Victoria Rubadiri
@VickyRubadiri
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Connecting Africa Correspondent, @cnni | 2020 @bbcworld Komla Dumor Award Winner | @BD_Africa Top 40 Under 40 | Journalist | Moderator | #TempleMade 🇰🇪🇲🇼
Nairobi, Kenya
Joined April 2011
Today is CNN's fifth annual Call to Earth Day 🌍 Follow across social, digital, and TV as over 600,000 participants take action to guard their green spaces. Live updates 👉 https://t.co/spT8zliF47
#CalltoEarth
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Zohran Mamdani will become New York City's next mayor, CNN projects, after a meteoric rise in Democratic politics. Follow live updates. https://t.co/D55BsmvA08
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⚠️ Update: Live metrics show widespread restrictions to multiple social media and messaging platforms as #Tanzania comes back online after a five-day internet shutdown; the incident continues to limit election transparency and the free flow of information
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Trump doubles down on possibly having American boots on Nigerian soil - will he make good on his word? Time will tell, but diplomatic and economic implications are inevitable.
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@VickyRubadiri at over 70 seeking a public office shows someone is a failure in life...what are the new ideas is that person bringing to the table...rather than under the table deals...but that tells alot about a people too
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Meanwhile; Côte d’Ivoire’s median age is 21. Cameroon: 19 Malawi: 19 Uganda: 16
83, 92, 85 - ages of African presidents elected in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Malawi in the last two months. Early next year an 81-year-old seeks a 7th term.
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Death democracy it is!
83, 92, 85 - ages of African presidents elected in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Malawi in the last two months. Early next year an 81-year-old seeks a 7th term.
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The league of octogenarians (and a nanogenerian)
83, 92, 85 - ages of African presidents elected in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Malawi in the last two months. Early next year an 81-year-old seeks a 7th term.
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83, 92, 85 - ages of African presidents elected in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Malawi in the last two months. Early next year an 81-year-old seeks a 7th term.
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High Court orders fast-tracked extradition of UK soldier accused of killing Agnes Wanjiru in 2012. In a landmark ruling, Justice Alexander Muteti has directed the DPP and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work with the UK government to ensure the suspect faces a murder trial in
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Environment and Land Court in Malindi upholds ban on controversial Lamu coal plant
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy enters a prison in Paris on the first day of a five-year sentence
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday on the first day of a five-year sentence, marking the first time a former leader of modern France has spent time behind...
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KQ203 ready to bring home the late Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, a beloved leader. Our thoughts are with the nation.
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BREAKING NEWS: Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga dies at 80 while undergoing treatment in Kochi, India
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BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to
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Wangari Maathai was the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize. She founded the Green Belt Movement, which led to the planting of millions of trees. Today we announce the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Local leaders calling Dangote the “anchor investor Ethiopia has been looking for.”
Dangote, Ethiopia PM break ground on $2.5 billion fertiliser plant https://t.co/yxzj5A4tgb
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From first class flights to run the New York marathon for a staffer to sponsoring a board member’s nephew to Spain for football trials, no surprise why a state-owned water company in 🇿🇦 is under investigation for maladministration, conflict of interest, and possible corruption.
One official flew first-class to New York City to take part in city’s annual marathon https://t.co/5jPtp89JcM
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Today's the day! The announcements of the 2025 Nobel Prizes will begin in just a few hours. Join us on our social channels or at https://t.co/3VsHzjF7LK to watch the news live. See the full schedule: https://t.co/uKHe2lSm7B
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