Co-founder and International Editor @TheContinent_. 'Unrepentant dunderhead', according to @ProfJNMoyo.
Joined June 2010
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11 May 2024
This is the most alarming story I've worked on in a while. The French billionaire Vincent Bollore, described as "the French Rupert Murdoch", is trying to bring Africa's biggest broadcaster - MultiChoice, that's DStv, ShowMax and SuperSport - into his "right wing media empire".
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Simon Allison retweeted
2 Feb 2025
If you’re trying to understand what’s happening in Goma, I highly recommend this week’s issue of @thecontinent_ . It’s free to access via WhatsApp and it’s the most comprehensive weekly newspaper on matters Africa.
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17 Dec 2024
Thank you!
17 Dec 2024
And very happily replied and answered!
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17 Dec 2024
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17 Dec 2024
All Protocol Observed.
It’s your turn to take the mic: please respond to our survey on how we fared in 2024. This helps us to improve the newspaper. It also helps us to make the case for the funding that allows us to keep doing quality journalism. forms.gle/kx9mzC8ayibrwdGn9
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Simon Allison retweeted
10 Dec 2024
Done!
10 Dec 2024
Attention all readers of @thecontinent_! All protocol observed. Help us shape the future of the newspaper by completing this reader survey (we only collect data that you give us willingly. No cookies. No identifying information).
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10 Dec 2024
Attention all readers of @thecontinent_! All protocol observed. Help us shape the future of the newspaper by completing this reader survey (we only collect data that you give us willingly. No cookies. No identifying information).
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Simon Allison retweeted
2 Nov 2024
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Simon Allison retweeted
1 Nov 2024
"They dragged 10 men in front of us and killed them all at once",
My latest report for @thecontinent_ on the massacres in Sudan's Gezira state. Latest death toll suggest more than 500 people may have been killed
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Simon Allison retweeted
26 Oct 2024
Hivi vyama vya ukombozi vikikaa sana vinageuka kuwa ya kikoloni 🚮
@thecontinent_ put it very well! If voting it out is a challenge - what option does that leave? 😰
CCM ile ya Kambarage mmekuwa CAPTURED na wahuni waliogeuka kuwa wakoloni weusi!
Ila #TutaelewanaTu
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Simon Allison retweeted
25 Oct 2024
Catching up with the latest news from around the continent & some great analysis, as I take a few hours of break from the past two weeks of daily and relentless work at the 81st session of the ACHPR in Banjul & while getting a bite before retiring for the day via @thecontinent_
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Simon Allison retweeted
19 Oct 2024
All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 178 of The Continent.
In this week's issue: Cameroon’s Schrödinger's president. The people who jump off Joburg skyscrapers. And the slow death of the West (but you knew that already, didn’t you?).
bit.ly/TC178
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Simon Allison retweeted
19 Oct 2024
La couverture de ce jour du numéro 178 du magazine hebdomadaire sud-africain @thecontinent_. "Avez-vous vu Biya?" Téléchargez-le gratuitement ici: thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/…
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Simon Allison retweeted
15 Oct 2024
In February, somewhere in northwestern Ethiopia, 30 civilians were killed in a drone strike. But amid official denials, it was impossible to pinpoint where. @thecontinent_ has geolocated the location of the massacre in Ethiopia.
Here's the story 👉 buff.ly/3BSkNRA
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Simon Allison retweeted
13 Oct 2024
in a more just/accurate media environment, this kind of background paragraph/boilerplate would be in every article about immigration and Europe
As seen in @thecontinent_
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13 Oct 2024
Want to republish stories from @thecontinent_? Talk to us. It's free for African newsrooms.
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Simon Allison retweeted
12 Oct 2024
On the back of the #StopGalamseyNow and #FreeTheCitizens protests, I contributed on a story in @thecontinent_ reminding that Akufo-Addo is as culpable for the galamsey ecocide as the people dumping mercury in our rivers.
Read the full story here: bit.ly/TC177
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