Society
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Dance with the Devil: Europe finances Libyan militias to curb migration
By empowering Libyan warlords and constraining NGO rescue missions, migrant numbers to Italy have halved. But at what cost? On 10 May, in the ... -
Transforming Liberia’s media: Time to pay our own “transport costs”
Spelling errors, lack of independence, and “stipends” for covering events are commonplace in Liberia’s media. We decided to do something about it. On a ... -
Rwanda: Revisiting the Rusatira Affair
The arrest then release of Colonel Rusatira is often held up as an example of false accusations against genocide suspects. But a new look ... -
A forgotten community: The little town in Niger keeping the lights on in France
Welcome to Arlit, the impoverished uranium capital of Africa. From Niamey, the capital of the landlocked West African nation of Niger, we call ahead ... -
As CAR peace deal unravels, uncertainty looms for thousands of child soldiers
A ceasefire agreed in June aimed at halting the Central African Republic’s five-year conflict barely lasted 24 hours. The ancient gilded room of a ... -
Visiting Boko Haram territory
An excerpt from Helon Habila’s new book, The Chibok Girls. Three days before my trip to Chibok, I had flown into Maiduguri, the capital ... -
Mali: The stoning that didn’t happen, and why it matters
Most media accounts depict an unequivocal reign of terror under Islamist rule in northern Mali. That’s inaccurate in some important ways. On 17 May, ... -
Ethiopia was colonised
We kept the imperialists at bay, but it wasn’t enough. Like many African countries that were colonised by the British, Ethiopia’s educational system strongly ... -
Legal invisibility was the best thing to happen to me
I became an undocumented migrant at age six and it changed my life. For the millions of undocumented migrants across the globe, life unfolds ... -
Shuffering and shmiling through Lagos’ elitist 50-year celebrations
Where were the poor, Igbos and other minorities in the state’s 50-day birthday party? Lagos state, Nigeria’s economic and commercial capital, turns fifty this year. To ...
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