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  • NigeriaSociety

    Sanusi II: Nigeria’s inheritor of tradition and unlikely would-be reformer

    By Richard Ali
    May 10, 2017
    The traditional ruler’s criticism of conservative thinking in northern Nigeria has kicked off a much-needed storm of controversy.  Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has often been a ...
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  • South Sudan press freedom
    SocietySouth Sudan

    Then they came for Al Jazeera: South Sudan press freedoms further deteriorate

    By Roger Alfred Yoron Modi
    May 5, 2017
    The free media is facing ever greater restrictions just when it is needed the most. This Monday, South Sudan’s government dealt one more blow to ...
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  • Red Cross welcomes migrants in Sicily, Italy.
    MoroccoSociety

    Italy’s deportation drive hits new low with mentally-ill African migrant

    By Leanne Tory-Murphy
    May 3, 2017
    The forced expulsion of a Moroccan student who’s been in Italy for nine years and suffers from mental health problems sets a scary precedent. ...
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  • Bidi Bidi, one of Uganda's camps for South Sudan's refugees.
    SocietySouth SudanUganda

    Are locals starting to push back in the “best place in the world for refugees”?

    By Nick Young
    April 25, 2017
    Uganda is now home to over 800,000 South Sudanese refugees and the world’s largest refugee camp. At a time in which governments across the ...
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  • EthiopiaSociety

    Ethiopia’s rubbish policies

    By Kalkidan Yibeltal
    April 11, 2017
    Last month’s landslide at a dumpsite killed 125 people. Can the next tragedy be averted? An old, broken down garbage truck stands inside the ...
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  • EastSociety

    Droughts in East Africa becoming more frequent, more devastating

    By Stephen Wainaina
    March 17, 2017
    Can the cycle be broken? If the current drought in the East Africa brings a sense of déjà vu, it’s because we’ve been here ...
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  • PoliticsSociety

    How African feminism changed the world

    By Aili Mari Tripp
    March 8, 2017
    Today as ever, African female activists are reshaping not just African feminist agendas but global ones as well. One of the great fallacies one ...
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  • Congo-KinshasaCultureSociety

    [Photo essay] 34,000 people, 1 message: Singing for peace in Goma

    By Juan Haro Simarro
    March 7, 2017
    The Amani Festival united more than 34,000 people for three days of music, dance, and culture to promote and demand peace in the still ...
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  • PoliticsSocietyUganda

    Who cares about the ICC’s trial of LRA fighter Dominic Ongwen?

    By Oryem Nyeko
    February 17, 2017
    Thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the conflict with the Lord’s Resistance Army. So why aren’t more Ugandans following the first ...
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  • NigeriaSociety

    The plight of Nigeria’s living dead

    By Tosin Osasona
    February 16, 2017
    Hundreds of Nigerians are enduring daily torture on death row as they await execution for crimes ranging from kidnapping to blasphemy. Nigeria has no qualms ...
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