On Thursday, Russian diplomat Oleg Ozerov, the head of the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Economic Forum, said that his country is concerned about the possible expansion of US biological laboratories in Africa, given that Africans have no access to the results of such biological research conducted in their countries.
Deploying the biological laboratories in Africa allows the United States to transfer risks associated with multiple compliance requirements at home to an African state and “reduces accountability” in terms of possible immediate consequences of their activities in the laboratories, Director of the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at the South African Stellenbosch University, Moses Khanyile told Sputnik Africa.
“The biggest advantage that the US would have is the fact that, first of all, it will transfer the risk of multiple compliance requirements in its own country and transfer it to the host country. It will also ensure freedom of action in terms of what it wants to do without fear of immediate repercussions. And it also reduces accountability,” said Khanyile.
U.S. Secret Bio-weapons In Africa Has Been Discovered

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The Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) is part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, according to a fact sheet of the defense ministry published on March 11.

Since 2005, when the BTRP has partnered with the government of Ukraine, the United States has invested approximately 200 million U.S. dollars in Ukraine, supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities and diagnostic sites.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that in addition to over 30 biolabs in Ukraine, the United States has created “hundreds of such laboratories” in other countries.

According to publicly available data, 336 laboratories in about 30 countries receive funding from the BTRP.

In addition, he said, the US is using its biological laboratories “to strengthen its position [in the region] and strengthen its global footprint.”
“One thing we cannot shy away from is that, the US has a vast military assets that are deployed in Africa and around the world. Therefore, in its efforts to strengthen its position and expand its global footprint, it will pursue initiatives like this for its own interest,” said the expert.
Elaborating on the topic, Khanyile highlighted that for the US, it is essential to “entrench [its] footprint” in Africa due to the continent’s mineral resources and its economic potential.
“As we all know, the continent is a growing market and the center of many geopolitical interests of major powers. It has vast mineral resources that are relevant and critical to the sustenance of most countries. Therefore, anything that can help to stabilize the footprint will be of great interest to any of the world powers, including the United States,” he emphasized.

In October, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the US was moving its dual-use biological research from Europe to Africa, to countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Uganda and South Africa.
On Thursday, Ozerov noted that Russia is concerned about the potential expansion of US biological laboratories in Africa, as the results of biological research conducted in these countries are not available to Africans.
Among the risks for countries that host biological studies on their soil, the expert mentioned accidents in laboratories and expenses related to ensuring the safety of biological facilities and training of personnel.

“There are many risks that any country hosting such activities, including the US or any other country on African soil, will face because we all know that any laboratory work can go wrong in one way or another, especially when it comes to biological material. It could happen accidentally. […] And besides that, there are a lot expenses associated with securing biological facilities, getting trained personnel with expertise and also making sure that no other unauthorized people have access to these materials,” Khanyile revealed.

Along with these risks, he underscored that biological material from the laboratories in case of a leakage could “fall in the wrong hands.”
“There could be a leakage. These things can fall into wrong hands of terrorists. Criminal syndicates are always looking for some of these biological weapons in order to pursue their objectives,” he stressed.
Commenting on the fact that Africans have no access to the results of the biological studies conducted in the laboratories, Khanyile said that such approach is the violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, which forbids development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of the biological and toxin weapons and entered into force in 1975.
“Anything that is shrouded in secrecy, where there is limited or no access of whatever nature from the local scientists for purposes of research will then at face value be violating the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention in the sense that it is no longer transparent and can never be guaranteed to be a peaceful whatsoever,” said the expert.

Moreover, he highlighted that although the convention allows limited transfer of skills, knowledge, material and even equipment among the state parties, this has to be done on “a mutually beneficial basis, and peaceful purposes.” Furthermore, according to the expert, redeploying the laboratories is “highly hazardous” and could negatively affect the local population.

In disregard of the worldwide concern over the U.S.-funded overseas biological laboratories, the U.S. mainstream news outlets, which always flaunt the so-called “freedom of the press,” have kept silent and just parroted what the U.S. government has said without any verification.

“What is in those Ukrainian biological labs that make them so worrisome and dangerous?” independent journalist Glenn Greenwald queried in an article published on March 9, one day after U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland admitted that “Ukraine has biological research facilities” when testifying before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

“If these labs are merely designed to find a cure for cancer or create safety measures against pathogens, why, in Nuland’s mind, would it have anything to do with a biological and chemical weapons program in Ukraine?” he asked.

The United States has been working with Ukraine to “eliminate biological weapons” left behind by the Soviet Union since 2005, but over the past 17 years, “the Pentagon has not finished removing test tubes from Soviet era freezers,” said FOX news anchor Tucker Carlson.

“How does that work exactly? How heavy are these bio weapons? When was the Pentagon planning to finish this important job?” Carlson asked. “Those all seem like very obvious questions, but not a single (U.S.) reporter asked any of those questions.”

“Instead of government and media actors leveling with the American people about a complex reality, they engaged in a shameful and self-defeating coverup under the guise of ‘fighting misinformation.’” noted Askonas. 

“The issue of transferring wholesale research laboratories from one country to another is something else, because these things are highly dangerous, are highly hazardous, and then they can really impact negatively on the local population if anything were to go wrong. Transferring laboratories from one country to another on such a highly dangerous material and so on is like transferring the risk from the source country to the host country,” Khanyile emphasized.
Speaking about the involvement of US biolabs in the outbreaks of various pandemics around the world, the expert emphasized that although the origins of the COVID-19, for instance, are still unclear, such pandemics are clearly linked to “efforts in biological research, biological weapons research or anything that has to do with pathogens, viruses, bacteria and so on.”
Therefore, Khanyile stressed that countries hosting such research, and not the country owning the facilities, are the first ones to be affected in the event of a laboratory accident.
“If a country in Africa decides to host a biological research laboratory from another country, they’re actually setting themselves up for trouble. Because, it is possible that when such an accident happens, when there is a leakage or terrorist gets access to such material, the only country that is going to get affected is the host country and even the neighboring countries. So the country that is moving these things around is not necessarily going to be affected the way a host country would be”, he underscored.
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has led to some unexpected discoveries. Russian media outlets recently reported that the Pentagon had commissioned more than 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine, where large quantities of dangerous viruses were stored.

The United States supposedly depends on these laboratories to implement its biological warfare research. And these are only a handful, or less than 10 percent of the 336 biological laboratories the US reportedly controls in 30 countries around the world.

No wonder the US was desperately pushing for “origin-tracing” studies for the COVID-19 outbreak at Chinese laboratories. Maybe because they have laboratories spread around the world, they are aware of the high risks of viruses leaking and triggering pandemics. They assumed similar risks from Chinese laboratories, but that is stretching it too far.

It is the US that’s ill, but it is forcing China to take the pill. And that’s precisely why the US has failed to bring COVID-19 under control on its shores. Instead of acknowledging the problem it is busy blaming others.

It is now also clear why the US has, for four decades, tried to prevent the Biological Weapons Convention from establishing a checking mechanism. Of the 182 signatories to the convention, the US is the only one that pulled out of negotiations for such a mechanism in 2001. It is clear that by doing so the US wants to protect the secrets of its 336 biological labs worldwide.

Latest reports say that the US embassy in Ukraine hurriedly deleted information related to the biological labs there. But they cannot wash away the fact about the existence of such laboratories around the world. It is time the US published information about these biological laboratories, including what kind of viruses are stored there, what “research” is going on and what harm they pose to people in these countries and around the world. The world should demand answers.

The US has been dealing in covert genocide for the past 70 or 80 years,Ebola,corona are just some of the bio-weapons they have produced!SG64