A cache of leaked documents has exposed a sprawling foreign influence network operating across 34 African countries, revealing how Africa’s political space is being quietly reshaped through disinformation, elite capture and engineered narratives. The revelations force a reckoning with the continent’s own vulnerabilities and with the manufactured solidarities that have seduced parts of Africa’s political […]
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