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@PerneInAGyre

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Nicolas Niarchos
4 months
An article a few years in the making. For @GrantaMag , I followed the saga of Congo's mine at Manono, potentially the world's largest deposit of lithium rock, and the site of tangled deals that implicate powerbrokers, foreign firms & fixers : #lithium
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
Yesterday in DR Congo at around 2pm: artisanal copper miners saving each in Luwowo, in the Muvumboko neighbourhood
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Nicolas Niarchos
7 years
Here's a piece I wrote for @NewYorker on the horrific war in Yemen, on its casualties, and on how U.S. and U.K. support for Saudi Arabia has prolonged the conflict: #Yemen #YemenCrisis
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
I was deported from the Moroccan-occupied portion of the Western Sahara reporting this story about one of Africa's oldest conflicts. What is happening in the Western Sahara? Read my latest piece for @NewYorker here:
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
We have gone into the third week of extrajudicial detention for the journalist Jeef Kazadi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo without a trial. Jeef was key in organising much of my reporting in DR Congo for @NewYorker . Statement in English et en Français below. #FreeJeef
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Nicolas Niarchos
1 year
Latest for @NewYorker about the tragic sinking for the Adriana off Greece two weeks ago and the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe. #pylosshipwreck
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
The brutal war in Yemen finally getting the cover treatment it should have received ages ago. But where has this type of coverage been since 2015? And why does the Times bury details of US involvement supplying weapons etc. for the conflict?
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Nicolas Niarchos
3 years
My latest piece, on cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is up at @NewYorker . Cobalt is a key element of cellphone and electric car batteries.
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Wtf, the moderator doesn't even bother to fact-check Trump? #debatenight
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Nicolas Niarchos
4 years
I wrote a piece on the #WesternSahara for @NewYorker , about the renewed conflict there and how Trump and Kushner's recognition of Moroccan sovreignty created a mess for the Biden administration to solve:
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Please please please, Britain, #VoteRemain . The EU has ensured stability, peace, prosperity in Europe for the last 50 years. Don't F it up.
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Nicolas Niarchos
9 years
What happened when the Belgian foreign minister went to the Met's Kongo exhibit, via @NewYorker : #kongo #Congo
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
A new piece out for @thenation on nickel mining in Obi Island, Indonesia. Nickel (and cobalt) are key to clean energy in electric vehicles, but the mining of these metals has caused serious environmental and social issues in Indonesia:
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Nicolas Niarchos
9 months
@itsisaacsworld The Congolese government and mining companies sold controlling stakes in the mines to Chinese firms. There are various different ways in which this happened. The mine the young lady seems to be talking about, Tenke Fungurume, was sold to Lundin, which sold to Freeport...
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
An Afghan child brushing his teeth at the old Elliniko airport in Athens, where refugees now camp. #RefugeeCrisis
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
The Nation magazine calls for the immediate release of the journalist Jeef Kazadi. We were detained reporting almost three weeks ago in DR Congo. I was deported and Jeef is still in jail. #freejeef #journalismisnotacrime @thenation @ddguttenplan
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
Congrats everyone @newyorkerunion : we just received an email saying that the News Guild and management reps have just agreed on a process towards voluntary recognition! #newyorkerunion
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
Here's a piece I wrote for @NewYorker on the dire situation in Yemen, and how last week's strike on Saleh al-Sammad (a senior Houthi) could worsen Yemen's war: #YemenCrisis
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
A still from a video I just received: Jeef Kazadi, who was detained with me 22 days ago in DR Congo has been freed. So thankful for everyone who came out to support him, including @thenation @NewYorker @RSF_inter @CPJAfrica @nimaelbagir @USEmbKinshasa and many more. #freejeef
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
Latest piece, up @NewYorker , on Brooklyn's burgeoning pirate radio scene and @shortwaveology 's amazing pirate radio sound map (up now at ). Read the piece here: #pirateradio
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
A source to @RonanFarrow , on the allegations @60Minutes tried to shut down a @washingtonpost investigation of sexual harassment: “The hypocrisy of an investigative news program shutting down an investigative print story is incredible.” More here:
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Nicolas Niarchos
3 years
I was just sent this video of a worker being beaten under the direction of Chinese overseers, reportedly at the COMMUS mine site in Congo. The copper-cobalt mine is owned mainly by Chinese companies but sits in the supply chain of giant tech firms that make the phones we carry.
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
Very much support the unionization effort from @newyorkerunion today. I have loved working here, and am in constant awe of the wonderful, intelligent people around me. I think this effort will ironclad the magazine's future as a thing of truth and beauty.
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Nicolas Niarchos
10 years
Here's my mum @TheRealDaphne performing her new songs at Arlene's Grocery #nyc http://t.co/Lm11yALoJa
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
Recently, Jeef had talked to me about setting up a school for underprivileged children in his hometown of Lubumbashi. He practices his journalism with integrity and a civic spirit, and he is motivated by a desire to help people.
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
Worth adding that there is probably a small amount of cobalt in this mine (cobalt is a byproduct of copper) but this particular area of southern DRC has fairly low cobalt grades and current cobalt prices are very low
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
The Congolese government should release Jeef at once. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
This interview between Trump and @LesleyRStahl last night re: Saudi Arabia is terrifying. He's essentially saying the Saudis can engage in the grossest forms of conduct and the US will still sell them weapons.
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
@kimondegreef Many, I'm afraid. Cave-ins like this are very frequent, especially in the rainy season
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Last year I reported on Yemeni refugees who had escaped terror - many of them longed to start new lives here in the US - now they are banned
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
I reported from Djibouti for @NewYorker on #Yemeni #refugees , and on a museum created by Abdillahi Bashraheel:
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
Morocco has withdrawn its support for the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen because KSA's Al Arabiya television aired a programme about the Western Sahara:
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
@killedincars2 A term that is used to describe small-scale miners. Not my favourite, but that's what they are called and that is how they are referred to in Congo as well. Also "creuseurs" or "diggers"
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
Correction: @SaemapeSud says this is South Kivu, in which case these would be most probably gold miners (or cassiterite, coltan or tungsten). Mea culpa
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Nicolas Niarchos
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@itsisaacsworld ...which sold to China Molybdenum. Freeport (a US firm) sold it to China Moly in part because they became concerned with the risk of doing business in Congo. DRC still receives hundreds of millions in royalties from these mines. 46% of gov revenues is from mining.
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Nicolas Niarchos
9 months
@itsisaacsworld One of the main problem is that this tax money is siphoned off by national politicians and does not come back to the regions.
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
My statement in English on my extrajudicial detention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. #FreeJeef #JournalismIsNotACrime Link to .pdf here:
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Just up, a piece I wrote for @thenation on the continuing brutal civil war & awful humanitarian crisis in #Yemen :
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Nicolas Niarchos
4 years
My new piece on the war in #Yemen is out @thenation , with beautiful pictures by @gcwingman . In it, I focus on the Muhamasheen, a historically underprivileged caste of Yemenis who have been badly affected by the war:
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
Somehow my insta was picked up here!
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Analog Forever Magazine
6 years
Photo of The Day: "Adélie penguins bopping about the Weddell Sea" by Nick Niarchos - Captured on a Mamiya RZ67 Pro and Exposed on Fuji Velvia Film! See more of this Nick Niarchos's analog photography by following him on Instagram at !
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
Preliminary reports that Steve Wembi, who has worked with @nytimes in Democratic Republic of the Congo, was just arrested in Kinshasa. @dionnesearcey @CPJAfrica @RSF_inter #DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Why no segment on environmental issues? #debatenight
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Nicolas Niarchos
1 year
1. New piece with @marxjesse up over @thenation about the air monitoring in the wake of the catastrophic crash in East Palestine. A company called CTEH was hired to do monitoring by Norfolk Southern, the railroad behind the crash #EastPalestine
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
@GillianF That's in S. Africa. @kimondegreef is excellent on this:
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Must read: amazing @Schwartzesque piece on a private company that sells hacking tools to questionable governments.
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Trump on not paying Federal income tax: "that makes me smart." #debatenight
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Nicolas Niarchos
9 months
@itsisaacsworld Of course lots of concerns about Chinese firms and state run Sicomines: especially concerning about displacement at these mines and mistreatment of workers. expulsions forcées dans les mines industrielles de cobalt et de cuivre ...
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
“Our first job is to protect our citizenry, and, to me, these arms sales put U.S. lives in jeopardy,” @ChrisMurphyCT said. Here's my piece on Yemen:
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Nicolas Niarchos
4 years
Even Fox now saying that @realDonaldTrump is spreading falsehoods about election observers and that GOP observers in Philly have been there the whole time.
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
Love the Seventies? Then head up to the Honeywell, in Harlem. It's one of my favorite new bars, and plays disco all night long! Here's some words on it @goingson @NewYorker @TheHoneywellNYC
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
Good rejoinder to Western Leftist critiques of support for Ukraine from @thenation , penned by @LindaMannheim --
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Here's a piece that I reported on the dangerous journey Ethiopian migrants make to get to Saudi Arabia: @IOM_news
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
Very sad to hear of the death of Ahmed Boukhari, the Polisario Front's representative to the United Nations. RIP. I had been talking to him for a piece I have been writing, and his gentlemanliness and wit never ceased to impress me: #WesternSahara
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Celebrating @NewYorker 's 1st Pulitzer Prizes this afternoon: congrats to @emilynussbaum @kathrynschulz & Hilton Als.
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Hah. This guy thinks he's speaking for Martin Luther King, says he would be "ashamed" of John Lewis. () h/t @owillis
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Nicolas Niarchos
11 months
Why did @semafor and @IranIntl choose to criticise a handful of Iranian analysts based on some emails from 2014? And how did this become "one of the biggest stories in Washington right now"? My latest for @thenation : Thanks as ever to @ddguttenplan
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
"So many people are suffering because they can’t forget, and they cannot be forced to forget": @StephTaladrid 's brilliant dispatch on the legacy of Spain's dictatorship, exhuming Franco's remains, and how a collective memory continues to be shaped.
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Nicolas Niarchos
7 years
Happy Easter! Καλό Πάσχα! Χριστός Ανέστη! In Agia Irini, Astoria as the flame was lit last night.
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Trump says he'll fire his sons if they do badly. And concludes his first press conference:
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Nicolas Niarchos
5 years
Powerful piece on the internationalisation of the conflict in Libya by @FWehrey for @TIME :
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Nicolas Niarchos
10 years
My first piece for @NewYorker @CultureDesk , an interview with Richard Serra: http://t.co/RJKjGI6Zp5
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Nicolas Niarchos
10 years
Charlie Hebdo's cover for this week: "Everything is forgiven." via @libe http://t.co/OjHJ40xS6c: http://t.co/KcXfd4nszC
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Nicolas Niarchos
10 years
My hand makes its first appearance in @NewYorker with @SiobhanBoh ... http://t.co/UkaQSc9yR5
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Trump opens on Second Amendment, Clinton opens with equality for all. That's what this election is all about #debate
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
. @pauljmcgann good chance that this'll lead to a stronger Cornish Independence movement.
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
MUST READ: Jane Mayer's piece on Tony Schwartz, author of 'Art of the Deal', @NewYorker :
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Nicolas Niarchos
3 years
Well worth (re)reading this very thoughtful @nplusonemag piece by @keithgessen in light of the current #Ukraine war:
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Nicolas Niarchos
1 year
Listen to this excellent new podcast from @OzWoloshyn & @kscope_nyc team with @cpj about the horrific murders of Haitian journalists in Miami. It's more important than ever to remember that #JournalismIsNotACrime and impunity should never go unpunished:
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Nicolas Niarchos
3 years
New piece: two former German soldiers at the base Russia bombed in #Ukraine said multiple foreign fighters killed in the strike. "They are just being used as cannon fodder" for @thenation #UkraineRussiaWar
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Nicolas Niarchos
2 years
Enjoyed meeting @KevinGHall from the @OCCRP and chatting again with @AlexandraWrage at the @TRACE_Inc Annapolis forum today on issues around mining in the DRC. Listen to our conversation from last summer here:
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Nicolas Niarchos
4 years
A beautiful, moving piece about the life of Juan Sanabria, a Bronx doorman who died of COVID-19, by @JonathanBlitzer up at @NewYorker :
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Nicolas Niarchos
6 years
A piece I reported in Burkina Faso on the music of Volta Jazz, and the vibrant ar of the 60s and 70s in Bobo Dioulasso. With help from @YossiMilo , to whom many thanks are owed, as well as to the people of Bobo Dioulasso. #BurkinaFaso #AfricanMusic #Africa
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
READ: This beautiful David Remnick @NewYorker profile of Leonard Cohen: Especially when Cohen tells Remnick off!
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Kind of funny if you read today's two below the fold @nytimes headlines as one, like I did:
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
“when we go outside let no one see us weeping or behaving in any way unworthy of Sparta. ... 1/2
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Nicolas Niarchos
10 years
Yes Diné! The Navajo Nation will have first ever junk-food tax: http://t.co/donJGMbh4J via @civileats @MotherJones
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Had we taken the oil... Trump just thinks you can go in and take oil and leave. Then says Obama wrong to leave Iraq. #debatenight
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Nicolas Niarchos
8 years
Incredible. Luke Mogelson's epic @NewYorker piece on the Iraqis fighting ISIS and retaking Mosul:
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Nicolas Niarchos
9 years
The @NewYorker offices, filled with the morning sunlight.
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Nicolas Niarchos
7 years
My latest for @NewYorker , on the snuggest bar in Harlem, A Touch of Dee: #Harlem #NYC
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Nicolas Niarchos
4 years
A piece I wrote for @UNOCHA just up at their website with beautiful pictures by Giles Clarke @gcwingman
@UNOCHA
UN Humanitarian
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Everyday, doctors & nurses are saving lives in Al-Sadaqah hospital. But time is running out. Without urgent funding, hundreds of thousands of children might die in Yemen.
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Nicolas Niarchos
1 year
The @kscope_nyc episode of the Good Thief in which I discuss the legacy of outlaws and Vasilis Paleokostas in #Greece just dropped! Check it out (and hear me get hopelessly lost on Ikaria) here:
@OzWoloshyn
Oz Woloshyn
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Great reporting by @PerneInAGyre !
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