Rather than investing in predatory for-profit healthcare companies, development finance institutions should use their funds to help improve universal public services across the continent.

— writes @FatiHassane for #AJOpinion ⤵️ https://aje.io/5i3qmj #press

'As the US scolds and the EU sanctions Kosovo, their “good partner” synchronises its policies with Russia and grows more autocratic and closer to its irredentist goals.'

— #AJOpinion by @SiditaKushi. https://aje.io/f2dyqm #press

"Frontex, and the governments behind it, have powerful tools in their hands that, if used responsibly, can prevent the Mediterranean Sea from becoming a mass grave for those who were denied safe entry into the EU."

— #AJOpinion by @AhNidzara ⤵️ https://aje.io/1blefh #press

'If they’re not careful, Western diplomats will repeat the same placating policies that emboldened Serbia’s “Butcher of the Balkans”, Slobodan Milosevic, more than 20 years ago.'

— #AJOpinion by @SiditaKushi. https://aje.io/fujbyw #press

"History has shown the folly of confusing a parliamentary majority for popular legitimacy, or worse, imagining it trumps popular legitimacy. Ruto’s predecessor also boasted of a super-majority – the so-called Tyranny of Numbers."

— #AJOpinion by @gathara. https://aje.io/s13q3r #press

"As Palestinians face Israel’s incessant military terror, the violence of museums may seem inconsequential. But it reminds us how history and heritage can be weaponised."

— #AJOpinion by @somdeep_sen ⤵️ https://aje.io/u66gaj #press

"We should empower them to develop their own autonomous voice and document their stories, unmediated, by providing them with widely available tools that abrogate the need for interference from external actors."

— #AJOpinion by Dario Colmenares Millán. https://aje.io/m2kmuy #press

Amid deadly anti-government protests, another Kenyan president is facing the consequences of confusing a parliamentary majority for popular legitimacy.

— writes @gathara for #AJOpinion ⤵️ https://aje.io/wt1bw0 #press

"Israel’s recent comportment in Jenin – and particularly the sudden use of air strikes in the West Bank for the first time in years – has invited comparisons to the Israeli modus operandi in the Gaza Strip."

— #AJOpinion by @MariaBelen_Fdez ⤵️ https://aje.io/879d5n #press

"Let’s make sure that we support BDS and that we talk the truth about Jenin."

— #AJOpinion by @AyyashMark ⤵️ https://aje.io/vpr80e #press

"The fight against the terrorist FETÖ network inside and outside of Türkiye remains one of the country’s main priorities."

— #AJOpinion by Dr M. Mustafa Göksu ⤵️ https://aje.io/sdim8l #press

"We don’t need oil and gas representatives at the tables where climate conversations and negotiations are taking place."

— #AJOpinion by Tzeporah Berman ⤵️ https://aje.io/xkouhf #press

Physical violence isn’t the only way Israel tries to deny Palestinian existence. Museums are tools of terror, too.

— writes @somdeep_sen for #AJOpinion ⤵️ https://aje.io/33y0uj #press

"Winning an election may give one access to public power, but that access has to be constantly negotiated during one’s term."

— #AJOpinion by @gathara ⤵️ https://aje.io/vagrqa #press

"While Jenin has hardly been exempt from Israeli antagonisation in the years since 2002, it has tended to be of a more hands-on variety than in Gaza."

— #AJOpinion by @MariaBelen_Fdez ⤵️ https://aje.io/570aa5 #press

"In the end, not the ICC but the people of Sudan brought al-Bashir down."

— #AJOpinion by Sarah Nouwen ⤵️ https://aje.io/ayxv3r #press

"Oil, gas and coal companies suppress the truth while making bank. In fact, the industry is making record profits on expanding production of oil and gas despite the clear science calling for an end to expansion."

— #AJOpinion by @Tzeporah ⤵️ https://aje.io/nddqjo #press

No room for fossil fuel executives at climate negotiation tables — #AJOpinion by Tzeporah Berman ⤵️

🔗: https://aje.io/eknlsj #press

"Russia has already lost the moral and strategic high ground to an ever more offensive alliance that is sure to militarise the continent and expand its outreach worldwide."

— #AJOpinion by @marwanbishara ⤵️ https://aje.io/ikc5hj #press

"Instead of promoting the growth of expensive, out-of-reach hospitals for the elite, countries should support quality universal public services – funded by taxes and aid – and delivered free of charge at the point of use."

— #AJOpinion by @FatiHassane ⤵️ https://aje.io/9668mn #press