Daniel Finnan

Former journalist. Views my own, RTs not an endorsement. DMs open.

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

Hey Twitterati, been quiet on here for quite some time. Officially left @RFI_En @RFI in April & have been retraining: completed 6 months @Oclock_io earlier this year & just about to start 2nd year of masters @CnamEfab @LeCnam specialising in economic, digital & data strategies.

[Zach Mazlish @ZMazlish]

Excited to see this out! @ns_whit and I wrote about why we don’t expect the dream of (liquid, highly efficient) “prediction markets for everything” to come to fruition

[Felix Zumstein @felixzumstein]

Microsoft has released Data Wrangler, a VS Code extension that gives you a UI for data viewing & cleaning and that generates clean Python/pandas code. I really hope that they rip out Power Query in Excel and replace it with this! I'd go as far a saying that this should have been the first deliverable for Python in Excel...https://t.co/qKtSjt3iL2 #pythoninexcel #vscode #pandas #microsoftexcel

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

@GytisValaika @facebook @FacebookAI @annekornblut Sorry got no idea. One day it just worked. Good luck, it is very frustrating.

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

@Facebook still hasn't fixed it's inane account security check that works like something out of a Joseph Heller novel. Let me walk you though it @annekornblut. You try to recover your old @facebook account...

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Bukayo Saka. You beauty 😍

The 21-year-old just casually doing this at a World Cup!

England 4-0 Iran

💻🖥📱 Watch on @BBCiPlayer, listen on @BBCSounds, get more on the @BBCSport app

#BBCFootball #BBCWorldCup https://t.co/XMDz06vaiV

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

@ImpactGroupDT I know you’re musically inclined Dave…can probably pull out the .wav file from my archives if you’re interested. You’d be a legend in Banjul 😉

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

Fond memories of this interview in #Gambia with former General Ousman Badjie...methinks this snippet of audio would make a great sample in a remix 🎵 🤣

[MEEK👑‼️ @MEEKEND16]

Rema: “Everybody sing with me on this one”

Gambians:

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

Here's the full Q&A: https://t.co/9T9s2G6HFY " “If they [Senegalese troops] entered [Gambia], our neighbours, we are going to welcome them with water, ice, tea, coffee and ice cream, I swear to God.”

[LauraAngela Bagnetto @LA_Bagnetto]

#Africa #mRNA #vaccines could be in jeopardy due to IP challenges.
“There is a level of hypocrisy while they’re willing to support this, they’re not willing to support structural changes,” @Anna_Marriott, @oxfamgb's health manager, re: Western donors

https://t.co/S3nzOJbEZ9

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

#Africa's first homegrown mRNA #Covid #vaccine…

[RFI English @RFI_En]

Set on redressing vaccine inequality, a South African consortium is taking on pharmaceutical giants in its quest to produce Africa's first homegrown mRNA Covid-19 vaccine and share it with the global south. RFI English’s @LA_Bagnetto has this report. https://t.co/ctBJncCTT0

[The People's Medicines Alliance @peoplesmeds]

South African scientists have developed a homegrown mRNA vaccine.

And the technology will be shared with manufacturers in low and middle-income countries on every continent.

A #PeoplesVaccine is within reach.
https://t.co/NxnSd727q9

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

@kwazibruce Many thanks!

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

Hey Twitterati, been quiet on here for quite some time. Officially left @RFI_En @RFI in April & have been retraining: completed 6 months @Oclock_io earlier this year & just about to start 2nd year of masters @CnamEfab @LeCnam specialising in economic, digital & data strategies.

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

Without further mushiness, I'll add that my future tweets are probably won't garner the same interest from my current followers. But tweet I will! Going to leave the lists I’ve curated for posterity: https://t.co/oKGcR6g3SV Adieu African/Africanist Twitter, thanks for the RTs.

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

Made many friends, interviewed hundreds of people, learnt new subjects, experienced happiness & sadness, the ups & downs of the news cycle, the pressure & deadlines of broadcast/online, plus the satisfaction in knowing you got a story out, or did justice to someone’s testimony.

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

@dlknowles Speaks to the infrastructure for EVs as well though, doesn’t it?

[Bloomberg Africa @BloombergAfrica]

World's most vaccinated nation, Seychelles, sees Covid cases surge
https://t.co/aRg35Vddlz

[Daniel Finnan @Daniel_Finnan]

George Weah Jr, the ‘child king’, handed a six-month suspended sentence & €21K fine for noisy parties and disturbing the peace. Had claimed diplomatic immunity owing to his father’s position as president of #Liberia.

[Africa Calling @Africa__Calling]

https://t.co/9UKMQElwXA

[Marielle Debos · @debos.bsky.social @m_debos]

Here I argue that we need to get rid of the cliché of Chad as an endlessly warring country.
Politics is conducted with weapons in hand — but not because of inherent national characteristics or a warrior culture rooted in tradition. THREAD 👇
https://t.co/C7yNs7qFj8

[Africa Calling @Africa__Calling]

Correspondent @MohameNor speaks to #Somali female #airline pilot Yasmin Abdi Farah about her thoughts on the future of aviation, here on @Africa__Calling #podcast
https://t.co/kcvsR3P8Jp