Alex Duval Smith

Journalist, West Africa and Sahel. Senior Ochberg Fellow @dartcenter

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

#Mali postman Doumbia with letters from @BBCFooC listeners and @BBCNewsMagazine readers http://t.co/a6hododdmn

[SOS Villages d'Enfants @SOSVE_FRANCE]

🌍 Un partenariat entre SOS Villages d’Enfants Mali, @GvtMonaco et l’Ecole Hôtelière Chiaka SIDIBE a permis à 8 jeunes de SOS Villages d’Enfants d’obtenir un diplôme en hôtellerie pour les préparer à l'entrée dans le monde du travail
#protectiondelenfance
https://t.co/jaMkS1cXEU

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

@Moovin_Paris sont encore a une epoque ou l'on se moque des seniors. Combien de mamies ne loueront pas chez eux ce week-end? https://t.co/N5uAHeuMrn

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

@Imanyofficiel taking a break from maternity leave - and enjoying it - to play in Paris tonight with other @thinkzik artists

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

Crimes against women by #Jammeh regime are being hushed up: ''to date, only 6 percent of witnesses before the TRRC have been women'' https://t.co/EKKw9sasY6 via @theICTJ #TheGambia

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

BBC reverses decision on Naga Munchetty complaint #standwithnaga https://t.co/inPtKN6uIP

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

The flipside of mobile lending: abuse of personal data and ''2.7 million Kenyans are blacklisted for credit — 400,000 of them for defaulting on loans of less than $2'' https://t.co/a0EM3is1iA

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

French police planning demonstration on 2 Oct; they're tired of attending gilets jaune démonstrations (46 so far)

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

"I still can't believe it. @beyonce wore a piece of clothing I made."

Rebecca Zoro designs clothes that she feels reflect the 'charisma' of Ivorian women like her, and it was that 'je ne sais quoi' that caught Beyonce's eye. 👀👗🇨🇮

@rebecca_zoro l @Yhebedesign

[Tommy Miles @tommymiles]

I spent *years* on here and elsewhere fighting with respected western journalists and experts on this. In Mali, right down the line from 2012, almost everything larger than small arms was easily identified as coming from government stocks. Plus there were tonnes of arms already

[tchadinfos @tchadinfos]

INSOLITE: bagarre au sein de la #diaspora tchadienne des USA pour le partage d'une enveloppe de 10 000$ laissé par le Président Idriss Deby Itno lors de son passage à New York. #Tchad #Adjib

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

@YGuichaoua a lot of pasta from Algeria

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

Caster Semenya joins football team JVW https://t.co/2uafhRa5st

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

bonne installation. Tu a de la chance!

[Amaury Hauchard @amhauchard]

Perso: je quitte l'Afrique centrale et m'installe au Sahel avec @AFP_Afrique, base au Mali pour une couverture régionale. Tweets à venir seront à tendance sahélienne, donc.

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

@Johealey 's guide is out! For the real professionals in this game who are concerned about how our journalism affects the people whose stories we tell
@DartCenter @SMorvanSmith

[Nathalie Yamb @Nath_Yamb]

Le gouvernement ivoirien qui s’approprie les obsèques du Daishikan.

[Nathalie Yamb @Nath_Yamb]

On peut faire tant de choses avec un casque de moto, notamment peindre, ... ou augmenter ses chances de rester en vie lors d’une chute. L’hommage de Bou Bou à #DJArafat

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Yup:)

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

Quand le Roukaskas casse la baraque… https://t.co/zkMeG81fjV

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

The subversive messages hidden in The Wizard of Oz https://t.co/PEicNIahio via @BBC_Culture

[Alex Duval Smith @AlexDuvalsmith]

#Sweden still blocking investigations into Dag Hammarskjold's 1961 death. Until we know what happened, #Congo #DRC will remain unable to write the first chapter of its post-colonial history. #Lumumba https://t.co/0JbbLyyhxI