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29 Mar, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Fantastic analysis on the conflict in Ethiopia! Well worth listening.
Join us tomorrow as we discuss the prospects of holding elections in Ethiopia in June and the lessons and impacts of other elections in the region with @AdamAbebe, @fatma_karume, @OmarSMahmood and @NativeLandgrab.
To register: ow.ly/8Qec30rCbhQ
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Here's a great look at recent elections in Uganda and Tanzanian from @NativeLandgrab for @theelephantinfo.
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theelephant.info/features/2021/…
crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…
@OmarSMahmood on the background to Somalia's electoral crisis.
Somalia has seen regular electoral defeats for incumbent presidents and peaceful power handovers. Will this change with Farmaajo? At 2pm EAT we talk #EasternAfricaElections with @AdamAbebe, @fatma_karume, @OmarSMahmood and @NativeLandgrab.
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1 Apr
It is a despicable betrayal for KE media to perpetuate the GoK lie that people are going hungry because there is no rain. The truth is Kenyans are being starved because GoK's owners profiteer from their suffering and have consequently little incentive to fix it.
Remember the 2008 maize scam which revealed the MO that we have seen employed across subsequent food crisis and in the covid response? Here are the highlights.

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The regular crises Kenya enjoys, from debt, to power and water shortages, to famine and unsafe food, to lack of drugs and personnel in hospitals, to extortionate rents, are all deliberately engineered by owners of the colonial state to extract as much as possible from Kenyans.
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28 Mar
Race Day!!!! #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
"Finally a zoom meeting we can all get excited about"!!! #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Formation lap. #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
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28 Mar
This is hardly the first time radio shows and even print media are saying derogatory things about women. Last week, @StandardKenya suggested Kenyan women's "hearts melt and knees become weak seconds after a man introduces himself to them as a foreigner". Any action against them?
While what the DJs said was undoubtedly stupid and offensive, I think we must be careful about having state bureaucrats decide what speech is allowed. What rules is @CA_Kenya applying? How can we avoid such power being abused in the name of defending morality ala @EzekielMutua?
Audiences have more power in the digital age as gate keepers. It was online outrage that led to suspension and firing of the DJs and withdrawal of advertisers. That should be considered when gauging necessity and scale of GoK involvement. We have more tools in the toolbox.
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27 Mar
Qualifying!!! #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Both Scuds through to Q2. The Hondas and Merc look mighty fast but I think we could sneak into the third row. Which compared to last year would be a great leap forward. #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Alonso is showing his quality too. As always, he is putting his car where it has no right to be! #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
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24 Mar
So now GoK is taking its frustrations out on refugees after its inability to argue its case at the ICJ? Just as it demonized them for its fiasco at Westgate and used them to pressure the international community over the ICC? It is an inhumane tactic Kamau & Co have perfected.
Not the first time GoK is issuing such ultimatums. @FredMatiangi's predecessor's were also full of similar huffery and puffery.
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Also important to remember that it is not just refugees threatened by such idiocy. Many Kenyans would also be harmed.
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27 Feb
Dear Kenyans,
When Gideon Moi speaks of "a once-in-a-generation break from the past" to "resolve many longstanding national challenges that hold us back from realising a united and prosperous Kenya for all," it's code for impunity and amnesty. He's saying forgive and forget.
This has always been the preferred strategy of the colonial state and its owners. Basically, the demand for justice and restitution is itself transformed into the problem. So we are told that there must be a break from the past rather than a confrontation with it. BBI not TJRC.
Also important to remember that when they speak of a break from the past, they do not mean the era and legacy of colonial oppression and dispossession. The clean break they want is not from the past of stolen elections, for example, but the past of resistance to the thievery.
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