According to Bello, the late Kyari stepped on toes while discharging his duties in the interest of President Buhari and Nigeria. The Governor noted that Kyari sacrificed it all to ensure that Nigeria had the much modest achievement that it had today, adding that he took a lot of bullets and responsibility for that.  Asked if the late Kyari was a cabal in President Buhari’s presidency considering how influential he was in the cabinet, Bello said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics: “Like you know and that of us in authority, loyalty is number one.   “Secondly, your ability and character to discharge the duties and responsibilities discharged on you is one other thing.  “Mallam Abba Kyari was very loyal to Mr. President, very diligent, a professional par excellence, and he is very passionate about the progress and development of Nigeria, not only to our party the APC but Nigeria in general.

“Such a person, if he’s carrying out his duties and responsibilities, surely there is no way you will not step on toes one way or the other to ensure that the job is done.  “So if he stepped on a toe in one way or the other, it is just to ensure that he serves Mr. President diligently, that he did so well.  “He took a lot of bullets and responsibility for that. So there is no regret and no apology to that effect.  “In due course, we are going to miss this great Nigerian who sacrificed it all to ensure that we have the much modest achievement that we have today, so if you say cabal, in one way or the other yes.  “You will have one or two persons that are loyal to you who’re ready to dare the devil and ensure that the job is done. So if you call it a cabal, it depends on the angle you are looking at it from.”

Additional Sources: Channels Television, Wikipedia

Covid Organics To Be distributed Free- Madagascar President

Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina has officially launched a medicine he believes can prevent and cure patients suffering from COVID-19.

Developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research and branded COVID Organics, President Rajaolina presented the so-called remedy to the press on Monday. It contains Artemisia, a plant cultivated on the Big Island to fight against malaria.

“All trials and tests have been conducted and its effectiveness in reducing the elimination of symptoms has been proven for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 in Madagascar,” the president said.

A presidential decree said COVID-organics is mandatory for children returning to school on Wednesday. President Rajaolina said Monday that it had cured two COVID-19 cases.

“The Covid-Organics will be distributed free of charge to our most vulnerable compatriots and sold at very low prices to others. All profits will be donated to IMRA to finance scientific research,” the president wrote on Twitter..

“I’m convinced that, in fact history will prove us, but today there are already two cases that have been cured with the Covid-organics, but we’ll actually see what happens next.”

“Covid Organics will be used in profilaxis, i.e. preventive, but clinical observations have shown a trend towards its effectiveness in curative, other clinical studies are currently underway,” he stressed at the launch.

The president has previously made claims about herbal remedies despite scientific opinion that there is currently no cure for COVID-19 and that any experimental formula should be rigorously tested to see if it is safe and effective.

As of April 22, Madagascar’s case stats stood at 121 cases of which 44 had recovered with no deaths.

Madagascar President Launches COVID 19 Cure and Prevention

President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina has officially launched a local herbal remedy claimed to prevent and cure the novel coronavirus.

“Tests have been carried out — two people have now been cured by this treatment,” Rajoelina told ministers, diplomats and journalists at the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research (IMRA), which developed the beverage.

“This herbal tea gives results in seven days,” he said.Downing a dose, he said: “I will be the first to drink this today, in front of you, to show you that this product cures and does not kill.”

The drink, which has been called COVID-Organics, is derived from artemisia — a plant with proven efficacy in malaria treatment — and other indigenous herbs, according to the IMRA.

But its safety and effectiveness have not been assessed internationally, nor has any data from trials been published in peer-reviewed studies. Mainstream scientists have warned of the potential risk from untested herbal brews.

Rajoelina brushed aside any such reservations and said the concoction would be offered to schoolchildren, as it was his duty was to “protect the Malagasy people”.

“COVID-Organics will be used as prophylaxis, that is for prevention, but clinical observations have shown a trend towards its effectiveness in curative treatment,” said Dr Charles Andrianjara, IMRA’s director-general.

The large Indian Ocean island has so far detected 121 cases and no fatality.

The pandemic has triggered a rush for herbal formulas, lemons and ginger in the belief that they can protect against the virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO), which has people to be vigilant about claimed cures for COVID-19, did not attend the event.

The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), referring to claims for herbal or tea remedies, says: “There is no scientific evidence that any of these alternative remedies can prevent or cure the illness caused by COVID-19. In fact, some of them may not be safe to consume.”

The Source: The Guardian Newspaper, Nigeria

Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje: An Insider Look Into the Life of a Successful Actor

As an actor in Lost, he was watched worldwide. As a child, he was a 'black Oliver Twist', farmed out for fostering to a white family. Now Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is making a film of his extraordinary life story.                                                                 The name Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is not one that slips easily off the tongue but it's worth mastering because we're likely to be hearing a lot more of it in the future. Followers of the wilfully perplexing American fantasy series Lost may recall its owner as Mr Eko, the former drug lord turned fake priest who was killed by the Man in Black, otherwise known as the Monster. Or perhaps not.

Some will know him as Simon Adebisi, the intimidating African convict in the cult HBO prison series Oz; others may recognise his contributions to films such as Congo and The Bourne Identity; and no doubt his role as an American spy in the forthcoming BBC-HBO series Hunted will further raise his profile. But it may well be as the screenwriter and film director of his own life story that Akinnuoye-Agbaje becomes a name to remember.Armed with an Annenberg Film Fellowship grant, Akinnuoye-Agbaje has been working on the film for several years, developing the story at the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs. A read-through of the script by a cast including David Harewood and Marc Warren became one of the most talked about events at the recent Sundance London festival.

Entitled Farming, it refers to the practice of handing out children to informal fostering that many Nigerian parents followed in 1960s and 1970s Britain. Akinnuoye-Agbaje was one such case. In 1967, when he was six weeks old, his parents – a Nigerian couple studying in London – gave him to a white working-class couple in Tilbury, then a fiercely insular dockside community. Six months later, the Tilbury dockers led strikes in support of Enoch PowellAkinnuoye-Agbaje hopes to start shooting the film later this year. It's a neo-Dickensian tale of hardship, abandonment and solidarity, a kind of black Oliver Twist for the postwar immigration era. Now a powerfully built 44-year-old man, he recalls the vulnerability of his childhood with such a generous mixture of humour and understanding that it's difficult to keep in mind that he came through circumstances that would have crushed the strongest of spirits.

At times his foster parents had 10 or more African children living with them, including Akinnuoye-Agbaje's two sisters. "It was a strange relationship," he recalls of his feelings for his foster parents. "It was one of love because that's all that I knew, and that's what love is: you accept people for what they are. If I'm honest, it was very tough. My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from. We had to go out and nick things to get it. So there wasn't any love in the sense of hugs or anything like that: there was just no room for it. The only haven I had was sleeping behind the sofa in the corner of the room – that was where I could get some kind of peace."

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If it was crowded and chaotic within the home, outside the young boy was in constant danger of physical attack from local kids who, encouraged by their parents, nurtured a violent fear of blacks. He learned to feel the same way himself, running away from the black sailors who occasionally visited the docks from far-off locations.

"I just remember being petrified," he says. "It was as if they were the bogey man to us. Fish and chips and corned beef, that's what I knew. Do you know what I mean?"

As far as the chips and corned beef go, only too well. But the rest is less easy to imagine. Such was his eagerness to fit in that, although his skin clearly told another tale, he thought of himself as white. And if his sense of self wasn't already damaged enough, he knew nothing of his African parents until one day, when he was eight, they turned up out of the blue and took him back to Nigeria.

"It felt like a kidnap," he says, "and it rendered me mute for about nine months. I couldn't speak the language, and if I spoke English I was abused for it. It was quite a culture shock: brutal. I was so traumatised and afraid that I stopped speaking and my [birth] parents thought there was something wrong with me, thought I was possessed. They tried various indigenous ways to deal with it, and when they didn't work they sent me home, back to Tilbury, but kept my sisters there."

You wonder where the authorities were while young Adewale was being treated like some human missile, fired back and forth between continents. If his natural parents were not prepared to bring him up, it didn't help that his foster parents were ill-prepared. "There was a lot of ignorance in the family," he says as a neutral observation rather than a complaint. "I don't think they were racist; they were ignorant. They didn't know that we had to put cream on our skin because the skin is for warmer climates and it turns ashy in the cold. They didn't know they had to put cream in our hair. They didn't know we had a different smell from Caucasians and we were persecuted because of it. They were just raising us as they would a white kid, but there were differences, marked differences, and I learned about that as I started to grow up."

This was a different time, of course, when social services maintained a more remote involvement in childcare arrangements and there was much less appreciation of cultural distinctions. In the 1980s there came an identity backlash. Fostering, and especially adoption, were made far more stringent in relation to children from minority backgrounds. A policy of cultural and ethnic determinism was instituted that left many children, who might otherwise have found loving homes, in care because no suitable racial match could be found.

Identity and adoption are complex issues with no easy fit-all answers. But then Akinnuoye-Agbaje doesn't have any easy answers to offer. "It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children? My film doesn't judge in that sense. It makes you aware of the possible dangers but if there's anything to be gleaned from this story it's that if one is from a certain culture and then fosters someone from another culture, one should really take the time to learn about that other culture because there will come a point when the child will need to know about whence it came."

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As relieved as young Adewale was to return to Tilbury as a nine-year-old, he had also learned something about his background, and it disturbed him. For the first time he was aware of being on the outside and looking in, and realising that he was not the same as his foster parents, despite their insistence that he was. "Now I had a reference point and that really highlighted my cultural identity crisis," he says. "I wanted to assimilate and go back to the abnormal normality I knew. I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was. As much as I wanted to deny it, it was plaguing me, and I was reminded by the images coming through the TV, people on the streets and in the end my family in the house."

The more he tried to blend in, the more he was rejected. After a year in Africa his skin was darker, which made him yet more conspicuous among the white population. Reluctant to go out, he was issued with an ultimatum by his foster father: either he fight in the street or he would have to fight in the house. With little choice, he learned to defend himself and also to attack others. As he became a teenager he grew into a well-built young man with a reputation for violence.

"It was a time of standing up and standing your ground or running, and there wasn't anywhere to run in Tilbury. The local skinhead gang really ran the streets. They made my life – and anyone's who was a shade darker than pale – a misery."

There's a natural human tendency to dramatise our backgrounds, embellish challenges and exaggerate difficulties, and actors are certainly not immune to the impulse. But there's no bravado or sentimentality in Akinnuoye-Agbaje's manner. Instead he displays a passionate and perhaps cathartic desire to explain, not least because what took place next requires some explanation.

He became a skinhead.

He didn't just adopt the haircut and clothes but the racist attitudes too. He fought alongside his new skinhead comrades, who treated him at first like some brutalised pet to be unleashed in battle. "I was like a little dog that followed them around," he says.

"When a child wants to be accepted," he explains, "he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do. If all you've known is racism, abuse and persecution, then all of a sudden you're getting some recognition, that's your new drug. That's what you want. By the time I was 16 I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager."

He became a bully and a thief and seemed set to pursue a life of crime and dysfunctionality. Unable to cope and worried that he would become a disruptive influence on the other children in her care, his foster mother got in touch with his birth parents. At 16 he was once again removed from Tilbury, this time not to Africa but to a boarding school in Surrey, paid for by his parents – his father was a qualified barrister with a lucrative practice in Nigeria.

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The relationship with his birth parents had not improved in the intervening years. He was a street kid who spoke a raw cockney dialect, and they were two professionals, unwilling to acknowledge responsibility for what they had inflicted on their child.

"It was hell on earth," he says, shaking his head at the memory. "It was really the most bizarre thing. I was like, 'Eff off, you wog'. They were total strangers to me, and there was no marrying the two worlds of Tilbury and Africa. No way."

Such was the disorienting shock of boarding school, with its unsettling silence and atmosphere of academic expectation, that the overwhelmed teenager, now confronted with his own self-hatred, attempted suicide.

He couldn't turn back but didn't know how to go forward. He found it hard to concentrate and he struggled to understand what he was being taught. But gradually, with the help of a girlfriend and a fellow student, he began to accept his heritage, and he also learned how to study, going on to gain a law degree from King's College, London.

He was and remains grateful to his birth parents for eventually providing an education but he never forged a close relationship with them. His birth father is now dead, as are his two foster parents, whom he thinks of as his real parents. "They were the ones who raised me, for good and bad," he says. He stayed close to them right up until their deaths.

While at university he worked in a clothes shop where, in turn, he was introduced to modelling. That took him around the world and eventually to Hollywood, and the cast of the film Congo. The instant he started acting, he knew it was his vocation. "I realised that the sum total of my life added up to this: my rough upbringing, because when they said 'Action!', I had plenty; and the analytical focus and determination of legal study – you need all of that to be an actor," he says, breaking into a broad and knowing grin.

"And obviously my natural charisma and showy self, because you've got to be star inside."

Akinnuoye-Agbaje is indeed a star inside and out, but the hardest and most triumphant role he'll ever play is the one he was handed by his parents as a baby of just six weeks.

Source: The Guardian 

South Africa President Ramaphosa Unveils $26bn COVID-19 Relief Plan

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced a $26 billion relief package aimed at stimulating the economy and cushion the vulnerable people during the coronavirus pandemic.

In a special address to the nation, Ramaphosa announced “a massive social and economic support package of 500 billion rand ($26.3 billion), which amounts to about 10 percent of our GDP.”

“The impact of the coronavirus requires an extraordinary coronavirus budget…the scale of this emergency programme is historical,” he said.

Before the virus arrived last month, Africa’s most advanced economy was already reeling from a recession, deteriorating public finances and a swollen budget deficit.

The economy which grew by a paltry 0.3 percent last year, is now expected to contract by 6.1 percent, according to the central bank.

Ramaphosa said a portion of the virus relief funds will be redirected from the current budget and the rest would be sourced from the local unemployment insurance fund and from global partners and international finance institutions.

South Africa is in its fourth week of a five-week lockdown imposed expected to run to the end of April.

With many people out of work or companies shut down to observe the lockdown “poverty and food insecurity have deepened dramatically in the course of just a few weeks,”

Mozambique Deports Brazilian Drug Lord

Mozambique has announced the expulsion of a a Brazilian drug lord who has been on the run for two decades. 

The Government said, Gilberto “Fuminho” Aparecido dos Santos was sent home on a Brazilian air force plane that left Maputo at 1.30am on Monday with dozens of police officers onboard.   Brazil’s justice ministry said yesterday that Dos Santos was already in a federal prison in the country.

Dos Santos  was arrested last week in an international sting operation that involved agents from Brazil, Mozambique and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.The Mozambican authorities decided on Friday to expel him for allegedly entering the country illegally but kept the decision secret until he had left.

He is an alleged leader of the First Capital Command (PCC), considered to be Brazil’s top criminal gang, which wields control over cocaine supply routes from Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

Its leader, Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, is serving a sentence of more than 200 years in a maximum-security prison in the capital, Brasilia. Dos Santos is accused, among other things, of financing a plot to help Camacho escape.

In a report from theguardian.com, Mozambique’s interior ministry announced Dos Santos’s expulsion and said he was barred from the country for 10 years.

Authorities saied, he had arrived in Mozambique in March and was arrested at a luxury hotel in Maputo, along with two Nigerian nationals. 

Police recovered a fake Brazilian passport, 100 grammes (3.5 ounces) of cannabis, 15 mobile phones and a car, as well as the cash equivalent of about $800 (£600) in Mozambican and South African currency.

China Must Investigate Cases of Abuse Reported by Africans-Nelson Chamisa

The MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said China must investigate cases of abuse being reported by Africans in China, Chamisa further said the African Union must engage China to urge them to defend Africans in China.

Chamisa tweeted:

The treatment of Africans in China must be respectful of human rights.Africans must be accorded the same respect the Chinese get in Africa.A full investigation must be launched into the repThis comes at a time the world is appalled by reports coming from China that Africans are being discriminated against in China as they are being racially profiled and being blamed for spreading the virus.

Source: Twitter rorted cases of abuse and the AU must engage China in defense of African citizens’ dignity.

Nelson Chamisa (born 2 February 1978) is a Zimbabwean politician who is the President of the Movement for Democratic Change He served as Member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Kuwadzana East, Harare. Chamisa was the MDC Alliance's candidate for president in the 2018 general ... Zimbabwe ruled that Nelson Chamisa was not the legitimate

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