Kim Harrisberg ✍️🇿🇦📷

Our small but mighty Africa team. Inspired by these women every day to keep telling stories on our continent @ContextNewsroom

In what sounds like a Black Mirror episode, South African grant beneficiaries are having their bank accounts surveilled and millions are being unfairly rejected based on an automatic test misclassifying them as having more money than they do. context.news/digital-divide…

Armed with water tests, South African students tackle eco-anxiety context.news/nature/armed-w…

@JoGillJourno @adamndsmith Jo! So punny. Now “found love in a botless place” playing in my head. Thanks for sharing. 🙌

Confession: I've never been on a dating app, luckily I found love in a botless place. But Appily ever after seems to be getting bleaker, thanks to AI. ✍️ @KimHarrisberg @adamndsmith context.news/ai/deep-love-o…

@adamndsmith @clarnic @malonebarry @khanundrum @rosthacker @ElleRudd_ A privilege to work with you Adam!

Finally, thank you @clarnic for such excellent edits, @malonebarry and @khanundrum for the opportunity, and @rosthacker and @ElleRudd_ and everyone else on the production and social team. I will miss you all, and only regret is that I couldn't do more.

Yesterday was my last day at @ContextNewsroom, so I wanted to share a few of my favourite stories I and the team worked on during my two years there. Absolutely going to miss it. 🧵

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen: "Last year, the UN found no South Africans were eligible for refugee status. The decision by this administration to put one group at the front of the line is clearly politically motivated and an effort to rewrite history."

"The best among us Afrikaners and other white South Africans join the rallying call against this foreign interference to galvanise our entire society ... Donald Trump and Elon Musk don’t speak for us." by @MaxduPreez theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

From South Africa to the Philippines, Ukraine to Nigeria, frontline workers are scrambling to plug gaps left by USAID funding cuts. How long can these temporary measures last? Latest @ContextNewsroom story with @JoGillJourno @BUKAdebayo @MariejoSRamos context.news/money-power-pe…

COVID-19: How did Africa defy the odds with fewer deaths? context.news/socioeconomic-… My latest story with @BUKAdebayo and @KimHarrisberg

The COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to decimate African populations, but that didn't happen. Why? ✍️ @BUKAdebayo, @nitabhalla and @KimHarrisberg report. 🔗context.news/socioeconomic-…

What is BEE and what does it have to do with Starlink? Our latest @ContextNewsroom Trusk/Mump explainer on why Starlink is stalling in the birth nation of its founder. Myths, misinformation and "equity equivalents" explained 👇 #ElonMusk context.news/money-power-pe…

An estimated 400 million people have suffered long COVID since the start of the pandemic five years ago today. But it's not just a health crisis. It's an economic one, costing countries billions of dollars. ✍️ Emma Batha 📹 Rosalind Thacker

South Africa has said it will not take part in "megaphone diplomacy" following a new social media post by US President Donald Trump repeating his claim that Pretoria was confiscating land. The US leader had frozen financial aid to the country. bbc.in/3DyKvvG

🇱🇸🇺🇸 During his speech at Congress, President Donald Trump stated that the U.S. would cut aid to Lesotho, calling it an African nation "nobody has ever heard of." We hit the streets of Maseru, the capital city, to hear what locals had to say.

U.S. pulls out of climate finance deal for South Africa, Senegal, and others africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/…

Trump and Ukraine: Where are Europe's critical minerals? bit.ly/4kr2PYy

A South African court has dismissed claims of a white genocide in the country as 'clearly imagined'. The ruling comes as US President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk accuse South Africa's government of targeting the country's white minority. bbc.in/41gj7dH

"It is true that aid does not always get to the people it's intended for, but the answer is not to stop aid, the answer is to build in more accountability," said Sudanese refugee Yesua. Trump's USAID freeze will lead to deaths, he warns. By @EmmaBatha context.news/socioeconomic-…

South Africa's new land act has angered the U.S president and divided South Africans. ✍️ Kim Harrisberg explains why. 🔗 context.news/money-power-pe…

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is again in turmoil as M23 rebels advance; how have decades of conflict affected the people? @BUKAdebayo gives the low-down. context.news/socioeconomic-…