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  • Africa Climate Summit 2023ClimateOpedTop story

    The Africa Climate Summit: A matter of Ubuntu and justice

    By Wanjira Mathai
    September 4, 2023
    31 years after the inaugural climate Summit, Africa finally speaks. Articulating her own vision must be anchored in the idea of collective transformation. At ...
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  • OpedSomaliaTop story

    Understanding the local context is key to addressing fragility in Somalia

    By Liban Obsiye
    August 31, 2023
    No longer a vision of the failed state of a decade ago, for Somalia the journey from fragility to sustainability is long, tough and ...
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  • OpedPublic Health and MedicineTop story

    A drug development model for the diseases the world forgot

    By Monique Wasunna
    August 24, 2023
    Eschewing profit, over the past 20 years researchers at the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative have developed a dozen drugs accessible to the world’s ...
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  • LiberiaOPINIONTop story

    Young people are the real peacekeepers in Liberia

    By Nyema Richards
    August 18, 2023
    A generation with no memory of the civil war will be voting in October – despite their abiding loss of faith in Liberia’s politicians.  ...
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  • NigeriaOPINIONTop story

    Nigeria’s security crisis: Under Tinubu, continuity will lead to calamity

    By Ayo Adedoyin
    July 6, 2023
    President Tinubu’s response to Nigeria’s security crisis so far signals much of the same inaction. Should the UK intervene?  Nigeria may have a new ...
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  • Police quell protests in Dakar after Ousmane Sonko is given a suspended sentence for criminal libel, 16 May, 2023. Credit: Article 19 West Africa
    OPINIONSenegalTop story

    Senegal’s angry protesters are proud defenders of their democracy

    By Franklin Nossiter
    June 9, 2023
    Senegal’s protesters should be lauded for defending their country’s democracy, not condemned for fomenting chaos. Last week, Senegal, often touted as a beacon of ...
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  • CRISIS IN SUDANOPINIONTop story

    Sudan: Making pariahs of Al-Burhan and Hemedti will unlock the talks

    By Abdelmonim Omer Ibrahim
    May 25, 2023
    Until the parties feel that their financial interests are in jeopardy, they won’t be prepared to participate in genuine discussions. Although the U.S. Department ...
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  • African Politics NowOPINIONTop story

    Presidential term limits and the power of precedent

    By Aaron Sampson
    May 15, 2023
    Incumbents’ appetites for third-term runs may be waning, but they still carry hugely disruptive political legacies. Democracy activists in Senegal and Mozambique are sounding ...
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    OPINIONPoliticsRwandaTop story

    Rwanda, too, needs to make amends

    By Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
    April 25, 2023
    Rwanda accuses Congo-Kinshasa of being unable to put its house in order; it, too, must deal with the refugee question, 245,000 of whom are ...
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  • OPINIONTop storyUganda

    Open letter from leading scientists and academics to President Museveni: “the science is clear – homosexuality is natural and normal”

    By Various co-signatories
    April 20, 2023
    Dear President Museveni, You recently made a call for a scientific opinion to establish if homosexuality is natural, or learned – to help you ...
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