Martin Plaut @martinplaut
South Africa, the Horn of Africa. Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Made in 🇿🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 martinplaut.wordpress.com London Joined August 2010-
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The day apartheid died: South Africa’s first free elections – archive, 1994 theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
Opposition parties have criticised policing minister Chris Philp for appearing to confuse two African countries on BBC Question Time. An audience member from the DRC asked about the government's new law on deporting some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
One of Darfur's biggest cities, El Fasher, is now a "kill box", analysts say. The city is under a tightening siege by RSF forces, with its escape routes cut off. Fuel and water are running out. And the RSF has committed massacres in other Darfur cities. theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
This is one side of the story: but there is another - those Eritreans who oppose the Isaias regime and its hold on Norwegian Eritreans
This is one side of the story: but there is another - those Eritreans who oppose the Isaias regime and its hold on Norwegian Eritreans
A revealing biography of PM Abiy Ahmed martinplaut.com/2024/04/26/a-r…
International and Sudanese experts are raising a desperate plea for international intervention as paramilitary forces, the RSF, launch a full-scale attack on El Fasher, the last government-held city in Darfur. The assault threatens to unleash a new wave of mass civilian killings…
Exclusive: Thousands of Sudanese refugees who escaped to neighbouring Egypt have been detained by Egyptian authorities in a network of secret military bases, and then deported back to their war-torn country often without the chance to claim asylum thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations…
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I want to thank Eritreans in Australia for hosting this remarkable meeting, at which Michela Wrong and I spoke. It was well organised and well attended, both by Eritreans and by senior Australian politicians. Four PFDJ supporters also attended, listening to the debates
Burkina Faso’s military summarily executed 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in February. The mass killings have been linked to a widening military campaign to tackle jihadist violence and happened weeks after Russian troops arrived theguardian.com/global-develop…
I am glad to have coordinated today’s inaugural meeting the for soon-to-be All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tigray. A huge thank you to the parliamentarians who were in attendance and for the continued support.
Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows Sudan accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5m people needing urgent help as displacement drove food insecurity globally theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
Flooding in Kenyan capital city Nairobi has "escalated to extreme levels" and local authorities are "clearly overwhelmed", a senator has warned. bbc.in/3QdHtjG
Botswana declined request to host UK migrants. Minister says "The British government doesn’t want these people in their country so they want to bury them in a faraway country." bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl… via @BBCNews
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Every facet of life in Tigray impacted by the war, in which as many as 600,000 people may have been killed. It ended with an African Union-brokered peace agreement in November 2022, but the bill for reconstruction has been calculated at $20 billion. thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2…
At least 21 migrants dead after boat capsizes off coast of Djibouti theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
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