Nigeria’s presidential power plays
It’s early days, but Nigeria is already kicking into election gear ahead of February’s presidential poll
Is the UK passing the buck on migrants?
The UK’s plan to outsource the processing of migrants to Rwanda has drawn strong criticism, with detractors raising concerns about cost, sustainability and the ...
Are China and the US set for a new ‘Cold War’?
Internationally, all eyes are on Russia and Ukraine. But global politics may take a decidedly frigid turn if the US and China ‘decouple’ — and that seems ...
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Aid trickles into Tigray as starvation looms
Rights organisations fear a repeat of Ethiopia’s deadly 1984 famine amid conflict in Tigray
No justice for Zimbabwe’s ‘disappeared’
It’s seven years since Itai Dzamara disappeared after stepping out for a haircut. He's one of legions of Zimbabwe’s ‘vanished’
The state of the world’s human rights
International lobby group Amnesty International released its annual report on human rights around the world this week. Issues surrounding Covid were front and ...
Inside Bothwell Mazarura’s journey to top mining executive
From a corner of rural Zimbabwe to the corner office, Kumba’s CFO has come a long way in his corporate finance career. And he’s had to grapple with some deep ...
Belgium’s AfricaMuseum has a reckoning with the past
Belgium’s AfricaMuseum shut its doors for five years as it came to terms with the brutality of the country’s colonial past. Now it’s turning its focus to ...
Harare’s health-care brain drain
The pandemic has ramped up international demand for qualified health-care workers. That’s been something of a boon for Zimbabwe’s underpaid nurses and ...
Ethiopia: a wounded land
As Ethiopia’s war in Tigray drags on, SA has promised a helping hand to the beleaguered region
Copper gets a Zambian tax boost
Zambia has introduced a friendlier minerals tax regime as it hopes to ramp up copper production to take advantage of the commodity boom
What will become of Kenya’s refugees?
About 430,000 refugees and asylum-seekers in Kenya face an uncertain future after the decision to shut the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps by the end of June
Burkina Faso: a sorry state
Last month’s coup in Burkina Faso is the latest in a long line of unconstitutional changes of government in the West African country and the region. Threats of ...
How Covid decimated Lesotho’s textile industry
Lesotho’s textiles sector — the biggest employer after government — has been gutted by the pandemic. Women workers are bearing the brunt of the hardship
Polls and pessimism: outlook for Africa in 2022
It looks like more of the same for Africa in 2022, as long-running conflicts drag on, post-coup transitions are delayed and the continent gets set for some ...
A cautious shift in Africa-China relations
China’s relations with Africa could be moving towards private sector-led development as the country looks to reduce risk — reputational and otherwise — in its ...
Behind the long, long wait for a Zimbabwean passport
Zimbabwe has brought down its passport backlog from 400,000 last August to about 185,000. But accessing travel documents quickly is a prohibitively expensive ...
Recalling Seychelles’ coup de farce
It’s 40 years since one of the more bizarre incidents in SA’s history: Col ‘Mad’ Mike Hoare’s attempted coup in the Seychelles
Eswatini: hoping for a miracle
Religious leaders from Southern Africa are hoping to achieve what has so far proved impossible: getting Eswatini’s conflicting parties around the negotiating ...
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