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    Djibouti fiddles as the super-powers scramble for the Red Sea

    By Amina S. Chiré, May Darwich, Jutta Bakonyi, Abdirachid M. Ismail
    March 15, 2023
    Gateway to the Indo-Pacific, Djibouti is becoming the site of a 21st century scramble for ports, military bases – and economic models .  Today’s ...
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  • The legal case against Tilenga and EACOP in France relied on global solidarities and coalitions. Credit: Erik McGregor.
    ClimateEastTop story

    Why France EACOP case might embolden, not discourage, activists

    By Mark Odaga
    March 14, 2023
    Though the legal claim against TotalEnergies was dismissed on technicalities, it set some bold precedents.  On 28 February, a French court declared an appeal ...
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    Unpacking the geopolitics of Uganda’s anti-gay bill

    By Kristof Titeca
    March 10, 2023
    As the Church rages against Canterbury, Museveni’s authoritarian regime might be the last guarantor of sexual minority rights. On 1 March, 2023 the Ugandan ...
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    Who wants to hear about White Saviourism gone wrong?

    By Ben Radley
    March 8, 2023
    A new book on the Congo recycles stereotypes of Africa as a wasteland in need of saving in all its promo. It’s been rapturously ...
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  • President Chakwera and his VP, Saulos Chilima in happier times. More recently, Chilima was arrested for corruption. Photo courtesy: Joseph Kayira
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    What next in Chakwera’s anti-corruption crusade in Malawi?

    By Joseph Kayira
    March 8, 2023
    A scandal from the last regime forced the president to fire senior officials, suspend his VP and risk breaking the ruling coalition.    The ...
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    BOOKSCultureSudanTop storyWRITER INTERVIEW

    “Mainstream history was written by the coloniser…it’s time we wrote ours”

    By Leila Aboulela
    March 7, 2023
    An interview with Leila Aboulela whose latest novel returns to Khartoum’s 1884 siege to make a case for a different construction of history. AFRICAN ...
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  • A still from the 2004 Ousmane Sembène film Moolaadé.
    CinemaCultureSenegalTop storyTribute

    Learning from Sembène: Telling the stories that matter

    By Dika Ofoma
    March 3, 2023
    A hundred years after Sembène’s birth, a budding filmmaker describes his social awakening and discovery of the late Senegalese director. I grew up primarily ...
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    Did Nigeria’s election tech fail or was it sabotaged?

    By Adebayo Abdulrahman
    March 2, 2023
    Young voters put their faith in digital technology. But at polling units nationwide, many were transported to an elections twilight zone.  Victor Madu, a ...
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  • Safi Faye in repose.
    CultureSenegalTop storyTribute

    Safi Faye: Farewell to a pioneering filmmaker

    By Estrella Sendra
    February 24, 2023
    Senegalese filmmaker was the first African woman to make a commercial feature film, Kaddu Beykat, in 1975. Last Thursday, as filmmakers, curators and cinephiles were ...
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  • Former Gombe State governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo. He made a solid effort to arrest spiralling gang violence in the state. (Photo courtesy: Seriake Dickson).
    CountryElectionsNigeria

    The Gangs of Gombe

    By Muhammad Auwal Ibrahim
    February 24, 2023
    Birthed by democracy, recruited by rival politicians, they have operated with impunity. This election season has been no different. On 12 December last year, ...
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