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Capacity Substitution: How Tunisia’s Problems Became Someone Else’s Priorities
In the summer of 2023, a young man from Gafsa tried to cross the Mediterranean on a small boat. He did not make it. ... -
What Washington Agreed to Last Month
Somaliland’s president spent two weeks in Washington this month offering almost everything he has. Access to the port at Berbera. Access to the territory’s ... -
Not Energy, But Power: why Geothermal Energy Benefits Everyone in Iceland but not Kenya
This article draws on in-person interviews at Mt Suswa, Olkaria, and Menengai with Coalition for Human Rights in Development (CHRD) members and partners directly ... -
The Salvador Pass: How a Nameless Desert Gap Became a Battleground for Libya’s Warlords
A failed prisoner exchange in Niger has revealed a complex network of Libyan, Nigerien, Chadian, and Russian interests converging on one of the Sahara’s ... -
Cybersecurity is the Infrastructure Africa is Forgetting to Build
In June 2024, a ransomware attack on South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service rendered patient records inaccessible, disrupted diagnostics and forced hospitals to cancel ... -
Who Wins from Ukraine’s Drones in Mali?
On 12 September, CNN reported that around fifteen Ukrainian drone specialists are working with the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) in northern Mali. According to ... -
Ethiopia’s Foretold War Arrives
No one can claim that a return to war in Tigray and northern Ethiopia is a surprise, but it makes it no less horrifying. ... -
Breaking the Pretoria Architecture: How Ethiopia’s Fragmented Wars Converged into a Single Existential Threat
When the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement was signed in November 2022, international observers prematurely celebrated the end of one of this century’s most ... -
Reading Okot p’Bitek through eyes taught to look away
In 1931, Okot p’Bitek was born in Gulu, northern Uganda. It is perhaps fitting that a man who would spend much of his life ... -
There’s No Conspiracy in the Sahel — There’s a Gap, and Bamako Knows How to Use It
A familiar claim keeps surfacing in the rhetoric of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s ruling juntas, echoed enthusiastically by Russian state media: the West ...
