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US calls for international action to cut weapons supply to Sudan paramilitaries
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I contributed a few suggestions to the Spectator's yearly roundup of recommended reading:
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Books of the Year II – further recommendations from our regular reviewers
Philip Hensher I have a theory that Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels are an ingenious variation on Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays. If, in a future episode, River Cartwright ascends to his kingdom renoun...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/books-of-the-year-ii-further-recommendations-from-our-regular-reviewers/
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Sudan capital hit by drone attacks a day after RSF agrees to truce - reports
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Martin Plaut Breaks Down the Trouble Behind the Pretoria Agreement #ZerayPress
YouTube video by ዘርኣይ ፕረስ Zeray Press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXnLKb1WOw
11 days ago
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Oh dear. Falling apart before it even gets going! The far-left disunited
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Your Party to launch legal action against three of its ‘rogue’ founders, sources say
Exclusive: Leftwing party seeks to recover donations and data from company run by Andrew Feinstein, Jamie Driscoll and Beth Winter
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/28/your-party-to-launch-legal-action-against-three-of-its-founders-sources-say?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
16 days ago
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Scarborough beach
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The Economist poll
17 days ago
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Trump’s growing unpopularity
19 days ago
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South Africans feel mixture of hope and despair as apartheid becomes a distant memory
Unemployment and corruption drive anger and despair, yet the flame of hope flickers alive.
https://theconversation.com/south-africans-feel-mixture-of-hope-and-despair-as-apartheid-becomes-a-distant-memory-267160
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According to The Economist, 100,000 Russian troops have been killed in combat in 2025 alone — a roughly five to one ratio of Ukraine’s deaths. That is at least six times the Soviet Union’s 1980s death toll in Afghanistan
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Trump at it again. He holds a summit with Putin. No decision…Then thinks about supplying long range missiles to Ukraine… then speaks to Putin…decides to have another meeting with the Russian president…thinks about supplying the missiles…no decision…again…etc. etc. etc.
28 days ago
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More troubles in the fruit and nut party
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Your Party issue membership warning after launch chaos
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s fledgling political party has issued a warning to members who signed up through a system which sparked fraud…
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25544186.party-issue-membership-warning-launch-chaos/?ref=li
30 days ago
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President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he may tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that he could supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles if the war is not settled.
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Trump says he may tell Putin he may send Tomahawks to Ukraine if war not settled
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he may tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that he could supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles if the war is not settled.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-says-he-may-tell-putin-he-may-send-tomahawks-ukraine-if-war-not-settled-2025-10-12/
about 1 month ago
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Ethiopia’s Federal Future Tested in Western Tigray
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Ethiopia’s Federal Future Tested in Western Tigray
Federal complicity in irredentism threatens the nation’s fragile foundation. - Viewpoint by Batseba Seifu
https://open.substack.com/pub/ethiopiainsight/p/ethiopias-federal-future-tested-in?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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Madagascar soldiers join protestors
Groups of Madagascar soldiers joined thousands of protestors in the capital Saturday, AFP reporters said, after announcing they would refuse any orders to shoot demonstrators.
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/africa/article/2001531627/madagascar-soldiers-join-protestors
about 1 month ago
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Live Updates: Israel and Hamas Reach Deal on Hostage Release and Troop Pullback
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Live Updates: Trump Says Hamas Agrees to Release ‘All’ Hostages for Israeli Pullback
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/08/world/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 month ago
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The 5,000-Year Secret History of African Slavery They Don’t Teach You | FO° Talks
YouTube video by Fair Observer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8gZjIq7LOQ
about 1 month ago
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The Farage effect
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Very strange
about 2 months ago
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Trump’s Middle East Adviser Pick Is a Small-Time Truck Salesman. There is no indication in corporate documents that Mr. Boulos, a Lebanese-American whose son is married to Mr. Trump’s daughter Tiffany, is a man of significant wealth as a result of his businesses
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...
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Trump’s Middle East Adviser Pick Is a Small-Time Truck Salesman
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/africa/trump-massad-boulos-middle-east.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 2 months ago
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Chris Mason: Starmer unflinching as he seeks to take on Reform First week by week, and now day by day, the prime minister is stepping up the way he describes the political battle between Labour and Reform UK.
about 2 months ago
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Ethiopia: Surge in Arrests of Journalists, Media Workers Clampdown Stifles Independent Voices Ahead of Anticipated National Elections
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Ethiopia: Surge in Arrests of Journalists, Media Workers
Ethiopian security forces have arbitrarily arrested several journalists and media professionals since August 2025.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/22/ethiopia-surge-in-arrests-of-journalists-media-workers
about 2 months ago
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Uganda's Museveni cleared to seek reelection, eyes near half-century rule
Uganda's Electoral Commission on Tuesday cleared octogenarian President Yoweri Museveni to seek reelection in polls due to be held early next year, which could extend his rule in the East African nation to nearly half a century.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandas-museveni-cleared-seek-reelection-eyes-near-half-century-rule-2025-09-23/
about 2 months ago
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The Tigray People’s Liberation Front has splintered, with one faction seeking sanctuary from Eritrea’s President Isaias and another turning to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy. Relying on these authoritarian leaders to resolve Tigray’s crisis is misguided
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With Friends Like These—Tigray’s Perilous Allies
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has splintered, with one faction seeking sanctuary from Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki and another turning to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. R…
https://martinplaut.com/2025/09/21/with-friends-like-these-tigrays-perilous-allies/
about 2 months ago
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How Eritrean churches fund the Eritrean dictatorship
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about 2 months ago
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“War Is Peace”: Ethiopia’s George Orwellian Playbook and the War on Tigray - Addis Standard
“War Is Peace”: Ethiopia’s George Orwellian Playbook and the War on Tigray Addis Standard Op/Ed -
https://addisstandard.com/war-is-peace-ethiopias-george-orwellian-playbook-and-the-war-on-tigray/
about 2 months ago
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The real fear of the British right: that Keir Starmer might succeed
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The real fear of the British right: Keir Starmer might succeed
It is striking just how much time and effort right-wing media spend attacking the Prime Minister. The Labour Party is hardly soaring in the opinion polls. The popularity of Reform and Nigel Farage …
https://martinplaut.com/2025/09/20/the-real-fear-of-the-british-right-keir-starmer-might-succeed/
about 2 months ago
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President Trump just said in a press conference with Keir Starmer that “zero” illegal migration took place in last 3 months. His own press release discredits the claim
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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“UNHEARD OF”: Illegal Border Crossings Plummet to Another New Record Low
July was another month of record low illegal crossings at the southern border, with just 4,598 illegal immigrants arrested by Border Patrol — a 24% drop
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/unheard-of-illegal-border-crossings-plummet-to-another-new-record-low/
about 2 months ago
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I’m delighted! My book on slavery now on sale in South Africa! “Unbroken chains: A 5,000 year history of African enslavement”
about 2 months ago
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Britain will not surrender its flag to those who wish to use it as a symbol of violence, fear and division, Sir Keir Starmer has said
2 months ago
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Time’s Hostage: How Ethiopia’s Past is Strangling its Present and Future
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Time’s Hostage: How Ethiopia’s Past is Strangling its Present and Future
In a nation haunted by its history, memory binds the present and blinds the future - Viewpoint by Daniel Hailu
https://open.substack.com/pub/ethiopiainsight/p/times-hostage-how-ethiopias-past?r=u6ojn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 months ago
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Slavery of Africans by Africans| Our misunderstanding of slavery| Current slavery| Reparation
YouTube video by Tghat ትግሃት
https://youtu.be/liVfIOeuISg
2 months ago
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South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar has been charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity in a move that some fear could reignite the country's civil war
2 months ago
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Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home. BBC has examined French property and company records and has been unable to find evidence that Ferrari's parents have the means to give their daughter a significant contribution towards the purchase of the home.
2 months ago
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Book Launch for 'Unbroken Chains: A 5,000 year history of African enslavement' by Senior Research Fellow Martin Plaut
Martin Plaut at the launch of his latest book "Unbroken Chains: A 5,000 year history of African enslavement"
https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/news/book-launch-unbroken-chains-5000-year-history-african-enslavement-senior-research-fellow-martin
2 months ago
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The Tigrayan exodus
This human trafficking business intersects with a broader rise in organised crime and criminality within Tigray, involving a vast range of actors within the splintered region. Source: Sahan –…
https://martinplaut.com/2025/09/02/the-tigrayan-exodus/
2 months ago
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Ethiopia’s giant Nile dam: Triumph, Tragedy or Something Else?
On Tuesday Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile is due to be officially opened. It is a truly awesome achievement: the largest hydroelectric dam in Africa. It even dwarfs …
https://martinplaut.com/2025/09/07/ethiopias-giant-nile-dam-triumph-tragedy-or-something-else/
2 months ago
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Tigray Needs Democracy Before Secession
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Tigray Needs Democracy Before Secession
Independence without civil liberties is like starting a new nation in a prison—ask Eritreans and South Sudanese - Viewpoint by Abrar Fitwi
https://open.substack.com/pub/ethiopiainsight/p/tigray-needs-democracy-before-secession?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 months ago
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Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is I am convinced that Trump looks at NATO as if it’s a U.S.-owned shopping center whose tenants are never paying enough rent. And he looks at the European Union as a shopping center competing with the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
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Opinion | Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trump-russia-ukraine-putin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
3 months ago
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After Reassuring Europe, Trump Strikes a Different Tone About Russian Threats. Trump suggested that he was powerless to control President Putin saying he could not convince the Russians to stop killing Ukrainian civilians or hacking American court records
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
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After Reassuring Europe, Trump Strikes a Different Tone About Russian Threats
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/trump-putin-russian-threats.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
3 months ago
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Ethiopia’s ruling party: Framing its future direction under the motto “Resist, Strive, and Cleanse,” the party pledged to “diligently cleanse” its journey toward prosperity by “eliminating the ideas, cultures, habits, infiltrators, and traitors that serve as obstacles
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3 months ago
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Slavery in Africa today: a crisis ignored by the African Union and Arab League
Posted by Martin Plaut I am writing a series of articles about aspects of African slavery, ahead of the publication of my book: “Unbroken Chains: a 5,000 year history of African enslavement&…
https://martinplaut.com/2025/08/01/slavery-in-africa-today-a-crisis-ignored-by-the-african-union-and-arab-league/
3 months ago
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Ethiopia’s Role in African Enslavement and the Paradox of Haile Selassie
An edited extract from: Unbroken Chains: A 5,000 year history of African Enslavement, published 28 August 2025. In the global reckoning with slavery, Ethiopia occupies an ambiguous space. Often rom…
https://martinplaut.com/2025/08/02/ethiopias-role-in-african-enslavement-and-the-paradox-of-haile-selassie/
3 months ago
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I’m thrilled to share this offer on my new book on African enslavement. “This erudite book is an eye-opening revelation and a transfixing read.” Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
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4 months ago
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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections. All those foreign dictators will be delighted
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/politics/rubio-foreign-elections-cable.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
4 months ago
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South African troops abandoned by their government
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Life Under Eritrean ‘Occupation’ In Northern Ethiopia
By Dylan GAMBA May 14, 2025, 5:16 am From his home in the far north of Ethiopia, Hagos can see Eritrean soldiers positioned on the other side of his town, Alitena, and says all his neighbours fear…
https://martinplaut.com/2025/05/17/life-under-eritrean-occupation-in-northern-ethiopia/
6 months ago
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Oh no! Someone has to go out and buy some lavatory paper! The shock! The horror! A human rights atrocity by Trump
8 months ago
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