Applications are open for the Richard Beeston Bursary 2023, named in honour of the Times foreign editor who died of cancer ten years ago aged 50. The bursary gives aspiring foreign correspondents the chance to report a story abroad for The Times thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ri…

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has given an excoriating assessment of Britain’s migrant deal with Rwanda which, he claimed, was in exchange for silence on abuses by the regime of President Kagame thetimes.co.uk/article/congo-…

The Times seems to be the only British newspaper interested in how this Rwanda asylum deal is going down in Congo. Every other British media outlet has shown extraordinary parochialism, with the focus entirely on what it means for the UK. thetimes.co.uk/article/congo-…

🟡Dear Jane Flanagan,

Hon HON Job Wiwa Sikhala is a political prisoner. He’s been jailed without trial for 189 days for defending Moreblessing Ali who was murdered in cold blood. Please help us draw the world’s attention to his plight with a RETWEET. We demand his release! #FreeWiwa !

** Cabo Delgado **
In the early morning hours of 5 October 2017, men attacked police stations in Mocimboa da Praia to steal arms. They went on to fight the police for 48 hours before they fled to the bush. Thus started an insurgency which has been going on for five years now

I recently visited villages in Malawi that had benefited from @givedirectly cash transfers. The impact of $50/month is immediate, life-changing and offers a dignity that is lacking in traditional aid models.
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I wrote about my hero of 2014: Hilary Mantel. She is still my hero. What an immense loss... suzannemoore.substack.com/p/i-wrote-abou…

President Mnangagwa has been invited to attend the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on Monday.

The letter below is fake.

Just got a US journalist try to interview me. 'Where are you from,' I asked. 'The Times,' he said. 'No you're not,' I said. 'The New York Times, The New York Times' he said. 'We're the only one who gets to call themselves The Times and The Sunday Times,' I said, patriotic outrage rising. Not today sonny jim.

‘A brutal legacy’: Queen’s death met with anger as well as grief in Kenya Caroline Kimeu theguardian.com/world/2022/sep…

Zambia's debt quadrupled under Edgar Lungu: 'Ministers campaigned in helicopters and the President had a Gulfstream jet.' President Hichilema tells me how he is unpicking the mess and that the crisis has confirmed Beijing as Zambia's 'all-weather friends' thetimes.co.uk/article/calcul…

To even attempt to describe this beautiful piece is to somehow cheapen it. All I can say is read it. And then ring your grandparents.

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Britain’s longest reign began while Elizabeth was touring Africa on behalf of the ailing king.

The continent remained a constant in her life thetimes.co.uk/article/a-cand…

We take a look back at Queen Elizabeth II's longstanding relationship with Africa.

Africa weaved through the Queen's long life. South Africa gave a 20-year-old Princess Elizabeth her first glimpse of life beyond Britain. I recently visited the unlikely spot in Kenya where the longest reign began. thetimes.co.uk/article/the-lo…

A quite lovely tribute from Gabon, the Commonwealth's newest member, on the Queen's friendship to Africa and how the continent 'affectionated her in return'.

Portugal’s prime minister has apologised to Mozambique for the massacre of hundreds of civilians by its troops almost 50 years after the killings were revealed in The Times thetimes.co.uk/article/portug…

Boris Johnson has serial affairs and an unknown number of love-children and that's absolutely fine, Boris will be Boris. But Sanna Marin dances with men in a nightclub and it's front page news and grounds to resign? Misogyny and hypocrisy, alive and well. thetimes.co.uk/article/sanna-…

A wedding braai - a brilliant idea but not without pitfalls eg Namibian logs aren't for the jolling, don't fill up on braaibroodjies, but absolutely jy krap nie aan ‘n ander man se vuur nie. #lawsofthebraai
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