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    DijboutiRed SeaTop story

    Djibouti fiddles amid the scramble for the Red Sea

    By Amina S. Chiré, May Darwich, Jutta Bakonyi, Abdirachid M. Ismail
    March 15, 2023
    Gateway to the Indo-Pacific, Djibouti is becoming the site of a 21st century scramble for ports, military bases, and economic models.  Today’s large-scale infrastructures ...
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  • EconomyOn Food Security & COVID19Politics

    Africa’s quest for food security must be premised on continent’s realities

    By Peter Kamalingin
    December 10, 2021
    While there’s an urgent need to improve productivity, emphasis should be laid on ridding the food systems of inequality.  Lately, there have been quite ...
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  • #EndSARSEditor's PicksNigeriaPolitics

    What is the legacy of #EndSARS?

    By Zainab Onuh-Yahaya
    November 23, 2021
    “We owe the dead the debt of memory.”  A little past 9pm on 21 September 2021, Salako Pelumi and his friend John, both students ...
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  • A female farmer clears a plot in Mozambique. Credit: Jeffrey Barbee/Thomson Reuters Foundation.
    ClimateMozambiqueOn Food Security & COVID19

    Mozambique: The farmers navigating conflict, climate change and Covid

    By Tavares Cebola
    November 12, 2021
    Despite facing a triple threat with little government support, female farmers have proven surprisingly resilient. On 15 October, Alcinda Zimba, 50, gathered with fellow ...
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  • EconomyGuinea BissauOn Food Security & COVID19

    Guinea-Bissau: Where land rights are not secure for women

    By Yasmina Nuny Silva
    October 29, 2021
    Yet there is a direct link between the protection of women’s resources and food security.  At 9am in Granja de Pessubé, agricultural workers, most ...
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  • #EndSARSNigeriaPoliticsTop story

    The #EndSARS panels one year on: Was justice ever delivered? 

    By Chukwudi B. Ukonne
    October 20, 2021
    Or has it been deferred? At the start of October 2020, Nigerians in towns and cities across the country took to the streets as ...
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  • Editor's PicksEgyptRadical Activism in Africa

    Egypt’s sexual revolutionaries tackling the tyranny within

    By Mona Eltahawy
    October 20, 2021
    Meet the women and queer people sparking a revolution against the patriarchy through Arabic-language online platforms and sex toys. This article is part of ...
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  • A dilapidated billboard of former president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. Credit: Carsten ten Brink.
    AngolaEditor's PicksRadical Activism in Africa

    How the radical became normal in Angola

    By Cláudio Silva
    October 18, 2021
    When everyone knows the emperor has no clothes but no one dares say it out loud, even the smallest acts of dissent become ones ...
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  • The Women's Boat to Gaza getting ready to set sail. Credit: Rose2Rose. Muhammad Hidayatullah.
    PoliticsRadical Activism in Africa

    What is transnational solidarity, and who gets to decide?

    By Leigh-Ann Naidoo
    October 14, 2021
    A solidarity action with activists from around the world taught me how deeply power relations are embedded even in our movements.  This article is ...
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  • #EndSARSNigeriaPoliticsRadical Activism in Africa

    Africa’s revolution will be tweeted…if activists can harness the opportunity

    By Ayo Sogunro
    October 13, 2021
    With the right strategic thinking, social media can help cultivate the kind of pan-African solidarity that would’ve excited the likes of Nkrumah.  This article ...
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