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Video circulating from the Lobito Corridor Trans‑Africa Summit in Angola on December 4, 2024 shows President Joe Biden with his eyes closed for an extended period while seated with African leaders; mu...
Smartmatic began as a Venezuela-rooted technology firm that built electronic voting systems and expanded into a global provider of election technology, running or supporting dozens of national and loc...
The claim that the U.S. government budget under President Biden specifically included funding for is not supported by the documents provided: available studies and program assessments reference U.S. g...
Countries have recovered from authoritarian or fascist leadership, but recovery is neither automatic nor uniform: , while economic legacies, social trauma, and elite resistance create persistent risks...
The short answer is: the claim that "US Democrats proposed $3 million for vasectomy and circumcision programs in Zambia" is and appears to stem from partisan floor remarks and generalized lists of for...
Democrats as a party are not shown to have a formal, unified demand for a specific line item to fund vasectomies and circumcisions in Zambia; the claim appears to originate from Republican criticism a...
Available reporting shows the Trump administration’s biggest announced health-aid commitments were concentrated in a set of new bilateral “compacts” with African governments—an initial tranche of agre...
Multiple reports and investigations say Israel-linked intelligence and private cyber‑surveillance firms have been implicated in spying activities across Africa — with specific African governments and ...
The most direct contemporary documentary evidence shows a 2025 U.S. congressional and political discussion that referenced a roughly , which was later removed or proposed for rescission in budget acti...
The claim that the United States spent is by the three analyses provided; none of the supplied summaries report a U.S. disbursement of $3 million for circumcision in Zambia. The available materials in...
Governments document and justify arrests tied to social media by producing digital evidence (screenshots, metadata, account histories), invoking domestic criminal laws or public-order statutes, and so...
Cultural, religious and moral systems shape whether, how and why women (and other people) encounter semen ingestion by assigning symbolic meanings to semen—ranging from sacred substance to ritual impu...
A number of African governments have been reported to use Israeli-made cyber-surveillance tools and spyware — with reporting and research naming Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Z...
There are multiple, documented allegations that Israeli-origin spyware and intelligence activities have been used across several African countries, with reporting and research naming nations such as M...
Two authoritative examinations of the available material find . Multiple source excerpts show discussions of voluntary medical male circumcision programs in Zambia and broader U.S. international famil...
The $3 million aid package to Zambia is , including a $66.8 million drought and resilience package in June 2024 and multi-hundred-million-dollar health and development flows in earlier years; however,...
The materials provided do not supply a single, verified figure for the total amount of U.S. healthcare aid to Zambia since 2021; none of the three items mention a country-level cumulative dollar total...
Since 2020, multiple indices and reports point to a small set of countries that in democratic performance, most consistently named are Botswana, South Africa, Portugal, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Jo...
The claim "USA sending $3 million to Zambia" is inaccurate based on available evidence: recent U.S. assistance announcements related to Zambia either describe a major cut in health aid or identify a U...
The available analyses converge on a clear numeric range: , with one 2021 cumulative estimate listing 3,000,553 procedures. This range reflects differing study cut‑offs and data sources; the lower bou...