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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.

14 Oct 2018 5 minute read

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Standing against state violence

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

10 Sep 2018 5 minute read

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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

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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

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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

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View from Africa: Progress without people

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

Botswana

19 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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Botswana: losing its sparkle?

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

7 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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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

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Namibia’s long fight for justice

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

Isaias Afwerki

25 Jul 2018 3 minute read

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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

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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

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‘Catastrophic’ explosion risk on Diego Garcia

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

Life after Zuma

31 May 2018 2 minute read

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Life after Zuma

Zuma’s trial is just one symptom of South Africa’s problems, Neil Thompson reports.

Introducing... Abiy Ahmed

31 May 2018 1 minute read

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Introducing... Abiy Ahmed

Richard Swift on Ethiopia's new reforming PM.

Lukodi massacre museum

31 May 2018 2 minute read

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Lukodi massacre museum

Sally Hayden writes about the trauma of history.

Kabyle football

29 Apr 2018 3 minute read

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The away team

Alessio Perrone reports on Algeria’s marginalized Kabylia region, where a minority’s struggle has spilled...

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