Researcher, policy consultant, immigrant. Author of The Saviour Fish: Life and Death on Africa's Greatest Lake - a Wanderlust Book of the Year, 2022.
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Human rights monitors criticized senior UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh's candidacy to be the next UN chief on Tuesday, citing her role in championing the country's foreign policy and denying the UAE's role in fuelling the conflict in Sudan. reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
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A Tanzanian critic of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government has been abducted by unknown people in neighboring Kenya, bringing to three such attacks in the East African nation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who was charged with treason last year, has started a hunger strike to protest his inability to access his lawyers, his party said. reuters.com/world/africa/jai…
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Nusseibeh was the UAE’s point person on Sudan, according to Justin Lynch, managing director of the Conflict Insights Group research organization. “Throughout this war, she assured other governments that the UAE was not backing the RSF, even as Washington and other capitals knew internally that it was,” he told the AP.
The U.N. secretary-general’s role is to protect civilians from horrors like el-Fasher, Lynch said. “Handing the job over to the diplomat who ran cover for it would be an insult to the survivors.”
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The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full
- Violence at lowest since records began in 1981
- Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds
- Robbery: record low
- Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak.
- Shoplifting up
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West Africa is in deep trouble: theguardian.com/global-devel…
Awful news. Such a talent and such a nice guy. And a great loss to Sudan's revolution.
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On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
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This footage, uploaded by @JohnNgutiCDM, shows protestors in Arusha, Tanzania, fleeing from gunfire. The same victim can be seen on the street as the one I geolocated in the tweet below 👇
There is a lot of footage trickling out of Tanzania despite blocks to social media platforms. It shows many casualties after the violence against protestors.
This graphic video, uploaded by @HildaNewton21, shows at least two victims in Arusha. Location: -3.36047, 36.68389
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The most traumatic 6 days of my life 😭Rest in peace to those who have lost their lives 💔💔💔
We will never be the same 💔
Mungu Ibariki Tanzania.
Bubo na Tchuto has been released after 3 years in pretrial detention over alleged Guinea-Bissau coup plot: plataformamedia.com/en/2025/…
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The political scene in Guinea-Bissau is getting darker again: reuters.com/business/media-t…
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One of the founders of the Emergency Rooms, Khalid al Zubeir, aka Isti, has died while in detention by the Sudanese army. His case raises the issue of unlawful detentions and torture of community aid workers by SAf. It coincides with the death sentence passed against a woman
Millet and sorghum supplies in El Fasher have completely dried up as a result of the RSF's prolonged siege of the city. A single sack of sorgum is selling for $2,500. This is a war crime: sudantribune.com/article3034…
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Mali officially (and unsurprisingly) dissolves political parties. This opens a new and risky period in Malian politics, and the existing parties will likely continue efforts at contestation even as some of their leaders have been taken by state authorities.
“The UK needs to explain how it is responding to massacres of children and aid workers while hosting the UAE at its London conference.” #Sudan theguardian.com/global-devel…
How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region: #sudan middleeasteye.net/big-story/…
Women on Ukerewe are helping tackle Lake Victoria's plastic problem: m.youtube.com/watch?v=taancs…
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