Africa

SADR: The Country lost in the middle of the desert

A Colombian journalist travels to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to meet the embattled people struggling against a 50-year displacement from their homeland...

Morocco’s GenZ 212 protests

Moroccan journalist “Nadia” looks at France24’s coverage of the current GenZ 212 protests and wider social discontent among Morocco’s youth we commission a journalist or commentator from beyond the Anglosphere...

Silencing the press in Ethiopia

A crackdown on press freedom is intensifying in the Horn of Africa nation Salsawit Baynesagn is the latest journalist to be detained in Ethiopia this month, according to an Amharic...

Ebola isn’t the only crisis unfolding in the DRC

How a political power struggle could distract from eradication efforts An already deadly and worsening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is compounded by the ruling government’s...

Degrees of deception  

How a private institution in Tunis sold students the dream of an internationally recognised degree, then failed to deliver When somebody tells you “university is a scam”, it’s usually a...

Whispers from the Cape Flats

A searing, child’s-eye view of apartheid-era South Africa...

The desert city holding back a war

In Mauritania’s far southeast, a refugee camp of nearly 300,000 people has become both sanctuary and buffer zone between Mali’s collapse and Europe’s borders Reporting from the edge of the...

Own goal in Tunis

A searing investigation into the (mis) management of Tunisian football On January 18 this year, Senegal won the African Cup of Nations in a 1-0 victory over Morocco in the...

Africa’s place in the far right imagination

An exploration of how the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground In “Africa in the shadow of the global far right”, German-Kenyan scholar...

Cabo Delgado’s forgotten daughters

In Mozambique’s war-torn north, girls fleeing conflict face a second nightmare, including corruption, sexual exploitation and survival prostitution – inside displacement camps meant to protect them Since 2017, the province...

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