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  • A scam text received in Tanzania persuading the receiver to contact a ‘witchdoctor’ in order to obtain wealth, academic success, and love attraction. These scams are sometimes accompanied by fabricated testimonies. Credit: Mweha Msemo.
    SocietyTanzaniaTop story

    “Gone like it was nothing”: The irrepressible rise of mobile scams

    By Mweha Msemo
    October 25, 2022
    Despite Tanzania making SIM card registration mandatory, people still receive daily texts from fraudsters trying to trick them into sending money. Out of the ...
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  • Chinese illegal mining in the Congo Basin.
    Congo-KinshasaEconomyGPJ

    “I am powerless”: Chinese company mines with impunity in Congo Basin

    By Zita Amwanga
    October 20, 2022
    In January, officials ordered Xiang Jiang Mining to cease operations. Nine months on, the mine is still open and residents are still protesting. Not ...
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  • At a Y'en A Marre protest in Senegal in 2011. Credit: seneweb.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsSenegal

    “People will become more radical”: Senegal and the limits of protest

    By Ndongo Samba Sylla & Leo Zeilig
    October 18, 2022
    Senegal has a rich history of social movements, but they have done more to resolve political conflicts than open up new horizons…at least up ...
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  • A truck carries people from South Sudan towards the border of West Nile region, Uganda. Credit: UNHCR / F. Noy.
    SocietyTop storyUganda

    Borders areas should be used, not feared, in pandemic responses

    By Innocent Anguyo & Elizabeth Storer
    October 13, 2022
    Uganda’s experience shows how communities near borders come up with effective strategies for disease control, while resisting disruptive state ones. As Uganda continues to ...
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  • A man holds an image one of the individuals who disappeared and is still missing at a rally in Uganda. Credit: NUP.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    “Give us back our people”: the Ugandans who disappeared

    By Liam Taylor & Derrick Wandera
    October 12, 2022
    Senior officials claim not to know the whereabouts of individuals arrested nearly two years ago, as state abductions continue. On 23 August, Moses Bukenya ...
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  • The view of Maseru, capital of Lesotho, from Parliament Hill. Credit: OER Africa. elections
    LesothoPolitics

    Lesotho to vote again under unreformed system no-one wants

    By Hoolo 'Nyane
    October 6, 2022
    Efforts to reform a political system that has led to cycles of instability have failed again. Hope moves to the next parliament. The Kingdom ...
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  • Sudan constitution. Friday service at the Hamed al-Nil tomb in Omdurman, Sudan. Credit: Carsten ten Brink.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsSudan

    Sudan’s misguided fixation with finding a transformative constitution

    By Aida Abbashar
    October 5, 2022
    A constitution can only be transformative if it is powered by the people, empowers the people, and is part of a broader political project. ...
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  • Mary Phiri prepares a maize porridge, known locally as nshima, at her home in Rufunsa, Zambia, on July 18, 2022. It is her only meal of the day before she takes her antiretroviral medication for HIV. Credit: Prudence Phiri/GPJ.
    GPJSocietyZambia

    Medicine helps their HIV. Hunger makes it hard to take

    By Prudence Phiri
    September 27, 2022
    Poor harvests and pandemic-related hardships mean many Zambians living with HIV aren’t getting proper nutrition, putting them at even greater risk. Mary Phiri walks ...
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  • A shot from a previous edition of the Nyege Nyege festival in Uganda. Credit: NYEGE NYEGE.
    CultureUganda

    Nyege Nyege, Uganda’s controversial but irresistible festival, is back on

    By Amos Ochieng
    September 15, 2022
    Why does the popular music festival keep getting banned and then un-banned? First staged in 2015, the globally touted Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda ...
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  • President João Lourenço will be sworn in for his second presidential term in Angola on 15 September 2022. UNESCO/Nora Houguenade.
    AngolaPoliticsTop story

    Angola: Anatomy of a stolen election

    By Paula Cristina Roque
    September 15, 2022
    The MPLA’s crisis of legitimacy could be sowing the seeds of a revolution against itself. On 8 September, the façade of democracy in Angola ...
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