Mark Weston

Researcher, policy consultant, immigrant. Author of The Saviour Fish: Life and Death on Africa's Greatest Lake - a Wanderlust Book of the Year, 2022.

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

Awful news. Such a talent and such a nice guy. And a great loss to Sudan's revolution.

[The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @TimepDC]

We, the TIMEP family, are absolutely devastated by the news that the brilliantly talented and deeply empathetic Sudanese advocate Hamid Khalafallah has passed away. It was the greatest honor and privilege to host Hamid as a 2022-2023 nonresident fellow.

[Nisrin Elamin @minlayla77]

On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

[Benjamin Strick @BenDoBrown]

This footage, uploaded by @JohnNgutiCDM, shows protestors in Arusha, Tanzania, fleeing from gunfire. The same victim can be seen on the street as the one I geolocated in the tweet below 👇

[Amby Lusekelo @ambylusekelo]

The most traumatic 6 days of my life 😭Rest in peace to those who have lost their lives 💔💔💔
We will never be the same 💔
Mungu Ibariki Tanzania.

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

Bubo na Tchuto has been released after 3 years in pretrial detention over alleged Guinea-Bissau coup plot: https://t.co/wQNDaUDQLk

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

The political scene in Guinea-Bissau is getting darker again: https://t.co/nX0aRa2NCo

[Mohanad Hashim @moehash1]

One of the founders of the Emergency Rooms, Khalid al Zubeir, aka Isti, has died while in detention by the Sudanese army. His case raises the issue of unlawful detentions and torture of community aid workers by SAf. It coincides with the death sentence passed against a woman

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

Millet and sorghum supplies in El Fasher have completely dried up as a result of the RSF's prolonged siege of the city. A single sack of sorgum is selling for $2,500. This is a war crime: https://t.co/f3w1Q8KEsn

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

Police kill 11 protesters in Kenya: https://t.co/HNkLqrJ79F

[Andrew Lebovich @tweetsintheME]

Mali officially (and unsurprisingly) dissolves political parties. This opens a new and risky period in Malian politics, and the existing parties will likely continue efforts at contestation even as some of their leaders have been taken by state authorities.

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

“The UK needs to explain how it is responding to massacres of children and aid workers while hosting the UAE at its London conference.” #Sudan https://t.co/QekhGFEKWb

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region: #sudan https://t.co/wY2ZpqOTOG

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

Women on Ukerewe are helping tackle Lake Victoria's plastic problem: https://t.co/lJKMEBE1Fl

[Mark Weston @markweston19]

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[Mark Weston @markweston19]

Archaeologists use song to herald findings in Guinea-Bissau dig https://t.co/I1aAdicRww

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Sudan's military says it has seized control of presidential palace

🔗Read more https://t.co/rzClHJpswa

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

There's no doubt that Turkey could be one of the leading EMs globally, but Erdogan's autocratic leanings make that impossible. The arrest of his main political rival is - rightly - leading to a sharp sell-off in Turkish Lira. A self-inflicted wound like many others before...

[Lauren Blanchard @LaurenBinDC]

As if the catastrophic war in Sudan weren't enough, South Sudan seems to be sliding toward another abyss; divisions in Tigray could spark a new war between Ethiopia & Eritrea; the conflict in E DRC threatens to become a broader regional war; and this:

[Patrick Heinisch @PatrickHeinisc1]

#Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Youssef announced at a meeting with media representatives in #Port_Sudan on Tuesday that a decision would be issued within days banning #Kenyan flights through Sudanese airspace in response to Nairobi's support for the RSF. https://t.co/37MdwvlGtv

[Bloomberg Markets @markets]

Turkish stocks sank and government yields surged to the highest level this year after Ekrem Imamoglu, a political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was detained https://t.co/3uJVbc4qJN