Senegal's Foreign Ministry says Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived in the country a day after he was deposed in military coup.

African Parks runs conservation sites all over the continent. Former staff describe the organisation’s operations as a ‘shitshow’ of toxic mismanagement and lawlessness.

If you are in Berlin next week! Come join us! Tickets: tedxberlin.de/events/the-f...

The Times investigation on labour exploitation of Kenyans in the Gulf, facilitated by a companies owned by wealthy Kenyans including the President and his family, is on the front page of one of the local newspapers (and indeed the main topic of conversation in Kenya).

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.

NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.

“Migrant workers who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh Metro project were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, worked in dangerous heat and earned pitiful wages during a decade of serious abuse, Amnesty International revealed in a new report.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...

And Clinton's Crime Bill. www.aclu.org/news/smart-j...

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

Behind the story: Desire Nimubona raises awareness of important issues in the African Great Lakes region

Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.

"Among Western... commentators there is a tendency to enmesh it within a framework of the domestic culture wars in their societies. They have repurposed a debate about the persecution of Nigerian Christians for the globalization of their local grievances." coogunmodede.substack.com/p/some-strai...

After all the revelations about Epstein and all his various Harvard pals -- Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Elisa New, etc etc. -- alumni are going to stop saying they went to college "outside of Boston" and start lying that they went to Tufts.

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social just passed away. What a heartbreaking loss. And a reminder of how important Teen Vogue was.

“The Palestinians had no idea where they were bundled off to, only when in Kenya did they realise they were coming to South Africa. Some had visas for Canada, Australia and Malaysia, they were eventually permitted to leave for those countries.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 220 of The Continent With insurgencies on the rise, Mali’s military rulers can’t secure a stable supply of fuel. Amid a growing crackdown on media, tankers are under attack, pumps are dry, and Bamako is grinding to a halt. bit.ly/220_TC

Can you believe this? The American Battle Monuments Commission, a U.S. gov. agency, ordered the removal of displays honouring the Black soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands. These men fought & died for freedom, & now their contributions are being erased. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

It's being an extraordinary warm November in Europe where hundreds of records have fallen from West to East from South to North. The exception is Italy,which is also the only country worldwide which hasn' t broken a single heat record in the whole season and is not expected to do so Map by Dr. Maue

Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.

People fleeing el-Fasher for Al Dabbah tell Al Jazeera many died on the way from wounds or lack of food.

"Tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank have been displaced since the start of this year and continue to face settler violence, which is at a record high, fueled by genocidal rhetoric from politicians," writes Kholood Eid in her Issue No. 8 essay hammerandhope.org/article/gaza...

Im so exhausted yall, I dont know how to tell you how desperate our friends in Gaza are, because prices haven't gone down, aid is not flowing freely, there is no infrastructure and no work, but no one is donating. The horrors continue, the stress accumulates and they are all confused and frustrated

The thing about being a woman and navigating the world, is that you are never safe from being sexually harassed by strangers even if you are a freaking head of state. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

Only 18% of Africans are in formal employment. The wealthiest evade most taxes, particularly on property ownership and capital gains, because states underinvest in property and company registries. Our states want taxes but don’t care to create formal jobs or invest in robust infrastructure.

Trying to bring back racism with Data !!! if we actually don’t want another round of hell? We have to actually hold folks accountable for this

Paramilitary says it will accept a ceasefire proposed by the Quad mediators - the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE.

Zohran Mamdani's New York City win inspires people in Uganda, ruled by an authoritarian president for nearly 40 years.

Zohran Mamdani promises to form a 'capable and compassionate' admin, suggesting he will rely on courts to counter Trump.

“Facial recognition is unlike any other form of surveillance. It enables automated and ubiquitous monitoring of an entire population, and it is nearly impossible to avoid. If we don’t stop it, it will be used not to keep us safe, but to control and oppress us.”

This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor! Dick?

Christian, Muslim Nigerians push back on Trump's threatened strikes. US President Donald Trump has threatened military intervention in Nigeria over the killing of Christians in the country, a move that has sparked controversy among citizens across the religious spectrum

BREAKING Tens of thousands flee as Sudan conflict spreads east from Darfur, says UN

The world used to be so large and unconnected that we needed witnesses, people who could observe and bring back news. Today, we are all witnesses. But the assumption that once gave value to the act of witnessing has proven to be completely untrue when it comes to Palestine.”

Next Saturday! Join the Sudanese community in a protest and vigil at Surrey City hall. Share widely!

The one call to action people could amplify is a trade and arms embargo on the UAE until they stop arming and supporting the RSF. The UAE is one of Canada and the US’ biggest trading partners in the MENA region. #KeepEyesOnSudan #KeepEyesOnDarfur

UK-manufactured small-arms systems have been recovered from killing sites in the UAE backed ethnic cleansing that has now caused the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Britain’s export of arms to the UAE, has continued to supply arms to the paramilitary RSF in Sudan. Please donate below:

#BREAKING Gaza civil defence, hospitals say more than 100 killed in Israeli strikes

Low turnout as Tanzania votes without an opposition. The main challengers to President Samia Suluhu Hassan are either jailed or barred from running, and police have made repeated threats that protests will not be tolerated, with tanks stationed around Dar es Salaam u.afp.com/Se5n

The RSF in Sudan is the Janjaweed militia that was convicted of genocide in Darfur. It is the armed group that European governments funded in the name if reducing African migration to Europe. It is the group that the United Arab Emirates is funding in exchange for illegal gold mining.

While the top UAE backed RSF genocidaires are wined and dined at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC, people are fighting for their lives in El Fashir under siege. This is partly enabled by US/Quad diplomacy and impunity.

🎯 Our mission is to serve society, not power, and to critically evaluate claims, not parrot them. And I can say with some expertise that AI claims related to medicine and health remain exaggerated. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

#WestAfrica 🌍 @rsf.org documentary on community radios in the region, captures the courage of the journalists who refuse to surrender the mic to fear as they keep rural voices alive across the Sahel.

In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo. africasacountry.com/2025/10/leap...