THREAD: Today, over 70 worshippers at the Al-Safiya Mosque in El Fasher were killed in an RSF drone strike. Mosque attacks on Fridays assure maximum bloodshed...as Friday Jumah prayer services ensure that mosques are typically full. The UAE, which backs the RSF despite it being accused of genocide, continues to face no scrutiny from its western security partners, including the US. And with it, the RSF continues to be emboldened to carry out deadly atrocities.

Al Jazeera

More than 70 civilians killed in attack on mosque in Darfur’s el-Fasher

UN report says ethnic violence has risen and civilians are bearing brunt as war continues between Sudan's army and RSF.

The Continent, Africa's digital weekly pan-African newspaper, joins over 200 newsrooms in 70 countries across the world, blacking out their cover/home pages, in joint condemnation of Israel's continuing mass slaughter of Palestinian journalists, targeted for documenting genocide in their homeland. Get this weekend's edition, which also features a dispatch from Al Jazeera journalist Ansam Al-Kitaa. @npub1umkx...2hjm https://www.thecontinent.org/

Wrote in @npub18wlg...wxmu about the Ethiopian doctors' labour movement. Their month long labour strike paralyzed Ethiopia's health sector. Ethiopian doctors are among the lowest paid doctors in Africa, with salaries on average ~70$ monthly. Strikers demanded better pay & fair working conditions among other things. In response, authorities arrested 149 striking doctors. Undeterred, the MDs are planning a new strike if reform isn't inplemented by Sept 15.

Global Voices

What’s behind the mass arrests of Ethiopian doctors?

Last year, a report by Human Rights Watch outlined a systemic pattern of abuse and killings of health professionals in the country’s northwestern...

While John Cena won the WWE title in Saudi Arabia this weekend, nearly a hundred migrants from Ethiopia, Egypt and Somalia were preparing for their executions on drug related charges. For the Middle East Eye, I document the sudden upscale in executions in the Kingdom, the plight of a family of one condemned man on death row, and efforts by researchers and NGOs documenting the scourge, and calling on crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to commute the death sentences.

Middle East Eye

At least 50 African people at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia

Six convicts in Najiran prison have already been beheaded over the past month, inmates tell MEE, amid uptick in executions

Research and work travel has me busy, and I've killed my posting activity. We're back though, take #2190381. Fediverse was missed! Bio in 2025.

ECFR

Zecharias Zelalem – European Council on Foreign Relations