The Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA-CERAO) urges African governments “to show restraint, discernment and responsibility” in …
— Read on www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2023-08/bishops-of-west-africa-against-military-intervention-in-niger.html

i’m kissing you 
from across this country 
i’m kissing you
from across this land 

nothing could stop 
me from kissing you
not even a continent would do
i’ll only stop kissing u
if u want me to 
only 
if u want me to 

Anthony ‘Mighty Gabby’ Carter, the award winning Barbados musician and a Cultural Ambassador for the island has penned in poetic form a scathing critique of the clamour for military intervention in Haiti and Niger.
— Read on caribbeanempowerment.wordpress.com/2023/08/12/gabby-says-send-no-troops-to-niger-nor-haiti/

the only thing i know is
life is not for certain
every day wake up and wonder 
wow here i am again
grateful that the curtain 
of the world turned again