Simon Allison
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Co-founder and International Editor @TheContinent_. 'Unrepentant dunderhead', according to @ProfJNMoyo.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined June 2010
This is the most alarming story I've worked on in a while. The French billionaire Vincent Bollore, described as "the French Rupert Murdoch", is trying to bring Africa's biggest broadcaster - MultiChoice, that's DStv, ShowMax and SuperSport - into his "right wing media empire".
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If you’re trying to understand what’s happening in Goma, I highly recommend this week’s issue of @thecontinent_ . It’s free to access via WhatsApp and it’s the most comprehensive weekly newspaper on matters Africa.
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"They dragged 10 men in front of us and killed them all at once", My latest report for @thecontinent_ on the massacres in Sudan's Gezira state. Latest death toll suggest more than 500 people may have been killed #KeepEyesOnSudan
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This week inside @thecontinent_ Climate: We can only adapt to, not stop, catastrophe Morocco: Everybody’s free to be a ganja planter now Lebanon: The African migrant workers navigating war and racism
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Hivi vyama vya ukombozi vikikaa sana vinageuka kuwa ya kikoloni 🚮 @thecontinent_ put it very well! If voting it out is a challenge - what option does that leave? 😰 CCM ile ya Kambarage mmekuwa CAPTURED na wahuni waliogeuka kuwa wakoloni weusi! Ila #TutaelewanaTu
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Catching up with the latest news from around the continent & some great analysis, as I take a few hours of break from the past two weeks of daily and relentless work at the 81st session of the ACHPR in Banjul & while getting a bite before retiring for the day via @thecontinent_
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All Protocol Observed. Welcome to Issue 178 of The Continent. In this week's issue: Cameroon’s Schrödinger's president. The people who jump off Joburg skyscrapers. And the slow death of the West (but you knew that already, didn’t you?). https://t.co/B1GeOHK2Yk
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La couverture de ce jour du numéro 178 du magazine hebdomadaire sud-africain @thecontinent_. "Avez-vous vu Biya?" Téléchargez-le gratuitement ici: https://t.co/3jEKR6YX8O
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In February, somewhere in northwestern Ethiopia, 30+ civilians were killed in a drone strike. But amid official denials, it was impossible to pinpoint where. @thecontinent_ has geolocated the location of the massacre in Ethiopia. Here's the story 👉 https://t.co/zBgoKXtFQ3
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in a more just/accurate media environment, this kind of background paragraph/boilerplate would be in every article about immigration and Europe As seen in @thecontinent_
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