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Insiders Insight: DRC Ebola crisis grows amid widespread mistrust
African Arguments is and always will be freely-accessible to everyone. But we also have a separate spin-off product called the Africa Insiders Newsletter. It consists of weekly emails with additional ... -
“I’ve not gone to school again”: The student victims of Cameroon’s crisis
For years now, students and teachers in the Anglophone regions have been prevented from going to school. It’s 8am on Monday morning in Old ... -
Inside Cameroon’s Bunker: “Different guys had different torture techniques”
African Arguments spoke to several former detainees of the notorious prison where prisoners underwent daily torture and lived in appalling conditions. A few blocks ... -
“One day Congo will explode”: What now for the DRC’s “president-elect”?
Martin Fayulu is widely believed to have been the true victor of the DRC’s 2018 elections, but is not president. We spoke to him ... -
DRC: President Tshisekedi’s leash just got a little tighter
Former President Joseph Kabila’s coalition now has overwhelming control of the Senate too. When President Félix Tshisekedi became the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) ... -
Chad social media ban reaches one-year mark
Why have Chad’s internet restrictions, which started amid anti-regime protests a year ago today, endured for so long? A year ago today, on 28 ... -
Airstrikes and “stability”: What’s the French army doing in Chad?
France is in Chad to support the “war on terror”, yet the its most recent targets have all been political rebels. Between 3 and ... -
President-on-a-Leash Tshisekedi and the DRC’s paradoxical new politics
After a long struggle, the people have (kind of but not really) got what they want with President Kabila (kind of but not really) ... -
Congo’s 2018 elections: An analysis of implausible results
What are the chances that Felix Tshisekedi really won? Early this morning, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) finally announced official but provisional results ... -
Gabon’s coup may be over, but its many crises are not
It’s not just a few soldiers that are perturbed by Gabon’s deepening political crises and President Bongo’s ill health. In the early hours of ...
