Nigeria's star forward Asisat Oshoala addresses the lack of access for fans to watch WAFCON and how it affects African players. 📸 nigeriasuperfalcons
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TEM TALLIES THIRD #WAFCON GOAL 🥹 Unbelievable run for Chawinga in Malawi’s first-ever WAFCON appearance 🔥
"The sheer scale of the crossings suggests Morocco might have deliberately relaxed border controls. The timing is also suspicious. The crisis came just ten days after Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez visited Algeria— Morocco’s arch-rival—and announced a “new phase” in Spain-Algeria relations."
Alone at the border: Ceuta and Europe’s solidarity failure – European Council on Foreign Relations
By failing to show solidarity with a member state under pressure, the EU is encouraging Morocco and others to keep using migration as a tool of coercion.
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Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 6d ago🤔 49,000, huh? And Morocco didn't notice this caravan of humanity until they reached the walls of Ceuta? As you read more stories about this crisis, keep in mind that migration has long been used as a hybrid warfare tactic to destabilize/bring down states, strain borders, & sow political discord.
Malick Doucouré argues that the recent anti-LGBT crackdowns in pro-Pan-African governments are about elites manufacturing unity against a fake external threat to absolve their failure to fix the economy. He argues it's time to reclaim the Pan-Africanism of Nkrumah & Sankara. buff.ly/hOFlOzV
The homophobia of Pan-African regimes | ROAPE
West Africa has experienced a series of significant geopolitical developments in recent years, with the potential to reshape both its political landscape and economic trajectory. These are, in many…
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I say “overplay” because that legislation does not change Spain’s favourable position to Morocco's plan of autonomy for the Western Sahara. The only issue would be the reference to the 'Sahrawi' as a people.
*not as a migration story but the larger political games at play
Kagumire@rosebellk.bsky.social · 6d agoThe responsibility to report this as a ordinary migration story is key
What’s driving the label ‘migrants’? If those crossing ar Moroccan majority, I wd expect the reporting to say so in highlights. Because were there 20,000 migrants at that place waiting for Morocco to open? Also what is the game Morocco is playing? Is the EU for migration control 💶 short this year?
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 6d agoMigrants flood into Spain's Ceuta exclave from Morocco. Madrid says it will despatch soldiers to Ceuta to ensure security after thousands of migrants entered Spain's north African exclave from neighbouring Morocco and hundreds more are headed there
Super excited to catch up with my former colleagues at Daily Monitor during ongoing Uganda Editors Guild retreat. With the assault of Nation Media and current shutdowns among many challenges to media freedom in the country call for a collective voice.
Care is extracted from the Global South to sustain the Global North. This didn’t happen by accident. @rosebellk.bsky.social examines the global care divide and how power, borders, and economic systems determine who survives childbirth and who does not. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1bV...
Politics of Birth and Global Care Divide | Rosebell Kagumire & Rhoda Berger | TEDxBerlin Salon
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African Parks runs conservation sites all over the continent. Former staff describe the organisation’s operations as a ‘shitshow’ of toxic mismanagement and lawlessness.
NGO accused of mismanaging Chad’s oldest national park
African Parks runs conservation sites all over the continent. Former staff describe the organisation’s operations as a ‘shitshow’ of toxic mismanagement and lawlessness.
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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...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
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Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
Philipp Heimberger@heimbergecon.bsky.social · 9mo ago"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
Nestle accused of risking baby heath in Africa, Asia and Latin America
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
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“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...
Saudi Arabia: Migrant workers behind the Riyadh Metro system subjected to decade of devastating abuse
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 s...
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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...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
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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.
David Noll@david.noll.org · 9mo agoSeriously, what is wrong with these people?
Behind the story: Desire Nimubona raises awareness of important issues in the African Great Lakes region
Behind the story: Desire Nimubona raises awareness of important issues in the African Great Lakes region
As part of our "Behind the Story" challenge fundraising campaign, we feature Desire Nimubona from Burundi, who shares why working on a particular story was important. Please consider donating to keep GV strong.
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"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...
Some straight talk about Nigeria's 'Christian genocide' controversy
A long post documenting the history of religious strife in Nigeria and critiquing popular arguments surrounding a complicated debate
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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.
Alice Wong@sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
“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...
South Africa to investigate ‘mysterious’ arrival of 153 Palestinians on plane
Passengers held on runway for 12 hours after landing in Johannesburg without travel documents
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