Visitors to the Barbican centre in London will see swathes of pink and purple across the building this spring rather than the usual concrete exterior thanks to the Ghanian artist Ibrahim Mahama.

His large-scale public art piece, Purple Hibiscus—made of 2,000 square metres of woven cloth—covers the lakeside façade of the brutalist structure, creating a vivid contrast against the grey building and sky.

The work was sewn together by more than 1,000 weavers and seamstresses at the Aliu Mahama sports stadium in Tamale, Ghana (an accompanying film gives an idea of the scale of the work, showing a plethora of craftspeople knitting the piece together on the football pitch).

“The period for the commission was quite short—roughly seven months to produce the entire work so we had to get a lot of people in order to get the work. I had to rent the stadium also; the days when they weren’t playing football games, we were playing [art] games!” Mahama tells The Art Newspaper, outlining how the commission helped bolster the local economy. “There is a lot of unemployment; we had to use the money that came from the commission to pay these people over seven months.”

When the work is deinstalled in August, the entire piece will go back to Ghana. “There are certain projects I did such as the National Theatre [the venue in Accra was covered in a blanket of jute sacks]… so I think it might be interesting to use the material to wrap this building.”

Mahama has also incorporated into the fabric more than 130 traditional Ghanaian robes known as batakaris, which are handed down through families across numerous communities. These garments reflect “Mahama’s deep interest in the life cycles of textiles and what can be learnt from the historical memories embedded within them”, a statement says.

“I’ve never made a work in this colour and on this scale,” Mahama says. “When I came here, Shanay [Jhaveri, head of visual arts at the Barbican] was telling me about the history of the site; they used to sell rags here [in the Cripplegate district] before the Second World War.

I’ve always believed materials contain spirits and souls. So I thought, if they were selling rags here, then historically the site still contains those spirits in a way. I thought why not work with these materials from Ghana which have been worn over the body and contain the sweat of the body.”

He highlights the global, geo-political aspect of the Barbican project. “The threads [for the covering] are coming from China… I was interested in what [the work] represents on a global scale in terms of politics… art has that responsibility and power—[we are] able to take something that seems very local and then open up the connections within it on a global stage.”

Mahama’s piece forms part of the exhibition Unravel: The Power of Politics & Textiles in Art (until 26 May) which has sparked controversy after two collectors, and the artists Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit, removed works from the show over the Barbican’s decision to cancel a talk on Palestine and the Holocaust.

Asked about the boycott, Mahama says: “I am coming from ground zero… a lot of these histories [linked to the Global South] are tied to debt and these debts all come back to Europe. I would say that we should have boycotted Europe a long time ago because the politics in Europe has put the Global South in a bad way [condition]… I want to further understand; art is not about withdrawal but about re-inserting yourself, even as problematic as things are, and then within that go much deeper into the politics.”

Mahama is having a moment; last month he won the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award, a prize created last year by Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation in honour of the late artist’s legacy (Mahama will receive US$75,000 and feature in a public programme at Dia in autumn of this year). Meanwhile, Mahama will present a new body of work at the Fruitmarket gallery in Edinburgh later this year (22 June-6 October).

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The ceremony is usually conducted with great pomp and circumstance at Parliament: red carpet, fancy suits and designer dresses, and photographers. Then the presidential guard is paraded and 21 cannons are fired to greet the arrival of the head of state. 

However, the historic building in Cape Town having been partly ravaged by an arson attack last year, the president will speak in the evening from the Town Hall.

And in an economic and social context at half-mast, calls for sobriety for the reception billed at more than 424,000 euros (8 million rand) have spread on social networks, “as a sign of solidarity with the real state of the nation.

In South Africa plagued by one of the highest unemployment rates on the planet (32.9%), a GDP growth forecast for the year of almost zero (0.3%) and families crushed by the constant rise in the price of basic commodities, anger at the power shortages have spread to the streets.

In recent weeks, demonstrations have broken out in several cities, including Johannesburg, at the call of the opposition and the unions.

– Mismanagement and corruption –

Since last year, the energy crisis has worsened in the continent’s leading industrial power, which is lagging behind in the transition to clean energy.

State-owned Eskom, plagued by years of mismanagement and endemic corruption under President Jacob Zuma (2009-2018), is unable to produce enough electricity from its ageing coal-fired power plants, which are regularly hit by blackouts.

The only remedy, for now, is scheduled load shedding several times a day, forcing the entire country to cook, wash its clothes and charge its phone at certain times only.

Businesses are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day, according to the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), which is criticizing the government’s ineffectiveness in resolving the crisis.

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) announced last week that it had given “clear instructions” and called on the government to declare a state of disaster in order to release funds.

But according to Dieter von Fintel, an economist at the University of Stellenbosch, this purely “symbolic” measure would only have the virtue of calming down an opinion that is already losing confidence, since the real problem lies in the fact that “the energy crisis is short-circuiting any attempt to revive the economy and is now a threat to social stability.

The radical left-wing EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) party has vowed to disrupt the speech of the “delinquent” president. Mired in a scandal with a whiff of dirty money, Cyril Ramaphosa escaped impeachment proceedings in December, supported by the ANC. A police investigation is still underway.

The historic party subsequently re-elected him as its leader, assuring the still-popular 70-year-old president, who remains its best asset, of a second term if the ANC wins the 2024 general election.

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Morning Star News (MSN) reports on Tuesday, the Islamic militants attacked the Unguwan Gankon village, killing 16-year-old Takama Paul and another Christian, 30-year-old Kefas Malachy Bobai, a father of three children, Luka Binniyat of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU) said.

“Armed Fulani militia invaded Unguwan Gankon village in Gora Ward, Zangon Kataf LGA, and killed two persons and burned seven houses,” Binniyat said in a press statement. “Wary neighbors, however, came to the rescue, and the murderers fled.”

Earlier on Monday, the Fulani militants murdered Bulus Joseph, 48, a Christian farmer, and a father of nine children. Joseph’s wife and three of his children were also attacked but survived, Binniyat said.

“Bulus Joseph was murdered gruesomely on his farm at Sabon Gida Idon, along the Kaduna-Kachia road, by armed Fulani militia,” Binniyat said. “He stood up to the killers so that his wife and three children could escape, which they did. But he paid the price with his life, as he was sub-humanly butchered by the cold-blooded murderers.”

As CBN News reported last week, Muslim Fulani militants in Kachia County on Aug. 17 killed four Christians and kidnapped their driver, Danlami Dariya, as their vehicle made its way from Katul village.  One of the victims was a pastor with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), according to SOKAPU. MSN corrected its report on Friday, writing witnesses said the attack took place on Sunday, Aug. 16.

The Rev. Adalchi Usman, pastor of an ECWA congregation in Unguwan Madaki village in Kajuru County, was shot dead in an ambush on him and three other Christians by Muslim Fulani militants as they were traveling out of the community, according to MSN.

Armed Fulani militiamen also attacked the village near Banikanwa, Kachia County, killing four people and wounding six others. 

“Part of the village was burnt after the attackers looted the village,” Binniyat told MSN. “This is to further show that the siege on southern Kaduna communities is still ongoing. The genocide is still much on. For southern Kaduna, the past five years that Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai has been governor, it has been a grim horror tale of blood, destruction, and hopelessness which we shall never forget.”

Binniyat said 50,000 Christians have been displaced from 109 villages now occupied by armed Fulani extremists in Kachia, Kajuru, Chikun, and Kaura counties, all in southern Kaduna state.

Nigeria is ranked 12th on Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution.

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A video surfaced last Wednesday showing the men kneeling while blindfolded and then shot from behind by AK-47-wielding masked militants in the West African country’s terror-ridden Borno state. The execution is said to have taken place two Sundays ago.

The abduction and killing of the men have since been claimed by the Islamic State in West Africa Province, an offshoot group of the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram. 

According to the SITE Intelligence Group, ISWAP claimed responsibility through its digital newspaper, al-Naba.

Morning Star News, a nonprofit that monitors acts of Christian persecution overseas, reports that three of the men shot from behind were identified as Christians by a resident of Borno. The two others executed in the video were said to be Muslims. In the 35-second video, a jihadi is reported to have condemned Christianity. 

“This is a message to all those being used by infidels to convert Muslims to Christianity,” a militant was quoted as saying in the Hausa language, as translated by Morning Star News. 

“We want you out there to understand that those of you being used to convert Muslims to Christianity are only being used for selfish purposes.”

The jihadi went on to say that “is the reason whenever we capture you.”

“[T]hey don’t care to rescue you or work toward securing your release from us, and this is because they don’t need you or value your lives,” the militant was quoted as saying.  “We, therefore, call on you to return to Allah by becoming Muslims. We shall continue to block all routes [highways] you travel.”

The militant warned that if others don’t “heed our warning,” the “fate of these five individuals will be your fate.”

Speaking with Morning Star News, a Borno resident identified the three Christians killed in the video as Ishaku Yakubu, an aid worker with Action Against Hunger and member of the Church of the Brethren; Luka Filibus, an aid worker with International Rescue Committee; and Joseph Prince, a private security firm worker who was a member of the Redeemed Christian Church in Maiduguri. 

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed the killings and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. Buhari also confirmed that the five men were aid workers affiliated with Action Against Hunger, the International Rescue Committee, REACH International and Nigeria’s State Emergency Management Agency. 

According to The New York Times, the men were traveling between the city of Maiduguri and Monguno when they were abducted in June. 

The new video is the latest execution video released by the Islamic State-aligned militants in Nigeria. 

In January, another video surfaced showing the execution of the Rev. Lawan Andimi, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria’s chapter in the Michika local government area of the Adamawa State. Andimi was reportedly executed after refusing to deny Christ. 

Also in January, another video showed an ISWAP child soldier executing a 22-year-old Christian student. 

Last December, another ISWAP video showed the extremist faction purporting to kill 11 Christian aid workers in what it called a “message [for] to the Christians in the world.”

Religious freedom activists worldwide have denounced the execution of the five aid workers. 

“ISWAP’s execution of aid workers is beyond reprehensible,” Tony Perkins, vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and prominent Washington-based social conservative activists, said in a statement. 

“The militant Islamic group shows no remorse as it continues to target civilians based on their faith, such as Leah Sharibu who was abducted by Boko Haram over two years ago.”

USCIRF Commissioner Frederick A. Davie, vice president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, said that ISWAP and Boko Haram represent “neither the history nor the future of Islam in Africa.” 

“Their violent actions are a disgrace to the region’s vibrant Islamic heritage, and they must be countered by strong, inclusive partnerships between African nations and the international community, including the U.S. government,” Davie said. 

In 2016, ISWAP split from Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist insurgency that has caused havoc in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region since 2002. ISWAP also declared its allegiance to the Islamic State, which at the time held territory in Iraq and Syria. 

Over the years, the two groups have killed and abducted thousands of people. According to the United Nations, over 3.4 million people have been displaced in northeast Nigeria.  

Boko Haram has developed a reputation as one of the world’s deadliest extremist groups that is responsible for making tens of thousands of people widows and orphans. 

The U.N. reported in April that the decade-long crisis in the northeast alone has left over 7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in the northeastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.

The Nigerian government has faced criticism from international rights advocates who claim that it is not doing enough to prevent and halt the violence committed by Boko Haram and ISWAP in the northeast as well as the ongoing atrocities committed by radical Fulani herdsmen against predominantly Christian farming communities in the north-central states.

Advocates are calling for the appointment of a U.S. State Department special envoy to monitor the violence in Nigeria and across the Lake Chad region. A growing coalition of rights groups are warning of potential “genocidal” implications of actions are taken to thwart the violence. 

A new report published this week by the International Committee on Nigeria, a U.S.-based nonprofit working to secure a future for all Nigerians, includes testimonies of some of the over 60,000 victims of violence in Nigeria. The report features researched compiled and produced by the collaborative efforts of ICON and the International Organization on Peace-building & Social Justice.

“The ongoing violence and brutality perpetrated against innocent Nigerians by Islamist terrorists like Boko Haram and Fulani Militants has to stop; it’s that simple,” ICON co-founder Stephen Enada said in a statement. “President Buhari and his administration are attempting to dictate the narrative and condition the world, really, to believe that Nigeria’s Christians are safe from terrorism, which is simply untrue, as our report verifies. A U.S. Special Envoy is key to turning things around in Nigeria.”

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Following his victory, the new president said the election — which was a rerun following last year’s poll being scrapped due to voting irregularities — was “a win for democracy and justice”. He is the first opposition leader in Northern sub-saharan Africa to win a voting rerun after a result has been overturned due to fraud or irregularity. 

He said his heart was “bubbling with joy” at the result.

In his speech after being sworn in, Chakwera said: “Time has come for us to go beyond dreaming, time has come for us to wake up, to arise from slumber, and to make our dreams come true.

“With your help we will restore faith in having a government that serves; not a government that rules, a government that inspires, not a government that infuriates, a government that listens, not a government that shouts but a government that fights for you and not against you.” 

Mr Chakwera worked as an instructor at the Assemblies of God School of Theology from 1983 to 2000 before becoming the Principal in 1996. He was given the name Lazarus following the death of his two older brothers when they were infants — convinced that his son was going to live, Chakwera’s father named him after the Biblical character who was famously raised from the dead by Jesus Christ.

Speaking to the BBC after being sworn in on Sunday, Chakwera promised to unite the troubled African nation and root out government corruption.

He said: “There’s no cause for fear because I will be your president and my policy for inclusivity means we are building a new Malawi for all of us. I’m not a president of a faction, I’m a president of everyone in the country. I want to provide leadership that makes everybody prosper, that deals decisively with corruption and theft of public funds and a leadership that will follow the rule of law.” 

The new president added: “I do feel like Lazarus, I’ve come back from the dead, it’s been a long journey and we feel vindicated in a way.” 

Following his victory, on Twitter, he simply wrote: “Thank you, my Lord Jesus.”

Prominent Christian Leaders, such as President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), Rev. Franklyn Graham, took to social media to congratulate the new president.

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According to international Christian relief organisation, the Barnabas Fund, on 29th May, a convoy of traders was set upon while travelling from Titao to Sollé, in Loroum province. Fifteen were shot dead. Then, the next day, armed militants opened fire at random on those attending a cattle market in Kompienga province, murdering at least 30 people and injuring many others. On the same day, a humanitarian convoy was attacked by extremists in Barsalogho, Sanmatenga province, resulting in the deaths of six civilians and seven soldiers.

According to sources on the group, militants were thought to be targeting Christians and humanitarians transporting food to an internally displaced people (IDP) camp. 

One survivor recounted travelling in an ambulance in the convoy when it was attacked: “The driver shouted ‘forgive, forgive, we are also followers of the prophet Muhammad’. One of them [the gunmen] turned to his fellows saying ‘they have the same religion with us’.”

Once lauded as model nation in the region, championing of peace and democratic values, Burkina Faso has become a hotbed of anti-Christian violence in recent years, with innumerable attacks perpetrated against the faith community at the hands of Islamic insurgents. In 2016, there were 12 jihadist attacks, in 2017 there were 33 and in 2018 it ramped up to a staggering 158.

At the start of this year, Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation, noting that the attackers are seeking “to justify killings by linking victims to the government, the West, or Christian belief.” As part of its work on the ground, the group documented 256 killings of civilians in 20 attacks since April 2019 by groups allied with Al-Qaeda, including the local armed group Ansaroul Islam, and the Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS). 

Corinne Dufka, West Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said: “Armed Islamist groups in Burkina Faso have attacked civilians with unmitigated cruelty and utter disregard for human life.

“Deliberately targeting farmers, worshippers, mine workers, displaced people and traders are war crimes.

“The Islamist armed groups need to immediately end their attacks on civilians.

“At the same time, the Burkina Faso government should take stronger steps to protect vulnerable communities from harm and impartially investigate and appropriately prosecute those implicated in war crimes.”

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The Rev. Emmanuel Saba Bileya and his wife, Juliana, who is said to be pregnant, were killed by gunmen who have yet to be identified, according to a statement released by the Hausa Christians Foundation.

“It was an attack on the pastor and his wife on their farm. While they were working on the farm, suddenly armed men came and opened fire on them, leading to the death of the pastor and his wife,” a spokesperson for the state police said in a statement shared by the foundation. 

Bileya served as a pastor at a Christian Reformed Church in the Donga local government area. Bileya received a Master of Theology from Calvin in 2014 and served for the last five years at Veenstra Theological Seminary in Donga, according to his LinkedIn profile. 

“In what is being noted as systematic direct war against Christianity in Nigeria, pastors, Christian leaders and seminarians are either being kidnapped or killed every week,” the Hausa Christians Foundation statement reads. “Christians in Nigeria have been the target of many attacks by the vicious Boko Haram jihadist Islamist terrorists, herdsmen attacks and many other kidnappings in recent times.”

In a statement released through a spokesperson, Taraba Gov. Darius Ishaku condemned the murder of the pastor and his wife. Ishaku said he sympathizes with the surviving members of Bileya’s family and members of the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria. 

“The killing of the pastor and his wife is wicked and inhuman,” the governor’s statement reads, according to Nigeria’s This Day newspaper. “Killings of this nature have happened too often recently in Southern Taraba communities and this is unhelpful to the ongoing efforts of the government to achieve lasting peace among communities in the area.”

Biyela was a doctoral student at the Robert E. Webber Institute of Worship Studies, a nondenominational graduate school in Jacksonville, Florida.

He enrolled at IWS in 2014 and was in the final stage of his doctoral program. He took a thesis course in 2019. 

“It is with a broken heart that IWS announces the deaths of D.W.S. student Emmanuel Bileya, his wife Juliana, and their child in utero, whose name is known only to God,” an IWS statement reads. “Their martyrdom was the result of an ongoing ethnic war in their home country of Nigeria.”

According to IWS, Emmanuel and Juliana will receive Christian burials on Friday. 

According to IWS, Biyela wrote an explanation of the escalating tribal conflicts ongoing in his local area as recently as two weeks ago.

A fellow Nigerian IWS student who spoke with Biyela five days before his death told IWS that Biyela “mentioned that he sent his children to the headquarters town of his church, but that he and his wife had stayed back.” 

According to IWS, that decision saved the children’s lives. 

“Born on Christmas Day of 1968, his family gave him the name Emmanuel, ‘God with us,’” the IWS statement continues. “For all in the IWS community who were blessed to meet Emmanuel, share a class with him, or enjoy a meal alongside him, it can truthfully be said that ‘God with us’ was an apt name for him.”

The institution states that the deceased student’s humility and gentleness “spoke to all of the voluminous love of God in His Son, Jesus Christ.”

“Without fail, any email or letter from Emmanuel would begin the same way: ‘Calvary greetings,’ IWS noted. “This constant reminder of Christ’s death was, as Emmanuel well knew, also a reminder of Christ’s victory over the grave.”

“We know that at this time, Emmanuel would want those of us who grieve to place our focus not solely on these tragic deaths, but ultimately on the victory over death that Christ has secured for all who place their faith in Him.”

IWS will release more details on how people can help support Biyela’s children. 

Nigeria ranks as the 12th-worst country in the world for Christian persecution on Open Doors USA’s 2020 World Watch List. 

Estimates suggest that over 620 Christians have been killed in Nigeria by radical herdsmen and Islamic extremists so far in 2020 as thousands have been killed in recent years. 

While the government has maintained that the escalation of violence is a result of ethnic conflicts between predominantly Christian farming and predominantly Muslim herding communities, advocates for Christians contend that religious elements are a factor.

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Last week, 22-year-old Uwavera Omozuwa was raped and killed as she sat in a church near her home in Benin City, causing uproar and mass protests across Nigeria.

Omozuwa’s family received a call from a woman at the Redeemed Christian Church of God on Wednesday evening informing them of the attack. The young woman was rushed to hospital after a security guard at the church found her gravely injured, with her skirt torn and her shirt covered in blood. Tragically, Uwavera died in hospital three days later.

Omozuwa had just been admitted to the University of Benin to study microbiology when she was murdered. She often used the church as a quiet place to study. Local reports indicate that a group of men entered the church and began attacking her with a fire extinguisher, before raping and killing her. In response to the killing, The University of Benin said that the “shocking” crime “should not be condoned by any society.” 

The murder has sparked huge protests across the country, with the hashtag #JusticeForUwa trending on Twitter. On Monday, a group of protesters dressed in all-black, marched to the state police headquarters in Benin City to demand answers. 

In a statement, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the global head of the Redeemed Christian Church of God ⁠— the denomination of the church in which Uwa was murdered ⁠— said: “All I can do at this time is to pray for the family of Omozuwa and do everything possible working with relevant authorities to bring the perpetrators to book.”

Some reports indicate that one suspect in the case has been apprehended by police after they discovered his fingerprints on the fire extinguisher, while other have criticised the police for their lack of urgency in collecting evidence and tracking down the culprits. 

Sexual assault and rape is widespread in Nigeria, with a 2014 national survey revealing that one in four women reported experiencing sexual violence during childhood. There have been repeated calls for the government to do more to combat the issue. 

Osai Ojigho, the director for Amnesty International in Nigeria, said: “The method the state has been using over the years, clearly has not moved with the intensity required to deter rapists and potential rapists and to protect women and girls.” 

Last year, anti-rape campaigners celebrated the launch of Nigeria’s first sex offender register as a crucial step towards tackling the endemic issue.

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Rehema Kyomuhendo is one among millions of Christians in the East African nation who face unprecedented levels of persecution.

Kyomuhendo was at her aunt’s house in Nawuyo village, Mbale District, with her father, Sheikh Hussein Byaruhanga Husain of Mbarara District, on May 4 when she called a friend of his whom she knew to be a Roman Catholic.

“She explained to me about Christ and the way of salvation, and I got convicted and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior,” Kyomuhendo told Morning Star News by phone. “As she was sharing Christ with me, I was so overjoyed, and my father heard my joy and woke up, came from his bedroom furiously, and started beating me up with blows, slaps and kicks.”

Husain reportedly told his sister that he was going to kill his daughter for converting to Christianity before he poured burning fuel on her that night, the eleventh day of the Islamic holiday Ramadan.

According to an observer, Kyomuhendo screamed for help before her aunt and a neighbor arrived.

“The neighbor arranged for a taxi-van that took her to a hospital, and she got immediate treatment,” a source told the Christian news site.

The 24-year-old girl is expected to remain at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital for more than a month with serious burns on her leg, stomach, ribs, neck and portion of her back, according to the observer.

“Please pray for Kyomuhendo for a quick recovery on her hospital bed,” the source said.

Neither Kyomuhendo nor the neighbor reported the assault to the police for fear that her father might try to kill her, the source added.

Christians in eastern Uganda are among those in their faith who face the most serious dangers in the world, according to World Watch Monitor, a group that tracks persecutions of Christians.

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The president disclosed the developments during a national address on Sunday during which he extended the state of health emergency in the southern African island nation by 15 days.

According to him, the trials were in partnership with foreign researchers. “A pharmaceutical factory will be set up within a month to increase the production capacity of CovidOrganics. It will be administered in other forms such as injections,” Rajoelina posted on Twitter.

The antiviral properties of Artemisia – the anti-malarial plant at the base of COVID-Organics and its role in building immune capacity have been proven, he added, without giving details.

“Thanks to this discovery, international researchers and doctors have proposed the construction of the largest cancer center in Africa in Madagascar,” the president disclosed.

The herbal tea / concoction continues to sharply divide opinion among those that say it needs more attention and others who are dismissing as an unproven ‘solution’ to a malady the world is still grappling to get a grip on.

The profile of the drug has been boosted after about half dozen African leaders publicly endorsed it and requested for consignments. The Malagasy government has so far been distributing it for free in the country and all shipped consignments are for free.

Presidents of Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Comoros, DR Congo, Senegal and the Republic of Congo have congratulated Madagascar for their bold step in combating the rampaging global virus.

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