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Cambridge Analytica – the disbanded data analytics company that allegedly used its software to create and disseminate hateful and inciting messages – in relation to Trump and Brexit, the company also played a nefarious role disseminating fake news in Africa. In Nigeria, it tried to influence the 2015 election

5 Nov 2018 3 minute read

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Fake news is not just a Western problem

Misinformation is rife, but it’s nothing new, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

20 Jan 2021 4 minute read

Country profile: Namibia

Last profiled in 1991, Namibia’s now younger electorate is calling for jobs and land justice amid a Covid-19-induced...

27 Dec 2020 2 minute read

‘Let them own their country’

Liam Taylor on the popstar politician taking on a ‘horrifying’ election battle in Uganda.

23 Dec 2020 5 minute read

Explosive mix

As big international players eye up Mozambique’s natural gas reserves, a storm of conflict brews for local communities. ...

8 Dec 2020 2 minute read

The assault on journalists is an assault on democracy

Chin’ono’s crime was using Twitter to criticize Zimbabwe’s government, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

1 Dec 2020 3 minute read

Letter from Johannesburg

Yewande Omotoso ponders how belonging to a city goes beyond the bald fact of living in it.

Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, and discover a movement for change in full swing.

28 Oct 2020 1 minute read

Mothers of the revolution

Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar...

28 Oct 2020 3 minute read

Letter from Johannesburg

Green medicine: Yewande Omotoso’s apartment is slowly being taken over by plants, much to her delight.

Health workers in action at the Mpilo Central Hospital Covid19 Testing laboratory. Bulawayo, 25 April 2020. Credit: KB Mpofu / ILO

12 Oct 2020 2 minute read

Doctors priced out

Joylean M Baro on how Zimbabwean doctors on the frontlines of Covid-19 care have been...

Newly displaced people waiting by the side of the road after fleeing attacks in Barsalogho, in northcentral Burkina Faso. TOM PEYRE-COSTA/NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL

8 Oct 2020 2 minute read

Burkina Faso: coming undone

Sam Mednick on Burkina Faso’s unfolding humanitarian crisis.

5 Oct 2020 5 minute read

‘I was ready to do whatever it took to bring peace’

Death threats delivered by bleeding amputees were not enough to deter Betty Bigombe from trying to make...

17 Sep 2020 5 minute read

To fight Covid-19, Africa must reclaim its economic sovereignty

A global coalition of economists calls for a radical shift in Africa’s economic policy, one rooted in sovereignty and...

16 Sep 2020 5 minute read

‘Young people in our country need care and support to thrive’

Flavia Mutamutega, Rwanda’s sole agony aunt for adolescent girls, tells...

14 Sep 2020 2 minute read

Introducing...Lazarus Chakwera

Richard Swift on the theologian-president promising to stamp out nepotism and corruption in Malawian...

31 Aug 2020 3 minute read

Why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow

Anti-blackness is still a galvanizing force in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Algers centre, Algeria. Credit: Abdelfatah Cezayirli/Pexels

16 Aug 2020 7 minute read

Algeria’s uprising: ‘The people want independence!’

The Covid-19 pandemic may have put Algeria’s revolutionary uprising temporarily on hold, but, as Hamza Hamouchene...

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