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  • The police block opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine in December 2020 during the Uganda presidential election campaign. Credit: HEBobiwine.
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Uganda: How donors can go beyond “strongly-worded statements”

    By Michael Mutyaba
    January 13, 2021
    Mild threats oblivious to how the NRM system actually operates are not enough. The recent violence meted out by the Ugandan government ahead of ...
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  • In Aksum, Tigrayan region of Ethiopia. Credit: Rod Waddington.
    EthiopiaSocietyTop story

    As a Tigrayan, my bond with Ethiopia feels beyond repair

    By Temesgen Kahsay
    January 12, 2021
    We’re told the war is not with ordinary Tigrayans. Yet as thousands suffer and our compatriots remain silent, that’s how it feels. As a ...
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  • eritrea Adigrat Street in Tigray, Ethiopia. Credit: Rod Waddington.
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    Eritrea in the Tigray war: What we know and why it might backfire

    By Martin Plaut
    January 8, 2021
    The war against the TPLF will not be quick or easy, and it already looks to be going badly for Eritrea’s president. There is ...
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  • west President Yoweri Museveni meeting with then IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in 2017. Credit: IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe.
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Museveni and the West. Relationship status: It’s complicated

    By Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss
    January 7, 2021
    President Museveni decries foreign interference yet plays to Western donors. Donors warn of Ugandan corruption yet facilitate it. Over the last few months, Uganda’s ...
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  • two school girls stand outside a shop in Arusha, Tanzania, with framed photos of Julius Nyerere displayed. Credit: Jaclynn Ashly.
    PoliticsTanzaniaTop story

    Tanzania: Remembering ujamaa, the good, the bad and the buried

    By Jaclynn Ashly
    December 17, 2020
    Julius Nyerere and his African socialist policies are regarded with great pride in Tanzania, but not by all who experienced them first-hand. Ali Hassan ...
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  • Uganda elections 2021
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Anywhere but Kampala: “I’m still in NRM but I cannot clap for bad vices”

    By Liam Taylor & Michael Woniala
    December 16, 2020
    Is the opposition making inroads in Uganda’s Eastern region ahead of the 2021 elections? We took the political temperature in three different places. High ...
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  • A new Human Rights Watch investigation into the South Sudan National Security Service found widespread instances of abuse.
    PoliticsSouth SudanTop story

    Will South Sudan rein in its notorious National Security Service?

    By Carine Kaneza Nantulya
    December 14, 2020
    The NSS has become a feared agency and a vital tool in the government’s campaign of silencing dissent. We met a young man on ...
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    “Here they’re safe”: The girls club that emerged when Kenya’s schools closed

    By Wacera Njagi & Sarah Waiswa
    December 3, 2020
    When Kenya’s school closed, many children were left more vulnerable. Some local volunteers took it upon themselves to step in. On the first floor ...
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  • south sudan horn of africa President Salva Kiir at the swearing in of South Sudan's transitional government in February 2020. Credit: UN Photo/Isaac Billy.
    EastPoliticsSouth SudanTop story

    South Sudan’s two big foreign policy questions

    By Daniel Akech Thiong
    December 2, 2020
    Amid shifting dynamics in the Horn of Africa, South Sudan finds itself caught in the middle of regional rivalries.  On 28 November, Ethiopian federal ...
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  • south sudan climate change
    SocietySouth SudanTop story

    South Sudan’s leaders can no longer stand by as climate catastrophe hits

    By Ayak Wel & Garang Achiek Ajak
    December 1, 2020
    The government has so far done little, but there are several steps it can take to deal with the nexus of floods, droughts and ...
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