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For a year, my colleague @ScheckNYTimes and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found.
Abdi Latif Dahir
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Abdi Latif Dahir
@Lattif
Beirut, Lebanon
Joined April 2009
- Pope Francis in speech at St. Peter’s Square: “With our hearts aching for what is happening in Ukraine, let us not forget wars in other parts of the world, such as Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia … I repeat: May weapons be silenced! God is with peacemakers, not those who use violence.”
- History has been made in (East) Africa today: Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania’s first female president, the first leader born in the Zanzibar archipelago to be president, and the current lone female political head of government in Africa.
- William Ruto spent his childhood on a plot of family land down an unpaved road in Sambut village, where he tended cows and helped till the land. I went there to speak with the friends and classmates of the man who was just declared Kenya's 5th president
- BREAKING: Kenya’s Supreme Court on Thursday quashed an initiative by the president to amend the Constitution, dealing a major blow to a plan that could have cemented his ability to shape the country’s political future ahead of a pivotal election this year
- I have already been a year with the @nytimes. It's been an incredible, stimulating and humbling ride, from Nairobi to New York, London to Kampala, Mogadishu, Cairo and beyond. Truly grateful to all those who made this possible! Here's to another year of possibilities.
- Documents reviewed by @nytimes show an industry group representing big oil firms is lobbying to institute a trade deal that weakens Kenya’s rules on plastics and open the country to imports of American trash.
- When an emergency medical team responding to coronavirus in Israel had a break, they stopped to pray, one member facing Mecca and the other Jerusalem. @halbfinger has the details of the photo that struck a chord. nyti.ms/3bwSp5n 📸: Magen David Adom
- Indian authorities on Monday arrested Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of the fact-checking website Alt News and a critic of Prime Minister Modi, reigniting concerns about deteriorating press freedoms in the world’s largest democracy. @sameeryasir reports.
- Dr. Hawa Abdi, the doctor, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who turned her family’s land into a hospital and camp that treated and protected tens of thousands of Somalis during turbulent years of war, has died. She was 73.
- “Gita was fundamental and inextricably linked to the endeavors to find solutions to prevent H.I.V. in women”: Gita Ramjee, a leading Ugandan-South African AIDS researcher, dies of the coronavirus at 63.
- The Supreme Court of Kenya on Monday upheld the election of William Ruto as president, ending a courtroom battle over disputed results from the Aug. 9 election in a nation often seen as an indicator of democratic strength in Africa.
- Some personal news: I’m moving to Lebanon to be a Middle East Correspondent for @nytimes. I was honored to cover East Africa for nearly six years during a momentous and shifting period. I’ll deeply miss the region and my wonderful colleagues across Africa. But for now, I look
