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  • SocietyUganda

    Get Rich or Die Trying: The Chinese multinational scamming millions from Ugandans

    By James Wan
    January 31, 2017
    Thousands of people in Uganda have signed up to a company believing it will cure all their illnesses and help them make a fortune. ...
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  • EconomyLibyaSociety

    People smuggling in Libya: You can’t bomb away a problem of economics

    By Tuesday Reitano & Mark Shaw
    January 25, 2017
    Europe seems to think force and arms are the solution to reducing people smuggling in the volatile and fluid Libya. Even Gaddafi knew better. Back ...
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  • SocietyUganda

    “You belong to Joseph Kony”: How Dominic Ongwen and others became child soldiers

    By Ledio Cakaj
    January 24, 2017
    Testimony from a former child soldier of the Lord’s Resistance Army highlights the moral and human complexity of Ongwen’s case at the ICC. Earlier ...
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  • EconomyNigerSociety

    In Niger, anti-smuggling efforts risk trading one crisis for another

    By Peter Tinti
    January 13, 2017
    The migrant smuggling industry has brought jobs, stability and wealth to northern Niger. Which is why countering it is fraught with risk. With unprecedented ...
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  • NigeriaSociety

    Digital tech: improving access to education in Nigeria [Haller Prize 2nd place]

    By Patrick Egwu Ejike
    January 6, 2017
    This entry was awarded 2nd place in the 2016 Haller Prize for Development Journalism. In the third annual edition of the competition, professional and amateur journalists from across sub-Saharan ...
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  • EconomySociety

    African manufacturing its own hardware: BRCK internet in a box [Haller Prize 3rd place]

    By Tinashe Mushakavanhu
    January 6, 2017
    This entry was awarded 3rd place in the 2016 Haller Prize for Development Journalism. In the third annual edition of the competition, professional and amateur journalists from across ...
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  • SocietySouth Sudan

    As thousands flee South Sudan every day, donors must shell out more than just hollow promises

    By Tendai Marima
    November 29, 2016
    In Uganda, transit centres are massively over-crowded and rations are thinly stretched. Moreover, unless more support is provided, things will only get worse as ...
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  • Society

    How to put the ‘African’ back into African Studies

    By Celia Nyamweru
    November 2, 2016
    From 1993 to 2013, the proportion of articles written by Africa-based scholars plummeted in two leading journals. Why? Earlier this year, a new piece of ...
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  • Society

    Review: Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour – by Peter Tinti and Tuesday Reitano

    By James Wan
    October 18, 2016
    European leaders conflating human traffickers and human smugglers is not just inaccurate. It speaks to the ignorance and/or deliberate manipulation of facts at the ...
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  • Society

    Claims of “China’s Afrophobia” show we need new ways to think about race and racism

    By Roberto Castillo
    August 12, 2016
    Racism in the West and racism in China are not the same thing. Is Afrophobia really on the rise in China? Roughly two months ...
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