(2022-02-06). Avanzan con normalidad elecciones presidenciales en Costa Rica. telesurtv.net Los electores deberán escoger entre los 25 candidatos que aspiran a la presidencia de Costa Rica y a conformar la Asamblea Legislativa.
(2022-02-05). What's behind US-NATO warmongering against Russia? greenleft.org.au The current United States-Russia crisis has its roots in Washington's betrayal of its well-documented promise to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in the early 1990s to not move NATO eastward, write Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
(2022-02-05). Western Lies and False Narratives About Ethiopia. dissidentvoice.org War is big, loud, significant and attracts an audience; media likes it. Foreign wars (commonly Middle Eastern or African) distract from domestic chaos and reinforce a long-held prejudice of savagery and race, and the opposite, equally false notion of western superiority. In all conflicts mainstream media plays a crucial role, often inflammatory, feeding the discord …
(2022-02-05). [Correspondence] A just memory. thelancet.com Richard Horton's Offline1 makes for thought-provoking reading but gives a cynical and unbalanced view of the enterprise of tropical medicine. To portray tropical medicine as merely a service to the White colonialists and therefore fundamentally racist, even in the early days of the British empire in Africa, is to ignore the selflessness of many of its practitioners. Many of the great figures of tropical medicine were motivated by a desire to solve the health problems of African people, not merely to provide health care for the governing elite.
(2022-02-05). AFCON and the politics of the beautiful game. peoplesdispatch.org New Frame's sports editor Njabulo Ngidi talks about the politics around the conduct of the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, the stampede at Olemebe stadium, and the controversial statements of FIFA head Gianni Infantino…
(2022-02-05). Non-fungible Tokens Unmask the Absurdity of All Private Property. dissidentvoice.org 
Centuries of ideological justification and normalization can transform the bizarre, unjust, and arbitrary into that which seems natural and inevitable. The modern concept of private property has become so ingrained in society that most assume it has been with us since humans stood upright. The truth is that all the various notions of property which …
(2022-02-05). [World Report] Aid agencies warn of health consequences of Mali sanctions. thelancet.com Delayed elections in Mali have prompted sanctions, but humanitarian groups warn that health care is being adversely affected. Sharmila Devi reports.
(2022-02-05). 10 killed by landmine in Somalia. en.mehrnews.com A minivan was hit by a landmine on Friday in southern Somalia, killing 10 passengers, including five women and four children.
(2022-02-05). [Perspectives] Ayoade Alakija: advancing equity in the COVID-19 response. thelancet.com Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija is running late for our video call because of back-to-back meetings in Geneva as the newly appointed WHO Special Envoy and Co-Chair of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator), a global collaboration to accelerate equitable access to COVID-19 health tools. Her Geneva visit will help her "join the dots to help move us from working in silos to working better collectively to overcome COVID-19", she tells me in between her last meeting and catching a flight back home to Abuja, Nigeria.
(2022-02-05). World should not be silent towards catastrophe in Yemen. en.mehrnews.com Leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) said that different countries should help solve the problem in Yemen, calling on world community not to be silent in the face of catastrophe in Yemen.
(2022-02-05). No pause in health workers' struggles in Nigeria. peoplesdispatch.org As health workers' trade unions in Nigeria call their membership to continue strike action over bad working conditions and missed payments, attempts to limit the space for industrial action persist…