“If he is extradited, it is believed it will be the first time a current or former British soldier has ever been extradited to another country to face trial for the murder of a civilian.”

Baerbock must go!

New article out by my brilliant friend Mohamed Hassan Mohamud on budget cuts and the crisis of accountability in aid. “Budget cuts are not a rupture to an otherwise fair system: they are the latest manifestation of a model of governance that has always sidelined the people it claims to serve.”

When they started using the term “differentiated assistance model” a while back, it was clear to many of us that this just meant institutionalising aid cuts—more displacement, police repression and impoverishment is afoot in Kakuma.

If he had written with his own imagination instead of relying on AI he would have known that this is also a title of a novel by @nnedi.bsky.social with only one word changed.

And just like that, it has a cover 🤯. Starting to feel real now. Out 17 Feb 2026!!! www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

And just like that, it has a cover 🤯. Starting to feel real now. Out 17 Feb 2026!!! www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

💥So, Who is a #Terrorist in #Kenya? 🎯Mutunga interrogates the tagging of #protesters in Kenya’s mass action as #terrorists and unveils acts of terrorism and the perpetrators that should be so characterized. 👉More at tinyurl.com/PZ-Kenya-Ter... @malangwa.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

🔥Issue 902 is packed with informative takes on the expulsion of the #French #Army from #Senegal, #terrorism, contradictions in #sports, and more. 📌Get the articles here: pambazuka.org #Sudan #Kenya #Nigeria #Egypt #Cuba #US @malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

Mural for “Mashujaa Wetu” (Our Heroes) in Dandora, Nairobi Eastlands.

The final tally from today’s protests in #Kenya. All killed or injured by the police. (KNCHR is the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights).

Found an iconic piece of Scotland on Nairobi’s supermarket shelves! @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Malawi: Police Look on as Peaceful Protesters Assaulted #Refugees

The final tally of yesterday’s protests in #Kenya. Nine killed, 400 injured and 61 arrests. All killed by the police because the president will not listen to the young people who put him in power.

Tomorrow (young) Kenyans will go to the streets to remember and demand justice for those killed by the government since June 2024. Many more mashujaa will never be known by name.

My thoughts are with Palestinians in Gaza and the people of Iran 💔

Outrageous. The UK must NOT defend the military aggressor.

Words have lost their meaning. We live in an Orwellian world in which war is peace and love is hate. Keir Starmer, once again, beating the imperial bullsh*t drum like few others.

🔥The Struggle Continues!!! 📖 #Issue899 is full of inspiring pieces and answers on Movements for #Reparations, #Liberation, and #Commemorations in Global Africa. 👉Access it here: pambazuka.org ✍️Read, comment, and share @malangwa.bsky.social @daughterofsahel.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

📑From Willy Mutunga 👉More here: tinyurl.com/PZ-CCF-Africa #Africa #future #alternative_leadership @malangwa.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social @michaelbourdon.bsky.social @tayloryoungling.bsky.social @daughterofsahel.bsky.social @chitra.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

“Under international maritime law, the UK has full jurisdiction over the vessel, and a legal duty to protect the crew of the boat.” It didn’t. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-avoi...

Can you really ‘deport’ someone you have unlawfully abducted, detained and forced onto your national territory? #FreedomFlotilla #Madleen #Gaza

No. The headline should be “Israel forcibly intercepts civilian vessel in breach of international law.” Full stop. @theguardian.com makes it seem like this can’t be independently verified on a live streamed and highly televised high profile sailboat. Please do your job.

@diplo.de sie müssen die deutsche Staatsbürgerin, Yasemin Acar, sowie ihre Mitreisenden schützen. Sofort. Fordern sie deren bedingungslose Freilassung von der israelischen Regierung. @bundestag.de

Kenya’s infrastructural build-up in preparation for the Africa Cup of Nations 2027. Talanta Sports Stadium along Ngong Road.

Nobody should be deported. Ever. Not even Elon Musk. It’s terrifying how quickly ‘progressives’ turn into border guards.

Germany records 77% increase of antisemitic incidents this year. However, unsurprisingly (and problematically), the definition used includes forms of antizionism which—a report argues—“has developed into a special form of antisemitism.” Disingenuous and harmful!

Is water wet?

Rose Njeri released on 100,000 Ksh bond [~$775].

Free Rose Njeri—who has been detained by Kenyan authorities for several days for alleged “cyber crimes.” The crime? She created a website that could send automated emails to parliament to protest the new Finance Bill 2025. Unacceptable.

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

We're deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at the age 87. His words shaped and reshaped our grasp of African resistance and decolonisation under colonialism and the postcolonial era. Rest in power. #NgugiWaThiongo buff.ly/08Dt8tC

Israel says it will establish 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. They would include new settlements and the legalization of outposts already built without government authorization.

Absolutely devastating. Ngũgĩ has died.

First, 100% agree on the sentiment & cause. But, though this is not what humanitarian aid *should be* this is just an extreme militarized version of actually existing humanitarianism that has been slowly made possible by more liberal regimes for a long time. Not a difference in substance but degree.

Good morning, Nairobi ❤️

Namibia this week will hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in the first genocide of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1905. the Germans slaughtered 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people.

East African legislators’ job “is not political survival or the pursuit of political careers. Their job is to defend the people who elected them, to rein in the excesses of the executive and to defend the integrity of the constitution.” — @nanjala.bsky.social

'All States, including the UK, are legally obliged to take all reasonable steps within their power to prevent and punish genocide; to ensure respect for international humanitarian law... The UK’s actions to date have failed to meet those standards.' lawyersletter.uk

Happy Africa Liberation Day! (To all who celebrate) ✊🪏⚒️⛓️‍💥

Tanzania descending further and further into authoritarian rule over Tundu Lissu trial.

Think of CHADEMA and Tundu Lissu’s politics what you will but this anti-democratic behaviour from the Govt of Tanzania is utterly unacceptable.

Babies, starved to death 💔

The road to fascism is paved by the defunding of arts, humanities and social sciences.

The question I keep returning to is ‘how will we live with the perpetrators, apologists, aides and enablers of these atrocities?’ This is not at all about criminal prosecution or carceral solutions. In the end, we all need to share this earth as our commons. But how, after Zamzam, Bucha and Gaza?

fascism enervates circuits of diasporic belonging

Here’s the thing. Systemic solutions are necessary for systemic problems— the solution to starvation in Gaza is for Israel to lift the siege. But in the absence of that, people need money to get food. They need to pay rent. And for you to sit in your cushy homes & wag fingers is horrible & cruel 1/