On Colonialism and its influence on Nutrition in Africa

(This will be a long thread and you will find a lot more details of a lot of the things here on Maintenance Phase’ “The Great Protein Fiasco.”

The Government provided £2.8 billion of aid capital to BII between 2017 and 2021 and 28% of its portfolio was by value was in India. So it matters if there aren’t effective controls over investment of taxpayers’ money there

A US Navy ship, the USNS 2nd LT John P. Bobo, en route to the eastern Mediterranean to help the US military set up a pier for aid to Gaza had to turn back last week after experiencing a fire, a Navy spokesperson told CNN.

It is not clear how the delay will affect the

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Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds theguardian.com/global-develop…

#DYK that within our product portfolio, we provide data sets for different parts of the world❓

This allows researchers to observe, understand, and predict marine conditions in various areas 🌊

🔽Dataviz of currents 〰️ in the Black Sea on 13 April

Geneva breaks April temperature record set in 1934.

There’s good reason to think there’s a very local history behind the flat white.

Everywhere from NZ to England laid claim on the flat white, but it was probably the pre-WWII sugar farmers from QLD we have to thank, writes Garritt Van Dyk (@Uni_Newcastle). theconversation.com/who-invented-t…

Maybe not “unprecedented”?

The confiscation of medical supplies for besieged people in #Syria led to cross-border UN operations without the consent of Damascus. Below is from remarks of Luxembourg at the UN🇱🇺🇺🇳 at the Security Council in July 2014.

documents.un.org/doc/undoc/pro/…

NEW: Apple notified people in 92 countries they may have been targeted with spyware, TechCrunch learned.

“Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone' linked to your Apple ID.

techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/app…

Lots of fundamental building blocks missing in the picture to start claiming AI is approaching superintelligence levels.

That's far from the truth - AI is actually stuck with stupid deep learning models taking all the funding & attention - literally.

OECD #ODA stats out for 2023. Some positives - a real overall increase; driven by 🇯🇵 + 🇺🇸.

Still, refugee spend at home still dominant - more spent on that ($31bn) than provided bilaterally to Sub-Saharan Africa ($28bn), or to LDCs ($30bn).

oecd.org/dac/ODA-summar…

About to address the General Assembly on the risks to us all of a Security Council that is finding it harder to enable the implementation of its decisions

Open Democracy cuts fifth of staff, including head of news and political correspondent pressgazette.co.uk/news/open-demo…

£4.3bn of #UKaid was spent supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK in 2023, up from £3.7bn in 2022, driven largely by the cost of hotels.

Read our new analysis out today: icai.independent.gov.uk/use-of-the-aid…

.UN Humanitarian asked some Palestinian photojournalists to share photos from the past 6 months in Gaza that they want the world to never forget.

Here’s what they sent us. Shocking, sobering and heartbreaking.

No one can pretend that they didn’t know.

They have murdered hundreds of aid workers, but those ones were brown Palestinians. Yesterday, Israel dared cross that invisible line and killed westerners w/ impunity.

When will those with power say 🛑 We have become inured to the savagery being inflicted on our fellow humans.

“Humanitarian deconfliction” has always been problematic: newhumanitarian.medium.com/what-is-humani…

“The Syria crisis has now entered its 14th year & Tuesday’s attack is a solemn reminder of the continued danger & devastation it presents for civilians in Syria.” Statement of the UN RCHC Adam Abdelmoula, on the killing of a WHO team member in Deir-ez-Zor.bit.ly/3xgFPaA

Outraged by the killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza.

All this talk about ceasefires, and still this war steals the best of us.