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How has human smuggling changed under COVID-19?

By Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo
May 6, 2020

Concerned about the spread of the coronavirus, many smugglers, armed groups and communities are imposing their own restrictions on movement. Read all our COVID-19 ...

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Africa Insiders Morocco

Africa Insiders: Morocco slowly tightens its grip on Western Sahara

By Africa Insiders
February 6, 2020

The essentials: Morocco’s parliament has passed two laws that formalise the annexation of Western Saharan territorial waters. While this does not present a fundamental ...

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Africa Insiders Egypt Ethiopia

Africa Insiders: Egypt finds itself downstream without a paddle

By Africa Insiders
January 15, 2020

The essentials: Egypt and Ethiopia failed again to find a compromise on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive construction project on Ethiopia’s ...

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Algeria Editor's Picks Politics

“Nothing will fall from the sky”: Algeria’s Revolution marches on – Photo Essay

By Sabri Benalycherif
December 18, 2019

In February 2019, Algerians took to the streets in the country’s largest demonstrations since independence. This began a movement, known as Hirak or the ...

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Ghana Libya Society Top story

“Here we have no life”: The migrant workers persevering in Libya

By Hans Lucht
December 17, 2019

Despite the risks, the plan for Ghanaian workers in Libya is straightforward. Survive, earn, return. Before Kaye and his crew of Ghanaian migrant workers ...

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Libya Rwanda Society

Refugees: Rwanda helps hundreds, but thousands more languish in Libya

By Sophie Neiman
November 7, 2019

International policy towards refugees tends to ignore root causes and often makes humanitarian crises worse. In the last month or so, nearly 200 refugees ...

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Africa Insiders Egypt

Africa Insiders: In Egypt, protests return to the streets

By Africa Insiders
October 10, 2019

The essentials: Seven years after the revolution and five years after the military coup that brought President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to power, another wave ...

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Algeria Editor's Picks Politics

Algeria’s establishment wants quick elections. Protesters see it as a trap.

By Faten Aggad
September 12, 2019

Months after huge demonstrations toppled President Bouteflika, the ruling establishment is taking steps towards speedy elections. On Friday 6 September, pro-democracy protesters took the ...

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Editor's Picks Egypt Red Sea Sudan

Cash and contradictions: On the limits of Middle Eastern influence in Sudan

By Alex de Waal
August 1, 2019

Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt have been heavily involved in Sudan following al-Bashir’s downfall. But not everything is going their way. In Sudan, ...

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Africa Insiders Tunisia

Insiders Insight: Tunisia’s president dies. What now?

By Africa Insiders
July 31, 2019

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 ...

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