For a year, my colleague @ScheckNYTimes and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found.

MashaAllah. Hambalyo, walaal Ifrah!

Alaa Abd El Fattah, Egypt’s most prominent political prisoner, was pardoned after almost 12 years and a hunger strike.

Kenya becomes the first country in the world to win all Distance Events at the 2025 World Championships. 800m - Lilian Odira 1500m - Faith Kipyegon 3000m steeplechase - Faith Cherotich 5000m - Beatrice Chebet 10,000m - Beatrice Chebet Marathon - Peres Jepchirchir

#Kenya: @pressfreedom is gravely alarmed by the installation of spyware on two filmmakers’ phones while the devices were in police custody, and calls on authorities to drop a case against them and two other filmmakers and ensure that journalists are not further targeted for

The situation in alFashir is getting worse and worse: even animal feed is becoming too expensive, the barriers the RSF has dug around the city have been widened, and the hospital is running out of gauze as missiles rain down. It costs $1500 for a family to leave. Our story below.

China has racked up a $60 billion trade surplus with Africa so far in 2025, nearly surpassing last year’s total, as Chinese companies redirect trade to the region while President Trump’s tariffs crimp the flow of goods into the United States.

Whatever's happening in Karura shouldn't be taken lightly. In 2019 with @AfUncensored we did this investigation at how much forest cover Kenya's lost, Karura included Between 1957 and 2005 nearly 75,000ha of forest cover was wiped out. That's roughly Nairobi's size!

My latest for @thecontinent_ ‘Leaving El Fasher was one of the hardest experiences of my life.’ Families pay RSF up to $300 to escape death. “Pay up or starve” Full story on page 9: [ https://t.co/97CNz8ysxJ] #Sudan #Darfur #ElFasher #AlFashir_is_starving #KeepEyesOnSudan

"نحن نشهد مأساة مدمِّرة – فالأطفال في الفاشر يتضورون جوعاً بينما تُمنَع خدمات التغذية المنقذة للأرواح التي تقدمها اليونيسف من الوصول" قالت المديرة التنفيذية لليونيسف، السيدة كاثرين راسل النص الكامل:

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @AP. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.

Four Palestinian journalists, including Al Jazeera journalist Mohammad Salama, are among 19 people killed in an Israeli attack on Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza, according to the besieged enclave’s Ministry of Health. 🔗: https://t.co/P73iiiKv12

Witnesses said the second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike

BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said https://t.co/ardlwpX42u

BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.

South Sudan should not “use the issue of Palestinians as negotiating chips to improve their foreign relations,” said Edmund Yakani, the leader of a South Sudanese civil society organization. “This is ethnic cleansing that we are supporting.”

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.

Grateful to be named 2025 Journalist of the Year by @NABJ — an organization that has so shaped my life and career. I have many people to thank. But I also want to dedicate this award to every journalist who focuses their reporting on those political systems would rather ignore.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing of @AlJazeera journalist @AnasAlSharif0, alongside Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, by Israeli forces in #Gaza. The journalists were killed in

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah. https://t.co/ezMwPGRmv1

Ziad Rahbani, an era-defining Lebanese composer, playwright and musician whose songs forged a new sound for the Arab world and whose plays leveled biting critiques of his country’s corrupted politics, died on Saturday after a long illness. He was 69.