Bergit

📻 Journalist, NRK Vestland 📚@soaslaw

[Bergit @bergit]

💔’The fire ruined everything’: Lives, livelihoods lost in Johannesburg blaze https://t.co/yuE7Bn3L3i via @AJEnglish

[Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum]

I hope the Succession finale is a musical

[Oddgeir Øystese @NRKOddgeir]

Blei bytt om etter fødselen på fødestova på Vestlandet – oppdaga etter DNA-test på MyHeritage – NRK Vestland https://t.co/MofLByXjSz

[South Asia Index @SouthAsiaIndex]

Pakistan's devastating floods:

- 1350 people killed
- 50M people displaced
- 900K livestock deaths
- 1M houses washed away
- 40+ reservoirs breached
- 220+ bridges collapsed
- 90% cropped damaged
- $10B loss to economy
- 1/3 country underwater

Source - PDMA / NDMA

[Bergit @bergit]

«Fyrst og fremst veldig glad på Tarjei sine vegner» #brør 🥇🥉

[Miora Rajaonary @MioraRajaonary]

Devastating pics taken following the passage of #Batsirai in #Madagascar in the cities of #Manakary #Fianarantsoa and #Manakara
Batsirai is the second cyclone of the season and the second to hit Madagascar this year after Ana, which caused more than 50 deaths in the country

[Jostein Kobbeltvedt @josteinhk]

He helped bring down apartheid and heal a nation. He was a master at cracking jokes and his laughter legendary. You left this world a better place. Rest in peace Desmond Tutu ❤️ #desmondtutu @TheDesmondTutu

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has died at the age of 90.

https://t.co/JrPDpSfpmV

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Joan Didion has died at age 87. Her sharp dispatches on California and tough, terse novels forged a distinct new voice in American writing. https://t.co/Y7Yiv18CS9

[Angela Quintal @angelaquintal]

Thank you to ⁦@thecontinent_⁩ for helping to shine the spotlight on jailed journalists throughout Africa. At least 75 and counting. ⁦@pressfreedom⁩ ⁦@CPJAfrica⁩ ⁦@CPJMENA⁩

[CPJ Africa @CPJAfrica]

#Ethiopia: Tesfalem Waldyes, founder of @ethiopiainsider, was arrested on October 02 in Addis Ababa shortly after his news site published a video of protestors at this year’s Irreecha Festival. Authorities are yet to state why he was detained.

https://t.co/HCyhtP1Xk8

[Bergit @bergit]

Richard Drew on sympathy/empathy.
«[T]he girl in Nick Ut’s picture was on fire. (…) It’s horrifying, but it is not the face of America. The man in my picture is uninjured. (…) But you know he is moments from death. And you can’t help but think, “That could have been me.”»

[Garance Burke @garanceburke]

People ask how I could cold-bloodedly photograph someone dying. I never saw it that way. I made a photographic record of someone living the last moments of his life. And every time I look at it, I see him alive.
--@AP photographer Richard Drew
https://t.co/bTweQv0TFP

[Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) @StatsSA]

Total Life Expectancy (LE) at birth declined from 65,5 to 62 years. Decline in Life expectancy is due to the rise in excessive deaths during #COVID19 pandemic.

Read more here: https://t.co/2ApxFr2gdh

#StatsSA #SApopulation

[The Associated Press @AP]

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has left his home to hand himself over to authorities and begin serving a 15-month prison term for contempt of court. https://t.co/aH7JgvDfLL

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s ex-president, was taken to prison to begin a 15-month sentence, a stunning downfall for the former freedom fighter. https://t.co/Ha8sqiYJgu

[Ridhwaan Suliman @rid1tweets]

Update #COVID19 in GAUTENG, 25/06/21🇿🇦

• 11,777 new cases = biggest single day increase 📈
• Case incidence 70% above previous peaks ⚠️
• Test positivity > 32%; 1 in 3 tests +ve 🚩
• 6,259 currently in hospital 🤲
• 72 deaths on avg per day this week 😢

#Rid1TweetsOnCovid

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Mount Nyiragongo: Residents of nearby Goma, in DR Congo, have been returning to destroyed homes after a large volcano erupted on Saturday.
Unicef says more than 170 children are feared to be missing and 150 others had been separated from their families.
👉https://t.co/diRvmRwLxa

[Bergit @bergit]

Ein av tre kommunar i Noreg veit ikkje om dei kan tilby heimebasert omsorg til alle i framtida: https://t.co/OtODIS9E66 #folkevandringa

[Bergit @bergit]

Seks ølboksar styrer livet til «Helene». Men ho vågar ikkje å be om hjelp. Les denne i dag 👇 https://t.co/iESYrxEOrz

[Ananya Kumar @ananpoe]

If you’re not Indian, I want you to know that I have never been this terrified. Members of my family are hospitalized, many are sick, everyone is scared. Social media is endless requests for help. This is a human catastrophe, and our government has abandoned us.