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Abdi Latif Dahir

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Middle East Correspondent at The New York Times

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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In southern Lebanon, Eid came with the deafening booms of Israeli strikes, the thud of artillery shelling and the buzz of drones. “It’s a difficult Eid,” said Hanan Khalil, a resident of Baysarieh, where deserted streets and shuttered storefronts reflected the unease hanging over the border region.
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Residents Watch as Israeli War Planes Circle Over Southern Lebanon
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Thousands of people displaced by Israeli strikes in Lebanon now shelter along the Beirut promenade that hugs the Mediterranean Sea. They share it with joggers, cyclists and dog walkers — alongside dizzying displays of wealth. My latest report.
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On Beirut’s Waterfront, Loss Meets Life, and Luxury, Amid War
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Sanam Mahoozi @sanammahoozi.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Internet Blackout Keeps Iranians From Reaching Loved Ones During New Year Holiday 👇🏼 Read our latest @nytimes.com 🛜 #DigitalBlackOutIran‌
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Internet Blackout Keeps Iranians From Reaching Loved Ones During New Year Holiday
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“This is a difficult Eid day”: For many in Lebanon, the spiritual stillness of Ramadan and the joy of Eid have been replaced by the constant hum of uncertainty: where to sleep, what to eat, whether home still exists. My dispatch from Beirut.
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‘We Are at Zero’: War-Weary Lebanon Marks Eid With Muted Celebration
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/03/2026
Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was released from an ICE detention facility in Texas after a year in custody. The 33-year-old from the occupied West Bank was the last person connected to the Columbia University pro-Palestine protests still held by US immigration authorities.
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
As Israel begins a ground invasion into southern Lebanon, hundreds of thousands of uprooted people wonder when they will ever return home. “We love our land,” said Fidaa Malhas from Sidiqeen village, who now sleeps by the seaside in Beirut. “We want to go back.”
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‘We Miss Home’: Displaced Lebanese Face Cold Streets and an Uncertain Future
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 31 health workers and wounded 51 more in Lebanon this month, illustrating the intensity of the conflict and the strain on a health system caring for over 2,000 injured civilians.
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Dozens of Medical Workers Killed as Israel Hits Lebanon
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A father comforting his kids, telling them the deafening bangs were fireworks. A man blown from his bed onto the floor. Debris and mangled rebar everywhere. Our report on the morning residents in a central Beirut area woke up to Israeli bombardment.
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Lebanese residents are left in shock and fear as Israeli strikes reach the center of Beirut.
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Israel’s military said on Saturday that it sent special forces into Lebanon to search for information on an Israeli airman who has been missing for four decades. The airstrikes and clashes in the eastern Bekaa Valley left at least 41 people dead.
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Deadly Clashes in Lebanon as Israel Renews Search for Missing Airman
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Parents waking children at night to flee. Traffic jams crawling for hours before reaching safety in Beirut. Hungry families unsure where to get food or water to break their fast. Our dispatch from Beirut on the first day this ever-expanding war reached Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...
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More Lebanese Flee Their Homes as Israel Strikes Back at Hezbollah
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I heard the Israeli strikes in Beirut, which were so loud they echoed across multiple neighborhoods. The explosions could be heard in Dahiya, the Hezbollah bastion in southern Beirut. The Israeli military said it carried out targeted strikes against Hezbollah members in Beirut and southern Lebanon
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As the United States and Israel began a coordinated military offensive against Iran early Saturday, Tehran acted swiftly on its promise to hit back, targeting U.S. interests and allies across the Middle East in a wide-ranging retaliation that risks a broader regional conflict. My latest.
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Iran Hits Back Across the Mideast, Targeting U.S. Bases and Allies
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We won the George Polk Award in Foreign Reporting for our investigation on how powerful people and firms exploited East African women recruited for domestic work in the Gulf. Special thanks to the Polk jury and to everyone involved in this project from the start.
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The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the head of the Dubai-based ports giant DP World, resigned on Friday, the company said, amid mounting scrutiny of his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Dubai Ports Boss Resigns Amid Fallout From Epstein Files
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A budding fashion designer, a prospective engineering student, and a mother, father and son who once considered emigrating in hopes of a better life. All were killed in protests that rocked Iran starting in late December. My latest with Leily Nikounazar.
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Iran Killed Thousands of Protesters. Here Are Five of Their Stories.
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Some news: I’m moving to Lebanon to be a Middle East Correspondent for @nytimes.com. I was honored to cover East Africa for nearly six years during a momentous and shifting period. I’ll miss the region and my wonderful colleagues across Africa. Excited for new stories and great collaborations ahead.
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Updates on International’s Middle East Team | The New York Times Company
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
China has racked up a $60 billion trade surplus with Africa so far in 2025, nearly surpassing last year’s total, as Chinese companies redirect trade to the region while President Trump’s tariffs crimp the flow of goods into the United States.
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China’s Exports to Africa Are Soaring as Trade to U.S. Plunges
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/08/2025
Witnesses said the second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike reut.rs/41pmNLb
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/08/2025
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
South Sudan should not “use the issue of Palestinians as negotiating chips to improve their foreign relations,” said Edmund Yakani, the leader of a South Sudanese civil society organization. “This is ethnic cleansing that we are supporting.”
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Israel Is in Talks to Send Gazans to South Sudan, Officials Say
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Fascinating and deeply reported piece from Aida Alami in @nybooks.com on what makes a uniquely Muslim American imam, and how they are helping themselves and their community navigate the demands of a secularizing, pluralistic, and Islamophobic country.
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The New Imams | Aida Alami
For years I have been working on a documentary film about young Muslims in France, centered on the 2017 trial that convicted a police officer of killing a
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/07/2025
More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, warned on Wednesday that mass starvation was spreading across Gaza, adding to calls for Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave. nyti.ms/46TKTRO
Text reads: "Aid Groups Warn of Starvation in Gaza, Saying Suffering Is at 'New Depths'" over an image of people holding empty metal pans and stretching out their arms while waiting for food. Photo by Saher Alghorra for The New York Times
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
My piece on the protests in Kenya against President William Ruto and his government leads @nytimes.com The Morning newsletter. Here's a gift link.
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Protests in Kenya
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Could America gamble away its scientific and educational leadership in the service of ideology? Together with my colleagues, we write about what Trump's crackdown on universities will mean for America and the world.
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How Trump’s crackdown on Harvard and other universities is affecting the world
Mr. Trump’s ideological war on universities is putting students, professors and scientists under pressure. That could undermine the global dominance that American science has enjoyed for decades.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/07/2025
“There was a brief silence among the three of us, a beat of shared recognition of the difficulties of staying alive.” Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on meeting Mahmoud Khalil and Zohran Mamdani at a comedy show.
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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/06/2025
From @theathletic.bsky.social: Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon fell short in her bid to become the first woman to break the four-minute mile. Kipyegon ran 4:06.92, the fastest time over the distance recorded by a woman, breaking her own world record. nyti.ms/44AXZll
Faith Kipyegon finishes a race, her head tilted back and eyes closed in exertion. A quote from her: "If it’s not me it will be somebody else — one day a woman will run under four.”
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Kenyan police used live rounds, tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters on Wednesday, as thousands marched nationwide to mark a year since huge demonstrations against a contentious tax plan turned deadly and laid bare the growing anger at President William Ruto’s government.
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Kenyans Return to the Streets a Year After Deadly Tax Protests
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/06/2025
The U.S. struck three key nuclear sites in Iran overnight on Saturday. President Trump claimed that three facilities had been “totally obliterated,” but top Pentagon officials said that it was too soon to say whether Iran still retained some nuclear ability. nyti.ms/45AFnD1
A map of Iran, with red dots on Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz. A headline reads: "Here Are the Three Iranian Nuclear Sites the U.S. Attacked"
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Trump administration’s tightening of visas for international students has raised fears the U.S. could lose its status as a top higher education destination. For tens of thousands of African students, that shift was already underway. Their destination: China. My latest.
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China’s Quiet Win: Outmaneuvering U.S. for Africa’s Future Leaders
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/06/2025
From @theathletic.bsky.social: Coco Gauff won the French Open, prevailing over the No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka in a tense and chaotic final match on Saturday. She is the first American woman to win on the clay since Serena Williams in 2015. nyti.ms/43OLRf7
Coco Gauff on an orange clay tennis court, celebrating a win with a fist pump and an open mouth. A headline reads: "Coco Gauff Becomes First U.S. Woman to Win French Open in a Decade."  Photo by Julien De Rosa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/06/2025
Here are the countries under President Trump’s new travel ban.
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Map: See the Countries Under Trump’s New Travel Ban
Restrictions on travel will affect people from more than a dozen countries worldwide.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 27/05/2025
How Noor Abdalla, the wife of Mahmoud Khalil, has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom.
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The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla
How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom.
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Through his novels, plays, and memoirs, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o listened to the chords of the African conscience, writing powerfully about the transgressions of colonialism, the corrupt postcolonial elite, the importance of African languages, and more. He will be sorely missed!
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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
More background on the Djibouti/Sudan case, the Trump administration's emerging third-country deportation strategy, and the broader legal and human rights implications here, in our explainer. With @lattif.bsky.social and @amandataub.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/w...
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What to Know About the Deportees the U.S. Is Trying to Send to South Sudan
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Ugandan lawyer Agather Atuhaire, who was arrested alongside Boniface Mwangi on the way to witness Tundu Lissu’s trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, remains unaccounted for. There is concern that she, like Boniface Mwangi, has been tortured. Mwangi was dumped at the Horohoro border this morning.
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 20/05/2025
Watch the moment Heart Lamp was announced as the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025, and hear what Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi said in their speeches. youtu.be/uVH0blFhSFc
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Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi win the International Booker Prize 2025 for 'Heart Lamp'
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Koyo Kouoh, one of the global art world’s most prominent figures, who had been slated to become the first African woman to curate the Venice Biennale, died on Saturday in Basel, Switzerland. She was 57.
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Koyo Kouoh, Prominent Art World Figure, Is Dead at 57
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/05/2025
A U.S.-funded charter plane carrying dozens of white South Africans who claim to have been victims of discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday, heading for the U.S., where the Trump administration is welcoming them as refugees.
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White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.
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Ismail Einashe @ismaileinashe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I’m thrilled to be a 2025–26 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. I’ll be examining migration reporting by exploring the intersection of the science of trauma and the various creative forms journalists can use in their storytelling. Let's go! tinyurl.com/39hky8nd
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Meet 2025-2026 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows
This cohort of 18 journalists will join us in the fall and spend an academic year tackling individual journalism projects and pursuing solutions to help newsrooms respond to today's challenges. Meet t...
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Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"The big theme the story showed was the systematic way these deaths were happening... The abuse happens and there's a system, particularly in East Africa and Saudia Arabia, that is covering up this abuse." @lattif.bsky.social @nytimes.com @krishgm.bsky.social
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Lydia Mugambe, a United Nations judge, has been jailed for six years and four months after being convicted of forcing a young Ugandan woman to work for her as a slave in Britain.
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Lydia Mugambe: UN judge who forced woman to work as slave jailed for more than six years
Lydia Mugambe, 50 was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspirac...
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Truth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
📰 The Secrets of Saudi’s Maid Trade Inside a year-long investigation into how the Saudi elite exploit and abuse East African domestic workers while politicians profit. 🗣️Justin Scheck @lattif.bsky.social @krishgm.bsky.social Livestream 7 May: sirharrysummit.org/watch Full agenda: tinyurl.om/322jwf8y
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2025
Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after ICE tried to rescind his green card and deport him. nyti.ms/4iGIa0m
Mohsen Mahdawi wearing a keffiyeh scarf as he stands atop a platform, surrounded by people. The text reads: "Columbia Student Who Was Arrested at Citizenship Interview Is Freed." Photo by Bing Guan for The New York Times.
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese-American philosopher, cultural historian and novelist who questioned the West’s intellectual tools for appraising Africa, identifying them as part of what he deemed a colonizing apparatus, died on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 83.
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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/04/2025
Dozens of people were killed in an attack on a migrant facility in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen, the Iran-backed militia and aid officials said on Monday. The Houthi militia blamed the U.S. for the strike.
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Dozens Killed in Attack on Migrant Facility in Yemen, Houthis Say
There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military, which the Iran-backed Houthi militia blamed for the attack in Saada.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis died at 88, the Vatican announced Monday, ending a pontificate that sought to reshape the Roman Catholic Church into a more inclusive institution. Cardinals will now decide whether to continue his approach or restore more doctrinaire leadership. Follow live updates: nyti.ms/42RZB9n
Pope Francis waving and smiling. Text reads: "1936-2025. Pope Francis." Photo credit: Zach Gibson/The New York Times
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A draft White House executive order proposes a drastic restructuring of the State Department, including eliminating almost all of its Africa operations and shutting down embassies and consulates across the continent.
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Trump Draft Order Would Drastically Overhaul U.S. State Department
The draft executive order to be signed by President Trump would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/04/2025
Breaking News: Trump officials blame a mistake for setting off the tectonic confrontation with Harvard. nyti.ms/4ioHtIT
The open gates to Harvard are pictured. Headline reads: "Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard." Photo credit: Sophie Park for The New York Times.
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
After years of building relationships with congressional Republicans and conservative think tanks, officials in Somaliland believe President Trump will grant their ultimate wish: statehood. My latest story from Hargeisa and Berbera with photos by Joao Silva.
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African Breakaway State Offers U.S. a Chance to Stick It to China
After years of building relationships with congressional Republicans and conservative think tanks, officials in Somaliland believe President Trump will grant their ultimate wish: statehood.
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“Oh, I’ve lived in a constant state of nonsafety,” [Wole Soyinka] said, with a small laugh [about his latest visit to the U.S.]. “So I’m used to that. If I’m walking through the street and they pick me up, I have no problem whatsoever. You know, my laptop is where it is. It’s up in the clouds.”
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At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self
With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.
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