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Review: Outsourcing academia

Kenyans are changing how they get their news

Up and up, and soon the top

Boats to nowhere

Done dirty: Nigerians pay a premium for super dodgy fuel

First woman president crowned after peaceful poll

Horrific end to ‘Dear Leader’ football match

French foreign lesions: This reckoning is overdue

It’s the stupid economy

Review: The spirit of our past stalks their corridors

Give us our data back, says AU

We must lead the world or be damned

The Last Resort: So close to Fortress Europe’s African outposts, yet so far

The Beeb says Babs is best – no lie detected

Mozambique: Hubris among the elites, chaos on the streets

Coup de Latte: Inside Uganda’s coffee wars

Tumaini at 10

Review: When love goes south

Another COP, another ‘incineration pact’

Niger: Words over war

The rich better have Malawi's money

African negotiator mysteriously dropped from key climate negotiations

Free movement – if the price is right

Review: Oh, to be young and this naïve

If the state won’t fix it, well ... you know the drill

Kenyan fight against GM crops heads to the appeal court

Men seek climate equity by speaking over women

Behold, the agenda of Western media

Stolen artefacts and time’s harsh march forward

Meet the man who probably should be Mozambique's president

Frelimo well placed to win constitutional long con

Mozambique: A presidential guide to stashing dodgy cash

Erdoğan wins again with Senegal deal

South Africa's brutal response to illegal miners

Review: A ride through Paris – and life – with Souleymane

Dehumanising hospitals fail mothers with impairments

Photo Essay: The scars we bear

Trump’s return is Africa's signal to move on

The beginning of the end of the liberation party era

Mozambique: Aluta continua in the capital

Community is everywhere – even in Silicon Valley

Little big men’s fiefdom woes

Photo Essay: Go jump

A new Dark Age is here

Libya has avoided another civil war – but only just

Goïta appears ready to give elections a go

‘The Guv’ who shaped South Africa’s economy

Cameroon’s president is very old and missing in action

Dock Sud, Buenos Aires

Kenya’s divided house

The ‘Better Question’ is …

Akufo-Addo has dug himself into a political hole

Combat drones are changing how war is waged in Africa

Ethiopia: We knew a massacre had taken place. But we did not know where – until now

Photo Essay: Brass roots

No water, no power and soon no more food, either?

Killer musicians are ripping Lesotho apart

Three African countries are fuelling Israel’s war

‘How can we rebuild?’

African women are online – but at what cost?

Review: In defiance of loss, we love

To internal conflict, add internal conflict

RSF determined to leave no war crime untried

Man kills Olympian. Again.

Round and round on the carousel of big egos we go

Tanzania is at a dangerous crossroads

Israeli jets continue to traumatise African migrant workers

Drought, and the neighbours who can’t get along

Your friendly neighbourhood Ethio-Spider-Man!

The panic behind Botswana’s big, sparkly diamond show

Bill Gates, Big Agriculture and the fight for the future of Africa’s farmland

Dereliction of duty

Ulrich Chomche is cut from a new African cloth

Serving Putin – without even knowing it

Mpox declaration marks a key shift in global health

How Wall Street fleeces African countries coming and going

RSF coerces adults, sends child soldiers to fight its war

Malawi: Who is left to police the police?

South Sudan is revelling in its Olympic joy

Review: Cruelty stings like sand in a desert breeze

Nigeria: How Tinubu brings hungry people to heel

Oh, but how quickly the glory fades

Angola: Vandalism law seen as backdoor attack on dissent

Cameroon: Older leader, thinner skin

Kenya’s government has a blueprint for digital tyranny. It is working – for now.

Africa’s identity crisis

Confusion, then defiance: Algeria rallies around Imane Khelif

Islamophobic violence rips through England

Letsile Tebogo is his mother’s son

Toumani Diabaté 1965-2024

Symphony of dreams

The misadventures of Russian mercenaries in Mali

From Soweto to the sea

Review: Of ghosts and women

Botswana: Government moves to fund political parties

Chocolate rush sparks land disputes

Being intersex in Malawi

Justice is an urban affair in Nigeria’s insecure north

African Olympians to watch

Meet the people in the machine

DRC: Is anyone paying any attention?

Review: Mami Wata and the surge of a risen tide

Remembering the past to feed the present

Chatbots can’t save broken health systems

Tankers of death

Macky Sall’s controversial parting gift

Biniam Girmay’s amazing race

Review: Slow burn, fast rise

The jury is out: Swift justice or guaranteed guilt?

The political education of William Ruto

Kenya: Life is cheap when police turn on the people

Christoph Huber: Accused of DRC war crimes but living easy in South Africa

East or West, home may be the least bad option

‘The best president Malawi never had’

We were all waiting for Saulos Chilima

The Ethiopian prime minister’s new home

Review: Digging up history’s skeletons

Uganda cricket triumphs in spite of its sticky wicket

Photo Essay: Troubled waters

Stuck with a ‘lazy’ government, Mathare is reclaiming the spirit of harambee

This is not child’s play

Broke, hungry and angry

Review: 'A Tribe Called Judah' — a billion-naira blockbuster

Photo Essay: The Escape

Under Tinubu, journalists are as unsafe as ever

Sudanese refugees abandon UN camp in protest

Medicine for the money, not for the ‘few’ lives it’d save

Zimbabwe: The not-so-secret ploy for presidential perpetuity

Stealing the American dream – one bicycle at a time

Tinubu's first year: Good choices, bad outcomes, harder lives

Review: Intrigue and wonder in a surreal Zaire

Washington completes the Disneyfication of William Ruto

Morocco: The ‘desert dump’ for migrants

Photo Essay: On the campaign trail

Blame the neighbours, build a bigger wall

Zuma’s revenge

South Africa is (still) ANC country

Has Tanzania really become more democratic?

Diamonds are not forever

For years, Bobrisky’s hyper-popularity protected her. Until it didn’t.

Bury the hatchet today, hatch a plot to bury each other tomorrow

The complex history of Addis Ababa’s Piassa is being erased

Nairobi’s high-rise future unsettles its upmarket neighbourhoods

The promises of Kenya’s politicians ring hollow

Review: Climbing higher but going under

Hurry while Lake Malawi’s beaches last

Photo Essay: The True America

Biden or Trump? (That’s the wrong question)

The ‘elections’ in Togo were a demoralising charade

Africa’s biggest-ever media deal opens the door to far-right nonsense

Review: Imperfection is future-proof

Mauritius: A democracy in danger

‘Rwanda deal’ made possible by legislating lies into reality

Zambia: Men offside, but women in penalty box

Facebook aids and abets Somalia’s war against journalists

Photo Essay: Adrift

Benna Buluma, 1966-2024

Kenya: Burst dams, washed-away bridges and lost lives

Hunter’s helm sharpens his Netflix spear

Eswatini: Opposition may not oppose – and might be murdered

How to tell a bedtime story in South Africa

Yemen: The grass isn’t greener across the sea

Baby it’s dark outside

Niger: Those who can, leave

Chad: Daddy issues

Critics of Burkina Faso's junta keep ending up on the front lines

Review: Marooned in the mountains

Being South Sudanese

Sudan: One year of war

Sudan: A fractured life in limbo

Malawi: The climate crisis is pushing food farmers into starvation

Photo Essay: Heavy mettle

Review: Tyla steps up, tunes in with toned-down aquabatics

Senegal: New president, new cabinet, same limits on women

How do you pass a test on a computer if you’ve never used a computer before?

Egypt: New roads, old problems

Potato kebabs, onion soup: inflation hits Egypt's Ramadan menus

Senegal: The election everyone’s been waiting for

Review: The House of Mouse builds a new future in Lagos

Britain sends scapegoats to the slaughter

Angola: ‘This is not North Korea’

Photo Essay: Ramadan kareem!

Hemedti: The most powerful man in Sudan

Nigeria: Stolen youth

For the Springbok Women, the try line is finally in sight

Taking us for a spin

Haiti is still being punished for overthrowing slave-owners

Africa’s sportspeople deserve a level playing field

Review: Migrants are people too

Ecowas blinks first in coup belt face-off

Sudan: Artists in exile

Smokes and mirrors: How Big Tobacco may have avoided Malawi’s taxman

Foot down on the gas as biofuel promises blow in the wind

Photo Essay: An uneasy, uncertain refuge from Sudan’s war

As the war rages on, the resistance committees are keeping Sudan’s revolution alive – but only just

Review: Body shocks in a new breed of Afrofuturism

Photo Essay: Documenting the streetwise life of Kampala’s people

Opioid crisis brings pain and death to Ghana's north

Ghana: Anti-gay bill becomes an imperialism loop problem

Defending the naira with guns

Kenya: The daunting reality of ‘clean fuel’

Review: Gritty Kitchen cooks with plots ’n plans

Tech is already being used to manipulate us

Go well Kelvin Kiptum

First Cousin of Finance disinherited from Cabinet

Booze ban bruises liquor likers’ spirits

Ghana won’t walk its talk on shipbreaking regulations

Maria Ressa: ‘We are no longer living in the same shared reality’

Deadly climate milestone passed

Review: Egypt's revolution is neither dead nor done

Sudan: The massacres will not be tweeted

Europe brewed its ‘migrant crisis’

An Afcon for the ages

Macky Sall’s latest choice is less murky when seen through oil and gas

The love caravan of Harare

Rome’s bid to make Africa an offer it can’t refuse

Nairobi keeps shrinking for the real hustlers

Leaders flail as women rage in battle for their lives

Why did South Africa’s president gladhand a genocidal general?

Ruto’s carbon dream is a nightmare for the people of the forest

Africa at Sundance: History in the making, and in the unmaking

William Ruto: Less hustle, chief

Photo Essay: Saving the pangolin

Germany has learnt nothing from its terrible history

New year, new hue

The warlord’s victory lap

Hope and hesitancy as malaria vaccinations begin

TB Joshua’s undying appeal

South Africa said that Israel is on the wrong side of history – and the World Court agreed

Photo Essay: A holy celebration to start the year

Inside the memories of people who lived Congolese history

Football is far too relaxed about being used for sportswashing

Afcon is for us – Afcon is us

Abiy’s port in a storm

Inside the ‘African quality’ fuel scandal