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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

Fake news is not just a Western problem

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

17 Dec 2018 6 minute read

Should the West stop giving aid to Africa?

Is aid just an extension of colonial economics? Or a lifeline for imperfect but necessary support systems?...

In Nigeria pressure on natural resources driven by climate stress, alongside government. The link must be broken with Religion and climate change

18 Dec 2018 3 minute read

Don’t privatize forests, educate the people

In rural Nigeria, religious leaders think sinful behaviour is to blame for climate change, writes Adesuwa Ero....

Cairo’s garbage problems are often solved by the Zabaleen community

22 Nov 2018 4 minute read

Pick of the heap: Cairo's wasteland

Attempts to solve Cairo’s garbage problems come up against a community whose livelihoods depend on refuse. Hisham...

6 Nov 2018 1 minute read

The rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba

The tragic, heroic story of Congo’s first prime minister. By ILYA.

14 Oct 2018 5 minute read

Standing against state violence

The powerful shackdweller’s social movement is mobilizing against assassinations in South Africa. Richard ...

10 Sep 2018 5 minute read

The UK must stop aid to failing private schools

How did we get to the point where two African countries are trying to shut down our aid funded schools? Nick Dearden...

2 Sep 2018 3 minute read

Theresa May’s dancing to the wrong tune on development

These latest announcements look like a modern-day scramble for Africa, Kate Osamor writes.

31 Aug 2018 15 minute read

Can peacebuilders end the war with Boko Haram?

Guns will only take you so far in the fight against the jihadist rebels, Hazel Healy discovers.

A youth is escorted by Kenyan police officers as dozens of houses are being demolished to make way for a new road in the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

31 Aug 2018 3 minute read

View from Africa: Progress without people

Nanjala Nyabola on Kenya’s embrace of the Chinese development model.

19 Aug 2018 3 minute read

Botswana: losing its sparkle?

Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and...

7 Aug 2018 5 minute read

Challenging exploitation in the gig economy

Global South workers in the digital platform-enabled gig economy are beginning to organize. Alex J. Wood...

Herero who survived the genocide after escaping through the Omaheke desert. Photo from the Galerie Bassenge via Wikimedia Commons.

1 Aug 2018 6 minute read

Namibia’s long fight for justice

Communities that were decimated by Germany’s forgotten genocide are now demanding justice. Gouri Sharma...

25 Jul 2018 3 minute read

Worldbeater: Isaias Afwerki

We put the President of Eritrea’s track record – liberation fighter turned ruthless dictator – under the spotlight....

A demonstrator demands her return to the Chagos Islands during a protest outside the Houses of Parliament, 2008. Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Winning

16 Jul 2018 6 minute read

Next generation of Chagos exiles resists deportation

Decades after the UK made them exiles, their children and grandchildren now face expulsion. Katie McQue...

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga anchored at the Diego Garcia naval base in the 1980s.

11 Jun 2018 7 minute read

‘Catastrophic’ explosion risk on Diego Garcia

Revealed: Ships at the controversial naval base are crammed dangerously close. Katie McQue reports.

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