📊Consultancy opportunity closing tomorrow, 30 April! Fondazione L'Albero della Vita-Kenya is looking for an external evaluator to assess its health and education programming for children in Kenya. Apply here 👉 reliefweb.int/job/4054001/pr… #IkoKaziKE Joyce Achampong

A little-known company run by a distant relative of the Abu Dhabi royal family agreed to lend $12.9Bn to South Sudan in exchange for oil, one of the largest ever crude-for-cash deals and the latest such intervention in a struggling African economy
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We empathize with all Kenyans affected by recent floods mostly occasioned by heavy rainfall; the latest being bursting of dam Old Kijabe. The results is loss of lives, destruction of properties/infrastructure and biodiversity. This should be a wake up call to GoK.

CHICAGO: Join SJP at UChicago encampment at the University of Chicago NOW!!!!!

In this ethnographic study of climate change and its impacts on Bangladesh, Camelia Dewan, PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social offers a vitally important corrective to simplistic narratives of global warming. 1/n

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Mombasa High Court issues orders restricting the Anti LGBTIQ Movement in Kenya from 'calling on or inciting members of the public to carry out extra-judicial killing, lynching, punishing, stoning, forcible conversion or any other means of harming LGBTQ+ identifying persons and…

The EU restricts visas for Ethiopians, saying Ethiopia is not doing enough to help repatriate its citizens who are in Europe illegally.

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Does anyone know who is mapping the flooding in Nairobi right now if anyone is?

In Gaza, Authorities Lose Count of the Dead - Hospitals, emergency services and communications are barely functioning. Extracting bodies from the vast number of collapsed buildings is a gargantuan task and not a priority while the war continues. WSJ apple.news/AFzUzhg8aQ6-fR…

A lot of Americans are unaware of how our country and our leaders have subverted Haitian democracy.

I wrote about a pivotal instance of US & foreign interference: the election of 2010-11, in which the intl community blatantly and clumsily meddled.
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URGENT ALERT: After the heavy rains last night, Mathare 4A has flooded again this morning at 2 am. We desperately need tents to pitch across higher ground in Mathare, especially for children & pregnant women. Please contact: 0705577474 Kenya Red Cross Sakaja Arthur Johnson GhettoFoundationkenya.

Be teachable. Be curious. A lot of us that have been in the fight for liberation for awhile are trying to show you how these struggles are connected. How anti-Blackness and police brutality show up in the protest space. How land defenders feel on our own traditional territory. 1/

This is a great issue. The article on Burkina Faso is particularly well done, looking at what very much appears to be forced conscription of dissidents.

Leaked USAID memo: “deterioration of food security and nutrition in Gaza is unprecedented in modern history, exponentially outpacing in six months the long-term declines that led to the only other two famine declarations in the 21st century”

Just damning
devex.com/news/exclusive…

In Dhaka the temperature of 42 degrees was 5 degrees above seasonal normal. Here in Orissa, east India, it’s 44.6 degrees, 6.8 above normal. This is not just El Niño. It’s a global crisis of appalling political and financial neglect.

Benna Buluma was not killed by raging floods. She died of lack of dignified housing, poor urban planning and misgovernance ~ Irũngũ Houghton
Years of structural violence and marginalization have claimed so many lives. More than 800 people affected by floods in Mathare!!

I'm talking to someone today worried he is at risk of this & I can't describe the terror. Years spent escaping a dictatorship, being extorted on the route, locked up in Libyan detention, tortured, risking his life at sea, & now this horrible uncertainty. x.com/sallyhayd/stat…

When I teach history, I talk a lot about ghosts: those injustices that were never rectified and put to rest, so they continue haunting us in interpersonal and systematic ways.

We are living the hauntings of an unresolved colonial past and present.