Eric Guttschuss

Formerly a lawyer and @HRW researcher (Nigeria), now working on refugee issues. Views are my own.

[Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼 @Wamagaisa]

Big Saturday Read: The death of Robert Mugabe https://t.co/wzDzJHk2Fl

[Simon Allison @simonallison]

Robert Gabriel Mugabe, 1924-2019: A tragedy in three acts. My obituary. https://t.co/ldg0UyG47u

[Vincent Foucher @VincentFoucher]

Read @CrisisGroup's latest on #ISWAP, Boko Haram's innovative and successful upgrade... https://t.co/ijgpXJnKgw

[Dionne Searcey @dionnesearcey]

In Nigeria, unfulfilled promises hang over Buhari’s campaign and old corruption allegations dog his opponent https://t.co/eqD2CnhCKi

[Washington Post Communications @WashPostComms]

New statement from @washingtonpost CEO and Publisher Fred Ryan on Jamal Khashoggi

[UNHCR News @RefugeesMedia]

UNHCR concerned over reports of forced return of Zimbabwean asylum-seeker https://t.co/weFWXNvqLQ

[Dewa Mavhinga @dewamavhinga]

High Alert: Lawyers just told @hrw Zambian security forces have removed @BitiTendai, @mlilonqo & Tawanda Chitekwe from Chirundu police post in defiance of court order. Whereabouts unknown, feared deported to Zim. @RefugeesMedia @VOAAfrica @ZLHRLawyers @263Chat @ZULUBLE

[Dewa Mavhinga @dewamavhinga]

Breaking: Lawyers obtained a court order to stop deportation of @BitiTendai & 5 others which has been served on Zambian Immigration officials in Chirundi. #UNHCR has confirmed they are intervening to halt deportation. Thanks all. @hrw @kaajal1 @ZLHRLawyers @VOAAfrica @263Chat

[Violet Gonda @violetgonda]

Drama at Chirundu Border today.300 Zims travellers rescued Tendai Biti from Zim state agents. Plus Zim CID & Zambian CID in standoff over the MDC leader.Zambian authorities refused to hand him over & threatened to arrest theZim agents for trying to detain Biti on Zambian soil👇🏾

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s subjects have expanded, her audience has, too, but visibility has its drawbacks: https://t.co/5DEzMFw5fB

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In the generation since apartheid ended, tens of billions of dollars in public funds have been siphoned off by leaders of the African National Congress. Will South Africa's new government confront such epic graft? https://t.co/5vUnhRuXCa

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

‘It’s like we were prisoners again.’ How a group of Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped from Boko Haram found a different kind of nightmare in the U.S. https://t.co/NM3UycSRMl

[SAIH @saih]

"Dark moment for #Zimbabwe", writes Zimbabwean academic @Wamagaisa, about Tsvangirai's death: https://t.co/P4ll2RnaQh

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

I am very sad to hear that Morgan Tsvangirai has lost his brave final battle. He will remain one of the giants of the long struggle to bring democracy to #Zimbabwe. I will remember him for his courage, humility, humour and relentless determination to bring freedom to Zim. RIP MT

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

Don't whitewash Mugabe's henchmen https://t.co/HPfe990Ey9

[Financial Times @FinancialTimes]

‘I’m not a crocodile’: Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa has Lunch with the FT https://t.co/p1s0g0x2ov

[Simon Allison @simonallison]

LONG READ: Like it or not, Rwanda is Africa's future https://t.co/VZaO3LIE3w My report from Kigali

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The secret, never-told story of how Nigeria freed the famous kidnapped Chibok girls #BringBackOurGirls
https://t.co/QxVb1mdbSv

[Eric Guttschuss @EricGuttschuss]

To watch full testimony of @petergodwin, @BitiTendai, and @dewamavhinga at US Senate hearing on #Zimbabwe (beginning at 1:00:45 in video), see: https://t.co/iTEJS2HtPK

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity https://t.co/J3C71OlvID