US Brags About Health Aid to Africa While Bombing Some of its Most Vulnerable Nations

Posted on AllSides May 23rd, 2020
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AS COVID-19 BEGAN spreading across the African continent in late March, the U.S. State Department took to Twitter to boast about American health assistance there. A March 25 tweet from the department highlighted more than $100 million in U.S. medical assistance to foreign countries, including in Africa, as evidence of America’s emphasis on mitigating “endemic and emerging health threats” and its “long-term investment in the lives of Africans.”

When it comes to Africa, the messaging suggests, America’s focus is on saving lives, not ending them. But a wealth of evidence...

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