Folly Bah Thibault
@follybahAJE
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Principal Presenter on Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish). @educannotwait Global Champion. Founder @elleiraalecole. Views mine. Insta @folleye
Joined March 2011
So Israeli forces didn’t just attack the funeral procession for #ShireenAbuAkleh outside the hospital but actually went INSIDE. This is CCTV footage released by hospital officials. They say they pushed past a pregnant woman and a disabled man. The latest on @AJEnglish
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Unbelievable scenes in Occupied East Jerusalem. Shock. Disbelief. Anger can’t begin to describe what I’m feeling. Israeli security forces attack mourners carrying the casket of our colleague Shireen Abu Akleh. @AJEnglish for continuing coverage
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“We cannot abandon the women and girls of Afghanistan” @AminaJMohammed @UN Deputy Secretary General talks to @AJEnglish @AJENews after holding high-level talks with the Taliban in #Afghanistan
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via @nytimes . New evidence shows Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed had been planning a military campaign in Tigray region for months…In fact, it was a war of choice for Mr. Abiy — one with wheels set in motion even before the Nobel Peace Prize win in 2019
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Al Jazeera’s Folly Bah Thibault appointed to UN education fund
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Former #ICC prosecutor @MorenoOcampo1 tells @AJEnglish what’s happening in Nagorno-Karabakh is “genocide and ethnic cleansing.”
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Ethiopia used its flagship commercial airline to transport weapons during war in Tigray -employees said they were instructed by the airline to delete photos of the weapons from their phones. Not all of them did.
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BREAKING: #Ethiopia declared seven high ranking UN officials 'persona non- grata' accusing them of meddling in the internal affairs of the country. Most are @OCHA_Ethiopia officials including the head & deputy. Acc to @mfaethiopia, they've to leave the country in 72 hours.
BREAKING: Ethiopia orders expulsion of seven top UN officials over ‘meddling’
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There are many heroes of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, but among the celebrated names of Mandela, Sisulu, Tutu and Biko is one less familiar - Abdullah Haron. Honored to have lent my voice for this powerful film. @AJEnglish
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Asian Cup Final excitement in Doha! Qatar hoping to take its first major international trophy home before they host the World Cup in 2022. Join us on #AJNewsgrid @AJEnglish 15GMT. Go Qatar 🇶🇦!!
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As a journalist, an advocate for the rights of women and an African, I celebrate the United Nations! The UN is me, it’s you, it’s ALL of us! Happy 75th anniversary @UN.#UNcharterDay #UN75
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#Ethiopian government troops intensify their air and ground attacks on #TPLF. Caught in the middle are thousands of civilians in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.
#Ethiopia: #UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advise against all travel to #Tigray, areas in #Amhara, #Afar, #Oromia, #Somali #Gambella,#Benishangul_Gumuz and bordering areas with #Sudan, #South Sudan, #Somalia and #Kenya
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‘Disturbing’ rape allegations in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: UN | Ethiopia News | Al Jazeera via @AJEnglish.
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Must read by @declanwalsh .“ the Nobel emboldened Mr. Abiy and Mr. Isaias to secretly plot a course for war against their mutual foes in Tigray, according to current and former Ethiopian officials…”.
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Rohingya crisis: The Gambian who took Aung San Suu Kyi to the world court - BBC News
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Extraordinary scenes on the streets of #Senegal’s capital where for a 3rd day police has fought with opposition protesters demanding the release of #OusmaneSonko. Continuing coverage on @AJEnglish with the amazing @nicolashaque #senegalprotests
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I am thrilled to be joining Education Cannot Wait, in its noble mission to raise awareness and advocate for education for the world’s most vulnerable. As a mother, an African woman, I know too well the power education has, on preventing obstacles like child marriage-and give a.
✨@EduCannoWait Appoints New Global Champion @FollybahAJE✨. "I truly believe #education is the only way we can build a sustainable & rewarding future for millions of children who would otherwise be left behind.". More👉#222MillionDreams✨📚 @AlJazeera @UN
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She was trying to tell the story of what is happening to Palestinians living under occupation. Being a journalist didn’t shield her. Rest in Peace Shireen Abu Akleh.#JournalismIsNotACrime
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The long-awaited trial of 14 men accused of complicity in the murder of #ThomasSankara begins in #BurkinaFaso today. Special coverage on @AJEnglish with @nicolashaque live from 10GMT. via @AJEnglish.
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"222M school-aged girls & boys are affected by crises around the🌎today. This is unacceptable. By committing substantive funds to @EduCannotWait at #HLFC2023, we can make #222MillionDreams✨📚 come true."~@FollyBahAJE, @AJEnglish. 👉@UN @SwissDevCoop @QF
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I spent #internationalwomensday speaking to one of the most inspiring women in the world. @JaneGoodallInst has worked tirelessly to protect wildlife and the environment #earthnasummit2023
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Thank you so much for your kind words. Grateful 🙏😊.
Ladies & gentlemen, Please join me in wishing a happiest birthday ever to one of the best journalists, my favorite anchorwoman, @follybahAJE . Happy birthday to African Queen! 🎂❤🥰.May you celebrate many more!
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Celebrating my birthday at work surrounded by my amazing friends and colleagues! Thank you all for the kind wishes. I feel truly blessed 🙏♥️
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Gearing up for the first International day to #ProtectEducationFromAttack. Join me to hear from high-level education experts & advocates on how to #UniteToProtect the future of our children. @educationaboveall_eaa @eaa_foundation @UNICEF @UNESCO @Qatar_fund @savefuturenow
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As a mother and an education advocate, I am excited and honoured to play my part to #protecteducationfromattack. We need to ensure #children, especially girls, benefit from safe quality education. @EAA_Foundation @UNESCO @UNICEF @savefuturenow #girlseducation
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Official inauguration ceremony for the first-ever school built by our foundation. What a rapturous welcome we received !I’m so proud and grateful. Thank you to our generous donors for helping us make this change in the lives of the people of Conde #Guinea
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To all those celebrating around the world, I wish you a happy, healthy and safe Eid Al Adha
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Accusations of an electoral coup after Felix Tshisekedi is announced the winner of #DRCElections. Will there be a peaceful transfer of power? Is this a new beginning for #DRC? Join me on @AJInsideStory with @IndigoEllis @alkitenge Benedict Ndjoko. 17.30 GMT @AJEnglish.
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An important conversation @DohaForum on the reconstruction of education for women in Afghanistan. How to end the ban on girls education? How to create safe and supportive learning environments for Afghan girls and women? And how can the international community help improve the
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What’s it like being questioned and detained? The story of my first deployment for @AJEnglish #WomeinMedia #WomenSpeak #WomensHistoryMonth
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Is a world free of nuclear weapons possible or is it just a naïve fantasy? Join @baysontheroad and me for a special interview with @nuclearban. 16GMT Sunday @ajenglish #AJNobel #AJNEwsgrid #ICAN
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As UN #LDC5 gets underway in Doha, @ASteiner @UNDP talks to @AJEnglish about what’s being done to help Syrians.
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Jailed for having too many children. An @AP investigation finds that hundreds of thousands of #Uighur women have had to undergo pregnancy checks, sterilization and abortion. @nurgulsawut tells me about what many are calling China’s demographic genocide.
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Thrilled to be at @EduCannotWait #HLFC2023 as we try to find ways to better protect and expand education, for millions of children around the world! Especially--when those children live in countries facing years of conflicts and climate-related disasters. #222MillionDreams
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Israeli security forces attack mourners carrying the coffin of #SherineAbuAqleh ! Why? Why? Why attack people in mourning?!? Shame on you!.
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Thrilled to be in Conakry to catch up with the girls from La Fondation Kesso Bah, Elle Ira L’Ecole. We are volunteer-driven charity fighting to make sure that young Guinean girls from disadvantaged families are enrolled and kept in school #elleiraalecole #GenderEquality
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A beautiful evening in #abuja celebrating @AminaJMohammed on her milestone 60th birthday. With.@MaEllenSirleaf @nmuffuh @thearitokpo @estherclimate
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Breaking: @WilliamsRuto declared the winner of #kenyaelections2022.@AJEnglish for reaction and analysis.
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#FIFAWorldCupDraw2022 . #Qatar Qatar is ready to welcome the world! @fifaworldcup @worldcup_qatar_2022 @roadto2022en @FIFAWorldCupQTR #FIFAWorldCupQatar2022.Representing #Africa in a beautiful #ethiopian dress gifted by my darling @jamesbget
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My heart is full! Fondation Kesso Bah’s first school has opened its doors. 104 primary school students from the village of Condel in #Guinea will be attending. Children everywhere should receive the same opportunities so they can learn and thrive #elleiraalecole
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How do we ensure a girl’s right to #education is guaranteed? Spoke to #euronews on #InternationalDayoftheGirl #elleiraalecole
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Afghan girls won’t be silenced! EduCannotWait's #AfghanGirlsVoices shines a light on young Afghan girls deprived of their basic right to #education & learning. Read their resilient testimonies!..#letafghangirlslearn
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It’s a wrap! #AJNobel from Oslo with @nuclearban @BeaFihn @baysontheroad @AJEnglish #NobelPeacePrize
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🚨NEW, important study by @EduCannotWait!.#ECW Global Estimates study, launched at #EiEData & Evidence Summit, finds number of children pushed out of #QualityEducation by #war, #ClimateCrisis & other crises has risen. ➡️@UN #222MillionDreams
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Three PMs in less than a year? Time perhaps for some international sanctions, intervention?.
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A warm welcome to new #ECW Global Champion and fellow journalist @ChristinaLamb. I look forward to working together to advocate and support the right to #educacion for crisis-impacted children worldwide. @UN @TheTimes @AJEnglish @UNGeneva @EduCannotWait @KentPage
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Iconic rugby star @SiyaKolisi_Bear grew up in a violent home. And that's one reason why he is speaking up on the issue of violence against women & girls. Join me today at 17.30 @AJInsideStory to listen to his powerful testimony @GlobalSpotlight #WithHer
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#EndSARS protests descend into chaos. Security forces open fire on protestors. Millions under curfew. I spoke to President @MBuhari Senior Special Advisor. #Nigeria #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeraNOW
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FOLLY BAH THIBAULT – Newly Appointed Global Champion for @EduCannotWait Education Cannot Wait
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Productive meeting with #SpotlightEndViolence team ahead of high-level event at #UNGA. Violence against women and girls is a major obstacle to #GenderEquality. It must end!
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On #MalalaDay, an important conversation on how we can turn commitments to girls education into ACTION. With @AminaJMohammed @YasmineSherif1 @AwutDengAcuil @FaruqiSomaya @EduCannotWait #girlseducation #222MillionDreams .
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With 2018 Nobel Peace Laureates @NadiaMuradBasee and @DenisMukwege @AJEnglish @AJENews #AJNobel
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#GuineaConakry Celebrations in opposition strongholds after reports @alphacondepresi is being detained by special forces. Stay with @AJEnglish for all the latest on the coup attempt @nicolashaque and Youssouf Bah in Conakry
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Thrilled to be in Geneva for @WHO #WalktheTalk promoting physical activity & good health for everyone, everywhere. @MOPHQatar @DrTedros @MoetiTshidi #WHA75
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t's the International Day to End Violence against Women. 1 in 3 🧕🏾👩🏻👩🏼🦰 around the 🌍 experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. #wemustendviolence #spotlightendviolence
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Humbled and honored to have been included in the @NewAfricanMag list of 100 Most Influential Africans of 2019 #MIA2019 #elleiraalecole
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Na skiia, lakini si weza ku ongea mzuri.
@follybahAJE Mambo vipi.Hebu kesho ongea Kiswahili, ukisoma news.
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#ecspeakerseries in conversation with @UN @aminajmohammed @qatarfoundation .📍Qatar National Library .Dec 8 12.30PM.
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#RightHereRightNow: @EduCannotWait issues $150M Appeal to urgently scale🆙work in response to the #ClimateCrisis!. Additional funding will reach 2M children & youth affected by climate hazards who need immediate #education support. 🚨#222MillionDreams✨📚
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At a time when we are more connected than ever, it seems impossible that we still have to balance the fragility of education and the consequences when it is disrupted. @EduCannotWait @elleiraalecole @Shaheenajj #222MillionDreams .
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African First Ladies working to empower girls and women. First ladies of Niger, Mali, Comoros, Gambia, Nigeria, Rwanda #ENDChildMarriage #UNGA73
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In conversation with Nobel peace prize laureate @TawakkolKarman on how to end the war in #Yemen . Thank you @BrookingsDoha
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Today the first meeting of the Group of Gender Equality Leaders convened by President of UN General Assembly @UN_PGA met to discuss how to promote gender equality in Media, government, fashion and development, leaving no one behind. #GenderEquality
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Discussing the impact of the war on Gaza on Palestinian women with three of the brightest women in their field @nour_odeh @yarahawari @heatherbarr1 @AJEnglish @AJInsideStory
Why are so many #Palestinian women being killed by Israel in its war on #Gaza? What impact does the war have on women? And what is the world saying or doing about it? .@follybahAJE with @nour_odeh @yarahawari @heatherbarr1 @AJEnglish Full programme here👇.
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Great analysis of the impact Prigozhin’s death is likely to have on Wagner’s Africa operations.
Yevgeny Prigozhin's death has serious repercussions for Wagner's Africa network. Here is what might unfold /1.
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No this is not Morgan Freeman. At the home of Nobel Laureate @wole_soyinka in Abeokuta #Nigeria
http://t.co/ECZ5Tfox0K.
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France set to have its first female Prime Minister in 30 years: Elisabeth Borne. Currently Minister of Labor
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And her feet hurt!! But what a night! Thanks for keeping me company @LeahHardingAJE.
It's now 5:30am in Doha. The real MVP is @follybahAJE who's been LIVE on that desk for about 8 million hours . She also got her hair cut on set! Video: @andrewchappelle #USElections2020
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Ending Obstetric Fistula in West & Central Africa by 2030. High-level event on the sidelines of #UNGa77. Organized by @unfpa @UNFPA_WCARO
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In order to #ProtectEducationFromAttack, communities need to be informed, empowered and mobilized to take action at all levels of society. We need to #UniteToProtect and #SaveOurFuture .@EAA_Foundation
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Delighted to meet the most powerful woman in International Sports. Senegal’s Fatma Samoura is the first female Secretary General of #Fifa #qatar2022 #womeninpower #prideofafrica
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What's going on in #Zimbabwe ? Hours after threat by the military to intervene in who replaces President Robert Mugabe, witnesses say they've seen tanks headed towards Harare.
JUST IN: Two tanks parked beside main road 20 km outside Harare, facing the Zimbabwe capital - Reuters witness
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A great honor to moderate a high level event on youth and women empowerment in Africa. #UNGA #UNFPA #putyoungpeoplefirst
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Today is the first International Day to #ProtectEducationFromAttack: A global effort to ensure children can benefit from safe quality #education. Join me for a conversation with global #education leaders & experts on the need to #UniteToProtect cc @UNESCO @EAA_Foundation @UNICEF
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📣With Hope & Courage!. @EduCannotWait’s new #ECWResults Report just launched – learn how we are delivering #QualityEducation to girls & boys in emergencies & protracted crises with speed, agility & strategic partnerships!. 👉@UN #222MillionDreams✨📚
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An inspirational evening spent in the company of some incredibly talented women to talk about women in leadership, sports and gender equality. My thanks to #FIFA Secretary General @fatma_samoura for sharing her unique experience. And @theneddoha @nedsclubdoha for hosting us.
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Dozens have been killed in my home country #Guinea in post election violence. Security forces MUST act responsibly #GuineaElection
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Very much looking forward to moderating this important and timely discussion @DohaForum #shareinformation #shareknowledge.
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