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Nigeria's security forces have long been accused of brutality, harassment, extorting citizens and locking them up if they are unable to pay.

1 Jun 2020 4 minute read

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The fight to free Nigeria’s prisoners

Two-thirds of the country’s inmates haven’t even been on trial yet. Nosmot Gbadamosi speaks to an all-woman...

Senegal's President Macky Sall addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

25 May 2020 3 minute read

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Who are you calling ‘international community’?

When did the ‘international community’ become a synonym for the West, asks Nanjala Nyabola?

Illustration by Sarah John

16 Apr 2020 3 minute read

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Race and the city

Yewande Omotoso reflects on why no-nonsense Johannesburg is the place that suits her best.

While homosexuality is not illegal in Equatorial Guinea, neither is homophobia, creating a legal vacuum.

17 Feb 2020 21 minute read

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‘I didn’t want to be a mother’

Trifonia Melibea Obono records the unheard stories of queer women living in the West African state of...

DFID and the UK parliament should – at the very least – insist that investments of the kind the summit is promoting – especially those funded through ODA – are measured against a rigorous ‘development impact’ framework; that they demonstrably tackle poverty, inequality and the climate crisis, and that the money could not be spent better.

18 Jan 2020 4 minute read

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For-profit investments are not ‘development’

The British government plans to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands – and away from the world’s poorest, warns Labour...

African National Congress (ANC) election posters are seen on street poles in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

13 Jan 2020 3 minute read

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Letter from Johannesburg

Yewande Omotoso moves through the unknowable city, looking and listening.

A guard at the Mombasa terminus of the Chinese-financed SGR railway. Saturday is one of the busiest times on the line, as Kenyans travel from Nairobi to the coast to visit family.

25 Nov 2019 6 minute read

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The Beijing connection

Christine Mungai reflects on the past, present and future of the relationship between China and the African...

25 Sep 2019 6 minute read

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How to fight illegal fishing

Can fishers, coastguards and marine activists see off the thieves from powerful nations plundering the seas of West Africa...

11 Aug 2019 1 minute read

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Sierra Leone’s fight against malaria

In a series of web documentaries, Sierra Leonean citizen reporters lay bare the devastating impacts of malaria.

23 Jul 2019 3 minute read

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On Hodan Nalayeh (1976 – 2019)

Nalayeh, founder of Integration TV, was killed by al-Shabaab militants on 12 July.

4 Jul 2019 5 minute read

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Protecting the ‘lungs of West Africa’

Palm-oil corporations are threatening the rich rainforests Liberians depend on. Veronique Mistiaen hears...

3 Jul 2019 2 minute read

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Check your passport privilege

Nanjala Nyabola explains the weighty, 'anti-citizen' African bureaucracies that have their origins in the colonial period....

17 Jun 2019 3 minute read

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How a corporation patented Ethiopia’s most common staple

A Dutch company turning food in to intellectual property reveals a failed economic order, Edna Mohamed...

10 Jun 2019 4 minute read

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In Western Sahara, Europe sides with occupier over occupied

Has Europe prioritized ‘securing’ its borders over human rights? Ruairi Casey reports.

This year, South Africa marks 25 years since its first democratic elections, which ended white minority rule, made Nelson Mandela president and gave all South Africans equal political rights. Ilvy Njiokiktjien photographs the young South Africans who have known only life in the post-apartheid ‘rainbow nation’.

29 May 2019 1 minute read

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Photo essay: South Africa’s born-frees

This year, South Africa marks 25 years since its first democratic elections. Ilvy Njiokiktjien photographs the young South...

15 May 2019 4 minute read

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Forgiving the perpetrators of genocide

Hyppolite Ntigurirwa was seven years old when his father, friends and relatives were killed in the Rwandan...

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