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  • Former South African president, Thabo Mbeki, observing the Nigerian presidential elections. Photo courtesy: Commonwealth Observer Group
    ElectionsNigeriaPoliticsTop story

    Nigeria’s curious voter turnout problem

    By Adebayo Abdulrahman
    March 23, 2023
    Why do Nigerian voters disappear when new technology is introduced at the polling booth?  Four presidential candidates have now filed petitions at the presidential ...
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  • Cyclone Freddy hit Blantyre, Malawi, hard earlier in March, with townships such as Chilobwe and Manja experienced the worst damage with severe mudslides. Credit: UNICEF Malawi/2023/Corporate Media
    ClimateMalawiTop story

    Cyclone Freddy dumped six months’ rain in six days in Malawi

    By Joseph Kayira
    March 23, 2023
    With the death toll rising and homelessness increasing, Malawi, already grappling with a major cholera outbreak, sends out an SOS. More than a week ...
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  • Whether it meant to or not, the IPCC is on a collision course with the capitalist class.
    ClimateEconomyTop story

    The loud part the IPCC said quietly

    By Drew Pendergrass
    March 21, 2023
    You can’t replace fossil fuels with renewables like swapping out a battery. The Global North will also have to drastically reduce its energy use. ...
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  • The scene from the city of Quelimane in Mozambique after Cyclone Freddy struck on 11 March. Credit: UNICEF.
    ClimateMozambiqueTop story

    “Nobody imagined it would be so intense”: Mozambique after Freddy

    By Alexandre Nhampossa
    March 20, 2023
    While Mozambicans count the cost after the deadly Cyclone Freddy, people in Beira continue to wait for support four years after Idai. Tropical Cyclone ...
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  • LibyaPoliticsTop story

    Libya’s captured prosecutor?

    By Khaled Mahmoud
    March 20, 2023
    Attorney-General Al-Siddiq Al-Sour grabs the headlines for his anti-corruption purge, but critics say he’s hostage to shadowy interests. Hardly a day goes by in ...
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  • Flooding from Cyclone Freddy in Morombe, Madagascar. Credit: Marie Tatiane Rasoanirina
    ClimateMadagascarTop story

    Freddy: Madagascar’s 8th cyclone in 13 months compounds climate crises

    By Velomahanina Razakamaharavo, Lalatiana Rakotondranaivo & Marc Lanteigne
    March 20, 2023
    Though it escaped the worst impacts of Freddy, it hit as Madagascar was still rebuilding from a devastating cyclone in January and six in ...
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  • A view of Kibra, Nairobi: 75% of the OpenAI sub-contracted employees were from the informal settlement, earning a fraction of the pay for double the work. Photo courtesy: Regina Hart
    OPINIONPoliticsTechnologyTop story

    The invisible labour of Africa in the Digital Revolution

    By Suzie Shefeni
    March 17, 2023
    Is it surprising that the unequal global division of labour that built Western capitalism is being reproduced on the world wide web?    A ...
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  • AI Africa. Image courtesy: Mahesh
    TechnologyTop story

    Peering into Africa’s AI future: A roadmap for digitisation

    By Topaz Mukulu
    March 17, 2023
    Africa can convert its rich cultural, biodiversity, and mineral resources into technological assets. But it must digitise them first.   AI is a ubiquitous topic ...
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  • St Charles Lwanga (01/01/1860 - 03/06/1886), chief of the royal pages and major domo to Kabaka Mwanga II. Martyred seven months after converting to Catholicism. Photo courtesy: Rachel Strohm, Namugongo, 2014.
    OPINIONPoliticsTop storyUganda

    Well-funded Riddles: Notes from Uganda’s sexual culture war

    By Kalundi Serumaga
    March 15, 2023
    As Christians fall out over gay rights, the Ugandan state, built on martyrs resisting alleged homosexuality, has some soul-searching to do. The journalist’s approach ...
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  • Photo courtesy: May Darwich
    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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