Kizito Byenkya

@OpenSociety. Humanity | Football | Kadongo Kamu

[Binaifer Nowrojee @NowrojeeOSF]

The human rights movement has long defined itself in the negative: no to torture, no to censorship, no to detention without trial. These refusals are necessary, but they are not enough.

In Vienna, for CEU’s 35th anniversary lecture, I spoke about the new world we must dare to build.

[Sophie Mokoena @Sophie_Mokoena]

Latin America must be given a chance to lead the UN in line with the rotation system .Latin American countries have put forward competent and experienced women .Will the global leaders particularly in the UN Security Council who are mainly men ignore the rotational system?

[Kizito Byenkya @kamikizito]

@DrMehari @ASG_Africa @PaulKagame Congrats!! My very best

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Kevin Keegan, 1951-2026 👑

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Africa’s continued exclusion from permanent representation in the Security Council is a historical injustice & indefensible.

This is not about privilege or symbolism.

This is about ensuring that the Council is fit for purpose & able to act with legitimacy and effectiveness.

[Solomon Dersso, PhD @SolomonADersso]

My review of what AU’s decision rejecting the proposal endorsing former President of 🇸🇳 Macky Sall's candidacy means & how & why @_AfricanUnion arrived at that decision, why withdrawal of his candidacy is the most honorable next step & #Burundi's role in that regard.👇🏽

[Daniel Forti @FortiD]

Ahead of today’s UNSC vote, I told @AFP that Bahrain and its backers would “secure a diplomatic rejection of Iran's obstruction” while China and Russia would “succeed in preventing the Council from endorsing a potentially escalatory military response.”

https://t.co/5Ye0y8Nar0

[Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu]

The UN was made to be the off-ramp. Exactly these moments — when both sides approach exhaustion or are wary of further escalation but cannot find a ready exit — used to be when someone called the UN Secretary-General, as an impartial mediator chosen by the entire world, proved indispensable. In crises from Suez to Cuba to the 1965 India-Pakistan War to Iran-Iraq war in the late 1980s, Secretaries-General either inserted themselves quickly — sometimes at great personal risk — as an neutral point of reference for diplomacy, or worked tirelessly behind the scenes to craft the “UN option' for when the warring parties were finally feeling ready (even if they didn't say so) for a way out.
Almost no one remembers now — or simply assumes these conflicts resolved themselves some other way. The UN's history was memory-holed, from the 1990s, as other stories, serving other interests, took its place.

[Rebeca Grynspan @RGrynspan]

Thank you Bakú Forum for the opportunity to present my vision as candidate for @UN Secretary-General, underlining the importance of the UN in the current context & the challenges it faces.

[Kizito Byenkya @kamikizito]

Note it’s not a key deadline. It’s suggested, for a more transparent and better run process, and should be respected - but the practice is candidates will emerge in summer, some in September. In 2016, Kristalina Georgieva was nominated at end of September and you had other candidates nominated in May and July. There are also other dialogues ahead. Still plenty of time.

[Sherwin Bryce-Pease @sherwiebp]

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution that unequivocally condemns the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the transatlantic slave trade as the most inhumane and enduring injustice against humanity.

123 in favour
3 Against (USA, Israel, Argentina)
52 abstentions

The resolution also seeks to recognize the profound and lasting impacts of the abhorrent regimes of slavery and colonialism and emphasizes that claims for reparations represent a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs against Africans and people of African descent.

#sabcnews

[Mehari Taddele Maru @DrMehari]

Three years of silence: A Sudanese journalist’s journey from a digital dead zone via @sudantribune_en https://t.co/VNLEZShqhn

[Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu]

Welcome news more than half a century too late. We need, however, to reinsert the drive for white supremacy back into the context. The BBC story implies that the principal motivation for Belgium and other Western powers conspiring to kill Patrice Lumumba were Cold War suspicions of his ties with Moscow. This is untrue. The real reason was that many in Brussels, London, Washington did not want to see the emergence of a powerful and united Africa and wanted to maintain white supremacy over at least the southern half of the continent (1/3)

[Rebeca Grynspan @RGrynspan]

https://t.co/xaPyrAB5mR

Hormuz Straight is often seen as an oil story. In reality, it is a vital trade chokepoint. Disruption would go beyond energy affecting shipping, fertilizers,food prices and vulnerable economies.A key moment for pragmatic diplomacy to safeguard navigation.

[Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu]

Where is the Secretary-General of the United Nations in today’s war?  An impartial mediator, appointed by the entire world, who’s on good terms with all the big powers (and
can easily be scapegoated if things go wrong) is precisely what’s needed to find face-saving pathways to deescalation for all sides. This is what UN Secretaries-General did - often with remarkable success- for decades, especially between 1955-1990.  (1/5) https://t.co/aDMSn3LCo2

[PassBlue @pass_blue]

Not Any Person. Not Any Woman. Not Any Man. https://t.co/eTz5LH6L2g

[Mehari Taddele Maru @DrMehari]

Here is an e-book that truly speaks for itself, one I had the privilege of co-editing and contributing to with @NarboneLuigi @DaliaZinaGhanem, @CarloPalleschi.

It brings together a remarkable team of thinkers and thought leaders from both shores of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, alongside policy analysis of the roles played by powers across Europe, Asia, and America — a multilayered, multidirectional lens that is rare and long overdue.

Beyond the geopolitics and geoeconomics driving proxy wars, it centres the human condition: the lives, struggles, and shared realities of people, including migrants, on both sides of the Red Sea.

@ME_Council

[Pan African Agenda @Panafricagenda]

Our launch of the Pretoria Agreement Implementation Report (PAIR) was a strong success.

We convened policymakers, diplomats, researchers, and members of civil society for a timely and candid discussion on the state of the Pretoria Agreement and the urgent need for preventive diplomacy in the Horn of Africa. The hard questions, depth of engagement, and robust participation underscored just how critical this moment is.

If you would like to receive a copy of the Report, simply comment “PAIR” below, and we will send it to you directly.

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

Fragile Truce: Why Ethiopia's Tigray faces ‘negative peace' four years after Pretoria pact https://t.co/1q0oXJtprG

[María Fernanda Espinosa @mfespinosaEC]

The world is changing, and the UN must change with it. In my interview with @dwnews, I share why restoring trust in multilateralism requires transformation, not tinkering. #MSC2026
Watch here: https://t.co/hFj55xgQCI

@NizamiGanjaviIC @GWLvoices @CitiesAlliance @StimsonCenter @BoellStiftung @_WAAS_ @uncpga @UN @UNOPS @UNITAR @c4unwn