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    Embracing Africa’s Green Legacy: A Letter to My Future Self

    By Elizabeth Wathuti
    September 6, 2023
    A leader in the Africa Youth Climate Assembly envisions an African climate future. Dear Future Self, As I write this letter to you, I ...
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    Revealed: Big conservation NGOs are majority governed by finance figures

    By James Wan
    August 23, 2023
    Conservationists express alarm that finance execs dominate the boards of four powerful NGOs, especially as controversial carbon markets skyrocket. New analysis has revealed that ...
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    Uganda’s boda bodas: Half a century of getting to places, madly

    By Tom Courtright
    August 20, 2023
    50-odd years ago, Ali Mayende’s innovation in the border town of Busia sparked a revolution that has become the lifeblood of East African public ...
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    Niger: The resource politics of a post-colonial revolt

    By Mohamed Kheir Omer
    August 15, 2023
    Françafrique, the opaque independence deal that supplied Africa’s resources to France, is being dismantled one coup at a time. Is Yevgeny Prigozhin the new ...
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    A mythical giant snake is helping raise climate awareness in Malawi

    By Charles Pensulo
    August 9, 2023
    Sensitive campaigners are finding that belief in Napolo, a legendary multi-headed monster, is no barrier to environmental understanding and action. In March earlier this ...
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  • Conflict & CrisisEditor's PicksEthiopiaPolitics

    How years of tension in Amhara boiled to the surface

    By Hone Mandefro
    August 4, 2023
    Deepening suspicions that Abiy was plotting against the Amhara drove the Fano rebellion against Addis Ababa. With the declaration of the state of emergency ...
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  • AlgeriaEditor's PicksPolitics

    Algeria: The Hirak and its aftermath

    By Ilhem Rachidi
    August 1, 2023
    Algerian journalists are on the frontline of an unprecedented wave of state repression against the uprising that toppled former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. On 22 ...
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  • Editor's PicksMusicTributeZimbabwe

    Zimbabwean legend, Thomas Mapfumo retires in exile

    By Percy Zvomuya
    July 14, 2023
    After five decades on the stage, one of the continent’s great musical innovators, and an outspoken critic of corrupt politics, takes his last bow ...
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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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    Africa’s struggle for environmental justice in an age of death

    By Nnimmo Bassey
    June 30, 2023
    The framework of our civilisation is premised on the destruction of the planet, with Africa as a sacrificial zone. The struggle for environmental justice ...
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