Monthly Archives: May 2024
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In search of a polling station without a long, winding queue in mid-afternoon Jozi
In Soweto, they voted early; by mid-afternoon, most polling stations were deserted. Not so elsewhere in southern Johannesburg where middle-class, middle-aged voters bet on empty polling ... -
“All it takes is one corrupt official”: Huge monkey seizure reveals DRC trafficking ring
One of the biggest ever illegal animals shipments in Africa involved senior conservation officials, suggest documents seen by African Arguments. Top officials from the Democratic Republic ... -
Nigeria: One year later, Tinubu struggles with the economic question
Digging the country out of the hole it fell into during the Buhari years required an ingenuity never made available under Tinubu’s economic shock treatment programme. ... -
“After the dam, nothing is good”: How Ethiopia’s mega project devastated centuries of survival strategies
Until recently, indigenous groups in the Omo Valley planted crops, foraged, hunted, fished, herded animals, and shared food. Now they face starvation. Over thousands of seasons ... -
‘2024 is our 1994!’: A South African election travelogue
Almost two-thirds of the current electorate could not have voted in the first all-race elections in 1994. After the apathy of the past 15 years, why ... -
Overloaded? Hope and Scepticism around the Tumaini Peace Initiative for South Sudan
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Sudan: The violence is a symptom of a profound collective failure
The ongoing conflict is an existential threat to the very idea of Sudan, not to be solved by negotiations featuring the usual suspects working on the ... -
What are the South Africans doing in eastern DRC?
Unlike the SADC contingent that defeated the M23 back in 2013, the SAMIDRC force’s tentative approach to the spreading conflict is raising questions about South Africa’s ... -
South Africa 2024: What are parties promising on energy and climate?
Some parties’ manifestos fall shorter than others. Some fall so far short they would arguably take us backwards. When voters in South Africa go to the ... -
The AfDB at a crossroads: to keep funding fossil fuels or not?
Next week, the African Development Bank should choose transparency, inclusivity, and a green future over continued support for oil and gas. When the board of governors ...
