Malabo

And then All of a sudden, our mutual friend JJ, who is an amazing ice flight tracker and anonymous activist, he and I are texting constantly throughout the day.

He texted me and he said, oh my God, it's descending into Malabo, which is the city in Equatorial Guinea where these planes land.

And I, you know, could not believe it.

I checked.

They're not separate missions.

They're not separate planes.

There's no reason why that landing in Malabo could not have been used.

to put Ahmed on board and return him to the United States and comply with the judge's orders.

Yes.

Malabo announced they are expanding their national malaria program from Bioko Island across to the continental mainland and the island of Anabon.

That is genuinely substantial news.

Public health expansions rarely grab global headlines the way a military appointment or a trade treaty does.

You have moved me on that.

They are complementary pillars of the same underlying push.

If we let ourselves speculate for a moment, look at what connects Hanoi, Malabo, and even Tehran on what might otherwise seem like a disjointed Sunday.

There is a common thread of self-insulation, isn't there? Nations deliberately shoring up their domestic foundations against external volatility, whether that volatility comes in the form of trade disputes, disease vectors, or regional security pressures.

He said the man has faced irreparable harm after being unlawfully deported.

Human rights advocates have warned that Solomon has been placed at risk of being tortured in Equatorial Guinea, where he and dozens of other people deported by the Trump administration have been held at a decommissioned hotel in Malabo.

None of the prisoners have any ties to Equatorial Guinea, which Trump paid $7.5 million in one of several secretive deals in exchange for taking deportees whom the U.S. is barred from sending to their home countries due to their credible fear of persecution.

Last month, Solomon was targeted for arrest in Equatorial Guinea after he spoke out about the abuse that he and others have faced at the hotel.

So we extend government's reach, and we do not compete with it.

So from Malabo to Kampala, to get to that 45% of what we have committed, amidst several other commitments that we have made under Kampala, for example, mobilizing the 100 billion in public and private good, and also cutting post-harvest losses, it is about ensuring everybody who is doing bits of work across the continent are working together and not in parallel, not in competition, but also not replicating work that's been done by others in the same community.

So Harare has really set the direction of how we move from commitments to national budgets, from national budgets to working with parliamentarians, and ensuring communities are watching and are able to push for accountability on what is to be delivered.

Well, very interesting, Chikondi.

said that he faced irreparable harm after being unlawfully deported and that Solomon's removal to Equatorial Guinea violated his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Solomon had been placed at risk of being tortured in Equatorial Guinea, where he and dozens of other people deported by the Trump administration have been held at a decommissioned hotel in Malabo.

None of the prisoners have any ties to Equatorial Guinea, which Trump paid $7.5 million in one of several secretive deals in exchange for taking deportees whom the U.S. is barred from sending to their home countries due to their credible fear of persecution.

He's one of them.

You can check this.

then you go a little further to equatorial guinea where there was a famous putsch attempt which also became a movie by the son of margaret thatcher at the time with a famous mercenary called simon mann who created executive outcomes and all these mercenary companies that i was fascinated when i was younger and this president who's still in power there since many many years i will recall his name since 30 plus years i will record his recall his name in a minute he rebuilt a new capital city in the middle of the jungle because the putsch almost happened because he was on an island with the capital in Malabo, on the island of Malabo.

He built this new capital from scratch, beautiful airport.

Who built the airport? North Korea.

That's what they said.

And then I realized how tough it is.

And then I talked to oil workers in Malabo and in those kinds of places.

They all take it.