Declan Walsh
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Chief Africa correspondent, @nytimes Ex-Cairo and Islamabad. Author, THE NINE LIVES OF PAKISTAN. U.S. https://t.co/5PjyqeNO43 UK: https://t.co/x9no69KauB Tips: https://t.co/QwfvR4yUG4
Nairobi, Kenya
Joined February 2009
An immense honor to be awarded the @PulitzerPrizes for our work on Sudan. https://t.co/hsXeQQcMIV
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DCU has conferred the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) on the Pultizer Prize winning @nytimes journalist Declan Walsh @declanwalsh From #Ballina, Co #Mayo, he began his career in the @businessposthq and studied at UCD & DCU Read: https://t.co/yrgRyaam3y
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After 18 months of brutal siege, Sudan's R.S.F. paramilitaries say they have captured the army garrison in El Fasher. But the fate of the rest of the city remains unclear.
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The Rapid Support Forces said it had seized the army headquarters in El Fasher, its last major obstacle to controlling the sprawling western region of Sudan.
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An Internet Shutdown Cuts Off Iranians From One Another, and the World - by @SanamMahoozi and @ErikaSolomon
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Since its brief June war with Israel, Iran has throttled internet traffic and jammed GPS, making day-to-day tasks online a struggle and prompting Iranians’ fears of greater surveillance.
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Breaking News: Raila Odinga, a former prime minister and a towering figure of Kenyan politics, died at 80. https://t.co/kHP7jE5RFu
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Spies Bombs and Burgers — a dispatch from Tehran, where the tense history with the U.S. lingers in the former embassy, and many Iranians are just trying to get by in volatile times. With photos by @NannaHeitmann
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A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, we found that many Iranians seemed to be just trying to get by.
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Spies Bombs and Burgers — a dispatch from Tehran, where the tense history with the U.S. lingers in the former embassy, and many Iranians are just trying to get by in volatile times. With photos by @NannaHeitmann
nytimes.com
A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, we found that many Iranians seemed to be just trying to get by.
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Raila Odinga, a hero of Kenya's democracy movement who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency five times, has died in India at 80. https://t.co/v9hJEqKUfB
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A pivotal political leader who helped usher in multiparty democracy in the East African country, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency five times.
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"A lot of cash, unlimited cash" - President Trump meets Emirati leader and Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan. We investigated his role in Sudan's brutal civil war earlier this year.
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A huge honor to win a prize this weekend at the Bayeux awards for war reporting.
@BayeuxOfficiel @CalvadosDep @RegionNormandie @amnestyfrance @NikonFR @RSF_fr @ARTEfr @FRANCE24 @FranceTV @MSF_france @OuestFrance14 @UNHCRfrance @Prefet14 🏆 Le Prix @OuestFrance - Jean Marin 📰 est attribué à @declanwalsh pour « Le Soudan en feu » paru dans @nytimes 👏 #Palmarès #Awards #PBCN2025 #PresseEcrite #PrixBayeux #Soudan
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A huge honor to win a prize this weekend at the Bayeux awards for war reporting.
@BayeuxOfficiel @CalvadosDep @RegionNormandie @amnestyfrance @NikonFR @RSF_fr @ARTEfr @FRANCE24 @FranceTV @MSF_france @OuestFrance14 @UNHCRfrance @Prefet14 🏆 Le Prix @OuestFrance - Jean Marin 📰 est attribué à @declanwalsh pour « Le Soudan en feu » paru dans @nytimes 👏 #Palmarès #Awards #PBCN2025 #PresseEcrite #PrixBayeux #Soudan
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For Sudanese trapped inside a brutal war, the Emergency Response Rooms, a community aid network, is a vital lifeline. Devastated by American aid cuts, the Sudanese responders press on - and are a deserved favorite for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. https://t.co/vqJ2vKUhTs
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The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.
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Dr. Omar Selik’s raw, urgent testimony from a besieged city cut through the fog of war, crystallizing the depravity of Sudan's war. And then he was gone. https://t.co/XqAvjlsD8d
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Dr. Omar Selik’s raw, urgent testimony from a besieged city cut through the fog of war and crystallized the depravity of the conflict. And then he was gone.
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Dr. Omar Selik’s raw, urgent testimony from a besieged city cut through the fog of war, crystallizing the depravity of Sudan's war. And then he was gone. https://t.co/XqAvjlsD8d
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Dr. Omar Selik’s raw, urgent testimony from a besieged city cut through the fog of war and crystallized the depravity of the conflict. And then he was gone.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims that no one has died because of his aid cuts. This is my @nytopinion video response to hold him accountable.
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Sobering account of how Sudan's battlefield is awash with sophisticated weapons donated or sold by foreign powers, by @khoureld
washingtonpost.com
Fighters now possess antiaircraft weapons that could threaten civilian air traffic and what appears to be a Chinese surface-to-air missile system, experts said.
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