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Danièle Obono on X: the pan-Africanist, the Iranian exception and the mirror of the hostages

We analyzed the 14,486 tweets of the Paris MP (2017–2026), the tenth and final profile of this series' launch set. Her archive contains the true Iranian exception of the ten profiles — 14 tweets supporting the 2022 revolt — and the series' Uyghur and Rohingya records. It also contains a partly failed pan-African test and the same Latin American zeros as the other nine.

Analysis based on the complete archive of account @Deputee_Obono · Data as of 13 July 2026 · Tenth profile of the series
560
tweets on Israel/Palestine
14
tweets supporting the 2022 Iranian revolt — series record
15
tweets on the Uyghurs — series record
0
tweets on Congo, Boko Haram, Sudan at war (2023-26)

The self-proclaimed internationalist

Danièle Obono, Paris MP since 2017, born in Libreville, defines herself as an alterglobalist, Afro-feminist, anti-imperialist and pan-Africanist. Her archive — 14,486 tweets — is the most internationally diversified of the series: Israel/Palestine accounts for 560 tweets, 80% of her crisis output — the lowest share of the ten profiles alongside Pablo Iglesias — against 140 for the other sixteen crises combined.

Tweets by crisis — Obono (700 total)
560
Israel/Pal.
56
Ukraine
16
Syria
12
Yemen
5
Afgh.
15
Iran
6
Sudan
5
Mali
1
Karabakh
Tigray
9
Rohingya
15
Uig.
Boko H.
Nica.
Cuba
Venez.
HK
CrisisScale (reference)Tweets in 9 years
Israel/Palestine (full conflict)~70,000 dead in Gaza (2023–26) + 1,200 on 7-Oct560
Ukraine — Russian invasion~500,000 casualties, 6M refugees56
Syria — civil war~500,000 dead, 13M displaced16
Iran — internal repression (Amini 2022 + Jan 2026)500+ dead in 2022; thousands in January 202615
UyghursOver a million interned15
Yemen~377,000 dead12
Rohingya2017 genocide, mass rape9
Sudan — revolution 2019 / war 2023–150,000+ dead since 20236*
AfghanistanGender apartheid since 20215
Mali/SahelJihadist massacres5*
Karabakh/Armenians100,000 expelled in 20231
Tigray, Boko Haram, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Hong Kong0

The Iranian exception — finally

For nine profiles, this series documented a near-total desert: the Iranian revolt of 2022 — Mahsa Amini, "Woman, Life, Freedom," 500 dead — had only four accumulated tweets in nine accounts. The tenth profile changes the dynamic: Obono dedicated fourteen tweets to it between September and December 2022 — explicit, repeated, argued support. And in February 2026, she named "the bloody repression of the popular revolt in Iran."

The pan-African test: passed in the northeast, failed at the heart

She is the only one of the ten to have built a Rohingya file (symposium organized at the Assembly, campaign against Total and Voltalia in Myanmar) and her Uyghur file is the most complete of the ten. But the heart of the continent is empty: Congo and the Kivu massacres — zero tweets in nine years; Boko Haram and the Chibok girls — zero; today's Sudan — zero. The archive's pan-Africanism follows French policy and inspiring revolutions; it does not follow the victims of African wars without a Western actor.

What the method compels us to acknowledge

Obono's profile accumulates exceptions that no other account in the series accumulates: the Iran of 2022 (fourteen tweets, record), the Uyghurs (fifteen, record), the Rohingya (nine, only one in the series), the defence of Nasrin Soutoudeh since 2019, and a condemnation of Russia's invasion formulated from 22 February 2022. When accused of selective outrage, she herself responds with her Uyghur record — the argument is documented in her archive, and this series confirms it.

Methodology and limitations

Complete archive of @Deputee_Obono (14,486 tweets, April 2017 – 13 July 2026). Identical dictionary, full manual verification. Correction: Iran count 0→15 after manual reading — her fourteen 2022 tweets used formulations not covered by the initial keywords, an error against the profiled leader that systematic rereading corrected.