Caroline Kimeu
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East Africa Correspondent (Global Dev) at the @guardian
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Thank
@FerdyOmondi
, breaker of barriers ;). Excited to announce that I'm starting an exciting new role with the
@guardian
, as their East Africa Correspondent. @ all: do feel free to reach out and share your thoughts and ideas for meaningful EA coverage. DMs open.
Update:
Guardian opened up applications to Kenyans/Africans in Africa.
Qualified Kenyan applied, and got the job.
Congratulations,
@caroline__kimeu
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@sam_btw
@vanessa_vash
is the Vanessa Nakate of the world. She is not the "Greta Thunberg" of Africa. Do not call her that. We are not local versions of people from elsewhere - borrowed (with a tweak) from the wonderful
@monaeltahawy
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@KennedyWandera_
@paulakahumbu
@Martowachira
@Environment_Ke
@CCF_Kenya
@WilliamsRuto
Thank you
@KennedyWandera_
. The trees are being transported sadly, so action is unlikely.
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On the street and online: social media becomes key to protest in Kenya
@mukuruYI
@KenyaFIA
@Sungu_Oyoo
@UhaiWetu
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Country Queen: first Netflix series to be produced in Kenya hits the screen
#NetflixKenya
#CountryQueenKenya
@NetflixKE
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This headline is extremely disturbing. The charge was sexual assault, plain and simple. A poor choice of words run through the piece, as though meant to titillate or make light of sexual violence. Story should be recalled
@TheStarKenya
@ClauseMasika2
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“The World Trade Organization rules allow lifesaving medications to be traded in the same way we could trade luxury goods. They allow pharmaceutical companies to set the price wherever they want, hoard their technologies and reap billions at the cost of lives.” -
@Winnie_Byanyima
Big pharma must value African lives above profits, warns head of UNAids
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"Before they left, they had all grown more solitary, more hardline about their religious beliefs, concerned about increasing “moral indecency” on the island."- Concerns grow in Zanzibar that young men are disappearing from their homes to join extremist groups
#Zanzibar
#Tanzania
‘He was brainwashed’: young men are disappearing from Zanzibar. Are extremists to blame?
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If you are a Kenyan who is choosing not to vote in the upcoming elections, please message me. I'd love to hear about it & interview you for a story. Thanks!
#KenyaDecides
#KenyaDecides2022
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Parts of Kilifi experience power cuts, caused by the transportation of these Kenyan baobabs, which are set for export to Georgia. The age-old trees were uprooted from Kenya's coast for transplant in a Georgian billionaire's private park, despite outcry from environmental groups.
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Georgian journalists say that the ancient Kenyan baobabs are being uprooted for transplant in a Georgian billionaire ex-PM's "botanical garden". He has been known to uproot trees (in Georgia & other parts of the world) for his privately-owned park
#environment
#baobab
#Kenya
Campaigners allege ‘biopiracy’ over export of Kenyan baobabs
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Coverage with Zanzibar-based journalist
@NajjatOmar
& photography by the excellent
@nsamila
- both of whom committed to reporting this story with me despite the sensitivity of such coverage.
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@FerdyOmondi
@guardian
Thank you so much
@Njeriwaridi
@AmbreenaManji
@TuJadili
@danaceda
@reubenmuhindi
@malobations
@NicKanali
and
@AnErb
! I'm trying not to spam everyone with my replies but I really appreciate your messages and kind words.
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“What’s different about these stories is that black women are telling them through their only lens. There’s no monolith, there’s no one story – the stories are vast, intricate and complex. They are specific, yet universal.” -
#BlackTwitter
#African
#AfricanAmerican
#Feminism
‘This is what solidarity looks like’: an African V-Day against sexual violence
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Sudan's West Darfur is facing increasingly frequent attacks by armed militia, looking to control resources. 33 people have been killed in the last week. The attacks have become more common since the start of the Oct 25 military coup
#Sudan
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@Illustrious_Cee
Great points. But I wonder if it does more harm to minority voices to dissect their politics rather than see them for what they are: one of many others. (Which is not to say either that her platform doesn't come with a level of responsibility).
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President Kenyatta urges immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia; says bitter roots of conflict do not justify the deaths, displacement, extended warfare. More on regional implications of the conflict here:
▶️ Ethiopia marks one year of brutal civil war in Tigray region - Eye on Africa
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My latest for the Mail & Guardian:
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Kenyan President
@WilliamsRuto
calls for environment ministry to look into the legality of the uprooting of ancient Kenyan baobabs, for export to Georgia.
@edwinoblak
and I reported on it here:
#kenya
#environment
#baobab
#Georgia
I have instructed the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to look into the ongoing uprooting of Baobab trees in Kilifi County to ensure that it sits within the Convention on Biodiversity and the Nagoya Protocol.
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@SagalAbas
Also skeptical of how selectively the term 'local' is used in international media. Mainly on non-Westerners, to place or reinforce artificial limits on their knowledge, expertise & contributions.
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One of the most heartbreaking stories I've worked on this year. Elderly women being burned alive in Kisii, Kenya over accusations of witchcraft, which rights organisations say are a cover for land grabbing:
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Everything I've felt so deeply watching the coverage of the
#RussiaUkraineWar
Few thoughts on week that finally exposed western media’s deep seated biases
If anything this war in Ukraine has laid bare skeletons still in many newsrooms’ closets
Some of us on the inside have always known. Many of you on the outside suspected. But now we all see
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@willintune
@FerdyOmondi
@guardian
Thanks Will! I appreciate it.
@FerdyOmondi
used his platform to help remove barriers for a person he didn't yet know. It gave me such pleasure to let him know it mattered.
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While this Maasai community is moving away from FGM, the custom still persists - with girls as young as 9 subjected to the cut. One, who entrusted me with her story, said that she wished no one would ever go through what she did.
#FGM
#HumanRights
#Kenya
▶️ 'Girls know their rights now’: Fighting female genital mutilation in Kenya
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@BBCAfrica
@BBCAfrica
what an effort to avoid saying "over claims of racial segregation/discrimination".
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"More than 200 trees arrived at the park in total, dug out of the soil in the impoverished villages and thick forests of Georgia... Mr. Ivanishvili personally vetted most of the choices."
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@Auma_20
I'll bring the whiskey. We could finish it discussing why this anti-black establishment is still open, why some Kenyans got in line & why the white/Asian people were completely untroubled. We need to start having honest discussions about what allowed this to happen
#Alchemist
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@matnashed
@TiffanyDCross
@CrossConnection
"... and to ascribe/highlight the agency of the people who are risking their lives for a better future in Sudan". 💯
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@briticoyemo
@FerdyOmondi
@guardian
Thank you very much
@briticoyemo
! Brilliant panel btw, on 'who gets to tell Africa's story?'. Super insightful. I'm following along.
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Kenyan lawyer Gicheru is facing mounting testimony at the ICC, that he bribed witnesses to withdraw from the case against
#Kenyan
Vice President Ruto, for crimes against humanity
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"What Hamdok served to do was present the military with a justified way of saying a transition was taking place, even when everything on the ground said otherwise. Now that he's gone, that kind of narrative can no longer hold" -
@KholoodKhair
#Sudan
#SudanCoup
#SudanUprising
▶️ Kholood Khair with F24 Debate on Hamdok's resignation
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@darleen_seda
@FerdyOmondi
@guardian
Thank you very much my dear! Couldn't be more fortunate to have you for the ride and all that lies ahead💛
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@LizWangu
@FerdyOmondi
@guardian
Thanks
@LizWangu
! Takes me back to that time at Gracey's when we talked about my career change. A lot of journey since then❤️
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@AleleSafi
@FerdyOmondi
@guardian
Thanks. Focus isn't on whether a story is positive or negative, but on whether it impacts people.
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“If these detainees had been white and not brown or Black, is there any realistic chance the United States [...] would imprison them without charge for decades? I don’t think so.” - Wolosky, Former US Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure
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@CarolineKautsi1
Your tweets are beautiful, insightful, self-loving and healing! Thanks for using your platform to share words that move the soul.
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@samirasawlani
@GuardianAfrica
Thank you
@samirasawlani
! It has made my morning to have my work seen and appreciated.
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@reubenmuhindi
There are oppressive policies all around us. Weighing one against another is a race to the bottom. As
@gathara
says, we shouldn't use ignorance of the larger picture to justify policies that don't serve our people. This is bigger than KFC-it's a wave of consumer/policy awareness
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Sudanese marched on the presidential palace in Khartoum on Tuesday, in protest against military rule. Deal signed by Prime Minister Hamdok and the military still widely rejected:
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Kenya’s elections: shifting alliances and economic hardship dominate campaign
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4 men were convicted on Monday for the murder of
#Somali
reporter Jamal Aden last year. Journalists in the country work under precarious conditions, facing threats and attacks from the police, state agencies and the Al-Shabaab
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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@reubenmuhindi
That's what I thought when I saw your study returnees post from yesterday. The most devastated are often those who aren't coming back to a soft landing, who worked really hard for an opportunity to go abroad & hopefully bridge the class/opportunity barrier they face here everyday
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@McKenzieCNN
Global isolation of Russia (gaining consensus mostly, that could lead to joint action)
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@malobations
@FerdyOmondi
@guardian
@Njeriwaridi
@AmbreenaManji
@TuJadili
@danaceda
@reubenmuhindi
@NicKanali
@AnErb
Thank you so much for saying that
@malobations
. It makes me very happy to have so many people share in the moment!🙂
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#Sudan
was one of the 35 countries that abstained from the
#UNGA
vote, denouncing
#Russia
over its invasion of Ukraine. The country's military-led council has been deepening political and economic ties with Moscow
#RussiaUkraine
#RussianUkrainianWar
:
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@LukwesaBurak
@aircadets
You always make such a stunning appearance on my timeline! Pleasant surprise that we share a country of birth ♥️
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Two Kenyans have a combined net worth greater than roughly a third of the population
#wealth
#inequality
#Kenya
@cmkangangi
reports:
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Sudan's Hamdok resigns as PM as crackdowns on pro-democracy protesters become more deadly
#Sudan
#sudanprimeminister
#SudanCoup
:
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@MaryanneWaweru
"70 per cent of women in the media have experienced more than one type of harassment, threat or attack." & "40 per cent have avoided reporting on politics so as to avoid harassment."
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@onewm
Any and all of it! I hope the audience will come with challenging questions on what they believe is missing from current reporting on African women, and thoughts on what they’ve seen that resonates with them
#OWMTweetsToxCarolineKimeu
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#sudanese
shut down their capital this week, in a two-day civil disobedience campaign against military rule
#khartoum
#sudan
#military
#democracy
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@DMedawatte
@presidentAnuraK
That's awful! Done. Sending you love and good vibes, you gorgeous divorcée.
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With no clear pathway for the formation of a legitimate government after the Oct 25th military takeover, the situation in
#Sudan
could play out in multiple ways
#SudanCoup
🇸🇩 Sudanese protesters have vowed to stage fresh rallies against the country's military rulers after civilian PM Abdalla
#Hamdok
resigned on Sunday, more than two months after a coup and following another deadly crackdown.
@caroline__kimeu
reports ⤵️
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@Makiadi_
It's heartbreaking. I've experienced racism many times before, but it never hurts more than when it happens at home. I've moved from anger to outrage, dismay to annoyance at my dismay, sadness to deep shame that as a people, we'd allow this to happen in our country
#Alchemist
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@ainajkhan
@lisaletostak
@FerdyOmondi
@guardian
Thank you very much
@ainajkhan
! I loved this for you btw: - and celebrated you silently. Well done yourself, colleague :)
I cannot emphasise how life changing the fellowship has been for me professionally as a young journalist. Six years into my career, it was really the first time I felt I could define the stories I wanted to tell that weren’t pigeon-holed to the hijab on my head or my race.
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@onewm
1/1 I’m excited to explore how we can report constructively on issues affecting women and girls. I look forward to discussing how we can dig into the complexity of gendered issues and prioritise the agency of the people we are reporting on
#OWMTweetsToxCarolineKimeu
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@onewm
1/4 I’ve had a non-traditional path into journalism. I pivoted in from an early career in law, which may explain my interests in human rights reporting
#OWMTweetsToxCarolineKimeu
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@onewm
1/1 The Summit is bringing together journalists who know the joys and difficulties of reporting from Africa, to discuss some of the most pressing issues of the day. There’s no time like the present to discuss how we can do so meaningfully & with impact
#OWMTweetsToxCarolineKimeu
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