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Black lives don’t matter to the Tories
…as evidenced by how human greed is allowed outweigh the importance of African lives, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Matt Hancock is unwelcome as a UN envoy on Covid recovery in Africa
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THANKFULLY the United Nations has withdrawn its offer to former health secretary Matt Hancock to become a special envoy to help Covid-19 recovery on the continent of Africa.
Apparently a technicality came to light that prevented the UN from proceeding with the appointment.
I suspect that at the UN they have their fair share of lawyers and bureaucratic processes that pretty much everything would have to pass through to agree even which tea bags to use in formal meetings.
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