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He replaced the members of the vaccine advisory panel in June, and fired its chief Susan Monarez in late August, provoking a group of senior staff to resign in protest.

In August last year, seven TikTokers were sentenced to six months in prison by a court in the capital, Mogadishu, for provoking civil unrest and spreading immorality.

Professors and journalists, too, are facing punishment for their comments, provoking a debate over so-called cancel culture.

“These occupations occurred for a range of reasons,” he wrote, “and often started out suppressing violence, but they ended up provoking or exacerbating widespread civil unrest, political violence and terrorism…Things usually escalate.”

His appearance came days after he suddenly fired the new CDC director, Susan Monarez, provoking a group of senior staffers to resign in protest.