@BBCBarbaraPlett

BBC Africa Correspondent

 Nairobi
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Joined March 2010
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Will Gen-Z decide Kenya’s next election? | BBC News youtu.be/i374gobSvuk?si=OR0b… via @YouTube

Will Gen-Z decide Kenya’s next election? | BBC News

Kenya’s Gen Z are moving from anti-government protests and digital ...

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Making #Kenya politics "trendy & sexy" - will Gen Z decide the next election? bbc.com/news/articles/cwly7v…

Kenya's young voters weigh up the choices for next year as William Ruto seeks re-election

A voter mobilisation campaign has registered huge numbers of young people but it is not clear who they are backing.

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Another headache for international shipping, but this time with unexpected elements... #Somalia bbc.com/news/articles/cr4vx4…

Somali piracy surges as the impact of the US-Iran war ripples outwards

Two ships were seized within four days last week raising to at least 13 the number attacked since January.

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And this is the interview we did with #SebastianSawe's ecstatic parents when he broke the 2-hour marathon barrier youtu.be/8Mlv8doTevo?si=4Llc… via @YouTube

Family Celebrates Kenya Marathon Record Breaker

The family of Sebastion Sawe talks to the BBC after he breaks the 4...

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This is a bit dated (April!) but it's the happiest story I've done this year youtu.be/mHMlsqdhpr4?si=JQug… via @YouTube

Kenyan Runner Breaks 2 Hour Marathon Barrier

Sebastian Sawe returns home after astonishing the world with his re...

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Drugs, Data and minerals... bbc.com/news/articles/ckg092…

US-Africa health deals: Why some nations are turning down Trump's money

The Trump administration sees the aid as more transactional - but some say it is not a fair trade.

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The numbers are staggering #Sudan #3YearsTooLong #KeepEyesOnSudan bbc.com/news/videos/czd77jgn…

The human cost of the war in Sudan, three years on

The conflict, which erupted in 2023, has left behind a human toll which is "simply staggering", reports the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher.

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Turning on the phone after 3 years of silence #Sudan #3YearsTooLong #KeepeyesonSudan bbc.com/news/articles/cy01d1…

Sudan civil war: A chronicle of conflict pours in as reporter's phone turns on after three years

As the conflict enters its fourth year, journalist Mohamed Suleiman shudders at what has been lost.

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That Other War - and why it's so hard to end #Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan bbc.com/news/articles/czx70y…

The devastating conflict where both sides have reasons to keep fighting

A strong supply of weapons and a history of long wars make Sudan's conflict particularly troubling.

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The largest known dataset of military airstrikes in #Sudan's civil war indicates that the air force has used unguided bombs in populated areas bbc.com/news/articles/cd0k7g…

Sudan war: Air force's bombing of towns, markets and schools has killed hundreds, report says

A detailed study highlights the military's aerial campaign and how civilians have been its victims.

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youtube.com/watch?v=HQvAPaQT… Just returned from northern #Sudan. I've been hearing the shocking stories of people who escaped #ElFasher, one of the worst battles of Sudan's war
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'There was a state of terror' - stories from the fall of #Sudan's El Fasher after an 18-month siege by RSF paramilitaries bbc.com/news/articles/cqx31e…

Sudan war: el-Fasher hospital worker describes 'state of terror' before fleeing alleged massacre

"I have lost the people whose faces I used to see smiling," says Abdu-Rabbu Ahmed after escaping el-Fasher.

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One of the most shocking allegations of atrocities by #Sudan's RSF paramilitaries during the fall of El Fasher has been the claim of a massacre of nearly 500 people at the Saudi hospital, the last functioning medical facility in the city youtu.be/bh6-ugcN-zk?si=D7-m… via @YouTube

Sudan hospital worker describes fleeing before alleged massacre | BBC News

A man who escaped the last functioning hospital in the Sudanese cit...

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Sudan's RSF paramilitaries agree humanitarian ceasefire

The group issued the statement after an 18-month siege of the city of el-Fasher in the western Darfur region.

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Sudan war: Life-saving community kitchens on verge of collapse

This follows confirmation by a global hunger monitor that famine conditions are spreading in conflict zones.

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Sudan war: Survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality

Harrowing accounts from people who have escaped an RSF assault on the besieged city of el-Fasher.

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The mass killing reported to be going on in El Fasher was predicted for months, even years #Sudan #Sudan_War_Updates bbc.com/news/articles/c20pez…

Sudan war: Reports of mass killings in el-Fasher in Darfur have echoes of country's dark past

Some are warning of a genocide unfolding in Darfur - violence that is linked to killings there 20 years ago.

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I just heard that a woman we spoke to for this article who was injured in a shelling attack has now been killed in another shelling attack. She is not a statistic. She is a human being. Say her name: Hamida Adam Ali #SudanWar bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnz7…

Sudan civil war: RSF makes advances over army in battle for el-Fasher

Civilians pay the price as paramilitary fighters intensify their offensive to take full control of el-Fasher.

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An update: we sent our freelance journalist in El Fasher back to check those reports of Hamida’s death & found she is alive. It's the woman next to her who died. We don’t know her name so she feels more like a statistic, but again – she’s not: remembering the loss of a human life
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Civilians caught in a nightmare as battle for besieged #Sudan city of El Fasher intensifies: "My son's body is full of shrapnel" a desperate mother tells us bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnz7…

Sudan civil war: RSF makes advances over army in battle for el-Fasher

Civilians pay the price as paramilitary fighters intensify their offensive to take full control of el-Fasher.

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