Birte Mensing (@mensbirte) 's Twitter Profile
Birte Mensing

@mensbirte

freelance journalist / africa correspondent for @epd / secretary @IPAEastAfrica / trained @ejs_berlin / working on history photo project with @mavingophoto

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BRITTLE PAPER (@brittlepaper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📣 Call for submissions! 📣 Namibia’s first literary magazine Doek! Literary Magazine is seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art from writers and artists from Namibia, Africa, and the African diaspora for its 15th issue! 🗓️ Deadline| March 31, 2025. brittlepaper.com/2025/02/submit…

Mwangi (@mwangimaina_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#AUCElections: Nearly 100 Kenyan MPs are reportedly flocking to Addis Ababa to “cheer” Raila Odinga in his toughest diplomatic battle yet—his bid for the African Union Commission top seat. A baffling display of diplomatic naivety at its finest. Here’s why: 🧵

IPAEA (@ipaeastafrica) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join our panel discussion at the Africa Media Festival: "Stringer, Fixer, or Colleague? The unsung Heroes of International Reporting" 📅 Wed | 2:30 PM 📍 National Museums of Kenya Featuring: Heiner Hoffman, Nyasha Kadandara & Dan Ikpoyi Moderated by Birte Mensing Africa Media Festival

Join our panel discussion at the Africa Media Festival:
"Stringer, Fixer, or Colleague? The unsung Heroes of International Reporting"

📅 Wed | 2:30 PM
📍 National Museums of Kenya

Featuring: Heiner Hoffman, <a href="/MissNyashaK/">Nyasha Kadandara</a> &amp; <a href="/danikpoyi/">Dan Ikpoyi</a> Moderated by <a href="/mensbirte/">Birte Mensing</a>
<a href="/africamediafest/">Africa Media Festival</a>
Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس (@sharifkouddous) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hossam Shabat filed this article just hours before he was killed by the Israeli military. There needs to be justice for him and the more than 200 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza. We will not forget. Read Hossam's last dispatch: dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-shaba…

Mariel Müller (@_marielmueller) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How an international #organ #trafficking network spanning from a hospital in #Kenya, to a shadowy agency attracting organ recipients from Germany, Israel and other countries – exploits the vulnerable on both sides – the poor, desperate for cash and the sick, hoping for a

IPAEA (@ipaeastafrica) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join us as we are hosting the #Nairobi #premiere of “#Madaniya” at the Alliance Française at 6.30pm on 24th of April. The film follows the journey of three young #Sudanese as they participate in the #revolution, all working towards one common goal: Madaniya - civilian government.

Join us as we are hosting the #Nairobi #premiere of “#Madaniya” at the Alliance Française at 6.30pm on 24th of April. The film follows the journey of three young #Sudanese as they participate in the #revolution, all working towards one common goal: Madaniya - civilian government.
IPAEA (@ipaeastafrica) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The International Press Association of East Africa (IPAEA) strongly condemns today's summons of Kenyan filmmakers Mark Denver Karubiu, Nicholas Wambugu, Brian Adagala and Christopher Wamae by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). ntvkenya.co.ke/news/cctv-foot…

Keith Ang'ana (@anganakeith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Decided to write about dustbins in Nairobi. For The Elephant Wanted to focus on laws (Solid Waste Management Act of 2015) and Sociology (how long one can walk with litter before they feel uncomfortable) but I couldn't help but throw in some history. theelephant.info/analysis/2025/…

Karali_Pics📸 (@karali_pics) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today broke something in me. While covering protests, I watched a man, just a mask seller, get shot, point blank in the head. I carry a camera to tell stories. But today I couldn't lift it. No photo can capture the crack this leaves in my soul.

Hanifa 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 (@honeyfarsafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hello guys, please share this. This is the mchanga link for fundraise being coordinated by Mūrūthi and his lovely team. It’s meant to help protest patients who’re still in the hospital and help burry those who passed on. Please share and contribute 🙏🙏 mchanga.africa/fundraiser/118…

archivi.ng (@startarchiving) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Buchi Emecheta turned hardship into art, writing stories that honoured the lives of women too often ignored. Drawing from her own journey from Lagos to London, she explored migration, motherhood, and survival with piercing clarity. Her debut works, In the Ditch and Second-Class

Buchi Emecheta turned hardship into art, writing stories that honoured the lives of women too often ignored. Drawing from her own journey from Lagos to London, she explored migration, motherhood, and survival with piercing clarity.

Her debut works, In the Ditch and Second-Class
WELT-SICHTEN (@weltsichten) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#Freetown (Sierra Leone) will Vorbild sein im Umgang mit dem #Klimawandel und seinen Folgen. Bürgermeisterin Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr hat ein Baumpflanzprojekt ins Leben gerufen, das auch die Lebensbedingungen in den Slums verbessert. Birte Mensing war dort. welt-sichten.org/artikel/44179/…

KHRC (@thekhrc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At exactly 2:08 pm EAT today, hired goons stormed our office—sent by the state to silence dissent. They violently disrupted a press conference by Kenyan mothers calling for an end to arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings targeting protesters ahead