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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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  • CinemaCongo-KinshasaTop story

    Decolonising African cinema in the time of Netflix

    By Ana Carbajosa
    August 21, 2023
    90% of Africa’s cultural legacy resides outside the continent; audiovisual restitution is a battle for memory as urgent as artefact restitution. When film director ...
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  • CameroonEconomyNigeriaTop story

    How Nigeria’s fuel subsidy shock jolted Cameroon’s economy

    By Francis Tim Mbom
    July 19, 2023
    In Cameroon, the unintended consequences of Nigeria’s fuel subsidy withdrawal ripple across the beleaguered Anglophone region.  On the night of 29 May, 2019, the ...
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  • CameroonEditor's PicksPolitical essay

    Paul Biya’s ghostly legacy in Cameroon: The absence that shaped a nation

    By Eric Tsimi
    July 12, 2023
    In power for 41 years, the 90 year-old president has ruled mostly in absentia, a ghostly embodiment of a gerontocracy that has gifted its ...
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  • Central African RepublicPoliticsTop story

    CAR: Touadéra’s third-term plans are pushing CAR to the brink

    By David Bruckmeier
    June 22, 2023
    In his quest to remake the country in his image, President Touadéra has unleashed forces he may not be able to control. Half-way into ...
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  • AA InvestigatesCameroonEditor's PicksLong read

    Cameroon: The keyboard warlords of the breakaway republic

    By Zane Irwin
    June 5, 2023
    Two social media rivals from the Anglophone southwest, based in far-off England, have been prosecuting their own digital war – with life-and-death consequences in ...
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  • Andreas (right) with his colleagues in conservation in the Tofola Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, Cameroon.
    CameroonClimateEditor's PicksPolitics

    Meet Cameroon’s undercover conservationists

    By Shuimo Trust
    May 17, 2023
    When the Anglophone war broke out, state rangers left, militias set up camp in forests, and thousands sought refuge in areas of critical biodiversity. ...
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  • View of Lake Kivu at Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC. Photo courtesy: MONUSCO/Abel Kavanagh
    African Politics NowCongo-KinshasaEditor's PicksGreat Lakes RegionRwanda

    Lines through the lake: Why the Congo-Rwanda border can’t be redrawn

    By Gillian Mathys
    May 2, 2023
    Long-standing cultural affinities of Rwandophones in the Great Lakes may appear to bolster Kigali’s historical claims to parts of eastern Congo, but it’s more ...
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  • The Congolese National Armed Forces (FARDC) reinforce their positions around Goma following a second day (21 May 2013) of fighting against M23 elements in the town of Mutaho, about 10 km from Goma.
    Congo-KinshasaPoliticsTop story

    Back to the future in the Great Lakes: Who’s backing the M23?

    By Filip Reyntjens
    March 31, 2023
    In May 2013, the M23 surrendered to a multinational onslaught in eastern Congo-Kinshasa. Is history repeating itself?  The Congolese National Armed Forces (FARDC) reinforce ...
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  • Cobalt Red. Miners washing copper ore in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Fairphone.
    ClimateCongo-KinshasaTop story

    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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