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Declan Walsh
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Declan Walsh
@declanwalsh
Chief Africa correspondent, @nytimes Ex-Cairo and Islamabad. Author, THE NINE LIVES OF PAKISTAN. U.S. bit.ly/2IKG1FR UK: amzn.to/30cXkFl
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- My début as a meme
- Much striking detail in this Kenyan news report about the police shooting that killed Pakistani reporter Arshad Sharif: "An officer privy to the investigation said that 'the truth might be in what has not been documented' in the police report." theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-…
- India's revocation of Kashmir's semiautonomous status, "is dangerous and wrong. Bloodshed is all but certain, and tension with Pakistan will soar." @nytimes editorial today.
- I spent two weeks in the mountains of northwestern Yemen with @TylerHicksPhoto, reporting on the heartbreaking crisis that could soon turn to famine. This is what we found. The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War.
- BBC footage of a mass protest after Friday prayers in Kashmir. Things not going as smoothly as suggested in some reports. Internet and phone blackout still in place.
- Back from three weeks in Ethiopia, mostly in Tigray, where there was a communications blackout which meant I couldn't post updates from the ground. Story in today's paper, but here are some images and thoughts on what I saw.
- The publisher of the New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, published an important article today about press freedom. He mentioned an incident in which I had to leave Egypt in a rush, fearing arrest, two years ago. Some context on that:
- Coverage of the Sudan war across five pages in today's NYT, with sweeping display of @ivorprickett's stunning images.
- What’s Happening in Kashmir? Our Cameras Contradict India’s Official Story nyti.ms/2HlKuLr @nytvideo on the ground in Kashmir, at protests and funerals.
- Big gesture from Pakistan's PM.Pakistan will release Indian Pilot Abhinandan tomorrow as a gesture of peace: Prime Minister Imran Khan
- I'm very sorry to report that Dr. Omar Selik, cited in our earlier story about the siege of El Fasher, was killed alongside dozens of others in a strike on a crowded mosque this morning.In the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, starving children eat animal feed, doctors shelters in foxholes and drones fire on approaching U.N. food convoys. nytimes.com/2025/09/15/wor…
- In Kenyan Elections, the People Decide First. Then Come the Judges.
