digitaldjeli
@digitaldjeli.bsky.social
SOAS ex BBC WS. Recovering anthropologist. Freelance journalist - print, radio, photo, video. Conflict media trainer.
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Beni DR Congo +243 0812 05 2776
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#UK bottles it on Drax. It's not as if the company can move elsewhere so it should've been cut much harder. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax power plant to go on earning ‘over £1m a day’ from burning wood pellets
Analysts say Britain’s biggest power plant in line to earn £458.6m a year under new government subsidy contract
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
#UK bottles it on Drax. It's not as if the company can move elsewhere so it should've been cut much harder. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#UK Why does @metoffice.gov.uk have to dumb everything down? It's so patronising and 'lowest common denominator'. It appears to come from focus group's ideas not the broad range of weather data users... 🤦🏻♀️
October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#UK Why does @metoffice.gov.uk have to dumb everything down? It's so patronising and 'lowest common denominator'. It appears to come from focus group's ideas not the broad range of weather data users... 🤦🏻♀️
English teams were barred from Europe for five years after the Heysel stadium disaster caused by Liverpool fans.
#MaccabiTelAviv supporters are famously violent thugs. The political interventions by the prime minister & other MPs on their banning are shocking. Here's why Amsterdam banned them: youtu.be/DvTyg1kJGzM?...
What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam
YouTube video by Double Down News
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
English teams were barred from Europe for five years after the Heysel stadium disaster caused by Liverpool fans.
#OpusDei The Catholic Right in Spain will go bananas...
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
#OpusDei The Catholic Right in Spain will go bananas...
#MaccabiTelAviv supporters are famously violent thugs. The political interventions by the prime minister & other MPs on their banning are shocking. Here's why Amsterdam banned them: youtu.be/DvTyg1kJGzM?...
What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam
YouTube video by Double Down News
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#MaccabiTelAviv supporters are famously violent thugs. The political interventions by the prime minister & other MPs on their banning are shocking. Here's why Amsterdam banned them: youtu.be/DvTyg1kJGzM?...
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Pre-election analysis of the Auditor General’s reports shows why #Uganda ranks so low in the 2024/25 #UNDP Human Development Index at 157th out of 193 countries – state planning that ignores the neediest, suspect accounting and mismatched priorities.
africa-conf.com/musevenis-re...
africa-conf.com/musevenis-re...
Marshalling anger over Museveni’s record
Opposition activists want the government’s record on schools and healthcare to be central in the 2026 election campaign
africa-conf.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Pre-election analysis of the Auditor General’s reports shows why #Uganda ranks so low in the 2024/25 #UNDP Human Development Index at 157th out of 193 countries – state planning that ignores the neediest, suspect accounting and mismatched priorities.
africa-conf.com/musevenis-re...
africa-conf.com/musevenis-re...
The dead children of #Gaza - it's really important that @theguardian.com published this. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The dead children of #Gaza - it's really important that @theguardian.com published this. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
#FreedomFlotilla This is actually piracy: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists
Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
#FreedomFlotilla This is actually piracy: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life
October 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life
#DRCongo A report about Cobalt (in the west) that can't stop itself from talking about the 'war torn east'. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Congo to permanently ban cobalt exporters that breach quotas, says President Tshisekedi
The Democratic Republic of Congo will permanently ban cobalt exporters that violate its new quota system, President Felix Tshisekedi has warned, as the world's top producer tightens controls to curb fraud and stabilize prices.
www.reuters.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#DRCongo A report about Cobalt (in the west) that can't stop itself from talking about the 'war torn east'. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
#Gaza Karim's diary of the past month: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
My life in Gaza: ‘We burned our copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four to bake bread. What would Orwell think of us now?’
From fleeing Gaza City to a birthday in the family – Karim recounts a month in the territory
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
#Gaza Karim's diary of the past month: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#UKEnergy I have to agree with @dalevince.com on this... Greg Jackson has been banging this drum relentlessly...
October 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
#UKEnergy I have to agree with @dalevince.com on this... Greg Jackson has been banging this drum relentlessly...
#GlobalSumudFlotilla The flotilla is 70 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza but now surrounded by 20 vessels. Here's the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#GlobalSumudFlotilla The flotilla is 70 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza but now surrounded by 20 vessels. Here's the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
#UK Seriously dumb communications strategy to chuck @owenjones.bsky.social out of the Labour Conference. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My conference pass was revoked for asking difficult questions: this is Keir Starmer’s Labour | Owen Jones
I was told it was a ‘safeguarding’ issue. This speaks to a party that has not only lost its soul, but is scared of the truth, writes Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#UK Seriously dumb communications strategy to chuck @owenjones.bsky.social out of the Labour Conference. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#España This is how you do it Mr Starmer...
🇪🇸 Spain has extended its ban on U.S. weapons shipments to Israel, blocking planes and ships from using the Rota naval base in Cádiz and the Morón air base in Seville, El País reports. Madrid reinforced its arms embargo with a royal decree prohibiting the transit of military goods to Israel, citing…
September 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#España This is how you do it Mr Starmer...
I hate the snakes we call politicians: www.channel4.com/news/factche...
FactCheck: value of UK arms imported by Israel ‘reached record high in June’
Our exclusive analysis looks at 8 million rows of data from the Israel Tax Authority
www.channel4.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I hate the snakes we call politicians: www.channel4.com/news/factche...
#Palestine It's a total stitch up that leaves Israel fully in control. Hebrew media show Netanyahu bragging about it and declaring there will be no Palestinian state.
The former UK prime minister has welcomed Donald Trump’s 'bold and intelligent' peace plan, but there was disbelief among some members of Blair’s Labour party on.ft.com/3WgLMgE
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
#Palestine It's a total stitch up that leaves Israel fully in control. Hebrew media show Netanyahu bragging about it and declaring there will be no Palestinian state.
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Update: Oxfam has received further info that Tasneem's child, Baqi, was killed on 20th, in the Israeli airstrike which killed her, the couple's other two children & unborn child.
Tasneem's husband, critically injured in the attack, underwent major surgery but succumbed to his injuries.
Tasneem's husband, critically injured in the attack, underwent major surgery but succumbed to his injuries.
Israeli attacks kill Oxfam partner colleague, destroy clinics in Gaza.
Israel’s destruction of 3 Oxfam partner premises this week underscores the threat to Gaza’s humanitarian workers and facilities, including services to protect pregnant women.
🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Israel’s destruction of 3 Oxfam partner premises this week underscores the threat to Gaza’s humanitarian workers and facilities, including services to protect pregnant women.
🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
September 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Update: Oxfam has received further info that Tasneem's child, Baqi, was killed on 20th, in the Israeli airstrike which killed her, the couple's other two children & unborn child.
Tasneem's husband, critically injured in the attack, underwent major surgery but succumbed to his injuries.
Tasneem's husband, critically injured in the attack, underwent major surgery but succumbed to his injuries.
#DigitalID This is who has been funding the Tony Blair Institute which has been pushing digital ID #BritCard fortune.com/2025/09/28/l...
Larry Ellison once predicted 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media | Fortune
"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said last year.
fortune.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
#DigitalID This is who has been funding the Tony Blair Institute which has been pushing digital ID #BritCard fortune.com/2025/09/28/l...
#Moldova If you really want to get past the nonsense reporting (I'm looking at you @theguardian.com ) about today's elections this is a very good if somewhat depressing article: platzforma.md/arhive/395266
The parliamentary elections in Moldova on September 28: between "déjà vu," "now or never," and "more of the same"... - PLATZFORMA
[Versiunea în limba română] An intro about “saving the country” again One of the witticisms circulating in Moldova before every election is the plea to “save the country once again,” which sometimes ...
platzforma.md
September 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#Moldova If you really want to get past the nonsense reporting (I'm looking at you @theguardian.com ) about today's elections this is a very good if somewhat depressing article: platzforma.md/arhive/395266
#Djibouti Absolutely excellent investigative skills in this reporting by Zecharias:
THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
#Djibouti Absolutely excellent investigative skills in this reporting by Zecharias:
