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1/ As US officials lash out at Germany for classifying the AfD as a far-right extremist party claiming it’s a threat to #Democracy a fundamental question arises: What kind of democracy are they defending?

#NieWiederIstJetzt #AfDVerbotJetzt

BBC News - Eye Investigations, Blood Parliament Africa Eye investigates deaths at Kenya's 25 June finance bill protest.

The Ruto administration celebrates World Press Freedom day by arresting four filmmakers who made a film for the BBC about the killings protesters at parliament last year. This is the film they do not want you to see. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

UKIP-like parties only thrive when the mainstream allows them to In the past few years, much of the coverage and analysis of parties such as UKIP or the Front National has been skewed and hyped, compared to their electoral performance.

Ten years ago, I argued that "much of the coverage and analysis of parties such as UKIP has been skewed and hyped"

Nothing has changed in the coverage but far right politics have become increasingly mainstream and the crisis of democracy has deepened

www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europ...

I don’t know which is sadder, that there is GoFundMe for racists or that a white woman raised over half a million dollars on it after callling an African American child the “N-word” at a playground.

She is on track to hit her goal of one million dollars raised.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

WaPo cartoonist resigns after Post rejects her cartoon of billionaires paying tribute to Donald Trump, one of whom happens to be her boss, Jeff Bezos.

Satire has literally died.

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

People in the replies are saying they can't find a source on this, so I uploaded video. (It's slightly misquoted in this newspaper article.) August 12, 1967, San Francisco.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP3T...

Concert by musician Willie Oeba that is on December 2nd at Signature Auditorium in Nairobi

Our story on Elon Musk threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit which studies hate speech and misinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html

Karibu

I actually want to buy this

Reminds me a lot of Kenya under Moi

I want the opposite of “guy in a diner” political reporting.

Have a journalist go to some of the weirdest scenes in the country, ask people there for their political opinions, and write about it in earnest and vivid detail

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦

View of Zambezi from Victoria falls, Zimbabwe

Jobs - Bluesky

Thanks! Recruiting full-time Typescript and Go devs most urgently right now, to finish building the stuff we've been talking about. Any leads?

https://blueskyweb.xyz/join

#Senegal 🇸🇳 is currently going through a political and democratic crisis that has rarely been witnessed. In this article, @cheikhfall.bsky.social ✍️ reviews the situation and presents solutions to emerge from this situation

More👉 bit.ly/44jLrge

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I come from a family of farmers in Kenya. Miss picking fruits from the trees, vines, and bushes!

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Cool Finds and Unique Things to do in Nairobi - Just Rioba A game drive at the Nairobi National park, shopping at the Maasai markets, a visit to David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage or the giraffe center

https://justrioba.com/cool-unique-finds-nairobi/

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