East Africa bureau chief, @Reuters. Views expressed are my own. Links & re-tweets are not endorsements.
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The decision to pull down the shutters set the tone for a US Ebola response focused more on border controls than fighting the disease, according to more than 50 people including current and former senior administration officials and public health experts. reuters.com/world/how-trumps…
Engineering giant Fluor Corp is among a group of mostly US investors vying to develop Kenya's Mrima Hill critical minerals deposit, after two Chinese companies pulled out of the process, Kenya's mining minister @HassanAliJoho told @Reuters in an interview. reuters.com/world/africa/flu…
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At least 15 people, many of them children, died in a series of drone strikes that hit a camp for displaced civilians in Ethiopia's Amhara region, two sources involved in a rescue operation said on Friday. reuters.com/world/africa/str…
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IPAEA is deeply concerned about the reports of the “extrajudicial deportation” of American journalist @margotkiser from Kenya. We urge the government to explain its actions and restore Kiser’s rights as a journalist.
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The US government has struck a deal to continue supplying some of the world's poorest nations with free life-saving medication and equipment for mothers, infants and young children, after months of uncertainty and shortages @jriggers @VictoireMukeng2 reuters.com/business/healthc…
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Amazon is building a 22-hectare data center, which is roughly the size of 41 football fields, at this site in the city of Thane, which is right next to Mumbai. Indians who live in the area are not happy about it reut.rs/47KRRHY
By the time Kenya's first Ebola patient was whisked to a hospital by relatives straight after landing at Nairobi airport, he was already exhibiting some classic symptoms - fever, chills, aches and bleeding beneath the skin. Two days later he was dead.
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Appalling. #JournalismIsNotACrime
Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. u.afp.com/S9Fe
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Washington has agreed to give the UN another year to wind down support for African peacekeepers in Somalia, a document showed - a move that gives some breathing space to a force that was fearing quicker cuts, but still leaves its future in peril. @Reuters
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A poem by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at age 92. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vV…
Great piece by @adityakalra and @Richa_Writes on how consumer food giants have resisted efforts to provide the same nutritional information on their products sold in India as they do in Europe. reuters.com/world/india/indi…
Days after a @Reuters exclusive by @adityakalra & @Richa_Writes, India's food regulator has proposed warning labels on packaged food & drinks, reversing its position following public anger about a lack of strict labels to highlight high sugar, fat or salt reuters.com/world/india-prop…
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Uganda's military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is also the son of the country's long-ruling President Yoweri Museveni, said he would run for president in 2031. reuters.com/world/africa/son…
Seven American aid workers who had been in Congo to fight the Ebola outbreak are quarantining at a new isolation facility in Kenya after the U.S. government introduced travel restrictions, the head of a U.S. charity employing them told @REUTERSFARGE reuters.com/business/healthc…
Explainer: What is behind South Africa's anti-immigrant protests? Great piece by @timcocks reuters.com/world/africa/wha…
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Shattered tiles, trembling domes: How the war has damaged Iran’s historic sites reuters.com/investigations/s…
At least 30 people have died since May in one camp for displaced civilians in Congo, a death rate that officials said was unprecedented, and because of the symptoms, could indicate Ebola is spreading fast there. @REUTERSFARGE @cbonnerot Gradel Muyisa & me reuters.com/business/healthc…
Three aid sources and the camp spokesperson confirmed on Saturday that some of this week's victims had tested positive for Ebola, without specifying the number. reuters.com/business/healthc… @Reuters
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Around $9.7 million worth of contraceptives have been stuck in a Belgian warehouse since January last year, when the U.S. first froze foreign aid. The stock could have helped prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies and saved lives, aid sources have said. reuters.com/business/healthc…
The disappearance of Athorbey Al-Gaddhaffy-Dit is the latest in a series of recent incidents in Kenya where foreign nationals have been reported abducted or deported to countries where they say they face political persecution. reuters.com/world/africa/sou… @Reuters
