It was an interview on japan's national TV station in a interview with the renowned Antonio López Gutiérrez / Rector, Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM) Here is the interview: The video is 14 minutes 59 seconds long. The part on the Pan-African University start at 12 minutes 29 seconds Video: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/directtalk/20191106/2058562/
How can someone who was able to get elected president of the united States can be an idiot ? How he s an idiot when he says ' the US spent almost $ 8 trillion in the Middle East , but the only thing we got was death when our bridges were crumbling '.
How is he an idiot when he is not backing the criminal gangs that are stealing oil and other resources around the world disguising as radical muslims ?
How is an idiot when he did not throw his country in to stupid bloody wars since he took office? Check this : Obama got into office on january 20 2009. From that date to January 20, 2011 how many years ? Only two. Does anyone still remember what happened during hat time: Gaddafi was killed, racist Muslim gangs were committing ethnic cleansing against black Libyans, Cote d'Ivoire was in a bloody war thanks the support France and the United states gave to the rebels out there. Nigeria was under a bloody Boko Haram attack and the Obama administration was refusing to sell weapons to the Nigerian government , worse they were blaming the Nigerian military for violating the terrorists' human rights !
At that time the West was also conniving to prepare a bloody war in Syria. In mid-March 2011, the Syrian war started.
This means in less than 2 years 2 month s of Obama's tenure there rivers of blood flowing in many parts of the world.
Trump has in office for more than three years, how many wars did he start ? Zero ! He stop funding the Syrian terrorists and let Russia and Syria deal with the latter.
One of the few things people can blame this president for is his anti immigrant policy that targets non white.
Japan's public television NHK said Cuba is about to start a PanAfrican University of Medicine. The project will be led by ELAM , Cuba's renowned university. The goal is to have doctors capable of working under difficult conditions. They should be about to make accurate diagnostic, even in remote areas a total lack of laboratory tests. What is ELAM ?
Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM), formerly Escuela Latinoamericana de Ciencias Médicas (in Spanish; in English: Latin American School of Medicine (LASM), formerly Latin American School of Medical Sciences), is a major international medical school in Cuba and a prominent part of the Cuban healthcare system.
Established in 1999 and operated by the Cuban government, ELAM has been described as possibly being the largest medical school in the world by enrollment, with approximately 19,550 students from 110 countries reported as enrolled in 2013.[1] All those enrolled are international students from outside Cuba and mainly come from Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Africa and Asia. The school accepts students from the United States — 91 were reportedly enrolled as of January 2007. Tuition, accommodation and board are free, and a small stipend is provided for students
The mission of ELAM is to make competent and cooperative doctors with the degree of MD (doctor of medicine), the same degree which is offered to medical graduates all over the Americas. The Latin American School of Medicine is officially recognized by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and the World Health Organization. It is fully accredited by the Medical Board of California, which has the strictest US standards — which means that qualified US graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine are eligible to apply for residency placements in any state of the US.
They know understand why we have taboos in Africa. It is know about superstition, those taboos were established either based on revelations or dire patterns.
How long have humans been around ? While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old https://www.universetoday.com/38125/how-long-have-humans-been-on-earth/
CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED APRIL 3, 2002 UPDATED APRIL 16, 2018 PUBLISHED APRIL 3, 2002 This article was first published in 2002
At age 49, General Geraldo Nunda, deputy chief of the Angolan Army, is a man with a surprising past. He's the man who last weekend dictated and signed the deal that effectively ended one of the longest-running, most destructive civil wars in Africa. One month ago, he masterminded the hunting down and killing of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, Africa's most charismatic and notorious guerrilla.
I once "yomped" (British slang for traversing rough country with a pack on your back) several hundred miles across Angola with Gen. Nunda and his men. I recall canoeing and wading across rivers, digging parasites from our feet, passing abandoned, roofless settlements until we arrived on the forested outskirts of the town of Alto Chicapa. There, as he launched a surprise dawn attack with a brigade of 2,000 men, Gen. Nunda told me: "The morale of the enemy is very low, and in one hour everything will be over."
That trip with Gen. Nunda happened 18 years ago. Back then, he was the most outstanding brigade officer in the UNITA guerrilla army -- the army of Mr. Savimbi, the man he would one day plot successfully to kill.
At that time, Gen. Nunda was helping me to complete research for a book I wrote on Mr. Savimbi and UNITA (the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola). The trip I made with him to Alto Chicapa was my last and longest yomp with the guerrillas across central Angola's great forests. How Gen. Nunda made the transition from commander of Mr. Savimbi's all-important Northern Front to become the UNITA leader's nemesis is the untold story of how peace finally came to Angola after 27 years of civil war. (...)
In 1991, Gen. Nunda, a lean, calm, mild-mannered man who was much loved by his soldiers, was called from the north to become chief of staff of UNITA's army, second in the military hierarchy to only Mr. Savimbi himself. Gen. Nunda believed intensely that Angolans deserved the opportunity to vote in multiparty elections.
In 1992, after 17 years of MPLA-UNITA warfare, the two sides signed a peace deal. Parliamentary and presidential elections were held, and Gen. Nunda saw his ideal achieved. UNITA lost both elections only narrowly, the presidential election so narrowly that a runoff vote was ordered. However, Mr. Savimbi was so incensed with the results that he ordered that UNITA return to war.
His top commander, Gen. Nunda, protested against the order. "I told Savimbi that the decision to go back to war was a mistake," he told me when we met recently in Luanda, the Angolan capital, in his new role as Savimbi-hunter. "I told him the people wanted peace and it would be a long time before we got the opportunity. I demanded a meeting of all UNITA's generals to discuss whether they agreed with Savimbi's decision to return to war."
Mr. Savimbi then tried to bribe Gen. Nunda's bodyguards to kill their commander. Instead, they tipped him off. "Most of my bodyguards had been with me for 17 years. They were like brothers," said Gen. Nunda. "They gave me Savimbi's $2,500 in American dollars. They said, 'Take the money, the important thing is your survival and our honour.' "
Gen. Nunda had been closely involved in peace negotiations with the MPLA in the two years prior to the elections. During that time, he made a lot of friends with military officers from the MPLA (following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the MPLA did an ideological flip-flop and became pro-Western and capitalist). With the help of two senior MPLA commanders, Gen. Nunda, his wife and children and his senior bodyguard were whisked by helicopter from the UNITA stronghold of Huambo to safety and the MPLA-held Atlantic port of Lobito.
This was a huge relief for Gen. Nunda, who had been growing disillusioned with Mr. Savimbi for some years. Although isolated in the north from Mr. Savimbi's southern HQ, he knew the UNITA leader had been executing many of the movement's outstanding second-tier leaders, including Gen. Nunda's own second cousin, UNITA's popular foreign secretary, Tito Chingunji.
"I concluded Savimbi was insane," Gen. Nunda told me. "Multiparty elections were what we had fought for and now he was destroying all that. He was afraid of being an ordinary citizen. He wanted to be a presidential dictator. Until as late as 1989, I still thought that UNITA was a big project of all the people. After that, as the killings of dissidents and women who refused to sleep with Savimbi accelerated, I realized that Savimbi had turned the party into his own personal project. He knew how to manipulate people. Like a scientist, he was always experimenting to see how far he could go. I saw he would advance to the end."
Immediately after his defection from UNITA, Gen. Nunda was inducted into the national army as a special adviser, and then deputy army chief, charged with the task of eliminating Mr. Savimbi. "While he lives, there can be no peace," one Angolan government minister said.
Early in 2000, Gen. Nunda began working with a special force formed around the national army's crack 16th Brigade -- troops he had often fought when he was with UNITA. The troops began a scorched-earth campaign around Alto Chicapa and Mr. Savimbi's other strongholds in eastern Angola. Mr. Savimbi, an outstanding guerrilla strategist trained under Mao Tsetung at Nanking Military Academy, responded by playing cat-and-mouse, staying constantly on the move.
Supported by new equipment from Western countries and old Soviet bloc countries in eastern Europe, Gen. Nunda's offensive gradually tightened the noose. Crucial information supplied by U.S. and Brazilian intelligence helped him locate UNITA troops and anticipate their movements. Rebel communications were intercepted by the CIA; Israeli specialists laid down a radar screen that made it impossible for Mr. Savimbi to bring in fresh supplies by air. Lack of fuel paralyzed UNITA's tank and truck units. Meanwhile, Gen. Nunda persuaded his old colleague, Gen. Demostenes (Implacable) Malaquias, to defect from UNITA, drastically undermining morale in Mr. Savimbi's ranks.
On Feb. 22, Gen. Nunda's force trapped Mr. Savimbi on a riverbank. His body was riddled with at least 15 bullets.
" The Prince, and a woman with a plan " could well be an african folktale . It could start like this : Back in the days, Loooooonnng time ago, there was a rich and peaceful kingdom , super rich , with a famous Queen. She had several grandchildren, among them there was a prince, who was dreaming more about living like a commoner. Having heard about that kingdom a pretty woman from a wild foreign land decided to travel there and do all she could to charm the prince and lure him to her country. She had a hidden a plan ....
Continue the tale the way you want
I mean, the queen better grab this young man by the ears and take him back to the UK. Los Angeles with its stream of lucrative divorces and lawsuits is not a place a man from one of the world's richest families should go live with his wife, when the wife is from there. LA is wild.
FOXNEWS Meghan Markle, Prince Harry respond to President Trump’s tweet about not paying for their security in LA
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry said they never had plans to ask the United States government to pay for their personal security amid their reported move to Los Angeles.
On Sunday, President Trump tweeted about reports that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have relocated from Canada to Markle’s home city. In his tweet, Trump made sure to note that the U.S. won’t be footing the bill to keep them safe after they made the decision to step back from their senior royal duties and live outside the U.K., financially independent of the crown. However, it seems the couple already had their security concerns sorted out.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have no plans to ask the U.S. government for security resources,” a spokesperson for Meghan and Harry told Fox News. “Privately funded security arrangements have been made.”
Whether a woman is a president, a vice president, a prime minister , a government minister, a governor, an ambassador or whatever, this lockdown is an opportunity for her to get back to her primary duty which is to cook for the family. It is not a man's job. Hello !
telkevog: I hope they will serve them food within the period. If you try this in any of our stadia, snakes will feast on people.
Come on Nigeria is not that bad. This country is Africa leading economy. You find in Lagos, Abuja etc many modern urban infrastructures that are above some developed countries. Nigeria can buy Rwanda and rent that place.
Never heard any news about African Union head of states or Ecowas head of states holding teleconference to coordinate their actions in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, at this time when information sharing is critical.
festacman: Angolan's protracted civil war was product of COLD WAR between capitalist US and communist USSR. US supported and armed Jonas Savimbi while USSR supported and armed Dos Santos. It was about who will corner rich mineral resources of Angola. Rebel Savimbi had his fair share of internal support but Dos Santos being the official Head of State and C-in-C had larger support. Eventually, USSR began to disintegrate, Cold War began to die down and US abandoned Savimbi. He refused to lay down his arms following several negotiations. Gradually, many of his commanders and troops were lured by government and defected. He continued weakly and eventually got killed by government forces.
All over the world rebel movements have engaged arm struggle for ethnic, political or economic reasons. Some like Pres. Museveni' succeeded and some like Savimbi's failed.
So what makes Jonas Savimbi peculiarly EVIL in all these?
How long did that war last ? Did Museveni connive with Apartheid led South Africa ? Did Museveni help a racist regime perpetuate its colonial rule in Namibia or any other African country ? Savimbi couldn't see himself in any position other than head of state of Angola, its led to a 30-year war , despite him having being defeated in an election. His actions caused the death of at least half a million people, not to count he wounded and those who disappeared. So what does not make Savimbi an eveil warlord like Charles Taylor of Liberia, Fodeh Sankho of Sierra Leone, Pol Pot the Leader of Khmer Rouge regime in the Democratic Kampuchea etc?
festacman: Is it fair for you to judge and call Jonas Savimbi an evil man based on propaganda of his enemies? What do you, personally, know about him and the cause he fought and died for?
How dare you profile and demonise a grown-ass man based on life of his rebel father?
Have you been to Angola before?
Listen no need to go to Angola to know about this Jonas Savimbi. What do I know personally about him ? well , I know things such as:
1. He and his sister had Ivorian Passports ( Passport of the country of Cote d'Ivoire). After his eath, she moved Abidjan from Cote d'Ivoire to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
2. His sister was investing there and himself used to go there to rest
3. Him and Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso connived to create loopholes to help UNITA avoid the UN arm embargo that prevented
UNITA from buying weapons. Compaore got millions of dollars from ordering those weapons under the name of Burkina Faso. Once the weapons get there, they were flown to Huambo, Angola You know " El Gato " , Paulo Lumkamba right ? seen him on a mission in West Africa .
4. Savimbi enthusiastically worked with the Apartheid regime to undermine the independence of Namibia. The South African ( Malan and other South African thugs ) equipped him with weapons to fight MPLA on purpose to weaken Angola and preven that country from sheltering SWAPO military troops.
5. He used child soldiers. You know it.
6. The brutal Angola war caused the death of hundreds of thousands over three decades. Had Savimbi settled for peace after the withdrawal of portuguese troops, milions of lives wouldn't be shattered in Angola.
UPDATED:MAR 30, 2020ORIGINAL:MAR 3, 2020 Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Spanish Flu Was So Deadly History.com
The horrific scale of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is hard to fathom. The virus infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims— that’s more than all of the soldiers and civilians killed during World War I combined.
While the global pandemic lasted for two years, the vast majority of deaths were packed into three especially cruel months in the fall of 1918. Historians now believe that the fatal severity of the Spanish flu’s “second wave” was caused by a mutated virus spread by wartime troop movements.
When the Spanish flu first appeared in early March 1918, it had all the hallmarks of a seasonal flu, albeit a highly contagious and virulent strain. One of the first registered cases was Albert Gitchell, a U.S. Army cook at Camp Funston in Kansas, who was hospitalized with a 104-degree fever. The virus spread quickly through the Army installation, home to 54,000 troops. By the end of the month, 1,100 troops had been hospitalized and 38 had died after developing pneumonia.
As U.S. troops deployed en masse for the war effort in Europe, they carried the Spanish flu with them. Throughout April and May of 1918, the virus spread like wildfire through England, France, Spain and Italy. An estimated three-quarters of the French military was infected in the spring of 1918 and as many as half of British troops. Luckily, the first wave of the virus wasn’t particularly deadly, with symptoms like high fever and malaise usually lasting only three days, and mortality rates were similar to seasonal flu.
Interestingly, it was during this time that the Spanish flu earned its misnomer. Spain was neutral during World War I and unlike its European neighbors, it didn’t impose wartime censorship on its press. In France, England and the United States, newspapers weren’t allowed to report on anything that could harm the war effort, including news that a crippling virus was sweeping through troops. Since Spanish journalists were some of the only ones reporting on a widespread flu outbreak in the spring of 1918, the pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu.”
Reported cases of Spanish flu dropped off over the summer of 1918, and there was hope at the beginning of August that the virus had run its course. In retrospect, it was only the calm before the storm. Somewhere in Europe, a mutated strain of the Spanish flu virus had emerged that had the power to kill a perfectly healthy young man or woman within 24 hours of showing the first signs of infection.
In late August 1918, military ships departed the English port city of Plymouth carrying troops unknowingly infected with this new, far deadlier strain of Spanish flu. As these ships arrived in cities like Brest in France, Boston in the United States and Freetown in west Africa, the second wave of the global pandemic began.
“The rapid movement of soldiers around the globe was a major spreader of the disease,” says James Harris, a historian at Ohio State University who studies both infectious disease and World War I. “The entire military industrial complex of moving lots of men and material in crowded conditions was certainly a huge contributing factor in the ways the pandemic spread.”
From September through November of 1918, the death rate from the Spanish flu skyrocketed. In the United States alone, 195,000 Americans died from the Spanish flu in just the month of October. And unlike a normal seasonal flu, which mostly claims victims among the very young and very old, the second wave of the Spanish flu exhibited what’s called a “W curve”—high numbers of deaths among the young and old, but also a huge spike in the middle composed of otherwise healthy 25- to 35-year-olds in the prime of their life.
“That really freaked out the medical establishment, that there was this atypical spike in the middle of the W,” says Harris.
Not only was it shocking that healthy young men and women were dying by the millions worldwide, but it was also how they were dying. Struck with blistering fevers, nasal hemorrhaging and pneumonia, the patients would drown in their own fluid-filled lungs.
Harris believes that the rapid spread of Spanish flu in the fall of 1918 was at least partially to blame on public health officials unwilling to impose quarantines during wartime. In Britain, for example, a government official named Arthur Newsholme knew full well that a strict civilian lockdown was the best way to fight the spread of the highly contagious disease. But he wouldn’t risk crippling the war effort by keeping munitions factory workers and other civilians home.
Nature is still striking despite the Coronavirus. outbreak. Too sad.
NEWS/SOUTH SUDAN Sudan defence minister dies of heart attack in South Sudan General Gamal al-Din Omar was in Juba for peace talks between his country's transitional government and rebel groups.
She hates traditional marriage couples and spent all her eight years at the White House praising gays and lesbians. Not a role model at all . Totally appalling !
The affair has caused a stir since midday. This concerns the arrest, according to the Secretary of State to the Minister of Transport responsible for Maritime Affairs, of 18 Italians in the locality of Sassandra, a seaside town in the south-west of Côte d'Ivoire. These European nationals are said to have fallen into the clusters of the maritime police, which patrol the area. According to the Secretary of State, these arrested persons, whose identities and reasons for their presence in the Ivorian coastal city have not been revealed, are being taken to Abidjan for quarantine
searchng4love: Don't mind the iddiot. This happened due to faulty test kits which have been replaced since. It's a February occurrence.
Anyone that would cause unnecessary panic over covid19 just for profit and traffic will not live to see the aftermath of the pandemic...panafrican you hear?
Do you hear yourself ? fool ! You better not underestimate some news because this was how Italy, Spain , UK and The US got badly hit.
The evil cycle. What is happening in China can come up next in countries that are now fighting Coronavirus and seing a decline in the number of infections.
THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS Mystery In Wuhan: Recovered Coronavirus Patients Test Negative ... Then Positive March 27, 20209:28 AM ET
A spate of mysterious second-time infections is calling into question the accuracy of COVID-19 diagnostic tools even as China prepares to lift quarantine measures to allow residents to leave the epicenter of its outbreak next month. It's also raising concerns of a possible second wave of cases.
From March 18-22, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported no new cases of the virus through domestic transmission — that is, infection passed on from one person to another. The achievement was seen as a turning point in efforts to contain the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people in China. Wuhan was particularly hard-hit, with more than half of all confirmed cases in the country.
But some Wuhan residents who had tested positive earlier and then recovered from the disease are testing positive for the virus a second time. Based on data from several quarantine facilities in the city, which house patients for further observation after their discharge from hospitals, about 5%-10% of patients pronounced "recovered" have tested positive again.
Some of those who retested positive appear to be asymptomatic carriers — those who carry the virus and are possibly infectious but do not exhibit any of the illness's associated symptoms — suggesting that the outbreak in Wuhan is not close to being over.
Foreign Affairs › Coronavirus: Imagine What Gaddafi Would Do Had He Been Alive Today by panafrican(op): 10:13pm On Apr 05, 2020
