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  • In the rainforest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit: Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR.
    Climate crisisCongo-KinshasaEconomyEditor's Picks

    Congo’s oil auction: foiling climate colonialism or filling the coffers?

    By Kristof Titeca, Catherine Windey & Olivier Bahati Mastaki
    August 23, 2022
    The DRC has two main goals in selling oil blocks that overlap with the world’s second largest rainforest. Neither involves developing oil. On 28-29 ...
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  • President Emmanuel Macron of France during his three-country tour in Africa. Credit: Présidence de la République du Bénin.
    CameroonEditor's PicksPolitics

    Liberté, Egalité, Impunité

    By Billy Burton
    August 16, 2022
    Cameroon’s courting of Russian support has left France on the back foot.  Emmanuel Macron landed in Cameroon last month as the first French president ...
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  • The violent eviction of the Maasai community in Tanzania to create a game reserve recently drew widespread shock and condemnation. Credit: Dylan Conway.
    Climate crisisEditor's Picks

    Fortress conservation is heading for a crisis that can’t come soon enough

    By Simon Counsell
    July 28, 2022
    Governments “protect” wildlife from the very people who have conserved it for centuries, while allocating mining concessions in the same areas. Outside Africa, many ...
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    What will it take for monthly rent payment to work in Nigeria?

    By Immaculata Abba
    July 27, 2022
    Nigerians currently have to shell out a whole year’s rent in advance. Many renters want this to change, but landlords will need reassuring.   Renting ...
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    CultureEditor's PicksPoliticsZimbabwe

    “Zimdancehall is dead”: Critics say ghetto sound was sold for a song

    By Kennedy Nyavaya
    July 21, 2022
    Zimdancehall was once known for its revolutionary lyrics. Now its singers are hyping up businessmen in songs and performing at Zanu-PF rallies. What started ...
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  • Mahamat Déby, Chairman of the Transitional Military Council and President of Chad on an official visit to Rwanda in March 2022. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    ChadEditor's PicksPolitics

    Chad’s transition to nowhere

    By Ine Van Severan & David Kode
    July 20, 2022
    15 months into an 18-month transition, there are few signs of it ending. And the Western-backed interim president is acting a lot like his ...
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  • Eritreans Biniam Girmay wins the Gent-Wevelgem men's elite race in March 2022, becoming the race's first African winner.
    CultureEditor's PicksEritreaSociety

    Why are there no Black riders in the Tour de France?

    By Georgia Cole & Temesgen Futsumbrhan Gebrehiwet
    July 13, 2022
    The answer is not a lack of talent, as Eritrea’s long history of producing worldclass cyclists attests. On the 17 May, Eritrea made headlines ...
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  • A man in Benghazi holds a picture of King Idris in the midst of the Libyan Uprising in 2011. Credit: Maher27777
    Editor's PicksLibyaPolitics

    Libya: A country in need of a king?

    By Ashraf Boudouara
    July 12, 2022
    Restoring a symbolic monarch may sound anachronistic, but after a decade of division and chaos, it makes perfect sense to many Libyans. More than ...
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  • Typical coping strategies such as a nomadic lifestyle are inadequate to handle what is potentially the worst food crisis in Somalia's recent past. Credit: UNDP Somalia.
    Climate crisisEditor's PicksSomalia

    Somalia faces worst humanitarian crisis in recent history

    By Mukesh Kapila
    June 23, 2022
    The most severe drought for 40 years, war in Ukraine, and poor governance have led Somalia to the brink. Aid raised is a fraction ...
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  • Uganda's military is engaged in Operation Shujaa in DR Congo. Credit: Credit: Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa.
    Congo-KinshasaEditor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    “Total Success”? The real goals of Uganda’s Operation Shujaa in DRC

    By Kristof Titeca
    June 20, 2022
    Joint Ugandan-Congolese military exercises may have more to do with securing roads and oil than rooting out rebels. On 16 November 2021, three suicide ...
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