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We'll do well to remember the lives that have been lost to various atrocities in this blood-stained country of ours...
While there is no doubt to my mind that many officers in @HqNigerianArmy are heroes, think Sani Bello who saved the life of Gen. Ironsi’s ADC, Andrew Nwankwo, or Usman Jibrin, who flew many Igbo officers to safety during the pogroms of 1966...
or even Mohammed Shuwa, who ensured that Igbos were protected in the area under his command, the fact is that on the balance, @HqNigerianArmy has a murderous reputation, and as I once referred to them, are an equal opportunities brutaliser.
is only an arm of @NigeriaGov, and this video attempts to chronicle some of the atrocities committed in #Nigeria, by both state and non-state actors.
Video: A brief history of mass atrocities in Nigeria https://t.co/83iQ71cegm
— SBM Intelligence (@sbmintelligence) January 14, 2021
This is one of the tragedies of #Nigeria.
The number of people who have been killed in mass atrocities in the country since “independence” perhaps gets close to the 100,000 mark.
Imagine that!
I explored this a bit in my chapter on women’s exclusion from electoral politics in a volume on Pakistan’s Political Parties edited by @NiloSiddiqui @sahar_shafqat & Mariam Mufti https://t.co/bKIlD0smTF
The book is out now in PK via @foliobooks: https://t.co/tLKsKs0fWD /2
Here’s a figure from that chapter. The pattern extends beyond BB & MNS; women elected representatives with family connections make up a starkly high proportion of all women in national & provincial assemblies. There’s a gender gap in dynastic connections /3

Family connections are on the one hand a "channel" for women, otherwise excluded, to enter a very very male dominated space of national and provincial level politics. At the same time, the *lack* of such connections poses a much higher barrier for women than it does for men. /4
This isn’t a Pakistan specific pattern by any means. Amrita Basu explores this in her excellent chapter "Women, dynasties, and democracy in India" in a volume on Democratic Dynasties edited by Kanchan Chandra https://t.co/ZcRRKyvrrl /5
If it\u2019s snowing in your area today please put some food out for the endangered lesbians.
— Sally Hines (@sally_hines) December 29, 2020
On a scale of 1 to 10 how funny is it for children to start a lifetime of medication? How funny is it that other comorbidities such as autism, anxiety, depression are not thoroughly explored? How funny is it that girls as young as 12 in US & 18 in UK have healthy breasts removed?
How much does it make you laugh to imagine a child agreeing with her clinician that she never ever wants to have children? And how funny is it that she knows now, as a child, that she is the opposite sex, because peer pressure & social media tell her so?
How hilarious it is that lesbians have no social places of their own - either as young people or adults? That they are not welcome in LGBTQ+ clubs unless they agree that TWAW & thereby can be lesbians. That they are told they are transphobic if they do not agree.
Will you be splitting your sides when legislation like the "Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020" in Victoria, Australia is passed? (Be aware that similar Bills are being discussed around the world).
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The General is back to discuss more socio-economic transformation and election security as we head into the election week.
— Capital FM Uganda (@CapitalFMUganda) January 8, 2021
We shall be broadcasting LIVE from GULU Tune In at 10AM #TheCapitalGang pic.twitter.com/HjVKUvDLeB
GEN SALIM SALEH: The biggest security threat in Uganda today is the daily issue of livelihoods, jobs, expanding the economy....
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#LiveFromGulu
@DamalieOwori
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@OWC_ug GEN SALIM SALEH: President Museveni recently told me that whoever wants to discuss Uganda's economy, should first look at factors of production in 1900, in 1962, 1986 and how they are in 2020. Where do we want them to be?
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@OWC_ug GEN SALIM SALEH: Northern Uganda is going to become the fastest growing area economically, because of peace. Commercial farming is beginning to take place, poverty levels have reduced. Government continues to pump in support.
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@OWC_ug OO: There has been general transformation, but we need to start taking a look at the obstacles to factors of production. Agriculture is no longer viable for some. What do we do to transform such areas to move to other fields of production?
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Yesterday, before the announcement, I tweeted on this here:
An explainer thread (often I feel I am pitching these to journalists as much as anyone else) on COVID this month.
— Ewan Birney (@ewanbirney) October 31, 2020
I'd also recommend @AdamJKucharski's tweet thread on this https://t.co/UN7tTt95dQ and @JeremyFarrar's here
Nobody wanted to see a repeat of the spring, with hospitalisations rising and stringent measures coming back in. But UK isn't in quite the same position as March, so here are some sources for medium-term optimism as we come into a difficult winter... 1/
— Adam Kucharski (@AdamJKucharski) October 31, 2020
I can feel quite a few people processing this, and those people in media positions, via their public personas. It's unsurprising there is concern, angst and questions, even though if you had been following the numbers, SAGE and other debates it was well sign posted
So - in this tweet thread I want to remind people why this is different to March - it *really* is, and then I will do a second thread on things that people bring up which I think are not good arguments