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Kagumire

@rosebellk.bsky.social
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Pan-African feminist writer. media specialist. Editor @afrifeminists.bsky.social Cofounder @afipcollective.bsky.social Columnist @newint.bsky.social

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/08/2026
Israeli forces arrest 23 Palestinians and demolish home of man killed in confrontation with Israeli settlers in July.
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Israeli raids, demolitions continue as UN warns West Bank at breaking point
Israeli forces arrest 23 Palestinians and demolish home of man killed in confrontation with Israeli settlers in July.
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Iwiri 🌟 @iwiri.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
She is AWESOME! 🇿🇲 #WAFCON26
Racheal Nachula the legend
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New column for @newint.bsky.social newint.org/nationalism/...
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Uganda fully behind Zionist occupation of Palestine. What peace? Did Palestinians invite you? Shameful that colonialism lessons are lost all for the Museveni family rule in Uganda to be sustained
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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nigeria's star forward Asisat Oshoala addresses the lack of access for fans to watch WAFCON and how it affects African players. 📸 nigeriasuperfalcons
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KC Current @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
TEM TALLIES THIRD #WAFCON GOAL 🥹 Unbelievable run for Chawinga in Malawi’s first-ever WAFCON appearance 🔥
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/08/2026
Ceuta and Melilla: Why Europe’s African border remains a flashpoint aje.news/d70crq
Ceuta and Melilla: Why Europe’s African border remains a flashpoint
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Fishing on River Kiira (Nile River), Jinja 🇺🇬
A fisher man in a canoe on water
Young man fishing in a canoe Man in a canoe fishing
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Fishing on River Kiira (Nile River), Jinja 🇺🇬
A fisher man in a canoe on water
Young man fishing in a canoe Man in a canoe fishing
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 31/07/2026
"The sheer scale of the crossings suggests Morocco might have deliberately relaxed border controls. The timing is also suspicious. The crisis came just ten days after Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez visited Algeria— Morocco’s arch-rival—and announced a “new phase” in Spain-Algeria relations."
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Alone at the border: Ceuta and Europe’s solidarity failure – European Council on Foreign Relations
By failing to show solidarity with a member state under pressure, the EU is encouraging Morocco and others to keep using migration as a tool of coercion.
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Malick Doucouré argues that the recent anti-LGBT crackdowns in pro-Pan-African governments are about elites manufacturing unity against a fake external threat to absolve their failure to fix the economy. He argues it's time to reclaim the Pan-Africanism of Nkrumah & Sankara. buff.ly/hOFlOzV
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The homophobia of Pan-African regimes | ROAPE
West Africa has experienced a series of significant geopolitical developments in recent years, with the potential to reshape both its political landscape and economic trajectory. These are, in many…
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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026
I say “overplay” because that legislation does not change Spain’s favourable position to Morocco's plan of autonomy for the Western Sahara. The only issue would be the reference to the 'Sahrawi' as a people.
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
*not as a migration story but the larger political games at play
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What’s driving the label ‘migrants’? If those crossing ar Moroccan majority, I wd expect the reporting to say so in highlights. Because were there 20,000 migrants at that place waiting for Morocco to open? Also what is the game Morocco is playing? Is the EU for migration control 💶 short this year?
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Super excited to catch up with my former colleagues at Daily Monitor during ongoing Uganda Editors Guild retreat. With the assault of Nation Media and current shutdowns among many challenges to media freedom in the country call for a collective voice.
Four women standing in front of a banner of Uganda editors guild
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Been a minute 🤦🏾‍♀️🤭
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The African Feminist Collective on Feminist-Informed Policies @afipcollective.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Care is extracted from the Global South to sustain the Global North. This didn’t happen by accident. @rosebellk.bsky.social examines the global care divide and how power, borders, and economic systems determine who survives childbirth and who does not. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1bV...
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Politics of Birth and Global Care Divide | Rosebell Kagumire & Rhoda Berger | TEDxBerlin Salon
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 27/11/2025
African Parks runs conservation sites all over the continent. Former staff describe the organisation’s operations as a ‘shitshow’ of toxic mismanagement and lawlessness.
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NGO accused of mismanaging Chad’s oldest national park
African Parks runs conservation sites all over the continent. Former staff describe the organisation’s operations as a ‘shitshow’ of toxic mismanagement and lawlessness.
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
If you are in Berlin next week! Come join us! Tickets: tedxberlin.de/events/the-f...
Rosebell’s photo in black and white with words The First Breath announcing a TEDX event in Berlin
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Times investigation on labour exploitation of Kenyans in the Gulf, facilitated by a companies owned by wealthy Kenyans including the President and his family, is on the front page of one of the local newspapers (and indeed the main topic of conversation in Kenya).

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New York Times Expose
Slave trade billions
DIRTY MONEY Kenya's labour-migration boom has morphed into a political goldmine. For the country's most vulnerable women, it has become a conveyor belt of abuse, betrayal and State-enabled exploitation. An investigation reveals how President William Ruto's government, instead of protecting domestic workers brutalised in Saudi Arabia, has aligned itself with a lucrative staffing industry rife with political ownership. conflicts of interest and gutted worker safeguards with the First Family's insurance firm at the heart of the business.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/11/2025
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
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Nestle accused of risking baby heath in Africa, Asia and Latin America
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“Migrant workers who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh Metro project were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, worked in dangerous heat and earned pitiful wages during a decade of serious abuse, Amnesty International revealed in a new report.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Saudi Arabia: Migrant workers behind the Riyadh Metro system subjected to decade of devastating abuse
Migrant workers who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh Metro project were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, worked in dangerous heat and earned pitiful wages during a decade of s...
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
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The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
And Clinton's Crime Bill. www.aclu.org/news/smart-j...
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How the 1994 Crime Bill Fed the Mass Incarceration Crisis | ACLU
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 16/11/2025
Behind the story: Desire Nimubona raises awareness of important issues in the African Great Lakes region
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Behind the story: Desire Nimubona raises awareness of important issues in the African Great Lakes region
As part of our "Behind the Story" challenge fundraising campaign, we feature Desire Nimubona from Burundi, who shares why working on a particular story was important. Please consider donating to keep GV strong.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Among Western... commentators there is a tendency to enmesh it within a framework of the domestic culture wars in their societies. They have repurposed a debate about the persecution of Nigerian Christians for the globalization of their local grievances." coogunmodede.substack.com/p/some-strai...
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Some straight talk about Nigeria's 'Christian genocide' controversy
A long post documenting the history of religious strife in Nigeria and critiquing popular arguments surrounding a complicated debate
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
After all the revelations about Epstein and all his various Harvard pals -- Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Elisa New, etc etc. -- alumni are going to stop saying they went to college "outside of Boston" and start lying that they went to Tufts.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social just passed away. What a heartbreaking loss. And a reminder of how important Teen Vogue was.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“The Palestinians had no idea where they were bundled off to, only when in Kenya did they realise they were coming to South Africa. Some had visas for Canada, Australia and Malaysia, they were eventually permitted to leave for those countries.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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South Africa to investigate ‘mysterious’ arrival of 153 Palestinians on plane
Passengers held on runway for 12 hours after landing in Johannesburg without travel documents
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 14/11/2025
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 220 of The Continent With insurgencies on the rise, Mali’s military rulers can’t secure a stable supply of fuel. Amid a growing crackdown on media, tankers are under attack, pumps are dry, and Bamako is grinding to a halt. bit.ly/220_TC
This is the illustrated cover of The Continent (dated 15 November 2025, Issue 220).
At the top, the headline reads: “Mali’s junta is running out of gas.”
The scene is set in a dry, dusty desert landscape. In the centre-left is an abandoned petrol station. Its roof is sagging, the windows are cracked, and thick cobwebs cover the fuel pumps. Two vultures perch on the roof, panting with their tongues hanging out.
Near the petrol station lies a set of bleached animal bones — a full ribcage and skull. 
On the right side of the image is a donkey struggling under an impossible burden. On its back is a mountain of luggage: pots, suitcases, buckets, sacks, and rolled-up bedding. Five people cling to the donkey as passengers — men, women and a child — all looking worried, tired, or anxious. The donkey itself is sweating heavily, its eyes wide with strain.
At the top of the luggage pile is a battered “TAXI” sign.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12/11/2025
Can you believe this? The American Battle Monuments Commission, a U.S. gov. agency, ordered the removal of displays honouring the Black soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands. These men fought & died for freedom, & now their contributions are being erased. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It's being an extraordinary warm November in Europe where hundreds of records have fallen from West to East from South to North. The exception is Italy,which is also the only country worldwide which hasn' t broken a single heat record in the whole season and is not expected to do so Map by Dr. Maue
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/11/2025
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
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How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/11/2025
People fleeing el-Fasher for Al Dabbah tell Al Jazeera many died on the way from wounds or lack of food.
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Sudan medics accuse RSF of burning, burying bodies to conceal ‘genocide’
People fleeing el-Fasher for Al Dabbah tell Al Jazeera many died on the way from wounds or lack of food.
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"Tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank have been displaced since the start of this year and continue to face settler violence, which is at a record high, fueled by genocidal rhetoric from politicians," writes Kholood Eid in her Issue No. 8 essay hammerandhope.org/article/gaza...
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Im so exhausted yall, I dont know how to tell you how desperate our friends in Gaza are, because prices haven't gone down, aid is not flowing freely, there is no infrastructure and no work, but no one is donating. The horrors continue, the stress accumulates and they are all confused and frustrated
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The thing about being a woman and navigating the world, is that you are never safe from being sexually harassed by strangers even if you are a freaking head of state. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street
Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 07/11/2025
Only 18% of Africans are in formal employment. The wealthiest evade most taxes, particularly on property ownership and capital gains, because states underinvest in property and company registries. Our states want taxes but don’t care to create formal jobs or invest in robust infrastructure.
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On taxes and our vampire states
Drained, disregarded, and discarded – we are not the tax base African governments dream of.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Trying to bring back racism with Data !!! if we actually don’t want another round of hell? We have to actually hold folks accountable for this
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/11/2025
Paramilitary says it will accept a ceasefire proposed by the Quad mediators - the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE.
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RSF says it agrees to ceasefire in Sudan war
Paramilitary says it will accept a ceasefire proposed by the Quad mediators - the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani's New York City win inspires people in Uganda, ruled by an authoritarian president for nearly 40 years.
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‘I can also make it’: Mamdani’s NYC win inspires hopes of change in Uganda
Zohran Mamdani's New York City win inspires people in Uganda, ruled by an authoritarian president for nearly 40 years.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani promises to form a 'capable and compassionate' admin, suggesting he will rely on courts to counter Trump.
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Mamdani kicks off New York City transition after historic victory
Zohran Mamdani promises to form a 'capable and compassionate' admin, suggesting he will rely on courts to counter Trump.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“Facial recognition is unlike any other form of surveillance. It enables automated and ubiquitous monitoring of an entire population, and it is nearly impossible to avoid. If we don’t stop it, it will be used not to keep us safe, but to control and oppress us.”
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