#Oxford #SkollWorldForum if you are coming to Oxford next week for Skoll or any other reason please swing by Bonn Square and see this free open air exhibition with local NGOs from Syria, Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, USA, and Haiti artsfestivaloxford.org/events/if-we...
We are set up! Come and see "If we choose to look" all week in Oxford's Bonn Sq. Local NGOs do work that deserves recognition and support #skollworldforum #sidebar
1/3 Leaders from Germany, the African Union, France, the EU, UK, & US meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for serious international crimes to account.
The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night
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#Oxford #SkollWorldForum if you are coming to Oxford next week for Skoll or any other reason please swing by Bonn Square and see this free open air exhibition with local NGOs from Syria, Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, USA, and Haiti artsfestivaloxford.org/events/if-we...
A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.
If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.
Just tell me a classic joke. Like "What's brown and sticky? A STICK"
Yes definitely thank you! But also looking for something for younger children that 8 to 10 ish ages
@willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social @davidolusoga.bsky.social
History people what are some good and fun child focused books on non European history? Something similar to Horrible Histories or the big books of Greek Legends that Collins and others do?
Hi, I'm looking for a journalist based in Nigeria for help on a radio story. If you happen to know anyone who knows anyone I would appreciate it! Thanks!
39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in?
www.ft.com/content/4493...
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
We started The PhotoBridge Project to shift some power back: documentary photographers working with local NGOs to create images that respect their stories and belong to them. Now we’re launching PhotoBridge Sustainers - small monthly support (even $5) to keep it going
givebutter.com/photobridge-...
DEADLINE EXTENSION!
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | RETHINKING ETHIOPIA: A CALL FOR YOUTH VOICES
Young Ethiopians aged 18–35 can submit essays on youth and patriotism and join the mentorship programme.
New deadline: 31 March 2026
More info: tinyurl.com/5bmp2hup
RVI Field Courses offer intensive residential study of the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes, Sudan and South Sudan.
Learn from leading regional and international experts and gain grounded insight into the region’s history, politics and culture.
Learn more: courses.riftvalley.net
🗨️ | “All these conflicts are part of the same regional conflict system, with the alliances helping to shape how they’re sustained and metastasize”
Ahmed Soliman (@chathamhouse.org) on the interconnected nature of conflicts in the #HornOfAfrica region via Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
VACANCY | Head of Office, Ethiopia
RVI is recruiting a Head of Office to lead RVI’s programmes and operations in #Ethiopia.
Open to Ethiopian nationals or those eligible to work in Ethiopia.
Full details and application info: tinyurl.com/HoOEthiopia
Event flyer with abstract & speaker bios.
Cover of the book.
Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 3 March for a book launch & discussion of:
Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty
with author Miriam Driessen & discussant Hallelujah Lulie
*Hybrid event* Full details talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f3...
More than 3,000 Eritrean refugees have been detained in Egypt this year and some have reported sexual violence and torture, a human rights NGO said Monday:
rfi.my/CTIi.BS
🔥Risk of descending into a new conflict in an already volatile Horn of Africa. While all sides appear wary of igniting a new war, simmering grievances, overblown rhetoric and military preparations indicate core actors are readying themselves for that eventuality.
www.crisisgroup.org/brf/africa/e...
Another story in which Chinese "over-capacity" is transforming the world - this time Electric Vehicles in Ethiopia.
The world keeps changing while Europe and the US have insular debates about whether to return to a former time.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Please do join us later today for the seminar. Details & webinar registration link below.
Tigray’s interim president described the fighting as “something resembling an all-out war”.
That outcome appears to have been averted, for now. Yet the risk of further violence remains uncomfortably high.
Our piece on the latest war-scare in Ethiopia👇
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
UPDATE
Join EWNET for an online webinar on how #Ethiopia has been written into global knowledge and how Ethiopian thinkers have written the world from Ethiopia.
Fri 30 Jan 2026 | 13:30 Cambridge | 16:30 EAT (corrected time)
Register here: tinyurl.com/3kbm7xuj
SAVE THE DATE | Join EWNET for an online webinar exploring how #Ethiopia has been written into global knowledge and how Ethiopian thinkers have written the world from Ethiopia.
Fri 30 Jan 2026| 13:30 Cambridge | 15:30 EAT
Register: tinyurl.com/3kbm7xuj
unbelievably, incredibly pleased to share with you that one of my oldest friends managed, with a straight face, to convince her partner that Jon Hamm was married to an Italian woman called Ana Mortadella
