Geoffrey York
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Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail (Canada). Based in Johannesburg; formerly in Moscow & Beijing.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ 27-05-2009 19:30:42
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Just like El Geneina, the alarm bells were sounded way in advance. But what did the international community do? They sat on their hands while the Masalit community was being slaughtered in their thousands
Now El Fashir is besieged...North Darfur is a tinderbox
#KeepEyesOnSudan
I’m in the The Globe and Mail ringing alarm bells on unfolding RSF siege of El Fasher city - home to hundreds of thousands of civilians and displaced people. Situation deteriorating rapidly and the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people hang in balance.
One of the world's poorest and most donor-dependent countries, #SouthSudan , increases military expenditure by 108% in 2022, a further 78% in 2023 - all the while claiming it has insufficient $ to run its first-ever elections later this year. news24.com/news24/africa/…
The #BurkinaFaso government's decision to block Human Rights Watch after our findings of possible #CrimesAgainstHumanity + other independent media shows exactly why international assistance to investigate abuses is so critical.
One of Darfur's biggest cities, El Fasher, is now a 'kill box', analysts say. The city is under a tightening siege by RSF forces, with its escape routes cut off. Fuel and water are running out. And the RSF has committed massacres in other Darfur cities.
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'We provided one‐time #cashtransfers of about USD 1000 to over 10,500 poor households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya... We document large positive spillovers on non‐recipient households and firms & minimal price inflation'
The winning paper emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/research/gener…
The railway that will connect Angola, Zambia & DRC will transform the continent, thanks to US Partnership Global Infrastructure & Investment, President Biden’ global infrastructure initiative.
Richard R. Verma, Ambassador Tulinabo Mushingi & I were the 1st senior 🇺🇸 officials to board what will one day become the first trans-African railroad.
UN-appointed investigators have uncovered a new $13 billion oil-backed loan to #SouthSudan from an obscure company based out of Dubai in one of the world's largest oil-for-cash deals ever
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- with Augusta Saraiva and *free to read* via Bloomberg:
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“You can never know when the drones will bomb you.”
Combatants across Africa are increasingly using cheap imported drones in often indiscriminate attacks against civilians.
Great reporting by Geoffrey York and Zecharias Zelalem 👇
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Exclusive🧵:
Egyptian authorities are conducting mass deportations of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing a war zone and one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies.
The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt (Refugees Platform in Egypt - منصة اللاجئين في مصر) have been investigating the…
Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals. MSF International calls for transparency after bill for trial of #TB treatment came to a fraction of the billions claimed by pharma, by sarahboseley theguardian.com/global-develop… via The Guardian #GlobalHealth