Journalist,Trainer,Teacher. Formerly BBC Africa Editor, Correspondent in East and West Africa.
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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.
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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
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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…
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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.
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El Fasher is starving - and surrounded. More details with @nattyray11 on Newsday shortly. And we'll hear from a resident scared he may not survive the week, a health official in the besieged city, + a Bishop in touch with the small Catholic community in the city. #KeepEyesOnSudan
Just went on air with @BBCWorld and @JamesCopnall to discuss our urgent human security alert for El Fasher, Sudan released today by @HRL_YaleSPH. Read more here and listen this morning 👇 files-profile.medicine.yale.…
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Bishop Yunan Tombe tells us some people in El Fasher are trying to leave, and some have simply given up hope. He says 'today it is night, but daylight will come' - but acknowledges the situation for many is extremely dire. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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The end of the world has been postponed; look for other plans.
On a serious note, though, The Prophet’s people say he was misreported.
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The residents of Al Fashir face an awful decision; stay and risk starving in their sieged city or leave in search of food in the RSF controlled surrounds and face being massacre or rape at the hands of their genocidal militiamen. This UAE funded militia must be forced to allow food in!
#AlFashir_is_starving
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Cameroon’s 92-year-old President Paul Biya is making a big move to change how public money is managed. He has ordered the removal of two major budget lines—65 and 94—starting in 2026. Together, these lines handle nearly 500 billion CFA francs each year but have long been criticised for being secretive and poorly managed, with serious concerns about corruption.
Line 94 is meant for emergency investment spending, and Line 65 is for exceptional operating costs. Critics say both have been misused, with fake missions, shady medical evacuations, and unclear spending.
President Biya has also launched a major audit, summoning nearly 1,800 government workers to explain how the money was used. Some see this as a real effort to clean up public finances. Others believe it may be a political move—to shift blame, punish rivals, or clear the way for Biya’s succession plans.
The big question: Is this about fighting corruption or about politics?
Read more here: buff.ly/ttXMjNu
#Cameroon #MMINews #MMI #Politics #PaulBiya
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The United Arab Emirates’ support for a genocidal militia in Sudan is helping fuel the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Our Middle East correspondent, @glcarlstrom, explores why the UAE is involved econ.st/3Uxdvc4
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Imagine being nominated as the next Head of the Russian Supreme Court....
BREAKING:
Irina Podnosova, head of the Russian Supreme Court, has died suddenly in Moscow
She was appointed to this position just over a year ago following the equally sudden death of the former head of the Supreme Court. She was personally nominated for the position by Putin.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
She didn't die suddenly; she was battling cancer for over a year
kyivindependent.com/russian-suprem…