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Tim Cocks

Johannesburg

Chief Correspondent at Reuters

Author, Lagos: Supernatural City. #Reuters Africa Hack (20+ yrs on #MotherContinent). Winner SABEW award. Reggae Junkie. Libertarian-Champagne-Socialist. Books.

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  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tim Cocks

    By Tim CocksORANIA, South Africa (Reuters) - A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they carved out a separatist enclave, the only town in South Africa where all residents, including menial workers, are white. Now, the residents of Orania - population, 3,000 - in the semi-arid Karoo region want U.S. President Donald Trump to help them become a state.

  • 3 weeks ago | sightmagazine.com.au | Tim Cocks |David Adams

    ReutersQatari mediators hosted a second round of talks on Friday between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and separately met representatives of the Rwandan-backed rebellion waging an insurgency in eastern Congo, four sources told Reuters. Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame met last week in Doha for their first talks since M23 rebels stepped up an offensive there in January.

  • 1 month ago | bizcommunity.com | Aaron Ross |Tim Cocks |Vivianne Wandera |Kopano Gumbi

    Advertise your job vacancies2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of antiretrovirals to one-month refills since the US government froze foreign aid. On the outskirts of the city, meanwhile, millions of life-saving doses sit on the shelves of a warehouse, unused and unreachable.

  • 1 month ago | sightmagazine.com.au | Aaron Ross |Tim Cocks |Vivianne Wandera |David Adams

    Nairobi, KenyaReutersThe health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya’s capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of antiretrovirals to one-month refills since the US Government froze foreign aid. On the outskirts of the city, meanwhile, millions of life-saving doses sit on the shelves of a warehouse, unused and unreachable.

  • 1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Aaron Ross |Tim Cocks |Vivianne Wandera

    The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of antiretrovirals to one-month refills since the US government froze foreign aid. On the outskirts of the city, meanwhile, millions of life-saving doses sit on the shelves of a warehouse, unused and unreachable. The clinic is a half hour's drive from the warehouse, but for Okwirry, they may as well be an ocean apart.

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Tim Cocks
Tim Cocks @timcocks
9 Oct 24

European donors attempted to woo #SouthAfrica's sceptical #coal belt to embrace #renewable energy. Let’s just say there’s a lot of convincing left to do …. https://t.co/AOXwoNuUf7

Tim Cocks
Tim Cocks @timcocks
27 Sep 24

#SouthAfrica’s donor-funded #EnergyTransition is moving slowly as politicians fret about how to prevent its coal belt going into terminal economic decline… #ClimateCatastrophe #RenewableEnergy https://t.co/nEEiKN9zTX

Tim Cocks
Tim Cocks @timcocks
31 Jul 24

Uju Ifejika (left), one of #Nigeria’s richest female business owners, gambled her entire fortune on a prophecy from her televangelist pastor #TBJoshua and it all went horribly wrong. Read my book ‘Lagos: Supernatural City’ if you want to know what happened next …. https://t.co/yPNaZoqy8U