🚨 BREAKING: @Reuters reports aid workers accessed El Fasher and found few people and limited signs of life, corroborating @HRL_YaleSPH satellite imagery-based research

🚨 AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF TANZANIA My friends, history places before you a solemn and defining responsibility. The struggle you face is not merely against a political party or a ruling elite, but against a system that has denied you your voice, your dignity, and your

Your voice matters. You have the right to say what you think, share information and demand a better world. You also have the right to agree or disagree with those in power, and to express these opinions in peaceful protests. Today, and every day, we must #ProtectTheProtest.

Read @Fromagehomme, @MatiasFBianchi, and Jennifer Cyr on how autocrats and would-be autocrats are supporting each other across borders: https://t.co/XCtZfBJUBl

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has delivered a Christmas message, warning that corruption, inequality, and growing disillusionment with democracy are deepening despair in South Africa and across the world. https://t.co/UB6lVnWyTA

Like Israel, South Africa's apartheid regime banned foreign journalists. It's harder to hide the truth now | Opinion | Dan Sagir https://t.co/emuSUZSsAK

In response to the deterioration of press freedom in the United States, CPJ has taken a multipronged approach, documenting and providing analysis of the state of affairs; increasing our advocacy capacity at the state and local levels; and training a record number of journalists

The year’s almost over and authoritarians have been busy. From gagging journalists to criminalising dissent, attacks on free speech have reached new lows. But which ruler has truly outdone the rest? Cast your vote for Tyrant of the Year 2025 ⬇️ https://t.co/qYyC2G4Z0B

Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, press freedom inside the country has reached a breaking point. Journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship that, they say, now functions as “part of the war effort.” https://t.co/fnpGZCp5dt

Earlier this year, I had to withdraw an essay on genocide hours before it was to be published due to senior Harvard administrators’ threats to my Harvard-employed coauthor. Last week, they fired Mary Bassett for refusing to ignore Palestine. My response: https://t.co/M7BnOhPP3K

Denmark deeply regrets the US decision to impose sanctions on two more judges of the ICC. Denmark reaffirms its unwavering support to the @IntlCrimCourt as an independent and impartial judicial institution.

In response to the election protests between 29 October and 3 November 2025 in #Tanzania, security forces used unnecessary or disproportionate force showing a shocking disregard for the right to life and to the freedom of peaceful assembly. https://t.co/45QJBEcIqm

Disinformation follows a clear pattern, consisting of 2 stages and 4 steps. Narratives are seeded by building disinfo stories, reinforced by echo chambers before it is amplified by a crisis. Malicious superspreaders then distribute the narrative before the lie is normalised.

ICYMI: KAS Media Africa invites journalists to submit their best work published in 2025 for the 2026 Local Journalism Award. Work submitted must showcase the importance of local reporting and meet high journalistic standards. 🗓 Enter by 5 January: https://t.co/oZSaHQmRET

Treatment Action Campaign and Others v Facility Manager, Yeoville Clinic and Others (2025-181893) [2025] ZAGPJHC 1256 (4 December 2025)

“Getting back in the field, it’s been terrifying because you don’t know what’s safe anymore. You don’t know when you could become a target,” @collinsdyl, an @AFP video journalist who was targeted in an Israeli double-tap strike on a group of journalists in October 2023, told AFP.

🔒Pierre de Vos | Despite arrests and sexism, SA judiciary shows marginal progress https://t.co/uHbJDh0AIs via @news24

Australia's special envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal, ends up promoting antisemitism by cheapening the concept because she links protests against Israel’s genocide and apartheid to the antisemitism of the Bondi Beach massacre.

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Mondli Makhanya and I have a podcast! Join us from today for banter, laughs, and insights on local and global politics on Youtube and everywhere else you get your podcasts. Subscribe, share, rage and appreciate it here: https://t.co/HhIhv7T5WU