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  • A farmer cultivates teff in Doyogena District, Ethiopia. Credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith.
    ClimateEconomyEthiopiaTop story

    “Genetic havoc”: Five reasons to be concerned about gene-edited teff

    By Million Belay
    May 3, 2023
    A US research centre has created a new variety of teff, raising unanswered questions over its safety, ownership, and climate implications. Last month, the ...
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  • ClimateEconomySouth AfricaTop story

    Farmworkers feel heat as SA wine industry eyes climate change

    By Matthew Hirsch & Chris de Beer-Procter
    April 27, 2023
    As vineyards strategise to keep the famous export flowing, farmworkers – seven of whom died recently of heat stroke – fear more extreme conditions. ...
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  • Paul Kagame profile pic
    OPINIONPoliticsRwandaTop story

    Rwanda, too, needs to make amends

    By Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
    April 25, 2023
    Rwanda accuses Congo-Kinshasa of being unable to put its house in order; it, too, must deal with the refugee question, 245,000 of whom are ...
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  • OPINIONTop storyUganda

    Open letter from leading scientists and academics to President Museveni: “the science is clear – homosexuality is natural and normal”

    By Various co-signatories
    April 20, 2023
    Dear President Museveni, You recently made a call for a scientific opinion to establish if homosexuality is natural, or learned – to help you ...
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  • The men in suits are back in their combat fatigues: Composite picture of head of the Rapid Support Forces, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Hemedti', and Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who has led Sudan since 2019. Courtesy Wikicommons, and credit for Hemedti photo (Russian Federation), and Burhan (Govt of Azerbaijan).
    Conflict & CrisisSudanTop story

    What Will Happen in Sudan?

    By Nick Westcott
    April 19, 2023
    The current crisis exposes the motives of the men with guns. It requires, paradoxically, the intervention of a distracted international community that has done ...
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  • The National Elections Commission, Monrovia, Liberia.
    ElectionsLiberiaPoliticsTop story

    Is Liberia heading towards an electoral crisis?

    By Robtel Neajai Pailey and Oscar Bloh
    April 15, 2023
    A suspicious census, a cash-strapped electoral commission and voter eligibility based on phenotype signal a dubious October election.  Six months before high-stakes presidential and ...
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  • Trevor Vusumuzi Ncube, founder of Alpha Media Holdings, in 2017. Courtesy: Naeemcoza
    PoliticsTop storyZimbabwe

    In Zimbabwe, a struggling media is a target for capture

    By Derick Matsengarwodzi
    April 11, 2023
    With elections looming, private media, once staunch critics of the ruling party, are increasingly open to elite persuasion. Harare, Zimbabwe – A recent exposé, ...
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  • In the midst of the violence in northeastern Nigeria, INEC established 61 voting centres as a safer alternative for IDPs in camps in Zamfara to vote. Photo courtesy: Commonwealth Observer Group 2023.
    ElectionsNigeriaPoliticsTop story

    How Nigeria avoided organised violence during the 2023 elections

    By Imrana Buba
    April 6, 2023
    Super Camps and military vigilance in the North, and Peter Obi’s candidature in the southeast quelled much potential violence.   In the 2015 presidential elections, ...
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  • The Congolese National Armed Forces (FARDC) reinforce their positions around Goma following a second day (21 May 2013) of fighting against M23 elements in the town of Mutaho, about 10 km from Goma.
    Congo-KinshasaPoliticsTop story

    Back to the future in the Great Lakes: Who’s backing the M23?

    By Filip Reyntjens
    March 31, 2023
    In May 2013, the M23 surrendered to a multinational onslaught in eastern Congo-Kinshasa. Is history repeating itself?  The Congolese National Armed Forces (FARDC) reinforce ...
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  • Arrival of refugees from Libya to Rwanda on an UNHCR/AU evacuation flight. Photo courtesy: Rwanda High Commission, London.
    Govt op-edRwandaRwanda-UK PartnershipTop story

    Why we’re taking the UK’s asylum seekers: Rwanda’s explanation

    By Johnston Busingye
    March 29, 2023
    Our detractors have chosen to misconstrue the reasons behind our partnership with London, not least one of our neighbours.  In the years preceding and ...
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