Despite battlefield setbacks, the #IslamicState operating in #Somalia's Puntland region has managed to survive, just like Al Shabaab in the south. One reason is the loss of faith locally in #Puntland's leadership amid internal divisions. africa-conf.com/puntlands-po...

On Tanzania’s empty streets last week. It really was a Saba Saba like no other. thechanzo.com/2026/07/12/t...

Allez Les Léopards 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩!!!!

Gasabo Gold home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

Huge get for Charlton here, all the smart money was on him going to Nvidia.

In 1957, three months after Ghanaian independence, the world’s most celebrated footballer came to Accra to teach. What Stanley Matthews left behind changed Ghanaian football forever. africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...

'I don’t understand a world where the consequences of speaking out against a genocide seem worse than the consequences for the people actually enacting a genocide' - Ciara Mageean

“A team of officers and children who are allowed to take on maintenance duties, called ‘Q Branch’, were given permission to use ferrets to kill the rats.”

“[t]he practice was for a member of the IRA to give a codeword to the gardaí in Dublin. The gardaí would then give this to the RUC Special Branch in Belfast, who would share it carefully with relevant parties in the North and in Britain..” www.thejournal.ie/calling-353-...

Abdulhakim Nsobya, Uganda-born and living in Belfast, reminds us of Ian Clarke, Belfast born, and in living in Uganda. www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

@elaineburke.bsky.social well done for pointing to Musk inciting violence in Ireland on morning ireland’s normally boosterish business segment

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Once more, with feeling: the Ulm 5 show trial continues theleftberlin.com/ulm-5-show-t...

Watching the world let this happen leaves me speechless www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

14400 Gardaí in Ireland. In the last 9mo of 2025 there were 2704 complaints about members of the Gardaí from the public. 1440 of those were deemed admissable complaints. So for every 10 Gardaí, 1 attracted a serious complaint in a 9 month period last year. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

A milestone. For the first time ever, we have surpassed 2 million books on our website. That is 2 million books available to you through an independent, online bookshop. With competitive shipping prices. Shop local. www.kennys.ie

US State Dept sanctions Tanzanian cop Snr Asst Commissioner Faustine Mafwele www.state.gov/releases/off...

Daniel Tatlow-Devally's family asks why our Government is silent on an Irish citizen’s “unprecedented show trial” in Germany www.irishexaminer.com/business/ari...

⚠️ 🇨🇩 Ebola case confirmed in DR Congo city held by M23 armed group: authorities A case of Ebola has been confirmed in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, says the director of the Congolese National Institute of Biomedical Research, Jean-Jacques Muyembe

Seán O'Casey characters be like "arra don't mind him sure he's only an auld

rude. in my day we called that Italo-disco.

English media analysis of recent seismic changes don’t really grasp the very different forms of nationalism in the other nations. Whereas English is negatively based on Imperial nostalgia the others are formed by their negative experiences of British colonialism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am so sick of the criticism of the "designer" bicyle storage facility in Kerry Hospital. Lets have a look at these costs, understanding them is about reframing what was actually built, and comparing it fairly against the infrastructure society routinely accepts for cars. 1/

English version of early thoughts about the Mali situation. Might post additional remarks below

Click through for ways to support Daniel Tatlow-Devally, imprisoned for opposing genocide justicefordaniel.carrd.co

Grateful, also, for his monsterpiece of a thesis

Check out his book A People’s History of Idi Amin’s Uganda

Former government TD now lobbyist “happy” to testify to good character of a man guilty of imprisoning and torturing two thirteen year old boys. MacSharry defends intervention in case of developer jailed for assault on three boys. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

🎉 The cops were lying? No… what a surprise! Shocked… SHOCKED! www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Comprehensive story on the show trial in Stuttgart www.972mag.com/palestine-ac...

Time for our embassy in Bonn to sit in on what is clearly a show trial www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Daniel Tatlow-Devally took direct action to stop a genocide. After seven months in detention - 23 hours a day locked up - his trial begins today, in Stuttgart, Germany. www.thejournal.ie/daniel-tatlo...

25 de abril e antropoceno

Police chief orders trial of officers who allegedly used POS machine to extort motorists https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/872789-police-chief-orders-trial-of-officers-who-allegedly-used-pos-machine-to-extort-motorists.html?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

This is an excellent analysis of the structural issues behind the fuel protests from Conor McCabe www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼 #Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism 🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d

Yes yes we should totally be allowing this chap to make demands and hold the country to ransom. Or you know… we could treat him the way he treats his animals. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

A few seconds on google and there’s one of the ‘negotiators’ at the Dublin blockade on the street in Kells protesting an IPAS centre beside a placard saying “PADDY FIRST NOT LAST”

Uganda Law Society: “an undignified, harrowing and dehumanising process that has reduced [the deported people] to little more than chattel, for the benefit of private interests on both sides of the Atlantic”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

A Dubliner held in Germany for taking action against genocide. Help his family give him the support he needs. gofund.me/a4f87f367

La célèbre statue vivante congolaise "Lumumba Vea" ne pourra pas assister au match de barrage de la Coupe du monde contre la Jamaïque, car il n’a pas pu obtenir son visa à temps. ➡️ https://l.africanews.com/QpQ

If Trump did D Day, he would have taken out Hitler, send a message to Himmler asking for a deal, told him he was going to land in Normandy (Karg Island) with 1% of the necessary troops, and give them a months notice.

Mama afikisha wanaye Limerick..... www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/new...

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FIFA's idea of disciplining the Israeli FA.