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Nanjala
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Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
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Update from Project B. Does this mean the New York Times was wrong about who backed this league?
"Project B's Investors are elite venture capital and growth investors including Mangrove Capital, alongside 40 of the most influential tech investors globally including Niklas Zennstrom, John Chambers, Merline Saintil, Ime Archibong, and Gabriella Salzburger, who demand tech returns and are focused on creating equity value. All our players participate in this equity value. We have partnerships with contractors AEG and SELA as event operators to organize amazing events in our host cities. Project B has received no funding or backing from Saudi investors." Official statement from Project B provided to the Daily W on Saudi involvement
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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From the Kenyan front pages. East Africans are allowed to work in each others countries without work permits and there are many Kenyans employed in Tanzania who are now stuck and facing significant backlash from the state that is framing “foreigners” as instigators of election unrest.
H standardkenya The Saturday KENYAS BOLDNEWSPAPER Standard Saturday. Newtober 08,2025 • Ne. 3039 - KOA 60 - TSA 1200 • USA 2200 Russia: Ruto's call to wrong number Kenyan lives at risk MASS MURDER As Tanzania reels from a bloody post-election purge, Kenyan rights groups allege that up to 3,000 people have been killed and scores of foreign nationals detained. Families of missing Kenyans are pleading for answers as reports surface of mass graves, secret cremations, and hospital cover-ups - - a chilling portrait of a regime stripped of sympathy and restraint. With Kenyan teachers trapped and thousands of compatriots lives hanging in the balance, fears of a wider cross border fallout are mounting. mass Sheer luck saved many lives NATIONAL Uhuru reads riot act as he explains why he picked Matiang'i
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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What heartbreak. One of the most useful apps ever created.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I’m struggling to see the balanced squads y’all are talking about. Breeze has no vets and their only PG hasn’t played since July/August. Plus they’ve never played together. Meanwhile 4/6 of the Mist have played together (through Arike). #wnba
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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If you’re in Nairobi, displaced youth from Sudan are hosting a fundraiser for mutual aid groups in Darfur on Saturday November 8th. Lumin is a great community space ran by displaced youth from Sudan and Ethiopia and they have great coffee and tea. Tell your friends to tell their friends.
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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It’s giving grift.
A diagram showing how the large tech companies in the US essentially only buy and sell from each other.
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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BREAKING NEWS Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu wins election with 97.66 per cent of the vote, electoral commission says she garnered 31,913,866 out of 32,678,844 votes casted. www.standardmedia.co.ke
November 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The opposition in Tanzania claims that at least 700 people have been killed by security forces in the last three days following protests against the general election on Wednesday.
france24_en FRANCE 24 (H.787 TANZANIA At least 700 dead in three days of post-election protests, opposition says
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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At least 20 people confirmed killed during post election violence in Tanzania.
Standard standardkenya ... Standard POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS NEWS UPDATE More than 20 people feared dead in post-election violence in Tanzania; country under a communications blackout as schools and colleges remain closed.
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The men keeping Biya in power.
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Devastating.
ajplus Siham Hassan Hasaballah was Sudan's youngest parliamentarian. The RSF killed her. 1/4 5j ajplus o After the war in Sudan started, she worked in soup kitchens and service centers to support those in need.
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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92 year old Paul Biya has been declared the winner of the presidential election in Cameroon. Leaders of the opposition have been arrested, protests have been violently suppressed and the internet has been shut down since last week.
Image of Paul Biya with the text france24_en FRANCE 24 • CAMEROON 92 year-old Paul Biya declared winner of presidential election, securing 53.66% of the vote
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Hundreds of Kenyan youth have been lured to the Russian frontline in Ukraine with promises of work, visas and pay in exchange for fighting for Russia. Others were told they would be going to Russia for higher education only to be sent to the frontline.
KENYA'S BOLD NEWSPAPER The Standard Trapped in Russia Russia's war on Ukraine is now affecting Kenyans directly with severe consequences as it emerges that hundreds of the country's youths have been trapped and forced to fight on Russia's frontlines, with dozens killed and many more nursing life-changing injuries in military hospitals. Most were promised well-paying jobs but were coerced into the army upon arrival. Today we release the identities of five young men who travelled to Rusia between Juty and August whose whereabouts are unknown back home but are said to be on the frontlines.
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Natasha Cloud, The People’s Champ. She’s taking responses over on the bad place but if you’re in the USA let your people know. #wnba
Natasha Cloud @T_Cloud4 Cutting food stamps before the holidays is barbaric. I would love to partner up with some companies to try feeding as many families as we can. If they not gonna feed us, then we gone feed us.
October 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina dissolves National Assembly in decree posted on Facebook, hours after fleeing the country amid a standoff with protesters and the military.
October 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Completely unprecedented use of social media in ongoing events in Madagascar where embattled President Andry Rajoelina claims to have dissolved parliament through a decree posted on Facebook. The closest equivalent I can think of is Erdogan’s live-streamed rejection of an attempted coup.
October 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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How you get it is how you lose it. Rajoelina came to power through a coup, stayed in power though a series of questionable elections. #Madagascar
Standard standardkenya ... SMS 'NEWS' to 22840 Standard NEWS UPDATE Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina flees the country after sections of the army defected and joined protesters, Reuters reports.
October 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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New York Knicks, call her you cowards. #wnba
togethxr O Becky Hammon BEST POSTSEASON SERIES RECORD BY ANY HEAD COACH IN NBA + WNBA HISTORY 2 Phil Jackson .862 Steve Kerr.857
October 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I think low key I’m annoyed because Vegas was in no way the best team this season and even through the playoffs. But there is clearly something to be said for peaking at the right time and knowing how to close games which you absolutely have to give them credit for. I’m just being churlish. 😂
October 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I know some of you don’t like seeing posts from the other place but this is important and many of the people who were on the Flotilla do not have a presence on Bluesky.
That's when Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security, arrived. He came to Ashdod to make sure we were treated as terrorists. He screamed it at us — that we were terrorists. Right in front of him, the police wanted to show their zeal: they blindfolded us and tightened plastic handcuffs around our wrists until they cut into the skin. They loaded us into an armored vehicle wearing only light shirts. The air conditioning was blasting; it was freezing. A Scottish boy managed to loosen his cuffs and, with help from an Italian named Marco, released the others. When we saw the others getting off, their hands were purple. Some had been tied since the interception - traveling to prison with their hands bound from 2 a.m. to 4 p.m. "The first night, they wouldn't let us sleep — waking us constantly, forcing us to stand, or blaring loudspeakers. The second night, they switched our cells. No bottled water, only hot tap water... In the second cell, with me, was a former Turkish deputy foreign minister under Ahmet Davutoglu. His arm was broken and swollen; he bandaged it himself, denied any medical care. No medicine for anyone - not even an epileptic prisoner. We protested until consular assistance arrived. The Italian consul asked if we had been abused and said that if we signed the deportation papers, we'd be sent home Many agreed to sign, but I don't know what happened to those who didn't - fifteen Italians remain imprisoned. I signed: it was a document waiving trial and agreeing to deportation within 72 hours. No admission of guilt. They held new interrogations. A judge asked questions without a lawyer present. We requested one — they said it wasn't necessary, "just a chat." We stayed silent. I only said I was a journalist doing my job and wouldn't answer further without legal or consular support. They asked why I wanted to go to Gaza, if I didn't know there was a blockade. Others were asked more "political" questions - about the Muslim Brotherhood. That night the guards were even more violent. The consul had just left, having gathered more deportation signatures, when special forces burst in. They stormed the cells, pointed rifles at us with laser sights, and called roll. In some cells, they unleashed dogs. In one, they found the word "Palestine" spelled out using scraps of pepper and water. To erase it, they poured bleach on the floor — prisoners slept on mattresses soaked with it. That night, as punishment, they overcrowded the cells: from ten people to fifteen, leaving no space to lie down. We turned the mattresses sideways so we could all rest our heads. In my cell were Maso Notarianni and a Lombardy Democratic Party councilor, Paolo Romano.
October 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Lorenzo D’Agostino is one of the journalists who has been covering the illegal pushbacks of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. If you know something about these pushbacks it is in part because of work he has done. This is his account of his detention and capture on the Global Sumud Flotilla.
It appears that the Italian state, government, and parts of the Church tried to stop the Flotilla not to prevent an armed clash with Netanyahu, but to avoid the media exposure of a country increasingly radicalized and indefensible - except through repressive laws - and to suppress reports of egregious human rights violations. "We were intercepted at 1:58 a.m. on Thursday. On my boat, the Hio, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla mission, five Israeli soldiers boarded with rifles pointed at us, lasers aimed. Exactly one month after our departure from On board, the soldiers allowed us to go to the bathroom, eat, drink, and smoke. Then they redirected the boat toward the port of Ashdod. We stayed moored for a couple of hours. Before letting us disembark, one soldier wanted to speak to our captain: "My friend, my friend, listen to me, you'll like this one: when dwarfs cast long shadows, it means the sun is low." That was the last thing he said. As we disembarked, someone from the other boats shouted, "The police will be worse." As soon as I stepped onto land, an officer grabbed my arm, twisting it behind my back to cause maximum pain. They made us sit on the ground, on a concrete esplanade. 3/10 Greta Thunberg was wrapped in the Israeli flag like a war trophy. They sat her in a corner; officers surrounded her, taking selfies. Then they turned on another girl, Hanan, forcing her to sit in front of the flag so she'd have to look at it. They kicked people, ordered us to lower our heads and look at the ground — anyone who looked up was forced to kneel. An older activist wet himself. Anything associated with Palestine was ripped away, thrown to the ground, and trampled. They tore bracelets off everyone's wrists; one girl was dragged because hers wouldn't break. It wasn't even the Palestinian flag — it was Somali. 4/10 We stayed on the concrete for hours. They asked for Italian passports and took us through immigration control. There they opened our bags: anything linked to Palestine was thrown in the trash. When they found a copy of the Quran in my bag, they went berserk — convinced I was Muslim. For two hours, every officer passing by mocked me. In my toiletry bag they found pink wet wipes and laughed, saying "you're a woman." They slapped each other's backs, amused. After border control, they forced us to strip down to our underwear. We went through two interrogations — only one with a lawyer present. They asked if we wanted to be deported. Then came the announcement: we were going to jail. 5/10
October 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel My friend David Adler (@davidrkadler), a Jewish-American who was on the flotilla and was kidnapped by the Zionist regime, is detained illegally in an Israeli prison and no one has had contact with him for four days. Shamefully, the US government has done nothing to help him. Don't let anyone ever tell you that Zionism is about the protection of Jewish people. Zionists reserve special hatred for Jews who reject their genocidal project and who insist on the equal humanity of Palestinians.
October 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Just genius.
newyorkermag The W.N.B.A. has never been in a better place. Game attendance broke records this year. Team valuations, many of which had been eight figures last year, are now pushing half a billion dollars, and expansion fees are pegged at $250 million. But, as the league's profile has grown, so has the gap between the players driving that value and the league in which they play. In her exit interview, the Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier recounted a conversation with Cathy Engelbert, the commissioner, in February, during which Collier asked how the league planned to address the fact that Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers-some of the most popular players in the league, with huge and rabid followings -were making so little money. (Clark, whose value to women's basketball is incalculable, earns less than $80,000 a year.) Engelbert, according to Collier, had responded that Clark should be grateful to the W.N.B.A. for her millions of dollars in off-court earnings, because the league gave her a platform. Collier also claimed that the commissioner went on to say, "Players should be on their knees thanking their lucky stars for the media-rights deal that I got them." Collier pulled no punches. "We have the best players in the world. We have the best fans in the world. But right now we have the worst leadership in the world," she said. At the link in our bio, Louisa Thomas writes about the players taking a stand for the future of women's basketball.
October 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Disturbing reports of violence and torture against members of the Sumud flotilla detained by the Israeli army.
globalsumudflotilla and 3 others UPDATE FROM ADALAH GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA PARTICIPANTS, KIDNAPPED AND DETAINED 3 OCTOBER 2025 - 19:30 GMT+3 Over the past 24 hours, Adalah attorneys met with 331 participants of the GSF at Ashdod Port. They were initially processed without legal counsel, subjected to degrading treatment such as being zip-tied and forced to kneel for hours, and targeted by a smear campaign labeling them "terrorists." The entire process is unlawful: the interception in international waters amounts to abduction, while the blockade itself is illegal, constituting collective punishment and a tool of genocide through deliberate starvation. globalsumudflotilla and 3 others ••• UPDATE FROM ADALAH GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA PARTICIPANTS, KIDNAPPED AND DETAINED 3 OCTOBER 2025 - 19:30 GMT+3 Participants were later transferred from Ashdod to Ktzi'ot Prison in the Nagab, where tribunal hearings began without notifying or allowing their lawyers to attend. Adalah is now present in these proceedings, pursuing legal measures to ensure all detainees are accounted for. Adalah demands their immediate release, the return of the humanitarian aid supplies, and continues prison visits to safeguard their rights. Follow Adalah's WhatsApp channel for updates. 2/5
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Any walls that they build to keep people out will also be used to lock you in.
ICE is planning to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team to target people for deportation. According to government documents obtained by Wired, ICE is planning to hire 30 private contractors to monitor major social media platforms round-the-clock with the goal of gathering intel to help coordinate raids and deportations. Per Wired, the contractors would "operate as intelligence arms of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division. They will receive tips and incoming cases, research individuals online, and package the results into dossiers that could be used by field offices to plan arrests." Platforms that they intent to surveil will include X (Twitter), TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit.
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM