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The Timbuktu blockade began in August when Islamist militants stopped trucks laden with goods. Soon after, air and river routes were also cut. Then, with the ancient city’s isolation complete, the shelling began. reuters.com/world/africa/m…

When George Weah was elected in 2017, he took me round his new home, under construction, a watchtower installed, a marble counter top still in its wrapping. “I don't want my title to define me. I don't think I will change,” he said. Voters will decide! reuters.com/world/africa/l…

.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 Reade Levinson David Lewis Tim Cocks via Reuters Investigates & @Bellingcat's Carlos Gonzales

This doesn’t look good for Congo’s anti corruption image - or for the safety of a perilous gas extraction project in Lake Kivu. ⁦Sonia Rolley⁩ reuters.com/markets/commod…

Hours after the UN left a key base in northern Mali this week, rebels took over. Locals looted chairs and tyres. The UN convoy, denied air support when it left, hit IEDs on the road south, injuring peacekeepers. A chaotic and bitter end to the 10yr mission reuters.com/world/africa/u…

“He strikes me as a grandfather figure – someone you would trust with your life. And now we are trusting him with the country's life.” Our bit on Liberia’s president elect Joseph Boakai. reuters.com/world/africa/a…

Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah killed by Israeli tank, investigation finds reuters.com/graphics/ISRAE…

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With Greece set to unveil a plan to tackle tumbling birthrates, one village reveals the magnitude of the problem: emptying schools; shuttered businesses; overgrown playgrounds; and the silence left by its vanished youth Karolina Tagaris reuters.com/investigates/s…

Gaza's IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike reuters.com/world/middle-e…

In Athens' central Syntagma Square, where 10 years ago protesters hurled petrol bombs at riot police, today buskers entertain tourists who sit in the shade of its sour orange trees. Lefteris Papadimas on Greece's (very much ongoing) economic revival reuters.com/markets/europe…

"The level of sulphur dioxide became so high it burned holes in women’s nylon tights." How an open-pit copper mine has slowly devoured a small village in eastern Serbia, and the band of women finally taking a stand Marko Djurica Ivana Sekularac reuters.com/investigates/s…

After the hottest winter on record, Greece is bracing for another wildfire summer. Firefighters and experts say new govt prevention plans don't go far enough reuters.com/world/europe/g…

Ahmed Alkwrab thought his ordeal was over last June when he survived one of the deadliest shipwrecks ever recorded in the Mediterranean Sea. Hours later he was charged with causing the wreck and faced life in prison. Karolina Tagaris⁩ reuters.com/world/africa/e…

Ishaan Al-Rahil was never found when a migrant boat bound for Europe sank off Greece last year, killing hundreds. That doesnt stop him appearing in his children's dreams, proffering gifts from the land of supposed plenty Renee Maltezou Karolina Tagaris Maya Gebeily reuters.com/world/europe/y…

Glad to share that our series on the Toxic Cough Syrups won the prestigious Carlos Tejeda Award for Excellence in investigative reporting The Society of Publishers in Asia Glad to have worked very closely with my favourite @krishnadas56 and collegues Jennifer Rigby and Edward McAllister

Greek islands face water crisis as tourist season peaks reuters.com/world/europe/g…

As wildfires wipe out forests, Greece - and countries across the Mediterranean - debate: to replant or not? reuters.com/world/europe/w…

Old university parliaments binned, daily votes on all actions, tight control over media exposure, funding from abroad, widespread support at home. Serbia's students aren't calling for Vucic to go, but they've made him very vulnerable reuters.com/world/europe/h…