No Country for Young People: Notes From Ten Days in Eritrea, The Beautiful Prison
Everything you've heard about Eritrea is probably true. But it is more than the sum of your thoughts, both negative and positive.
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24hoursearlier.substack.com/p/no-country...
No country for young people. @eromoegbejule.bsky.social on ten days in Eritrea: open.substack.com/pub/24hourse...
If you want to know what's really going on in Nigeria, where Trump & Nicki Minaj claim there's a "Christian genocide", read The Long Wave newsletter with @eromoegbejule.bsky.social.
"There’s never enough data, no one even truly knows the true size of the economy, it’s just inshallah and vibes."
“It’s like an episode of 24. You know Jack Bauer will win but you don’t know what happens before then.”
Deja vu for Cote d'Ivoire, as Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term as president while cracking down on opposition and protests. Great @eromoegbejule.bsky.social report
Across Black communities, hairdressers have become a safe space, especially in communities with little / no access to mental health care - or quality healthcare in general.
Fascinating piece by @eromoegbejule.bsky.social for the @theguardian.com on community-led therapy <3
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Los nominados para el premio Impacto @josebautista.bsky.social, @andreipopoviciu.bsky.social y el editor @eromoegbejule.bsky.social estarán en el Congreso de Mérida presentando sus trabajos 👏👏👏
Investigación en Al Jazeera 👉 www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Super cool piece by @eromoegbejule.bsky.social, and Mauritanian colleagues, from Mauritania's far north about the growing desert trade in meteorites
92-year-old Paul Biya is running for another 7-year term as president of Cameroon (with much of it likely to be spent in Switzerland if he stays alive).
@eromoegbejule.bsky.social reports from Douala and Yaounde
Our latest dispatch from the streets of Douala and Yaoundé ahead of this October's election, on the curious case of Paul Biya, 92, who one person said seems "set to hold on to the record of being the world's oldest president, or die trying."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Central African Republic’s President Touadéra is expected to run for a controversial 3rd term this year.
The opposition & some in the ruling elite are concerned that Russia & Rwanda, both competing for influence there, will entrench their interests if he wins.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘Kush destroys them’ -- The Guinean #rehab clinic tackling a drug epidemic. Growing use of kush -- a deadly mix of cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, formaldehyde and reportedly human bones -- is a national emergency, by @eromoegbejule.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... via @theguardian.com
A Nigerian senator accuses the senate president of sexual harassment, but SHE ends up on a six-month suspension. Insane story from the circus that is Nigerian politics. Story by @eromoegbejule.bsky.social
.@NatashaAkpoti told @guardian: "This was orchestrated to silence my voice. That action is an assault on democracy … I am not apologising for speaking my truth.”
Here’s our story on the roots of the ongoing row in Nigeria’s senate.
Update from Conakry.
By @eromoegbejule.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage
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Why foreign correspondents are alarmed and dismayed at plans to sell the Observer | Letter
Ça commence…
*Nigeria acquires 12 pre-owned alpha jets from French Air Force*
www.thecable.ng/nigeria-acqu...
The U.S. government asked a federal judge last month to force Google to sell Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser. Here’s what happens next and how the ruling could potentially reshape the internet.
"Our nation's original sin."
My story on Biden's speech on slavery and the rest of his visit to Angola so far
In other news, Ghana is going to the polls this weekend, after a pretty disastrous second half of President Nana Akufo-Addo's term in office - economic crisis, currency crash, debt default 👇
Ahead of Ghana’s presidential election this weekend, we took a look at the legacy of outgoing president Nana Akufo-Addo who many say did decently in the first half but steered his country into hardship in the second half.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
City on the way down, United on the way up. As it should be.
What a script life is sometimes.
The French Republican Guard chooses a song like Chop My Money (by brothers who couldn’t stay together) to perform as Macron lays out the red carpet for Tinubu on the same day Chad announces the end of its military partnership with France.
Chad terminates its defense agreement with France.
Football Daily | Tottenham are on a high again but will they end the wild form swings?
Sobering reporting by @eromoegbejule.bsky.social on just how widespread illegal galamsey gold mining is across Ghana and the extent of the environmental & agricultural destruction
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
It reminds me of gold polluting the Osun River which serves multiple states in Nigeria and millions of adherents of a religion across the Black Diaspora.
I wrote about that two years ago. aje.io/pela7o
The government has been accused of not doing enough.
“The firefighters are themselves the arsonists,” said Awula Serwah,Accra-based coordinator of Eco-Conscious Citizens, an environmental nonprofit. “Some of this galamsey money is used for [funding] elections.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
One town, Wassa Akropong, has been nicknamed ‘Chinatown’ because of the influx of Chinese nationals. There were changfan (a popular prospecting machine) warehouses, casinos, restaurants and even a China Mall, all less than 1km from the town’s police station.
Cocoa farmlands have been uprooted in some regions and so many rivers polluted that in Dunkwa-on-Offin, one person told us the river was now « like Milo » (the chocolate beverage). Local activists say they are being arrested by the police for any opposition to the galamseyers.
