Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire 'gradually' being implemented, says China reut.rs/49lcSJB

This article was published a whole three weeks before US forces invaded Venezuela and abducted the country's leader. Some legacy that FIFA Peace Prize is going to have. Giving the Nobel Peace Prize a run for its money.

🇻🇪 Si l’arrestation du président vénézuélien Nicolás Maduro, samedi 3 janvier, a été rapide, le pays, sous le choc, semble hésiter entre le silence et la peur des lendemains incertains.

China urges US to ‘stop toppling’ Venezuelan government, release Maduro https://aje.io/y1mso8

The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.

There has been genocide in each year of the 2020ies so far, what a cursed decade. A decade we kicked off with a deadly pandemic, lest we forget. Here's to bucking the trend in 26. Wishing you a happy new year friends.

THREAD: on Friday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would recognize Somaliland, an autonomous breakaway republic in northern Somalia, as an independent state. This makes Israel the first state to officially recognize Somaliland, since it's 1991 declaration of independence.

Merry Christmas friends. Remember those struggling to celebrate, reeling from the trauma of war, displacement and the targeted bombings of churches. From the Middle East Eye, 25/12/25.

Hundreds of Colombian ex-soldiers have been drawn to Sudan with the promise of a big payday. What many found instead was death in a faraway war. An AFP investigation has uncovered how Colombian mercenaries ended up on the other side of the world. u.afp.com/S8Tt

Tech bros don’t actually understand the sci-fi they claim to love. Thank you Al Jazeera English for having me on.

As the year wraps up, & the breakout of conflict in the Horn of Africa looks increasingly inevitable in 2026, this indepth probe by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social into illegal gold mining from Tigray to the UAE mostly by the way of Eritrea...is a good 101er for how factions are likely to arm themselves.

Tomorrow is the awards ceremony of the #RoryPeckAwards! The best in global freelance journalism will be recognized at the BFI Southbank in London. It was unforgettable last year! Show up, support the best of our craft in 2025. A livestream link will be available here: rorypecktrust.org/awards/

🏆 Join us, & the great and the good from the news & media industry on Nov 26 @BFI Southbank when we celebrate the finalists + announce the winners of the 2025 #RoryPeckAwards. Hosted by Isa Soares CNN. Tickets🔗 buff.ly/pedyTxo Show your support for our finalists & freelance journalists globally.

Genocide resumes, reads this weekend's cover of @thecontinent.org, as El Fasher falls to the Rapid Support Forces after a year long siege. Gruesome images of their killing spree that is estimated to have killed thousands, make the rounds. What Sudanese activists warned would happen is playing out.

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT

Kenya will host an Africa–France summit next year, agreed to by Presidents Ruto and Macron on the UN sidelines this week. As the Western African rejection of their former colonial power appears increasingly permanent, France races to make geopolitical/strategic gains in East Africa.

“drones manufactured by the Chinese tech giant DJI have been used to attack hospitals and civilian shelters and to surveil Palestinian prisoners being forced to act as human shields”. DJI stopped sales to Russia & Ukraine, but did not stop selling to Israel www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

70+ worshippers at the Al-Safiya Mosque in El Fasher were killed in an RSF drone strike today, Friday, when Jumah services means mosques are full. The UAE, which backs the RSF despite it being accused of genocide, continues to face no scrutiny from its western security partners, including the US.

After 14 years, the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive hydroelectric power dam on the Nile River, is complete. The dam was officially inaugurated. It is a huge achievement for Ethiopia, with hopes that the power generated can reduce poverty & power shortages.

Sigh. Orgs/individuals responsible for supporting genocides, tyrants & downplaying human suffering in Syria, Bosnia, Ethiopia & elsewhere continue to be given prominent leadership/organizer roles in Palestinian solidarity movements across North America. Solidarity shouldn't enable erasure.

It has been 3 years since our vocational school offering free education for MDW and refugees returnees in Ethiopia was launched. On Saturday, the latest group of 226 students graduated, completing courses in clothes design, sewing or hairstyling. The courses being free isn’t the point…

Keep their voices alive.

Saudi Arabia just executed Jalal al-Labbad for crimes during the Arab Spring, when he was 15. His brother Fadel was executed in 2019. His brother Mohammed waits on death row. MBS is using anti-terror laws to silence dissent: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

"Ethiopia’s Tigray war, which lasted from 2020 to 2022, is one of the most criminally under-covered conflicts in modern history" “It is a really horrific and extreme form of sexual violence, and one that deserves the world’s attention.”🧵

In today's Proximities. - Horrific report points to genocide in Ethiopia - A Palestinian mother's story - just one of many - And Bukele clears path for third term As always, it can be read in under two minutes. www.proximities.news/p/ethiopia-g...

The 68 are almost entirely Ethiopian nationals, fleeing wars, oppression and the resulting abject poverty. Only twelve survived, and with this cycle so normalized and common since 2020, the Ethiopian government no longer even acknowledges such tragedies, let alone declare national mourning.

Visiting Fellow @raniaab.bsky.social's policy brief documents the ongoing attempt to identify and bring justice, dignity and closure to the disappearance and killings of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, many of whom are believed to be in mass graves @ecfrmena.bsky.social buff.ly/9iQFPoX

Canada pledges to recognize an independent Palestinian state at the 80th UN General Assembly session in September.

#Ethiopia 🇪🇹 In this @globalvoices.org piece, @ZekuZelalem unpacks the mass arrests of Ethiopian doctors, exposing how crumbling wages, exploitative conditions & unchecked repression triggered a brutal government crackdown.

In media, many voices, narratives & entire peoples are considered irrelevant by too many boardrooms. @globalvoices.org platforms those critical stories &the locals around the globe who write them. Like many non-profits, they've been hit with cuts. GV is worth supporting. Check out their fundraiser.

Last year, a report by Human Rights Watch outlined a systemic pattern of abuse and killings of health professionals in the country’s northwestern Amhara region.

Wrote in @globalvoices.org about the burgeoning protest movement by Ethiopian doctors, demanding better pay & safe working conditions. Their month long labour strike paralyzed the health sector. In response, police arrested 149 striking doctors. Doctors are threatening a new strike by Sept 15.

Since May 2025 Ethiopian doctors launched a strike demanding better pay and working conditions. 👩🏾‍⚕️👨🏽‍⚕️🇪🇹 The response from the government ➡️ 149 arrest of medical professional in the past 3 months. 📢💔 🔗 globalvoices.org/2025/07/15/w...

Every morning, the AJE homepage greets me with a staggering new figure of Palestinians murdered at designated food collection locations. Wondering if there is a precedent where "humanitarian" orgs like Gaza Humanitarian Foundation are deployed with the double mandate of aid work & enabling genocide

PSA for freelance journalists...don't forget to enter your best material in the Rory Peck Awards, which honours the best in journalism (cuz freelancers are the best journalists✊🏿). It was an unforgettable experience for me last year. It could be you this year. Three days for the submission deadline!

📢Just 4️⃣ days to go! Make sure your work is entered for the most important Awards for #freelance journalists and filmmakers. Showcase your work to an influential international media audience. Share your story on stage + win a trophy + cash prize. www.rorypecktrust.org/awards #journalismmatters

Very lengthy, detailed, sobering long form investigation by @reuters.com into the heinous mass killings of nearly 1,500 Alawite civilians by Syrian state forces from March 7 through the 9th. These stories need to be told. Awful, disturbing accounts with graphic footage/images included.

At least 50 African people at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-50-african-people-risk-imminent-execution-saudi-arabia

Nearly 100 migrants, from Ethiopia, Egypt and Somalia face beheading in Saudi Arabia, as hashish related executions are ramped up. Meanwhile, 30+ NGOs published an open letter calling on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to commute the death sentences. My latest for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social.

The team at @dairinstitute.bsky.social are some of the most inspirational people out there. Infinitely proud to have worked with them on this academic paper, highlighting colossal failures of social media giants in curbing the spread of genocidal speech in Ethiopia, inflaming genocide in Tigray.

With 170 Palestinian journalists having been killed, and Israel barring most international journalists from entering Gaza, "reliable reporting has been overtaken by [Israel's] propaganda and 'dehumanizing' messages about the war.” news.un.org/en/story/202...

Very proud of my 1st newsroom, the Ethiopia based Addis Standard (addisstandard.com), longlisted for the 2025 Press Freedom Award by @oneworldmedia.bsky.social. AS is renowned for hard hitting journalism in a repressive atmosphere. Deserved honour. Proud alumnus! Congrats Team AS! #OWMAwards2025

🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵 english.elpais.com/internationa...

And if you do nothing else, please watch this short video narrated by Fasica, the lead author of the CHI paper, Nuredin Ali, and exiled Ethiopian journalist @zekuzelalem.bsky.social: peertube.dair-institute.org/w/wTpAFSQkB2...

Re: ICJ genocide case. Not that one. Sudan has filed a case at the ICJ, accusing the UAE of complicity in the genocide of non Arab tribes in Darfur, citing its support of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary. It's unclear yet if the ICJ has jurisdiction here, but oral arguments have been heard.

In “CONTENT MODERATION: the harrowing, traumatizing job that leaves many African data workers with mental health issues and drug dependency”, Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan shares what she endured, while working for two years as a content moderator for Meta in Nairobi, Kenya.

What was initially reported as dozens may actually be hundreds of dead, in a Sudanese airstrike that targeted an open market teeming with civilians in the North Darfur town of Tora. Horrific.

End-to-end encryption is secure because it protects the contents of your communications in transit between the endpoints. If you make one of those endpoints an editor at The Atlantic, no amount of encryption is going to save you from your own stupidity.

Key dates on the evolution of anti homosexuality advocacy and online violence against LGBTQIA+ communities in Ethiopia: 1/