Simone Schnabel

Director #PATRIPFoundation, previously @HSFK_PRIF, @GIZ @UN interested in #peace #security #stabilisation in #Westafrica and the #Sahel, tweets=my own

[🇩🇪 GER on Peace & Humanitarian Action @AA_stabilisiert]

🤝 Unser Partner für diese Projekte ist @PatripStiftung: Gemeinsam stärken wir grenzüberschreitende Initiativen, die politischen Dialog fördern, Vertrauen in staatliche Sicherheitsstrukturen aufbauen & so eine stabile Basis für Frieden & Entwicklung schaffen. #Peacebuilding 7

[🇩🇪 GER on Peace & Humanitarian Action @AA_stabilisiert]

Grenzüberschreitende Stabilisierung in Westafrika: Wie Deutschland gemeinsam mit Partnern Widerstandskraft & Entwicklung fördert. 🧵 1

[Ricarda Lang @Ricarda_Lang]

@JuliaKloeckner Peter Ramsauer
Alexander Dobrindt
Andreas Scheuer

[Simone Schnabel @schnabel_simone]

@gimbakakanda What happened to you is a shame for #Germany and #Lufthansa in so many matters. Bad customer #service, #racism, ignorance. Thank you for taking the time and for making this public. I really hope that meanwhile you got your lost items back.

[Heinrich Böll Foundation - Abuja Office @hbsNigeria]

The Flame Tree Writers’ Project will support emerging Nigerian writers in the craft of creative writing as a critical tool to explore the present social realities and imagine the future that would help to advance a more democratic, peaceful, gender-equitable and socially just Northern Nigeria.

Successful applicants will be invited to a five-day workshop and mentorship programme in Abuja, which will equally help them explore available options in publishing. It also offers them a vehicle to disseminate new ideas through stories to broad audiences. The workshop will be held between June 23 and June 29, 2024, and participants will receive expert guidance from two NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature winners and more in writing a short story suitable for publication in an anthology of new writing from Northern Nigeria.

WHO WILL COVER THE COST?
All programme-related travel, catering and accommodation costs will be covered by the organisers. There will be no fees charged to participants.

ELIGIBILITY
This pilot edition of the workshop is exclusively for writers from the 19 Northern States of Nigeria domiciled in the country, who must be between the ages of 18 and 35. (We will expand the reach with subsequent editions) They must NOT have published any full-length work of fiction at the time of application / but must provide (where available) a link to previously written fiction pieces even if they were not published on a mainstream platform.

The project expressly aims at ensuring a balanced mix of participants in terms of gender, geography, and identity to represent the diversity of Northern Nigeria. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Eligibility applicants are invited to submit the following:
1. Full, Name Date of Birth, and State of Origin.
2. 100-word bio.
3. 100-word motivation statement explaining why this workshop will be important to you.
4. 1,000-word prose fiction writing sample (could be an excerpt or short story).
5. Copy of valid means of identification: NIN, Driver’s License, Voter’s Card, or other acceptable National IDs.
*All documents must be submitted in a single merged PDF document.

All applications should be submitted to [email protected] before June 1, 2024.

ABOUT THE ORGANISERS
This initiative is led by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (@Abbakar_himself) and will be co-facilitated by Chika Unigwe(@chikaunigwe) both NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature Laureates, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Abuja Office.

Please note: the project does not charge any fee in connection with this call for applications.

Application deadline: June 1, 2024

[Afrobarometer @afrobarometer]

Le soutien à la démocratie au Mali a chuté de 36 points de pourcentage depuis 2014, pendant que la préférence pour un gouvernement non démocratique a plus que doublé.

Rendez-vous sur notre site pour en savoir plus : https://t.co/Y8vN5JM0T0

#VoicesAfrica #Démocratie #Mali

[Cassava Republic @CassavaRepublic]

✍🏾Are you an African woman interested in non-fiction writing? Apply to join our upcoming writers retreat this July in Johannesburg, South Africa!

Learn more and apply here⬇️
https://t.co/RUrMCJYk4l

[Simone Schnabel @schnabel_simone]

RT @hbsNigeria: Women occupy less than 10% of party executive and decision-making positions. This bill was to encourage political parties t…

[Fabian Heppe @HeppeFabian]

Check out our digital dossier on the elections in Senegal. @Boell_Dakar asked experts, citizens and representatives of the civil society on their view on democracy in Senegal and their most important demands from the candidates. @ElimaneH @AmySakho118289 https://t.co/c9hcqwekjN

[Christian Klatt @christianklatt.bsky.social @chk2310]

The new #MaliMètre is out! This years edition took an side look into the recent developments of the transition in #Mali as well as the departure of the peacekeeping mission #MINUSMA. A (not so short) thread /1.

[Bridges from Bamako @BridgesFromBKO]

Here's my call for contributors to a panel entitled "Shifting Alliances and Dynamic Threats in the Sahel" at the 2024 African Studies Association meeting. Let me know if you're interested!
https://t.co/V2O2zYjFao

[Antonia Witt @_witt_antonia]

How does African regional governance play out in and affect everyday life? 💥 Apply for our @MIASA_UG conference on „Regional governance as experience”, held 4-6 July in #Libreville
https://t.co/OIWBzisLT0

[Team Afrika | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung @boell_africa]

Jetzt anmelden🗓️: Am 18.3 diskutieren wir ab 18:30 Uhr über "Lehren aus dem Genozid in Ruanda- Zur Notwendigkeit von Mechanismen zur Prävention von Völkermord und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit". Wir freuen uns auf @KatjaKeul, @antonpeez & @gphofmann. https://t.co/vkVx92Wnmi

[Erik Marquardt @ErikMarquardt]

Man kann und sollte einseitige Darstellungen oder bestimmte Begriffe in der Debatte kritisieren.
Aber bei mehr als 30.000 Toten und über 80.000 Verletzten seit dem 7. Oktober ist eine Forderung nach Waffenstillstand nicht antisemitisch, sondern einfach menschlich. #Berlinale

[Felwine Sarr @FelwineSarr]

Appel des Artistes pour la démocratie au Sénégal

[James Courtright @JCourtright08]

Visiting small border communities in northern #Ghana the last few days I noticed far more police and immigration officers than last time I was here in August 2023. This should be a good thing considering the security situation in #BurkinaFaso. However…

[Fondation Heinrich Böll _ Dakar @Boell_Dakar]

#BöllTALKS - Report d'élection, coupures fréquentes du signal d'internet,... le 🇸🇳 traverse une zone de turbulences qui peut faire craindre le pire. Rejoignez-nous, le 29 février 2024, pour parler de #démocratie et de #libertédexpression avec nos invité.e.s.

[aBamako @aBamako]

Le Retrait du Mali de la CEDEAO divise les forces vives: Assimi Goita désormais entre popularité et contestation..https://t.co/xz2aEjj0Tw

[Simone Schnabel @schnabel_simone]

South Africa’s ICJ Case Against Israel: A Judicial Stress Test for the Multilateral System - by @tmurithi12 published today @BoellStiftung:
https://t.co/1y4daUwx5t
#gaza #israel #palestine #war #multilateralism

[Simone Schnabel @schnabel_simone]

Submitted today!!!! 🎉 #PhD #phdlife @PRIF_org #research