Samuel Burri 🌍

Former Africa Correspondent @SRFnews / Former board member @IPAEastAfrica / Likes railroads, brass and birds. Dislikes motivational quotes and airports.

[Samuel Burri 🌍 @sam_btw]

I have never encountered such a dramatic stituation like in eastern #Chad.
The stories of the refugees from #Darfur are devestating. Aid organisations are overwhelmed with the number of people.
A thread...
#Sudan #SudanCrisis

[Samuel Burri 🌍 @sam_btw]

Hmmm… 🤔
#ChatGTP und die Erdbeere 🍓

[IPAEA @IPAEastAfrica]

#Kenya Police in #NairobiCBD have shot at least three journalists at close range with teargas cannisters, including IPAEA members, wounding them, while they were covering anti-government protests. @CPJAfrica @RSF_en

[Embassy of Switzerland in Nairobi @SwissEmbassyKE]

🇨🇭Football Team ⚽️ @nati_sfv_asf do the magic 🪄again tonight against England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 at the UEFA Euro 2024 Quarter-Final🙌🏾!

Includes video content from (c) UEFA

[IV 🧃 @iv_ey]

Please amplify 🔈

#ReleaseWambuiKinyua

@LawSocietyofKe
@jamessmat
@Honeyfarsafi
@bonifacemwangi

[IPAEA @IPAEastAfrica]

The International Press Association of East Africa condemns in the strongest terms possible the targeting of #journalists covering the ongoing #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests.

[IPAEA @IPAEastAfrica]

IPAEA statement on arrest of journalists covering demonstrations in #Nairobi @CPJAfrica @NationBreaking @AP @MediaCouncilK

[Samuel Burri 🌍 @sam_btw]

After 2 years of war, the #Tigray region in #Ethiopia is recovering slowly.
People are traumatized but also hopeful.
A thread with pictures from my latest trip.

[IPAEA @IPAEastAfrica]

Join us this Friday, 3 May from 6 pm, as we mark World Press Freedom Day with a panel discussion on the Risks and Challenges of Environmental Reporting in East Africa.

Location 📍- Alliance Française

RSVP via this link to confirm attendance - https://t.co/GtLVSqo4vg

[IPAEA @IPAEastAfrica]

The International Press Association of East Africa is alarmed about the arrest and detention of French Journalist, Antoine Galindo, and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Antoine, a journalist with @Africa_In_EN was arrested on Thursday, 22 February while on a

[Anna Lemmenmeier @la_africanna]

Unsere Korrespondenz für @srfnews @SRF in #Afrika neigt sich dem Ende zu. Im #tagesgespräch mit @SimoneHulliger blicken @sam_btw und ich zurück: Eine Gleichzeitigkeit von Dynamik und Stillstand #srf https://t.co/XKmTLN3FwG

[Samuel Burri 🌍 @sam_btw]

„Tidjane Thiam? Nie gehört“, sagt die Näherin in Abidjan.
Der Ex-CS-Boss startet in der Elfenbeinküste eine Politkarriere. Wird er gar Staatspräsident?

https://t.co/q5vdGZofDO

[Samuel Burri 🌍 @sam_btw]

Der Präsident der Elfenbeinküste verspricht jedem Spieler 80'000 USD + ein Haus, nach dem Sieg am #AFCON2023 .

Wie sich die Politik sonst noch in Afrikas Fussball einmischt? Hören und lesen in meiner letzten langen Geschichte als Afrikakorrespondent:

https://t.co/Nykyum491b

[Samuel Burri 🌍 @sam_btw]

How football and politics pass the ball to each other.

This is my last long radio piece as an Africa correspondent.
(in German)

https://t.co/ZmetC2IvJP

[Samuel Burri 🌍 @sam_btw]

There are so many links between football and politics in Africa.
That’s why I wanted to make a whole program about it. (And a thread 🧵)
See Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara at the opening game of #AFCON2023.
The crowd chanting his name (ADO).

[Samuel Burri 🌍 @sam_btw]

One of the players from 2005 was Bonaventure Kalou @bonakalou8. Today mayor of small Ivorian town Vavoua.
«Drogbas speech was an important statement», he remembers. «But it was not just football that stopped the civil war.»
The fighting ended eventually, but resumed in 2010/11.