Sumayya Ismail

editor, writer, journalist @ajenglish

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

After winning an Emmy, Al Jazeera’s @joshrushing dedicated the award to colleagues and journalists killed by Israel in an emotional speech.

@AJFaultLines documentary on Kids Under Fire won ‘Outstanding War or Violence Conflict Coverage’ at the 2026 News Emmys.

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Fleeing escalating conflict in Mali, thousands of refugees now live in makeshift camps in Mauritania. They recount violence, displacement and deep trauma, while saying mental health support is lacking and justice remains out of reach ⤵️ https://t.co/v8ZgtUGoNO

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A months-long Al Jazeera investigation has found that military-related goods originating from at least 51 countries and self-governing territories continued entering Israel after the ICJ’s warning of a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.

🔗: https://t.co/GF2bUMPjEo

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"It was believed that if women went into the lake while on period, they would scare away the fish and that would cause losses to people who are fishing."

Kenyan women defy fishing taboos as climate change threatens Lake Victoria https://t.co/WNRwetKPPO

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Why Djibouti hosts many foreign military bases

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In a small Gambian village founded decades ago by Ghanaian fishermen, many of their descendants languish without ID documents.

🔗: https://t.co/UabLAeM3VR

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"Exporting nations regularly take advantage of loopholes by means of labelling nonfunctional e-waste as ‘second-hand goods’...

"Over 75 percent of what arrives in developing countries is truly junk."

How Western countries add to Africa's e-waste crisis. https://t.co/xsMiKHTz5r

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With the US-Israeli war on Iran disrupting the global supply of oil, could this be the moment Africa breaks its dependency on foreign energy?

For Al Jazeera, Africa Now speaks to @rolakeakinkugbe of EnergyInc Advisors and @chxta of SBM Intelligence.

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The UN General Assembly has adopted a Ghana-led resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity,” passing despite opposition from the US, Israel, Argentina, and European countries.

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Iraq has some of the world’s largest oil reserves but the money it earns doesn’t fully flow through Baghdad. Instead, a system set up after the US invasion in 2003 still gives Washington lasting leverage over Iraq's oil revenues.

Al Jazeera’s Osama bin Javaid explains.

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AJ EXCLUSIVE: An Al Jazeera investigation has shown 3 Israeli tanks around the car where 6-year-old Hind Rajab was killed after hours of pleading for help.

Israel’s army denied this, saying its troops were not in the area.

Read the whole story here: https://t.co/oiuYssrr0V

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Did you know Fidel Castro is considered a hero across much of Africa?

Founding editor of @africasacountry Sean Jacobs explains how the former Cuban leader supported anti-colonial struggles and helped defeat South Africa's apartheid army.

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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has said the world gave Israel a ‘licence to torture Palestinians’ as she presented her latest report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. She criticised governments for allowing violations to continue with impunity.

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“After taking everything we had … they want to colonize us again.”

Brazil’s president Lula is warning that the global race for critical minerals could repeat a long history of colonial extraction.

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From a verse in the Bible, to a map, to strategy, to action, Greater Israel has stopped being just a concept.

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A love letter to Tehran as U.S. and Israeli bombs rain down on it, via @yelmjouie

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"If no one fights for us, we won’t survive."

In DRC's Rubaya, tens of thousands of children live in poverty, mining some of the world’s most valuable minerals that are essential for use in modern tech, including smartphones.
https://t.co/l1ejUODdN4

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"The culture is under assault."

Amid digital nomads, a tourism boom and a housing crisis, can the people who built Cape Town still afford to live in it?

https://t.co/WyGmy6yQ5J

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro says the war in Gaza was an “experiment” designed to intimidate the Global South and is now spreading, warning that the world is sliding into “barbarism.”

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Nearly one in five people in Lebanon have been forced from their homes as Israel launches new ‘ground operations.’

We map Israel's attacks and the forced displacement of one million people in Lebanon https://t.co/flmTWJvwlj