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...

Saudi Arabia is abolishing its Kafala system.

We can't talk or DO anything about the state of the internet until some people admit they believe that they are SUPPOSED to have better experiences than: - old people - Black people - people with low follower accounts and they are operating from contempt while doing sos

New book! Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation is now available for pre-sale and will be officially launched in March 2026: www.plutobooks.com/product/risi... All profits from the book will be donated to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. #freepalestine

The joy of tech consolidations. #SPOF

So the main culture war in Germany, fought by the country’s leader, is that despite mass deportations there are still too many non-white men in German cities: which needs to change so that white German daughters can feel safer. That’s an actual position that he is taking. An incitement to violence.

i was a phd student in cs at stanford where i wrote several papers about algorithmic systems & AI <-> human-computer interaction. [AI] literacy tests are, respectfully, dumb; you're allowed to have opinions about how things affect your life without an academic telling you that you're unqualified.

BREAKING: The Palestinian embassy in Egypt says Palestinian citizens living in Egypt who want to return to Gaza will be able to travel via the Rafah crossing starting on Monday. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f9r4d8

Extremely Emotional day today witnessing the body of Raila being flown into the country and everything that followed. What a man! What a force. Kenya cannot thank you enough Rest well Baba.Hon Raila Odinga

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate shorturl.at/OFfig

The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning with the rise of radio in the 1920s.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 216 of The Continent Raila Odinga was nicknamed Agwambo, the “mystery man”. Over and over, through crisis after crisis – and handshake after handshake – Odinga would live up to that moniker. Now Kenya must reckon with life without him. 👉 bit.ly/216_TC

Raphael Bahebwa on how the cycle of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is an intentional geopolitical project designed to terrorise the population, seize land, and loot minerals. Available in EN, DE, FR, IT and PT-BR.

Framing these legitimate grievances as childish tantrums is disrespectful. But also, this isn’t an “Africa” thing. The first youth led protests that toppled a government in the last 5 years were in Bangladesh. Nepal and Peru have also seen governments fall.

Saw a New York Times headline that seemed to suggest that African countries were somehow particularly susceptible to the so called “Gen Z” protests. I’ve written a little about why this framing is disingenuous and also infantilising in various platforms. oecd-development-matters.org/2025/04/30/f...

Peru to impose state of emergency in capital after wave of violence. The South American country has been rocked by protests for weeks, and lawmakers voted last week to impeach then-president Dina Boluarte, who critics blamed for a surge in crime and accused of corruption u.afp.com/SsqN

More people were at Raila’s casket viewing today than have attended any of the official state functions that Ruto has convened since he came into office. #kenya

Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front. africasacountry.com/2025/10/repo...

All four people who were killed during Raila’s funeral procession today were killed by the police. #Kenya

Love to see this from @crdjustice.bsky.social highlighting DisCrit. This work was born out of making the experiences of disabled Youth of Color-with racism, ableism & resistance-the center of my work. I am so honored to see others take it up. Thank you Center for Racial and Disability Justice‬!

When I was talking about how "nobody wants to be just a body", this was in part what I was talking about. He told it, too. I hope even more people hear it.

As you can see in this screenshot, not only are AJ Link's post and profile still available elsewhere, he is still posting (though seemingly less happily) freedom of speech unimpeded This app Red Dwarf by @whey.party skips the bookstore and goes straight to the author. blacksky.community doesn't 5/11

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Oh she’s at the final stage of yt feminism “downplay my own success for the man I love to seem small and cute and how can my man have such tough job while I’ll giggle at my own success “

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla. Torture.

I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US -Amandla Thomas-Johnson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.” Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!

Trumpism is glaringly every crass & macabre thing the world has actually been thinking is America this whole time, while pre-collapse American exceptionalism had Americans thinking their shit don't stink.

As the Gen Z protests shook Kathmandu, violent clashes and crackdowns caused deaths, while journalists who were personally affected vy mob attacks and arson that damaged media offices, making reporting difficult.

In a world of disinformation, local journalism is a lifeline. Help us translate, publish, and protect it. Support Global Voices today. globalvoices.org/donate/ #KeepGVStrong

In 2021, Russia supplied 45% of the EU’s gas and 27% of its oil. By 2024, these dropped to 19% and 3%.

The value of diamonds was always partly about their scarcity. Owning a large transparent rock that has no purpose beyond looking beautiful is one of the ultimate status symbols – unless everyone else has one. Their scarcity, however, is not a natural phenomenon, writes @mininghistory.bsky.social.

RECORD HEAT IN WESTERN AFRICA After the record heat in the Canary Islands,Morocco,Sahara and Mauritania, SENEGAL was also affected: The northern coastal town of Saint Louis later this week recorded a Minimum of 29.2C: its hottest night in history (data since 1880s)

🇸🇳 VIDEO: Record turnout for Dakar-Goree swim crossing in Senegal More than 900 swimmers participate in the Dakar-Goree crossing, "a record," according to the island's mayor.

Fire has burnt a third of one of Africa's largest game reserves - Etosha National Park in Namibia -- home to 114 species of mammals, notably the critically endangered black rhinoceros, and a major tourist attraction. Hundreds of soldiers joined the fight to contain the spread of the fire

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Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists. Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens.

Diamonds are only really valuable when scarce and I've written in @thecontinent.org about what the industry did historically to African societies to keep them scarce. My article and the whole issue is free to read: bit.ly/TC_215

Dr Lebohang Liepollo Pheko calls us to refuse gatherings that don’t recognize African feminist political traditions and pro- Palestinian history. Refuse curated and sanitised gatherings that only are for institutional comfort. #FreePalestine #AfricanFeminism africanfeminism.com/my-withdrawa...

Palestinian children in Gaza are seen collecting the remnants of dough prepared by their mother after an Israeli attack destroyed their tents.

This is an argument that I have passionately made to university administrators and colleagues. Their ability to silo the vile fundamental aspects of Meta & subordinate the vast harms committed by their products & platforms to "inevitable" tech and "no child left behind" discourse is revolting.

"Black! Feminist! Free! Selected Writing, Interviews, and Speeches" is the first major collection of the writing of prominent Black feminist scholar, educator, and activist Professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall. by Third World Press Foundation Book launch at Spelman College Sept 9th. #Blackademics