Lovely piece about Book Bunk, an organisation restoring colonial-era libraries in Nairobi and making them free, accessible spaces for children

Turns out that Brits are really good at sliding down ice head first at 80mph 🧊

Whew that snowboard cross final was EXCITING. Especially because we won! A Winter Olympics gold medal! Britain's first gold medal on snow! Love me some Olympics

'... the spokesperson said, “this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities.” 'Trump’s Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930s.'

The 13-year-old step-daughter of one of my husband's best friends asked to follow me on Instagram and I am deeply honoured but also slightly scared.

Japan's conservative governing party is on the brink of a landslide win in snap parliamentary elections called by Sanae Takaichi soon after she became prime minister last year

Morgan McSweeney's resignation means the Epstein files have claimed another scalp in Europe. In the US, meanwhile, crickets...

McSweeney took his time resigning, but finally caved to the pressure. I'll be following my colleagues' coverage to see if Starmer's position shores up or gets even weaker, or if his tactics change following the exit of someone who seemed to think Labour was permanently fighting an election

Not me bawling at Francesca Lollobrigida winning gold for Italy in the 3000m speed skating, in an Olympic Record at the age of 35, and then running into the stadium tunnel to pick up her child 🥲

Oh Zim...

I have another Cape Town request - this time on the housing crisis. Since apartheid ended, the city has hardly built any central social/affordable housing. Now middle classes are also being priced out. If you or anyone you know is struggling to afford life in Cape Town, feel free to DM me.

When I started at Reuters, Zimbabwe's govt said it wanted an IMF staff-monitored program (reforms approved by the IMF, that might later lead to a loan). Four years and one new job later, Zim finally has its SMP. Will Zim finally fix its currency & FX market? It very much remains to be seen...

The extent of the cuts at the Washington Post is truly heartbreaking. It's a bloodbath.

💔 @siobhanogrady.bsky.social

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

Jeff Bezos had $75m to make a documentary about Melania Trump, but not to invest in the Washington Post.

John Steenhuisen won't stand again to be Democratic Alliance leader. Cape Town mayor Geordie Lewis Hill is frontrunner to take over. Steenhuisen extolled his achievements, then said he needed to devote 100% of his time to fighting foot & mouth (his response so far has been criticised).

I love @lanre-bakare.bsky.social's interview with Wunmi Mosaku, who was sensational in Sinners.

BREAKING - Mandelson to step down from the Lords. He retains the title which only an act of parliament can remove www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Breaking: The European Commission said on Tuesday it would investigate Mandelson, who was European trade commissioner from 2004-8 before leaving early to return to UK politics. Mandelson draws a pension from his time there and has to adhere to a code of conduct for former staff.

PSA: Phones and yoghurt do not mix.

South African artist Gabrielle Goliath is suing arts minister Gayton McKenzie. after he blocked her from representing the country at the Venice Biennale. He had called her work addressing Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza “highly divisive"

Where there's a scandal, there's a Zuma

📢📢📢 THEY KISSED! THEY'RE PLANNING TO MEET AGAIN!! 📢📢📢 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Spraying myself with my mosquito repellent to give myself that glow ✨

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

South Africa and Israel have expelled each other's senior diplomats, after South Africa accused Israel’s chargé d’affaires of “insulting attacks” on president Cyril Ramaphosa. Within hours, Israel had hit back, ordering out South Africa’s representative to Palestine, who is based in the West Bank

"The film’s wide rollout (documentaries in the UK cap their release at about 25 locations), as well as dauntingly early or late start times have given rise to suspicions in the industry that distributors Amazon may be paying cinemas to play the film. Amazon did not reply to requests for comment."

"South Africa’s economy has long been defined by big holes." Quite the opening 👀 to a very good piece on the case for optimism about South Africa

Capetonians, I'll be in your city the week after next and I'm looking to speak to people about baboons. It's quite easy to find baboon advocates & experts, so I'd love help finding people who have had negative experiences - homes raided, bins turned upside down, etc #journorequest #CapeTown

This is so unhinged and a sign of the world we live in that the reactions are mainly glee 😂😭 I also think this is good for gay rights, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

On January 5, a group of half naked men were found in a Joburg suburb. It was just the latest incident of young Ethiopians escaping from houses where they were allegedly locked up while smugglers demanded money from relatives. My story about the increasingly dangerous "southern migration route"

Maybe CBS' new Ukraine correspondent is very talented. One point of comparison: it took me 10 years to get a permanent staff job as an international correspondent. Does Bari Weiss expect him to go to the frontline, though? If so, that's potentially irresponsible, given his lack of experience

More than 100 people have been killed in floods so far this year in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. In Mozambique, huge swathes of land are still underwater, the country's main north-south highway is shut and almost 400,000 people have been displaced.

Wrote this paragraph 17 days ago, about the killing of Renee Good.

This was such a fantastic story to work on, about @sheenashah.bsky.social & Matthias Brenzinger's work to document the endangered language siPhuthi with community members and activists. And in a beautiful part of Lesotho, captured in stunning photos by Kate Ochsman

The death of one of Chimamamnda Adichie's one-year old sons is so desperately sad. I don't know the facts. But it reminds me of what many Nigerians say - "Nigeria happens to you". It also makes me feel so grateful that I never had a health emergency when I lived there and guilty for feeling that.

I seem to be picking up a lot of new followers. I haven't had any viral posts or anything like that, wonder how I've appeared on people's timelines 🧐

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

The FBI has now fully taken over the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer and shut out its Minneapolis state counterpart

Trump is considering offering up to $100,000 each to Greenlanders to try to persuade them to secede from Denmark to be taken over by the US. Yes, you did read that correctly.

Lesotho's garment industry employs 36,000 people and has been hit hard by Trump's tariffs. Majirata Latela and I spoke to unemployed women who were really struggling. “The pressure is too much … We can’t even sleep at night," said Moleboheng Matsepe, who hadn't worked since Sept when we met her

Two weeks after the US carried out Christmas Day airstrikes in Nigeria, questions remain about the group that was targeted. We still don't know how many "terrorists" were killed. It's been eight (!) years since I lived in Nigeria, but I will always appreciate being able to cover stories about it

IMF Africa director Abebe Aemro Selassie is retiring in May. He started at the IMF in 1994 & has been in this role for a decade. He made time for interviews, but also liked evading qs. No matter what you think of the IMF, after Covid and the numerous debt restructurings, he deserves a break 🙂

Two South Africans were recruited to fight for Russia via the gaming social app Discord. One was killed in October, according to a medical certificate obtained by the family, and the other's whereabouts are unknown Great reporting by @antonysguazzin.bsky.social

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

Bush et al attempted to cloak what they were doing in the language of democracy. Trump doesn't even bother.

Worth reading and watching my colleague Chris Michael's reports from Cras-Montana, the Swiss ski resort where at least 40 people are thought to have died and 115 injured in a New Year's nightclub fire. He was on holiday nearby and is now reporting from the scene of the tragedy

Yes I had two wrist surgeries this year, but eczema on my palms and fingers is THE WORST. Keeping me up all night with raging itchy blisters unless I apply ice packs every couple of hours hmmm? At least I've finally figured out the likely cause: making fruit salad. Which fruit? Couldn't tell you.

Anthony Joshua was injured and two people were killed when the car they were travelling in crashed into a stationary truck on the Lagos-Ibadan Highway in Nigeria this morning.