Editor and writer, working for The Conversation Africa (@tc_africa) 🇲🇬 🇬🇧 🇰🇪 . Former Nation Media Group, Mail & Guardian Africa
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Moina Spooner retweeted
.@IPUparliament – As Tanzania hosted IPU gathering under the banner of “good governance and empowering communities,” @SuluhuSamia regime was abducting Maasai men, escalating its repression of Indigenous communities.
Its goal? Clear Maasai from their ancestral lands to expand safari tourism and trophy hunting to 8 million visitors by 2030.
@Oleshangay @Mittaloak @DenisMoses14 @MariaSTsehai @landislife @amazonwatch @MaasaiMisa2022 @Survival
Moina Spooner retweeted
Amidst all the claims & counterclaims around battlefield developments (@ACLEDINFO doesn’t still call this war btw), a few things are not being talked about. 1) that the entirety of Tigray remains under siege, and that people are likely dying of starvation and lack of access to
Government forces made further gains in Tigray yesterday, capturing Feres-May woreda after taking Hawzen & Nebelet days earlier. Overnight into 13 Oct, eyewitnesses reported a substantial convoy of ENDF tanks and heavy weaponry moving toward Fatsi & Zalambessa. bit.ly/4z1efIM
Moina Spooner retweeted
.@SuluhuSamia regime abducted & detained 5 Maasai men last week. Over 30 community members have been arrested in Ngorongoro over the past 2 months, while thousands of livestock have been confiscated in Loliondo.
Human rights conditions in northern Tanzania are rapidly worsening. These are not isolated incidents, but part of a calculated campaign to silence Indigenous land defenders and force Maasai communities off their ancestral lands to make way for safari tourism and trophy hunting.
@Mittaloak @Oleshangay @DenisMoses14 @MariaSTsehai @MaasaiMisa2022 @TheChanzo @IAMartin_ @Landislife @Roduza @davidpilling @KaamilAhmed @WedaeliC @WateteziTV @AJEPodcasts @LeMonde_Afrique
Moina Spooner retweeted
10 years apart.
f1: Waiyaki Way 2016.
f2: Waiyaki Way 2026.
ALT A section of Waiyaki Way in Nairobi City in Jan, 2016.
ALT A section of Waiyaki Way in Nairobi City in 2026.
Moina Spooner retweeted
Nakuru County. One month apart.
They wanted more space for pedestrians, so they cut down the beautiful jacaranda trees. Someone once said that corruption alone does not explain why our counties, and the country at large, struggle to develop but also inadequate education, limited exposure, and appointing people who have neither formal training nor practical knowledge of the departments they lead.
So what if it was imported? The situation should still be treated with every urgency. There are still contacts, still possibilities of transmission.
@mfallah1969 - I would feel better if you were standing by our CS right now.
This isn’t enough. What about quarantining the passengers on the plane? Airport workers? Every possible contact should be tracked and held at a safe facility for 21 days to be sure. No cutting corners.
10 family members, 21 health workers quarantined after Ebola death in Nairobi as Ruto orders enhanced response
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Given someone with Ebola has gone through JKIA, @KenyaAirports what’s your cleaning process? And how fast have you acted?
I interviewed health workers who were on the front lines of battling Ebola in Sierra Leone. You can’t predict what people will do to protect their loved ones, or how far they’ll go to be close to them if they think they may die.
Moina Spooner retweeted
And they are so violent about it!😫
The concept of Nairobi being famous worldwide as the “Green City in the Sun”, @KenyaPower and their obnoxious tree cutting vendors hawatambui.
Moina Spooner retweeted
OK…now please give us similar detailed explanations on all the recent forest land degazettement as well 📢
STATUS OF KARURA FOREST AND MUTHAIGA GOLF CLUB
I. Karura Forest was surveyed in the early 1920s with the Survey being registered in 1923.
II. The Forest covering approximately 1,041.1 hectares was declared as a Forest Reserve vide Proclamation No. 44 of 1932. Later, like all the other state forests that were gazetted prior to independence, this forest was declared a Central Forest vide Legal Notice No. 174 of 20th May 1964.
III. Muthaiga Golf club claims ownership of LR No. 13134/3 which encroaches onto Karura gazetted Forest by 21.8Ha. Approx.
IV. Owing to the difference in ownership positions between the two entities, a meeting will be held at KFS HQs aimed at seeking an amicable solution.
Moina Spooner retweeted
In 9 African countries, average incomes have MORE than DOUBLED since 1990. Mauritius, Egypt, Cape Verde, Ghana, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Mozambique.
Poverty fell. Child mortality fell. In all nine. 1/2
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Hope palm tree Paul (as I call it) will survive this new round of construction. Hang in there old friend.
