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After the Revolution, Before the War: Tracing Khartoum’s Syrian Community
On 18 March 2023, Arwa Ahmed, an architect, and photographer of the Sudanese revolution, and I stood chatting in the shade of the Grand ... -
The War in Sudan and the Challenges of Mediation
Less than two months after Sudan’s war began in April 2023, the then African Union (AU) Commission chair, Moussa Faki Mahamat, called it the ... -
Why Sanctions Are Not Stifling Sudan’s War Economy and What We Can Do About It
Since the outbreak of the brutal civil war in Sudan in April 2023, the US, British, and Canadian governments, along with the European Union ... -
Capacity Substitution: How Tunisia’s Problems Became Someone Else’s Priorities
In the summer of 2023, a young man from Gafsa tried to cross the Mediterranean on a small boat. He did not make it. ... -
African Newsrooms Can No Longer Delay Creating the Conditions for Women to Stay
When one Black South African journalist decided to leave the profession after only four years, she did not walk away because she had stopped ... -
The Salvador Pass: How a Nameless Desert Gap Became a Battleground for Libya’s Warlords
A failed prisoner exchange in Niger has revealed a complex network of Libyan, Nigerien, Chadian, and Russian interests converging on one of the Sahara’s ... -
When the Grave Digs Itself: Rejecting Zimbabwe’s Legislative Coup. Canon Collins 2026 essay winner
This piece is the winner of the Canon Collins 2026 essay competition. The annual competition invites essays that demonstrate thought leadership and offer fresh ... -
When protecting local traders turns foreigners into targets
On Dennis Pritt Road in Nairobi’s Kilimani district, long queues formed outside the Burundian embassy on 7 September. People were waiting for laissez-passers, temporary ... -
Mineral Beneficiation: A Pipedream of Prosperity in an Unequal Financial Architecture
Since 2023, 14 African countries have introduced export restrictions on unprocessed critical minerals, requiring “local beneficiation” – or in-country processing and manufacturing – prior ... -
Why Lesotho’s remittance ‘safety net’ was never really its own, and why it is failing again in 2026
Lesotho is two years into a national state of disaster: US tariffs have gutted its garment factories, unemployment has passed 30%, and its main ...
