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  • Plaque Commemorating Kicukiro Technical Training Center, Formerly the Ecole Technique Officielle (ETO), Kicukiro. Credit: Adam Jones.
    RwandaSociety

    Rwanda: Revisiting the Rusatira Affair

    By Jos van Oijen
    July 24, 2017
    The arrest then release of Colonel Rusatira is often held up as an example of false accusations against genocide suspects. But a new look ...
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    A forgotten community: The little town in Niger keeping the lights on in France

    By Lucas Destrijcker & Mahadi Diouara
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    Welcome to Arlit, the impoverished uranium capital of Africa. From Niamey, the capital of the landlocked West African nation of Niger, we call ahead ...
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  • Children in the capital Bangui hold up signs reading "Peace" and "Love". Credit: UN Photo/Nektarios Markogiannis.
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    As CAR peace deal unravels, uncertainty looms for thousands of child soldiers

    By Sandra Olsson
    July 13, 2017
    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 ...
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  • Schoolboys with a school in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria. Credit: Roberto Saltori.
    NigeriaSociety

    Visiting Boko Haram territory

    By Helon Habila
    June 28, 2017
    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 ...
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  • Malians in the north pray outside in Timbuktu. Credit: United Nations Photo.
    MaliSociety

    Mali: The stoning that didn’t happen, and why it matters

    By Ferdaous Bouhlel, Yvan Guichaoua & Jean-Hervé Jézéquel
    June 21, 2017
    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, ...
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  • "Growing up in Ethiopia, fluency in English was considered a mark of progress and elite status." Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia.
    EthiopiaSociety

    Ethiopia was colonised

    By Mastewal Taddese Terefe
    June 21, 2017
    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 ...
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  • Robtel Neajai Pailey with her kids anti-corruption book Gbagba at the Africa Writes festival. Credit: Ivan Gonzalez.
    Society

    Legal invisibility was the best thing to happen to me

    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    May 31, 2017
    I became an undocumented migrant at age six and it changed my life. For the millions of undocumented migrants across the globe, life unfolds ...
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  • Otodo-Gbame in Lagos being razed.
    NigeriaSociety

    Shuffering and shmiling through Lagos’ elitist 50-year celebrations

    By Wilfred Okiche
    May 24, 2017
    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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  • 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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