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1. We have come out with our grand report titled :
"The BRI Status: A Grand Report" on Its Present and Future.
Here is a thread on the same.
#BRI #China
Link: ij-reportika.com/the-bri-a-gran…
@ShawnG927 @jenny_kjacobs @tiffanymeier_ @NoCCPGenocide @UMM1776
"The BRI Status: A Grand Report" on Its Present and Future.
Here is a thread on the same.
#BRI #China
Link: ij-reportika.com/the-bri-a-gran…
@ShawnG927 @jenny_kjacobs @tiffanymeier_ @NoCCPGenocide @UMM1776
2. "The #BRI Status: A Grand Report on Its Present and Future" sheds light on numerous challenges faced by BRI like:
cost overruns,
corruption,
environmental damage,
funding issues,
repeated delays,
lack of progress,
and poor quality of development.
@Santos4Congress
cost overruns,
corruption,
environmental damage,
funding issues,
repeated delays,
lack of progress,
and poor quality of development.
@Santos4Congress
3. According to our investigation, 62.8% of the countries that have joined the #BRI are #developing countries, while around 17% are #developed countries.
This suggests that the BRI is primarily focused on developing countries.
@GundamNorthrop @Byron_Wan
This suggests that the BRI is primarily focused on developing countries.
@GundamNorthrop @Byron_Wan
A showpiece project of the Jubilee government, the standard gauge railway #SGR provides a classic case of both the doublespeak of politicians, and the development conundrum where advances in one area often mean declines in another. - @NationAfrica
When the Nairobi-Thika highway was being constructed under President Kibaki, there were complaints the elevated sections, inter-changes, elimination of numerous roundabouts would impact on livelihoods of traders who depended on business at the various market places along it.
That might approximate the complaints that the SGR — which snakes its way from the coastal city of Mombasa to the capital city of Nairobi and onward further along to the small town of Naivasha...
1/ With the High Court ruling this week that the Kenyan govt must release the #SGR contracts, we wanted to respond briefly to this article from @TC_Africa, and why it shouldn’t put Coast at ease. A thread: theconversation.com/mombasa-port-h…
2/ The @TC_Africa piece says that Mombasa Port is not at risk if Kenya defaults on the #SGR loan. We’re not convinced for a couple of reasons. First, the analysis focuses on one very narrow point: the Auditor General’s apparent mislabeling of @Kenya_Ports as a borrower and ...
3/ … the definition of sovereign immunity. Fair enough. But despite this analysis, we can’t be 100% sure that KPA’s assets aren’t at risk without seeing the contracts. The article doesn’t tell us what happens if Kenya defaults. We simply don’t know & that’s very much by design.
Mr. Kenyatta’s #SOTN2021 speech was an interesting exercise in obfuscation, given how the data he presented was framed. It can certainly make for interesting course material in future communication course.
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Mr. Kenyatta would point to spending plans his administration made and/or implemented, but he conveniently ignored the lethal debt mountain he’s built up since 2013. This, IMO, is the key recurring theme in #SOTN2021
The word ‘debt’ comes up twice in his #SOTN2021 speech - and only one of those actually refers to financial debt.
Now that #COP26 is over, what lies ahead for resource-constrained, climate battered economies in #Africa? The view from @gyude_moore
“Over 60% of the continent is dependent on some form of agriculture”, he points out. Most of that is rain-fed, with minimal irrigation.
“Any climate disruption has a significant impact on livelihoods. We’re seeing a climate induced famine in Madagascar.”
“Any climate disruption has a significant impact on livelihoods. We’re seeing a climate induced famine in Madagascar.”
Heavy spending on R&D on drought resistant seed is vital, @gyude_moore argues, and governments need to own that IP.
“If someone else has the intellectual property, it puts us at a disadvantage.”
“If someone else has the intellectual property, it puts us at a disadvantage.”
Dear Uhuru Kenyatta @StateHouseKenya; While you were sending Mafianized & Militarized Policemen to arrest those who "insulted" your mother, Uganda & Total finally reached a deal on the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) which will transport oil from Uganda to Tanga, Tanzania
Yoweri Museveni of Uganda is due to arrive in Tanzania to witness signature over the Hoima-Tanga Crude oil Pipeline deal & the Host Government Agreement between Total & Tanzania. He'll be received by President John Magufuli at Geita International Airport in Chato @StateHouseKenya
Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, South Sudan & DRC are slowly but surely weaning themselves off Kenya. The corruption in Kenya is unmatched anywhere else on earth. The cost of construction inflated by as much as 700% with most going to politicians & mandarins
The cost of State capture
In 2019 alone, it was reported that the government could not account for approximately Sh731 billion. #StateCaptureKE @IBP_Kenya
@IEAKenya
@AfriCOG
@TISAKenya @TIKenya
nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot…
In 2019 alone, it was reported that the government could not account for approximately Sh731 billion. #StateCaptureKE @IBP_Kenya
@IEAKenya
@AfriCOG
@TISAKenya @TIKenya
nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot…
By Luis Franceschi @dailynation
The crippling state capture scandals we have discussed in the previous weeks do not happen only in Kenya. #StateCaptureKE
nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot…
The crippling state capture scandals we have discussed in the previous weeks do not happen only in Kenya. #StateCaptureKE
nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot…
Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing were locally assembled, but external interests are also at play as we learnt from our study of the Standard Gauge Railway. #StateCaptureKE #SGR #Angloleasing #Goldenberg
Folks, irony is that people are blaming IMF and World Bank for no reason yet they were giving high fives for promises for stadiums, tablets for school kids and last mile connections to nowhere.
The mad spending sprees that GoK went on since 2013 was pure bread and circuses policy of throwing money at problems and acting as if it's a benevolent parent with unlimited money
And GoK even gave as the #SGR train to the coast which cannot pay for itself but will work as a long ride through an amusement park now.
