'African investigative journalists play a vital role in holding their politicians to account - they should be supported, not blocked & humiliated'-- Sally Hayden writes about visa discrimination for African journalists. buff.ly/43CrP6U

Sudan crisis: Minister says UK will 'effectively double' aid and breaks down in tears

The investigation Andrei Popoviciu wrote for us will blow your hair back. It's been translated into Spanish + French and also ran as a series in Le Monde. It was edited by the incredible Kathryn Joyce. Fucking proud of In These Times

Andrei's piece: inthesetimes.com/article/europe…

UK MPs call for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Sudan and directly name the UAE in their call for all external countries to end funding to the warring parties and provision of arms.

Honoured to be shortlisted for the One World Media freelance journalist of the year award for my reporting in Senegal for In These Times (republished in Le Monde Afrique), in the Gambia for New Lines Magazine and in DR Congo for Foreign Policy.

Humble Beginnings - President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s home town - Ndiaganiao, 2024. #senegal #afp #photojournalism #elections

A hot take on #humanitarian diplomacy, access, and ceasefires in #Sudan :

Just finished a tour of New York and Washington DC part of a joint delegation of National NGO and International NGO Forums (four Sudanese, two international) discussing the devastating humanitarian reality…

Posting this because the world has turned a blind eye to the sufferings of the Sudanese people and recently Sally Hayden reports on the ground that at least 1,000 persons cross daily to South Sudan, an already exhausted population from the imposition regime of Kiir

Pls speak up 📣

#Senegal opposition candidate closing in on victory, ruling camp contests.
#AFP 📸 John Wessels Marco Longari

Palm Sunday - Juba

Senegal votes - Dakar, 2024. #dakar #senegal #SenegalVote #photojournalism

Senegal’s women voters could make a miracle happen in presidential election | Elections News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/24…

Three candidates and one former favourite for the office of Senegal’s president have tax inspector backgrounds. For Al Jazeera English I spoke to voters and analysts to find out why the Senegalese trust (or don’t) tax inspectors so much. Read before tomorrow’s election

We are only glimpsing occasionally the horror of what has been happening in #Sudan : nearly a thousand bodies were today recovered and buried in Omdurman (one of the 3 cities that make up metro Khartoum).

On Saturday, Niger's junta declared the US military presence illegal. But days later, American officials are still determining in closed-door talks if there is a way to hold on. Our story, with Dan Lamothe and Michael Birnbaum: wapo.st/3VtaaN6

Read Andrei Popoviciu on Macky Sall's legacy after 12 years in power.

Oumar Sow, one of Sall’s advisers, admitted that delaying the election was a severe blow to democracy.

“We need to speak about truth before we speak about reconciliation,” Sow said.

aljazeera.com/features/2024/…

Big news from Niger tonight... the junta has declared the American military presence illegal and unconstitutional and said that it will end, effective immediately.

Our story: washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/…

Niger revokes a military agreement with the US relating to the status of US military staff in the country. The US has about 1,000 troops still in Niger and $110 million drone base. The announcement comes only 48 hours after a US delegation visited Niger

Io Capitano’s up for Best International Film at this year’s #Oscars .

It’s an epic tale of a young man’s journey from West Africa to Italy, based on the true story of Ivorian migrant Mamadou Kouassi.

Watch Mamadou and the film’s director Matteo Garrone talk about the film👇🏿🎬

Great 🧵 on the Resistance Committees of 🇸🇩 by The Continent

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As the war rages on, the resistance committees are keeping Sudan’s revolution alive – but only just.
We will call her Amal. That’s not her real name,but using her real name could get her abducted or killed..