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  • The 2018 Zimbabwe elections will be held on 30 July. Credit: @ThisFlag.
    PoliticsZimbabwe

    Is change a real option? The choice facing voters in Zimbabwe’s elections

    By Wadzanai Motsi-Khatai
    May 31, 2018
    With Zimbabwe’s main parties sounding different but looking the same, could a wave of local independent candidates bring some hope? With President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ...
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  • Madagascar. Credit: Hery Zo Rakotondramanana
    MadagascarPolitics

    Understanding Madagascar’s latest political crisis

    By Emilie Filou
    May 24, 2018
    In the last month, impeachment proceedings have begun, an unholy alliance has emerged, and the president’s accused opponents of launching a coup. When Madagascar’s ...
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  • Former president Joyce Banda has come back to Malawi following four years away. Credit: Paul Morigi.
    MalawiPolitics

    Joyce Banda’s return shakes up Malawi’s already shaky politics

    By Jimmy Kainja
    May 17, 2018
    The many contradictory rumours about the former president’s plans and potential alliances highlight the unstable nature of Malawi’s politics. After almost four years away, ...
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  • Nelson Chamisa, the new president of the MDC Alliance, at a recent rally. Credit: MDC Zimbabwe.
    PoliticsZimbabwe

    Reigning men: Where are all the women in this new Zimbabwe?

    By Mandipa Ndlovu
    May 16, 2018
    In the top circles of both the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC, women are now almost nowhere to be seen. When President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...
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  • A garment for all occasions: Zimbabwe's President Mnangagwa has been weather his favourite scarf, in fair weather and foul.
    PoliticsZimbabwe

    Zimbabwe: Why President Mnangagwa never takes off his scarf

    By Rumbidzai Dube
    May 3, 2018
    Activists’ use of #ThisFlag and the president’s use of #ThisScarf look the same, but they couldn’t be more different. Zimbabwe’s national flag has come ...
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  • Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has been in power since 2015. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsZambia

    Zambia’s opposition knows impeachment will fail. So what’s its game?

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    April 3, 2018
    The opposition’s new strategy to keep questions over President Lungu’s legitimacy in the spotlight just might work. On 23 March, Zambia’s main opposition party ...
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  • Three Billboards at a Zimbabwe bus terminal asking: "Abducted at the barber. Still no arrests. How come ED [President Mnangagwa]?" Credit: Baynham Goredema.
    PoliticsZimbabwe

    3 years on, Itai Dzamara’s still missing (aka ‘Waiting For Dad To Come Home’)

    By Upenyu Makoni-Muchemwa
    March 9, 2018
    Mugabe may have gone, but the young activist’s family is still picking up the pieces after his disappearance and are still demanding answers. On ...
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  • Mauritius. Credit: Miwok.
    MauritiusPolitics

    Africa’s little miracle nation turns fifty

    By Seán Carey
    February 19, 2018
    From apparently hopeless beginnings, Mauritius has become one of Africa’s most celebrated countries. But tough challenges are on the horizon. The story of how ...
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  • Cyril Ramaphosa. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsSouth Africa

    Forgetting Marikana: What does Ramaphosa’s rise mean for poor South Africans?

    By Saranel Benjamin
    January 10, 2018
    As director of Lonmin, the multi-millionaire saw miners striking for a living wage as criminals. Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as the ruling ANC’s president last ...
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  • ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa. Credit: GCIS
    PoliticsSouth Africa

    Boiling a frog: Ramaphosa’s patient battle for the soul of the ANC

    By Paul Nantulya
    January 9, 2018
    Ramaphosa is now president of a deeply divided party. History suggests he will move cautiously, but effectively. Cyril Ramaphosa’s dramatic election as president of ...
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