@timcocks

Author, Lagos: Supernatural City. #Reuters Africa Hack (20+ yrs on #MotherContinent). Winner SABEW award. Reggae Junkie. Champagne Socialist. Books.

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ANC voters defect en masse in South Africa's coal belt heartland reut.rs/3X1nFEo
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@Reuters31 May 2024
ANC voters defect en masse in South Africa's coal belt heartland reut.rs/4c0OT29
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Whew, steel yourself for this one: on eve of South Africa's most important poll since apartheid @timcocks deep dive into the Usindiso fire shows, w heartbreaking consequences, how far the rainbow nation has strayed from what its liberators once fought for reuters.com/investigates/spe…

Mandela's vision of Black unity fades as South Africa rejects migrants

A hijacked block. A deadly fire. A bleak aftermath. Thirty years after end of apartheid, many African arrivals meet harsher side of 'Rainbow Nation'.

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Mandela's vision of Black unity fades as South Africa rejects migrants . @timcocks A great and sad read ://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/safrica-election-fire/ via @SpecialReports
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@Reuters24 May 2024
Nine months ago, the Usindiso apartment block in Johannesburg burst into flames, killing 77 people – mostly migrants – and leaving hundreds homeless. @Reuters comprehensively pieces together the stories of many of the survivors reut.rs/4bRCAp2 by @timcocks
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@Reuters23 May 2024
Nine months ago, the Usindiso apartment block in Johannesburg burst into flames, killing 77 people – mostly migrants – and leaving hundreds homeless. @Reuters comprehensively pieces together the stories of many of the survivors reut.rs/3QYgqt8
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“South Africa doesn’t have any ubuntu.” Mandela's vision of Black unity fades as South Africa closes door to migrants. A special report by @timcocks reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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Reuters Special Report: Mandela's vision of Black unity fades as South Africa rejects migrants by @timcocks reuters.com/investigates/spe… via @SpecialReports
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Reuters corespondent @TimCocks lived four years in Africa's hardest-hustling metropolis, meeting its entrepreneurs, its gangsters, and its other unstoppable hustlers. The result is Lagos: Supernatural City, which I've just reviewed at Books on Cities: booksoncities.com/p/tim-cock…

Tim Cocks, Lagos: Supernatural City (2022)

Can a non-Nigerian, much less an Englishman, hope to understand the "impossibility-ism" of Africa's star megacity?

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“It is a challenging market time but Nigeria has a tendency to come back from the precipice. Anyone who is there when the tide turns will see upsides” I sat down with CEOs of MTN SA & Nigeria - they're optimistic despite macro headwinds in telcos industry ft.com/content/84733a36-901e…

South Africa’s MTN to boost investment in generators to combat blackouts

Telecoms group joins growing list of companies plugging shortfalls from state electricity provider

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Zuma free to run in next month’s election after court overturns a previous decision to ban him. Big blow for the ANC, and changes the electoral calculus... via @davidpilling ft.com/content/0be8279f-7b4e…

Jacob Zuma free to run as candidate in South African election, court rules

Former president and his new MK party could squeeze the governing ANC in May’s poll

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This is a frantic, mystical journey through Africa's biggest metropolis: Lagos. By @timcocks NGN 17,000 (HB)
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Finland is aiming to go carbon neutral in 15 years. They're creating jobs by boosting #renewables and saving trees. Its CO2 emissions have already dropped 21% since 1990s levels. We have the solutions, let's speed it up and implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy
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@Reuters2 Nov 2023
The Nigerian military gunman who fatally shot an unarmed youth fired nine rounds as the young man lay face down in the dirt, according to analyses done for @Reuters by three forensic audio experts reut.rs/3FIgFlS by @readelev @DG_Lewis @timcocks & @Bellingcat's @Mabl2K
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@Reuters2 Nov 2023
How @Reuters and @Bellingcat verified a video of the 2015 killing of an unarmed youth while in Nigerian military custody. Experts told reporters the killing was a war crime reut.rs/3Mlc0KE by @readelev @DG_Lewis @timcocks via @specialreports & @Bellingcat's @Mabl2K
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With this information, @DG_Lewis @timcocks and I turned to traditional investigative reporting. We spent months interviewing Nigerian security force members and residents who said they witnessed or participated in the events in Biu that day
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Excellent investigation and production @readelev @DG_Lewis @timcocks @Mabl2K
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@Reuters1 Nov 2023
.@Reuters and @Bellingcat analyzed rare video of a young detainee summarily slain while in Nigerian military custody — a war crime, according to three legal experts reut.rs/3QDZIQ2 by @readelev @DG_Lewis @timcocks via @specialreports & @Bellingcat's @Mabl2K
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Taj Ali@Taj_Ali117 Oct 2023
The “mob”
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@SuellaBraverman16 Oct 2023
Last weekend an intimidating mob marched through London chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” - a slogan that is widely understood as a demand for the destruction of Israel. Attempts to pretend otherwise are disingenuous. 1/3
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Video showing the scene before Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed. Journalists clearly marked as journalists, in an open landscape, doing their jobs. Not endorsing the commentary, just sharing the video. – at Madrid, Spain
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