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  • The scene from the city of Quelimane in Mozambique after Cyclone Freddy struck on 11 March. Credit: UNICEF.
    ClimateMozambiqueTop story

    “Nobody imagined it would be so intense”: Mozambique after Freddy

    By Alexandre Nhampossa
    March 20, 2023
    While Mozambicans count the cost after the deadly Cyclone Freddy, people in Beira continue to wait for support four years after Idai. Tropical Cyclone ...
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  • Flooding from Cyclone Freddy in Morombe, Madagascar. Credit: Marie Tatiane Rasoanirina
    ClimateMadagascarTop story

    Freddy: Madagascar’s 8th cyclone in 13 months compounds climate crises

    By Velomahanina Razakamaharavo, Lalatiana Rakotondranaivo & Marc Lanteigne
    March 20, 2023
    Though it escaped the worst impacts of Freddy, it hit as Madagascar was still rebuilding from a devastating cyclone in January and six in ...
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  • President Chakwera and his VP, Saulos Chilima in happier times. More recently, Chilima was arrested for corruption. Photo courtesy: Joseph Kayira
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    What next in Chakwera’s anti-corruption crusade in Malawi?

    By Joseph Kayira
    March 8, 2023
    A scandal from the last regime forced the president to fire senior officials, suspend his VP and risk breaking the ruling coalition.    The ...
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  • The British Settlers of 1820 Landing in Algoa Bay, an 1853 artwork by Thomas Baines.
    SocietySouth AfricaTop story

    Of cobblers, colonialism, and choices

    By Bridget Pitt
    February 1, 2023
    Growing up in South Africa, I was told my British colonial ancestors were a fundamentally decent lot. Researching a novel has taught me the ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema visiting the IMF in New York in September 2022. Credit: IMF Photo/Kim Haughton.
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    Why Zambia’s president is adored abroad but a disappointment at home

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 16, 2022
    Since coming to power in 2021, Hichilema has enthusiastically courted the approval of the West, often at Zambia’s expense. Despite his lack of significant ...
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  • Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga. Credit: MEAphotogallery.
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    Zimbabwe: Vice-president’s secret plan to be president stays on schedule

    By Simukai Tinhu
    December 16, 2022
    President Mnangagwa was not seriously challenged at the ZANU-PF congress. But neither was the powerful Vice-President Chiwenga. At ZANU-PF’s elective congress this October, delegates ...
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  • A nurse tests for Covid-19 during a government testing drive in Mayfair, Johannesburg, South Africa. Credit: IMF Photo/James Oatway
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    Pandemic policies in South Africa: A model of neocolonial state capture

    By Toby Green
    December 6, 2022
    AA Book Review Series: Covid and Custom in South Africa
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  • A Chipatala Cha Pa Foni hotline worker giving health care advice in Malawi. Credit: Abdullah Sayidi.
    MalawiSociety

    “I did it all on a phone”: The hotline changing health outcomes in Malawi

    By Rabson Kondowe
    November 24, 2022
    Health care in Malawi faces many challenges. A free national hotline is helping address one of them. It is mid-morning in Area 23, a ...
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  • Zimbabwe education in turmoil
    GPJSocietyZimbabwe

    Zimbabwe’s education was once the envy of Africa. Not anymore

    By Evidence Chenjerai
    November 2, 2022
    Educators during the country’s post-independence golden age wanted for nothing. Today’s teachers say they barely scrape by. It wasn’t just his well-fitted suit, the ...
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  • ANC and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa holding a farewell cocktail function for former president Jacob Zuma in 2018. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsSouth Africa

    The ANC’s power games have led it to a make or break moment

    By Jan Hofmeyr
    October 26, 2022
    As factional fighting dominates South Africa’s ruling party, it is the public that pays the cost. Ever since South Africa’s democratic transition in 1994, ...
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