Lucy Fleming

THREAD: 1. PERSONAL NEWS: Today BBC News has announced plans to close @BBCHARDtalk after 3 decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC🧵

Police are appealing for help to find the poet Gboyega Odubanjo who has gone missing. Odubanjo was last seen in the Kelmarsh area of Northamptonshire at around 4 a.m. on Saturday 26th August 2023. #Echobox=1693318206" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebookseller.com/news/police-ap…

After over 60 yrs #BBCFocusonAfrica 📻 will cease to be live on the airwaves. From Monday it'll be a podcast. I started in the days of the late greats, Chris Bickerton & Kwabena Mensah and I treasure being part of the teams that lovingly produced Focus for millions over the years

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Ivanno Jeremiah is magnetic as Poitier' @TheStage #Retrograde now playing until 27 May

BBC News - Sudan fighting: The unsung heroes keeping Khartoum residents alive @lucyfleming 🙏🏽 bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

Take a look at TROUBLE IN BUTETOWN… Your last chance to see this world premiere from Award-winning writer Diana Nneka Atuona. 🎟️ bit.ly/3X75dHH

Stella Chiweshe: Zimbabwe’s mbira queen, rebel music star and pioneer theconversation.com/stella-chiwesh…

Three years ago my friend @AlexDuvalsmith died, way too soon. She was funny, generous and clever - and an exceptional and compassionate journalist. To honour her legacy, the Alex Duval Smith Memorial Fund has been established to help other female journalists.

'They said if you're black, you should walk' Nigerian student Jessica has kept in touch with us about her journey out of Ukraine. She is among the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the country, and one of many #AfricansinUkraine who have described facing racism at borders.

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.@iGaddo on what happens when late Tanzanian president John Pombe Magufuli arrived at Heaven's gate and came face to face with an angel.

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: BBC reporter Girmay Gebru detained by military bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

From child abductee to ruthless LRA rebel commander: Dominic Ongwen, the schoolboy who grew up to be the image of his oppressors bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

National Guard troops deployed to the US Capitol take photos in front of a statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks:

The 2020 Booker Prize shorlist announced | The Booker Prizes Congratulations Tsitsi Dangarembga ⁦@efie41209591⁩ for making the Booker Prize shortlist! It’s its people who make Zimbabwe great. thebookerprizes.com/booker-prize/n…

Babatunde Olatunji "really deserves to be remembered more for his role as a political activist in the US civil rights movement - before it was even a movement" bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

#FreeHopewell Chin'ono : Tweets on Zimbabwe’s whistleblowing journalist @DaddyHope Twitter account ‘aren’t loading’ following his arrest on Monday. They exposed alleged government corruption involving coronavirus supplies - and much more

#FreeJacob Ngarivhume was arrested along with #FreeHopewell Chin'ono by #Zimbabwe Authorities. Ngarivhume started an internet campaign for nationwide protests against corruption on July 31. #Ngarivhume & Chin'ono are being charged with incitement to participate in public violence

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Free @daddyhope #FreeHopewell #FreeHopewellNow

A group of at least 30 armed riot police unlawfully raided Hopewell’s home this evening & seized his camera. I was arrested & detained in a police van during the raid and was later released without charge. Hopewell is now at Central. He and Jacob are expected in court tomorrow.