ayenat mersie

🇪🇹🇺🇸 journalist in Nairobi. Probably wishing someone would turn down the volume

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

The arrival of the Eritrean troops marked the beginning of a months-long ordeal for thousands of Eritrean refugees – first hunted by the Eritrean military, then attacked by Tigrayan fighters who accused the refugees of conspiring with the enemy.

https://t.co/fcVfbpre4k

[Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @ScrapNaturalist]

It's finally out!
Behind this article was more than a year of hard work by @cdellamore, @jenguyton. My work w/Jen & contributing journalist @ayenatM included plenty of late nights/early mornings, fieldwork fails, bushwacking, & buffalo. Awesome job, folks! 🥳

@HyaenaSG #hyena

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

"The arrest of Kayishema was eagerly awaited. May justice prevail," said Safari Jean Bosco, now 67. Bosco survived the church attack Kayishema is accused of planning by hiding under some of the bodies of the 2,000 victims.

https://t.co/lDZVMPnlMs

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Uganda parliament passes mostly unchanged version of anti-LGBTQ bill https://t.co/uIQnfy98JV

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

Children account for most of the 109 bodies so far recovered in mass graves linked to a cult in Kenya, the interior minister said on Friday.

"The preliminary reports we are getting is that some of the victims may not have died of starvation,” he said.

https://t.co/LmVW6wFHpm

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

"My heart is aching so much," said Mwachai who searched for his wife, son & daughters at the morgue. They joined Mackenzie's cult 3 years ago.

At least 89 of Mackenzie's followers have been found dead, thought to have starved themselves to get to heaven.
https://t.co/N2eOn8U13T

[Dawit Endeshaw @dendeshaw]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said his government will begin negotiations with rebel group the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in Tanzania on Tuesday.
https://t.co/AxUMsIDeAq

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

Kenyan police have now exhumed the bodies of 47 people thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death.

https://t.co/2OWu57CcJL

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Fresh demonstrations organised on Thursday by opponents of Kenyan President William Ruto were marked again by violent clashes, as stone-throwing protesters battled police and a local office of Ruto's party was set ablaze. https://t.co/8QibzhVV1r

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

Kibera resident Joseph Maloba lost his business in Monday night's attacks.

"This is a very big loss," he said as he walked over the smouldering remains of his tyre shop.
"I've lost over 500,000 shillings ($4,000) ... I don't know how I will recover.”

https://t.co/EcFXJPwRjf

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

RIP to a singular talent. I think about this song so often https://t.co/qduqlyKRf3

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, who used her music to raise funds for orphans and other charitable causes, has died https://t.co/bxagenzNTn

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

Kenyan police fired teargas and water cannons at stone-throwing supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga on Monday during a second week of protests against the government and high food prices, with one person shot dead in the western city of Kisumu.

https://t.co/N6RvbG0jyQ

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

Facebook content moderators in Kenya are suing the social media site's parent company Meta and two outsourcing companies for unlawful redundancy, a rights group said on Monday.

https://t.co/0eDbCcknYK

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

A student was killed & 6 police officers injured in protests against the govt & high living costs in Kenya, police said.
The student was shot in the neck by the police when officers fired live rounds after running out of tear gas canisters & blank rounds.
https://t.co/fYcELMHhUq

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Kenyan police fired tear gas and arrested several senior opposition politicians as hundreds of people protested against President William Ruto, the high cost of living and claims of cheating in last year's election. https://t.co/KYWhf1ZLPe

[Reuters @Reuters]

🔊 Somali refugees reaching Kenya are hit with hunger and cholera in a Kenyan refugee camp. Listen to @ayenatM unpack her reporting on Reuters World News https://t.co/MuxulUL3bt

[Aaron Ross @aaronross6]

Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya https://t.co/NaWnpgfTYA @ayenatM @thomasmukoya @EdwinWaita

[ICPAC @IGAD_CPAC]

ℹ️ #GHACOF63 PRESS RELEASE

After almost three years of persistent drought conditions, below-normal rainfall is expected in most parts of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) over the next three months.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/mc9JN0GL6g

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on Thursday sidestepped questions about whether his country's troops remain in neighbouring Ethiopia's Tigray region three months after the signing of a peace agreement that called for their withdrawal.

https://t.co/Ckl1LJe0gW

[ayenat mersie @ayenatM]

"When I heard of the news (of the flights), I fell to the ground and cried," said Kahssay. She came from Tigray to Addis Ababa in 2020 for a short trip, and then war erupted & she got stuck. Yesterday, she finally flew home.

https://t.co/akHO4Rm6ol

[Dawit Endeshaw @dendeshaw]

Ethiopian federal government delegation heads to Tigray https://t.co/mn1Pa38E97