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The Africa Insiders Newsletter is a weekly newsletter brought to you by African Arguments. Written by leading journalists and analysts, it it made up of snappy, insightful updates on the major developments that have hit the week's headlines, and those that should've.

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    The coronavirus pandemic will hit Africa hard, but it is not the only newsworthy development of the past few weeks. Here is a quick overview of ...
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    Africa Insiders: The COVID-19 recession is going to hurt

    Read all our COVID-19 coverage  African countries have so far seen relatively fewer COVID-19 cases than hotspots in western Europe, the US and East Asia. But ...
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    The essentials: Last week, an official of Sudan’s transitional government announced that former President Omar al-Bashir could face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity ...
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    Africa Insiders: Is the Africa Union up to the continent’s challenges?

    30 years to the day after Nelson Mandela stepped out of prison, his freedom a symbol of African self-determination and pan-African solidarity, the African Union is ...
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    The essentials: Morocco’s parliament has passed two laws that formalise the annexation of Western Saharan territorial waters. While this does not present a fundamental change of ...
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    The essentials: Massive swarms of locusts are currently active in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. They are threatening the food security of millions in the whole region. ...
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    Africa Insiders: #LuandaLeaks over Isabel Dos Santos

    The essentials: A massive leak of 715,000 documents to the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa led to a massive investigative journalism effort coordinated by the International ...
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    Africa Insiders: Egypt finds itself downstream without a paddle

    The essentials: Egypt and Ethiopia failed again to find a compromise on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive construction project on Ethiopia’s Blue Nile ...
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    Africa Insiders: Turkish adventures on African shores

    The essentials: The Turkish parliament last week approved the deployment of troops to Libya to shore up the coalition that holds the capital Tripoli and the ...
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    Africa Insiders: Tiny Gambia stands up for the Rohingya

    The essentials: A case of alleged genocide brought against Myanmar by The Gambia in defence of the Rohingya people was heard last week. The Gambia’s Justice ...
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