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Cape Town to Cairo: a 50-day journey to see the beautiful game
A football-mad fan risks visa restrictions, protests, soldiers, travelling through the desert to support his favourite team. While most foreigners have managed to steer ... -
Stella Nyanzi: The rude vagina-poem-writing hero Uganda needs
The fearsome feminist activist is now determined to use her ongoing court case to “educate the nation”. On 9 May 2019, the Ugandan academic ... -
Eritrea and Ethiopia: A year of peace, a year of dashed hopes
Since the historic accord last year, the border has closed again and little has changed. Patience among Eritreans is wearing thin. A year ago ... -
Museveni’s new vision turns sour: A review of ‘Combatants’
William Pike met Yoweri Museveni as a rebel before running Uganda’s state-owned newspaper for 20 years. His memoir makes for illuminating reading. Back in ... -
A child’s death sentence highlights the fight over Sudan’s legal system
In both the courtrooms and on the streets, activists are calling for Sudan’s legal system to uphold human rights. On 27 August, 2013, two ... -
“I’m against all of the laws of this regime”: What Sudan’s women want
We interviewed 64 female protesters about why they are demonstrating. Here’s what they said. Throughout Sudan’s ongoing revolution, women have led the chants for ... -
A curious case of poisoning in Uganda’s poorest region
The World Food Programme has been accused of negligence after hundreds were poisoned and four people died after eating its food aid. Earlier this ... -
Insiders Insight: Top officials killed in Ethiopia failed coup attempt
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 ... -
Podcast: There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Transition
We are delighted to introduce you to the first episode of the Into Africa podcast to be created in partnership with African Arguments. Into ... -
Tanzania: The strange and worrying rise of oil-covered rapists in Kigoma
Scores of women in western Tanzania have been attacked and raped in so-called Teleza attacks. The authorities are doing little to stop them. One ...