Carlos Mureithi

East Africa correspondent @guardian | [email protected]

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I'm honoured that my profile of Kenyan historian @ChaoTayiana has been awarded first place in the inaugural #OpenTheKnowledge Journalism Awards by @Wikimedia, a recognition of the crucial role that journalists play in expanding access to reliable information about Africa.

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1️⃣ First place: Carlos Mureithi (@CarlosMureithi), from Kenya, for the article “How a ‘headstrong historian’ is rewriting Kenya's colonial history,” published in the Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor). 📷 by Albie Charlie (3/6)

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“The legs were completely destroyed.”

Crocodile attacks on people living along Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya have become common as rising water levels shift the reptiles' habitats closer to human settlements.

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“The person standing next to you has experienced it or knows someone who has experienced it.”

‘Free Me’, an autobiographical play staged in Nairobi, aims to encourage victims of gender-based violence to speak out.

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“In just the past two weeks, nearly every essential service and piece of critical infrastructure has been hit.”

Residents of the city of El Obeid in Sudan are living in fear because of constant attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

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Amnesty International says Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces committed crimes against humanity during its campaign to seize the city of El Fasher.

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Heads of state and other leaders from around the world have adopted a global framework for reparatory justice at a conference in Accra, Ghana, calling for formal apologies and compensation from countries involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans.

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Nearly six years after the last Ebola outbreak in Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was declared over, residents of the province’s capital, Bunia, have for the past month found themselves reliving their fears as another epidemic takes hold.

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Ghana is hosting a three-day conference to advance the continent’s push for reparatory justice after the adoption in March of the landmark UN resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans the gravest crime against humanity.

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One person was shot in the head on Tuesday as Kenyans demonstrated against a proposed US-backed Ebola quarantine centre in Nanyuki town.

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"That’s like treating us as lesser beings.”

Residents of the Kenyan town of Nanyuki, where the US wants to set up an Ebola facility for its citizens, say the move would expose them to the virus and the plan is indicative of double standards by the US.

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Members of @TheElders, a group of former heads of state and other leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to use their collective wisdom to tackle global crises, recently met in Kenya for a pandemic simulation and found that much work still needs to be done.

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As the DRC reels from the return of Ebola, aid groups and healthcare workers are concerned about the ability of the country’s fragile healthcare system to cope with the outbreak.

Story with @prosperheri1

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Residents of Ituri province in northeastern DRC are living in growing fear of the possible continued spread of Ebola and its deadly impacts, nearly six years after the last outbreak in the region ended.

Story with @prosperheri1

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The World Health Organization has said the Ebola epidemic is moving fast and that countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo are at high risk from the disease.

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A French-African summit held every few years since 1973 is taking place in a non-francophone country for the first time as President Emmanuel Macron tries to rebuild France’s role on the continent after setbacks in its former colonies.

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Ghana plans to submit a proposal at the UN today seeking recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”.

It’s the latest move in Africa's strategic push for reparative justice.

Story with @EromoEgbejule

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“Any disruptions, any shocks really affect all of us.”

How the war in the Middle East stands to impact oil and fertiliser supply in Africa.

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Three people were killed in a drone attack in a neighbourhood in the eastern DRC city of Goma early on Wednesday morning, the M23 rebel group has said.

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“We are at a dangerous point.”

Escalating conflict between government and opposition forces in South Sudan raises fears of a slide back to an all-out civil war.

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“You feel obligated to give back because you know the situation.”

@EromoEgbejule, @rachelmsavage and I spoke with Africans in the continent's diaspora about the privileges and pressures of giving financial support to relatives back home.

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An intelligence report says more than 1,000 Kenyans have been recruited to fight for Russia in its war with Ukraine.

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