
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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http://birtemensing.de 05-10-2016 08:35:06
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📣 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…



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










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/…




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…


#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/…

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