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  • President Hichilema of Zambia on a visit to the European Parliament in 2022. Credit: European Parliament.
    PoliticsTop storyZambia

    Why is Zambia’s president warning off non-existent coup plotters?

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    September 15, 2023
    Though baffling to some, Hichilema’s talk of a coup contains two clear messages to two different audiences. On 4 September 2023, Zambia’s President Hakainde ...
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  • On the road in Addis Ababa, where climate change is expected to have multiple challenging impacts. Credit: alvise forcellini.
    ClimateEthiopia

    How Addis Ababa is set to get hotter, wetter, drier, and bigger

    By Abay Yimere
    September 14, 2023
    A new study shows how climate change will lead to more heatwaves and severe flooding in Ethiopia’s capital, one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities. Addis ...
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  • ElectionsTop storyZimbabwe

    A Shameful Shambles: An account of Zimbabwe’s elections of August 2023

    By Stephen Chan
    September 13, 2023
    An election observer who has witnessed every Zimbabwean election since independence in 1980, narrates his experience of the 2023 elections. I have been present ...
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  • AlgeriaMININGTop story

    A mine in the middle of paradise

    By Ilhem Rachidi
    September 9, 2023
    The Tebboune government is brutally suppressing any protest against a lead-and-zinc mine being built in a RAMSAR protected area. The region surrounding the Soummam ...
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  • DiplomacyTanzaniaTop story

    January Makamba and Tanzania’s return from self-isolation

    By Emmanuel John
    September 7, 2023
    What does January Makamba’s appointment to Tanzania’s foreign docket add to President Hassan’s expanding diplomatic chessboard? The late President John Magufuli’s isolationism harmed Tanzania’s ...
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  • PoliticsSomaliaTop story

    Somalia: State-building as the elite’s perverse incentive

    By Najib Ahmed
    September 4, 2023
    Facing growing allegations of corruption and nepotism, can the Hassan Sheikh administration win the war against Al Shabaab? Prompting widespread ridicule across the world ...
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  • OpedSomaliaTop story

    Understanding the local context is key to addressing fragility in Somalia

    By Liban Obsiye
    August 31, 2023
    No longer a vision of the failed state of a decade ago, for Somalia the journey from fragility to sustainability is long, tough and ...
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  • Coup in GabonGabonTop story

    Adieu to a post-colonial bully?

    By Obiora Ikoku
    August 31, 2023
    The coup in Libreville is less a marker of democratic erosion than a signal of the revolt against France’s neocolonial domination. “We want France ...
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  • Fish traders by the shores of Lake Victoria. Credit: WorldFish.
    ClimateEconomyTanzania

    “Rare, expensive”: Fish eating by Lake Victoria plunges amid climate change

    By Winfrith Hikloch Ogola
    August 24, 2023
    90% of people along the lake’s shores in Tanzania say they ate fish four times per month ten years ago, compared to just 4% ...
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  • Frontline communities, Indigenous groups and climate activists say no to false solutions at COP27. Credit: Madeleine Race, Friends of the Earth International.
    ClimateKenyaTop story

    The Africa Climate Summit must dare speak the unspeakable

    By Lorraine Chiponda
    August 23, 2023
    Fossil fuels, by far the biggest source of emissions, have brought much harm and few benefits to Africa. Yet climate agreements barely mention them. ...
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