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Barry Malone

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Journalist and commentator. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.

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@barrymalone.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 5:52 PM

Today in Proximities:

- Israeli settler mob attacks Palestinians; IDF stands by, shoots Palestinian
- $700 million intended to fight Ebola in Congo unaccounted for
- India's cockroach movement leader detained

As always, you can read in under two mins
www.proximities.news/p/west-bank-...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:56 PM

The Guinea-Bissau story below is jaw-dropping. 7,000 newborns will have hepatitis B vaccines withheld under a U.S. funded scheme, apparently so Robert Kennedy Jr. can prove a hypothesis. Guinea-Bissau has one of the highest hep B rates in the world. Is this in the U.S. media?

@barrymalone.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 8:07 PM

Today in Proximities:

- 139 drown as boat capsizes on Djibouti-Yemen route
- Imran Khan's PTI suspended in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Guinea-Bissau babies to have vaccines withheld in US-funded trial despite protests

As always, you can read in under two mins

www.proximities.news/p/djibouti-p...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:02 PM

Today in Proximities:

- Eritrean troops push into Ethiopia: witnesses
- Palestinian man shot dead in settler attack on olive harvesters
- Mayor of Turkey's Izmir defects to Erdogan's AKP

As always, you can read it in under two mins.

www.proximities.news/p/ethiopia-w...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 7:25 PM

Today in Proximities:

- Reuters reports from inside secretive Eritrea
- Imran Khan supporters march on Islamabad
- Malaysia sends Burmese home despite UN fears

As always, you can read in under two mins
www.proximities.news/p/eritrea-pa...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 8:27 PM

An average of seven children a day are dying of Ebola in DR Congo. It’s criminal that this is not getting more attention.

But watch it explode into the international headlines if a white person gets it.

www.proximities.news/p/dr-congo-g...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 8:03 PM

Today in Proximities:

- Explosions heard in Ethiopian capital, Eritrean diplomats expelled
- Israel committed war crimes in southern Lebanon: report
- Algeria imposes death penalty for forest arson

As always, you can read in under two mins

www.proximities.news/p/ethiopia-l...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:12 AM

Today in Proximities:

- Israel kills 8 in Gaza in latest breach of "ceasefire"
- U.S. peace plan could lead to "de facto partitioning" of Sudan
- Iraqis celebrate withdrawal of anti-ISIS U.S. forces

As always, you can read in under two minutes.

www.proximities.news/p/gaza-sudan...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:03 PM

Today in Proximities:

- Fighting erupts in Ethiopia amid fears of all-out war
- Female prisoners in Myanmar tortured and sexually abused: report
- "Say our name," Naoero's President David Adeang tells UN

As always, you can read in under two mins.
www.proximities.news/p/ethiopia-m...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 8:31 PM

Looking forward to this! Come along if you're in London.

@barrymalone.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 3:27 PM

Today in Proximities:

- 'Some progress' reported in battle against Ebola in Congo
- 'No respect for the dead' as Israel bulldozes Gaza rubble: UN
- South Africa police issue warning amid serial killer fears

As always, you can read it in under two mins

www.proximities.news/p/dr-congo-g...

@barrymalone.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 8:47 PM

Libyan authorities have seized 100,000 ecstasy pills imprinted with the face of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.

That (insane) story and more in Proximities today.

www.proximities.news/p/philippine...

@melissakchan.bsky.socialAug 29, 2026, 3:09 PMReposted by @barrymalone.bsky.social

🇹🇼 Really loved this Proximities podcast conversation about Taiwan with Michelle Kuo, hosted by Barry Malone. 🔗 apple.co/4A0eTHY

@davidstoreygeog.bsky.socialAug 29, 2026, 9:08 AMReposted by @barrymalone.bsky.social

"It's time to stop deciding immigration and asylum policies based on political expediency. It's time to see asylum seekers as people, not pawns, and it's time to remember that Europeans were refugees once and could be again"
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