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  • President Hakainde Hichilema meeting with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at State House in Lusaka, Zambia, earlier in 2023. Credit: IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
    PoliticsTop storyZambia

    Zambia: The president’s five-point plan to stay in power at all costs

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    June 1, 2023
    Hichilema is desperate to retain power and already has a worrying plan three years ahead of time.  Zambia’s next general election is not due ...
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  • Challenges for South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa meets President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019. Credit: GovernmentZA.
    PoliticsSouth AfricaTop story

    The two defining challenges facing South Africa

    By Nick Westcott
    May 30, 2023
    Stagnation at home and fence-sitting abroad are costing the country dearly, and the costs are only rising. South Africa is facing two fundamental challenges, ...
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    The rebirth of anti-elite land politics in Ruto’s Kenya

    By Dauti Kahura and Peter Lockwood
    May 23, 2023
    If the invasion of the Kenyatta property resurrected the ghosts of Mau Mau, where did it leave the land question in central Kenya? Northlands. ...
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  • Andreas (right) with his colleagues in conservation in the Tofola Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, Cameroon.
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    Meet Cameroon’s undercover conservationists

    By Shuimo Trust
    May 17, 2023
    When the Anglophone war broke out, state rangers left, militias set up camp in forests, and thousands sought refuge in areas of critical biodiversity. ...
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  • East Nile Hospital, Khartoum. It was bombed on 14 May allegedly by the SAF who believed it to have been a converted RSF barracks. Photo courtesy: 'Sudan Armed Forces' on Facebook.
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    Sudan: As the generals fight, who’s playing chess with the old Islamists?

    By Fathi Osman
    May 15, 2023
    The clash between Burhan and Hemedti was inevitable. In the mediation scramble, nobody can afford to side with Bashir’s Islamists. At 10 am on ...
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    Gatsa-Gatsa: Ousmane Sonko and Senegal’s politics of retaliation

    By Bamba Ndiaye
    May 15, 2023
    Sonko’s legal problems, which appear engineered to frustrate his presidential bid, could well push the country back into the street.  On May 8, 2023, ...
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  • Former PM, Alain Guillaume Bunyoni. Courtesy: By RTNB Burundi - La société croud1 ne remplit pas les normes exigées par la BRB (A.G.Bunyoni) image fixe de 00:50 seconds (www.youtube.com), CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102421448
    BurundiPoliticsTop story

    Burundi: “The president has crossed the Rubicon – there’s no turning back”

    By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse
    May 11, 2023
    In the wake of the arrest and detention of former PM Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, political observers weigh the consequences. There was some surprise when ...
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  • Spying a port through the trees in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, the site of one of Africa's biggest oil and gas projects. Credit: Sigrid Ekman.
    ClimateEditor's PicksMozambiquePolitics

    The return to Cabo Delgado: Gas, war, and the emergence of Total Land

    By João Feijó
    May 9, 2023
    While TotalEnergies remains coy about restarting the $20bn gas project, Mozambicans are coming home in the conspicuous absence of the state. In recent months, ...
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  • Protestors in Khartoum celebrating the fall of Omar al-Bashir, July 2019. Courtesy: Prachatai
    Conflict & CrisisSudanTop story

    Sudan: Revolutionary reflections, amid a raging war

    By Robert Kluijver
    May 5, 2023
    If the popular revolution of 2019 was badly undermined by its rejection of representative politics, how can it be revived? The current fighting between ...
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  • All the elections and votes in Africa in 2023
    Elections

    Africa Elections 2023: All the upcoming votes

    By African Arguments
    May 4, 2023
    A regularly updated list and interactive map of the upcoming elections in Africa in 2023.  Last updated: 4 May 2023 How to use ...
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