Kim Harrisberg

How is South Africa's welfare algorithm failing the poor? | Context by TRF Millions of South Africans lose out on welfare grants because of a flawed application system, including an automated means test

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. My latest article here: www.context.news/digital-divi...

USAID cuts: HIV frontline workers battle funding 'nightmare' | Context From South Africa to the Philippines, Ukraine to Nigeria, healthcare workers are scrambling to plug gaps left by U.S. aid cuts

From South Africa to the Philippines, Ukraine to Nigeria, frontline workers are scrambling to plug gaps left by USAID funding cuts. Can these temporary measures last? Latest @contextnewsroom.bsky.social story with @jogill.bsky.social Bukola Adebayo & Mariejo Ramos www.context.news/money-power-...

Musk's Starlink stalls in South Africa over equity laws | Context The world’s richest man claims his birth nation’s Black ownership laws are preventing him from rolling out his internet service

The world’s richest man claims his birth nation’s Black ownership laws are preventing him from rolling out his internet service. @kimharrisberg.bsky.social has the story for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social
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First aid, now trade: Will Trump axe South Africa AGOA trade deal? | Context South Africa's domestic and foreign policies have angered Trump, putting jobs, aid and trade on the line

South Africa's domestic and foreign policies have angered Trump, putting jobs, aid and trade on the line. @kimharrisberg.bsky.social explains why on @contextnewsroom.bsky.social
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The South African land law that has enraged Trump | Context South Africa's new land act has angered the U.S president and divided South Africans. Why?

South Africa's new land act has angered the U.S president and divided South Africans. For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social , @kimharrisberg.bsky.social explains why.
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Reporter's Notebook - Inside Africa's mining 'speed dating' event | Context As the world races for critical minerals in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, activists warn of new mining injustices.

For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social , @kimharrisberg.bsky.social went to last week's African Mining #Indaba conference in Cape Town and this is what she found.
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Africa's artisanal miners may benefit from global renewables push | Context Entrepreneurs, victims, or criminals? Artisanal miners could reinvent themselves as the world flocks to Africa's critical minerals

Entrepreneurs, victims, or criminals? Artisanal miners could reinvent themselves as the world flocks to Africa's critical minerals @kimharrisberg.bsky.social reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social
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Reporter's Notebook - Inside Africa's mining 'speed dating' event | Context As the world races for critical minerals in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, activists warn of new mining injustices.

If you read anything today about mining/critical minerals - read this from @kimharrisberg.bsky.social
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Africa's artisanal miners may benefit from global renewables push | Context Entrepreneurs, victims, or criminals? Artisanal miners could reinvent themselves as the world flocks to Africa's critical minerals

As the world shifts towards renewable energy, fueling appetite for Africa's critical minerals like cobalt and lithium, will informal miners be part of the new value chain or be sidelined by bigger corporate players? www.context.news/just-transit...

Gen Z and millennials protested in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria and Mozambique in 2024 - and some analysts expect this activism to intensify in 2025.

✍️ Nita Bhalla, Bukola Adebayo, Kim Harrisberg and Samuel Comé

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New from @contextnewsroom.bsky.social - Inditex, Zara’s parent company, has hugely increased use of dirtier, more expensive airplanes to ship clothes.

Air shipping uses 35 times more carbon than sea shipping and adds pressure to already-stressed workers.

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Kenyan police fire teargas at protesters marching against femicide Kenyan police fired teargas and arrested at least three people on Tuesday as hundreds protested against a wave of femicides, a Reuters reporter and human rights activists said.

Kenyan police fire teargas at protesters marching against femicide - "The protesters in Nairobi were peaceful and it was not clear why the police intervened. The national police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment." www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Biden makes last dash to Africa, showing the power of minerals | Context Biden's visit to Angola highlights a world hungry for Africa's natural resources...and a big fight to come

President Joe Biden made a last-minute dash to Africa this week. On the agenda? Critical minerals. @kimharrisberg.bsky.social reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social from Johannesburg www.context.news/just-transit...

Biden makes last dash to Africa, showing the power of minerals | Context Biden's visit to Angola highlights a world hungry for Africa's natural resources...and a big fight to come

Biden's 11th hour visit to Angola highlights a world hungry for Africa's natural resources...and a big fight to come www.context.news/just-transit...

Exclusive: World Food Program’s troubles in Sudan hurt hunger relief, alienated donors - internal report Serious problems in the United Nations World Food Program’s response to the Sudan crisis are hampering the organization’s ability to alleviate hunger in the war-torn country and damaging its reputation with donors, according to a recent internal report seen by Reuters.

Serious problems in the UN’s World Food Program’s response to the Sudan crisis are hampering the organization’s ability to alleviate hunger in the war-torn country and damaging its reputation with donors, according to a recent internal report seen by Reuters reut.rs/3VjB2hy

Thank you for writing this Jennifer. Reading your piece this morning from South Africa and reflecting on the inter-generational trauma left behind by colonial regimes across the continent. The topic of reparations is so important and we need to keep spotlighting it.

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

The shocking story of the tiny children taken from their mothers in Belgium's colonies because they were mixed race.

Now five women have taken the Belgian government to court, alleging crimes against humanity.

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Mozambique echoes a year of youth-led protests across Africa | Context 'The Corrupt are Messing with a Wrong Generation' - how 2024 became the year of demonstrations by young Africans

The Corrupt are Messing with a Wrong Generation' - From Mozambique to Senegal, how 2024 became the year of demonstrations by young Africans www.context.news/socioeconomi...

Mexico is pushing for gig worker rights. Women say it’s not enough | Context Women gig workers in Mexico exposed to crime, road accidents and gender based violence are unionising

If you have 10 mins this weekend, you could do worse than watch this great report from my colleague @dbaptistar.bsky.social and Rest of World's @dandiba.bsky.social looking at how #Mexico's women gig workers are pushing for more rights and protections www.context.news/big-tech/vid...

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