From the blog kookoo for kenya
I couldn’t contain my tears for days after I heard the news. I didn’t even know Anthony that well, but his death stunned me. He was one of the few journalist I know here who lacks the pretentiousness that is so common amongst our colleagues. He always made me feel like an equal and never as someone who was inferior because of my age, my employer, my position or whatever. He was funny and he was warm and my thoughts for the remainder of that first night back in Nairobi were flooded with images of Anthony…
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From the blog Somalia
Associated Press reporter Anthony Mitchell, who was killed with 113 others in a tragic Kenya Airways crash May 5, was one of a handful of Western journalists giving serious and balanced attention to recent developments in Somalia. Mitchell’s reporting was notable for its focus on the impact America’s so-called “War on Terror” was having on innocent Somalis and Somali-Americans caught in the crossfire.
It was Mr. Mitchell who brought to light U.S. collaboration with Somalia’s neighbors Ethiopia and Kenya in capturing suspected “terrorists” and detaining them for interrogation at secret locations in Addis Ababa and elsewhere in the region.
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From GlobalVoices
Ethiopian bloggers have flooded the Internet with tributes to Associated Press reporter Anthony Mitchell who was one of 114 people killed when Kenyan Airways flight KQ507 crashed in southern Cameroon early Saturday May 5.
Anthony worked as a journalist in Ethiopia for five years and led the reporting of violence that broke out after the country’s controversial national elections in May 2005.
He was thrown out of the country in January 2006 after the Ethiopian Government accused him of engaging in “hostile” reporting. But he remained something of a hero to many Ethiopians, including many of the country’s highly politicised bloggers.
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From Wikipedia, the online Encyclopedia. The entry can be edited and Wikipedia is asking people to bulk out his biography.
Anthony Mitchell (died May 5, 2007) was a reporter for the Associated Press. In recent years he has been stationed in Kenya and Ethiopia. On January 21, 2006, Mitchell was expelled from Ethiopia by foreign affairs press secretary Solomon Abebe.[1]
According to CNN, Mitchell was aboard Kenya Airlines Flight KQ 507 when it crashed in Cameroon with 114 passengers and crew. [2] A search is currently being conducted for survivors.
From the comments left by readers under Meskel Square’s post Anthony Mitchell
I remember my first encounter with Anthony [probably one of his first press conferences in Addis] it was on one of those UNMEE press briefing encounters as usual the people would read out their usual carefully worded report with little indication of any troubles they have had. Anthony came introduced himself read through the copy of the report and kept gnawing at the people, it was fun and encouraged others to also push for more info about a certain mine accident and other details. what I will never forget is when he keeps nibbling on his pen at press conferences I always wondered what kind of bomb he would land.
Posted by: menyelenal at May 9, 2007 9:25 AM
From the blog The sub-Saharan African roundtable
Anthony Mitchell, a Nairobi-based correspondent for The Associated Press, was one of the 114 victims aboard the Kenya Airways flight that crashed in Cameroon. I now regret I never had the opportunity to meet Mitchell who was considered by the Committee to Protect Journalists as the best foreign correspondent permanently based in Ethiopia.
From the blog Meskel Square
My friend Anthony Mitchell was one of 114 people who died when Kenya Airways flight KQ507 crashed in southern Cameroon early on Saturday May 5.
I’m writing this so late in the day because we were away out of mobile contact when it happened and only heard the news on the road. Now that we’re back, it is hard to find anything coherent to say.
From the blog Friends of Ethiopia
Washington Post — NAIROBI, Kenya — Anthony Mitchell, among the 114 people that an official said were killed in a plane crash over the weekend in Cameroon, was a dogged Associated Press correspondent from Britain with a passion for Africa and for uncovering challenging stories. He had been on assignment to investigate the criminal trade in endangered species for food.
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From asap
AP reporter Anthony Mitchell died over the weekend in a plane crash, a reminder that the job of a foreign correspondent is dangerous even in the most ordinary of circumstances. CHRIS TOMLINSON remembers the reporter, and the man.
“I’ve been arrested and the police are taking me to jail,” Anthony Mitchell said to me one afternoon over a crackling, long-distance phone call.
I was in the AP bureau in Nairobi, and he was covering a demonstration in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. His supposed crime was to observe a peaceful, anti-government demonstration.
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From the Richmond and Twickenham Times
An air crash in Cameroon has killed five Britons, including a former Richmond and Twickenham Times reporter.
Anthony Mitchell is believed dead with another 113 people after the crash soon after takeoff on Saturday.
Mitchell, 39, started work with the Richmond and Twickenham Times in 1993 before moving on to the Daily Express and later covering East Africa for wire service Associated Press.
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