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Africas

Whispers from the Cape Flats

A searing, child’s-eye view of apartheid-era South Africa
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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
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Own goal in Tunis

A searing investigation into the (mis) management of Tunisian football
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The mud that’s killing Gabès

How a byproduct from Tunisia’s fertiliser industry has brought environmental disaster to an ecologically crucial stretch of its southern coastline—and sparked a protest movement to try to stop it
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Africa’s place in the far right imagination

How the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground
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Cabo Delgado’s forgotten daughters

In Mozambique’s war-torn north, girls fleeing conflict face a second nightmare inside displacement camps meant to protect them
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A death trade under the banner of weight loss and weight gain

In Tunisia, unregulated “miracle” supplements smuggled in from Algeria promise rapid weight changes but leave behind a trail of illness and death
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Being Bosnian

A Bosnian intellectual confronts a thorny topic: the national identity of Bosnian Muslims
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N’Djamena: Searching for gas in the Chadian capital

An ecological ban on firewood has ignited a desperate daily pilgrimage. When cooking a warm meal requires scouring the city for scarce butane, survival hangs in the balance.
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Mbabane: A cow for a king in Eswatini

As the time for the annual emaSwati ritual approaches one resident questions whether this tradition is merely a spectacle or a tool for the political elite
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The Egyptian circus and its victims

Living and dying with lions (and tigers) on the Nile
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The garage owner and the spies

A once-celebrated media personality and political fixer, Mehdi Ghezzar now finds himself sidelined as Franco-Algerian tensions have taken on a new, harder edge In an article for the French quarterly Revue

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