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Africa Elections 2021: All the upcoming votes

By Africa Insiders
April 1, 2021

A regularly updated list of the upcoming elections in Africa in 2021. Last updated: 6 April 2021 How to use the map This ...

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Africa Insiders: The big stories you’re missing due to COVID-19

By Africa Insiders
April 9, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic will hit Africa hard, but it is not the only newsworthy development of the past few weeks. Here is a quick ...

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Africa Insiders Covid-19 Economy

Africa Insiders: The COVID-19 recession is going to hurt

By Africa Insiders
March 25, 2020

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 ...

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Africa Insiders Sudan

Africa Insiders: Why Sudan is turning to the ICC to prosecute al-Bashir

By Africa Insiders
February 20, 2020

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 ...

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Africa Insiders: Is the Africa Union up to the continent’s challenges?

By Africa Insiders
February 13, 2020

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 ...

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Africa Insiders Morocco

Africa Insiders: Morocco slowly tightens its grip on Western Sahara

By Africa Insiders
February 6, 2020

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 ...

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Africa Insiders: Explaining East Africa’s plague of locusts

By Africa Insiders
January 30, 2020

The essentials: Massive swarms of locusts are currently active in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. They are threatening the food security of millions in the ...

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Africa Insiders Angola

Africa Insiders: #LuandaLeaks over Isabel Dos Santos

By Africa Insiders
January 23, 2020

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 ...

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Africa Insiders Egypt Ethiopia

Africa Insiders: Egypt finds itself downstream without a paddle

By Africa Insiders
January 15, 2020

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 ...

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Africa Insiders: Turkish adventures on African shores

By Africa Insiders
January 9, 2020

The essentials: The Turkish parliament last week approved the deployment of troops to Libya to shore up the coalition that holds the capital Tripoli ...

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