Journalist,Trainer,Teacher. Formerly BBC Africa Editor, Correspondent in East and West Africa.
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Can Botswana market its way out of economic trouble? President Duma Boko refers to synthetic diamonds as "fake".
We join hands with Angola and other diamond-producing nations to safeguard the integrity, heritage and value of the natural diamond.
The name “diamond” must remain reserved for the natural diamond. Any alternative product, must carry its own distinct name.
#BotswanaAngola
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
News out of Sudan is so grim. Latest atrocity is what rights group say is an ethnic killing of a civilian from the non Arab Berti tribe. He is questioned + executed at close range by an RSF fighter. Despite a lot of evidence, the UAE continues to deny backing this brutal militia.
Lot of sense in here from Botswana's president Duma Boko.
“We’ve seen how over reliance on trade with certain powers of the world has rendered us so vulnerable that we’re now dependent on their mood swings…”
In his maiden SADC Summit speech, Botswana’s President @duma_boko calls for increased intra-African trade.
The RSF has carried out appalling atrocities in Sudan. But here's evidence of atrocities by the security forces including the army in Khartoum.
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Live at 17gmt/18bst #TheNewsroom here ---> bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b… - 📻 @JamWaterhouse, @katywatson and @BBCBlindGazza on #Ukraine talks; @Azadeh_Moshiri on #Pakistan floods; @willintune on DRC anger that #Kenya's appointed a diplomat for rebel held #Goma
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#Statement: Dismissing the #MadamsOfMaiMahiu exposé as a 'hoax' is an insult to survivors and a green light to traffickers. We demand immediate, transparent investigations into the child sex trafficking allegations — and accountability for the five months of police inaction. Read full statement: amn.st/6018fSFep
Don't people want more culture and less death in their media diet? Radio France International had a show called "World Music Matters". It stopped in 2020. Matters or Doesn't Matter?
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Our top story on Newsday: our Africa correspondent @BBCBarbaraPlett reports on El Fasher - the shelling and the starvation inside the #Sudan-ese city besieged by the RSF for more than a year. On @bbcworldservice on your 📻 - and the text piece is here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxp…
Anyone seen Omar Al Bashir? Just wondering as the lawyer for his former defence minister Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein who is also wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity says Hussein is being moved to his home in Northern State of Sudan where he'll be under "house arrest"
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🚨 BREAKING: Bayern Munich have terminated their "Visit Rwanda" campaign with immediate effect following controversy and and criticism over human rights.
The sponsorship agreement converts into a collaboration focused on youth development.
But what was truly behind the deal?
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Let's also not forget that Putin's aims are not limited to capturing territory. His continued insistence on removing 'the root causes of the crisis' can only be interpreted as objective to install a pro-Russian puppet regime
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Rest in peace Hon. Phoebe Asiyo.
My father's tribute in the euology has brought both warmth and laughter. He recalled the day Phoebe asked him to take care of her car. He stood proudly, guarding it like treasure. Then it started to rain but he didn't know how to....
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REACTION: The decision to take direct military control of Gaza City marks a dangerous escalation in the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. Read more: oxfam.org.uk/mc/r4mi5r/
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List of names of those murdered by the RSF militia in Markaz Al-Ziyadiya village in North Kordufan. The RSF militia is moving from village to village in Kordufan killing, looting and raping.
More pressure needs to be applied on to the UAE to stop them from sponsoring this terror
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📢 I get asked by people in governments and media all the time: “How do we know if things have gotten REALLY bad in El Fasher?” Look at the images below of swelling graveyards growing exponentially in past few weeks. What more does world need to see to act in Darfur and Sudan?
EL FASHER, DARFUR, SUDAN 🇸🇩: @HRL_YaleSPH finds that a significant number of fatalities have occurred since May 2025, including an unknown number of civilians. HRL confirms that 2 markets, 3 schools, 2 mosques have been bombarded since June 2025.
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshn…
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ALT Title: Al-Rahma Cemetery, Abu Shouk IDP Camp, El Fasher, Darfur, Sudan Subtitle: Grave Activity Observed 9 May to 3 August 2025 Copyright: Satellite images © 2025 Maxar Technologies, Analysis by Yale HRL. Text: Analysis of satellite imagery collected between 9 May and 3 August 2025 over El Fasher shows the increase of at least 214 individual mounds consistent with burial mounds at the Al-Rahma Cemetery in Abu Shouk IDP Camp.
ALT Title: Rabat Model School Benin, El Fasher, Darfur, Sudan Subtitle: Conflict-Related Damage Observed between 28 June and 3 July 2025 Copyright: Satellite images © 2025 Maxar Technologies, Analysis by Yale HRL. Text: Analysis of satellite imagery collected between 28 June and 03 July 2025 over El-Fasher shows damage from munition impacts to several structures of the Rabat Model School Benin.