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Malawi court judges win global prize

Africa Golden Matonga - 28 Oct 2020

Members of the small African country’s judiciary took a stand for democracy to international approval

Why anti-corruption campaigns are bad for democracy

Africa Nic Cheeseman & Caryn Peiffer - 27 Oct 2020

Such campaigns can draw attention to the widespread presence of the very behaviour they are trying to stamp out — and subconsciously encourage people to view it as appropriate

The European companies that armed the Ivorian civil war

Africa Khadija Sharife, Mark Anderson, Sana Sbouai & Mathieu Olivier - 27 Oct 2020

AN OCCRP investigation reveals that Gunvor and Semlex brokered weapons-for-oil deals in early 2011 when Côte d’Ivoire was in crisis, despite a UN arms embargo

Fearless Burundi MP suffers in jail

Africa Thierry Uwamahoro - 26 Oct 2020

Fabien Banciryanino, who challenged state on political murders, detained in notorious prison

Baby Awa: The miracle baby born on a boat fleeing Mozambique’s violence

Africa Luis Nhachote - 26 Oct 2020

More than 300 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by militants who ransack villages and then burn them down.

Inside the illicit trade in West Africa’s oldest artworks

Africa Lutz Mükke & Adie Vanessa Offiong - 25 Oct 2020

Nok terracottas are proof that an ancient civilisation once existed in Nigeria. Now they are at the centre of a multimillion-dollar, globe-spanning underground industry — and once again, Nigeria is losing out

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: Liberating Africa from land of liberté

Africa Samira Sawlani - 25 Oct 2020

The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home

Facebook, Instagram indiscriminately flag #EndSars posts as fake news

Africa Tolu Olasoji - 23 Oct 2020

Fact-checking is appropriate but the platforms’ scattershot approach has resulted in genuine information and messages about Nigerians’ protest against police brutality being silenced

Unite with Nigeria’s ‘Speak Up’ generation protesting against police brutality

Africa Idayat Hassan - 23 Oct 2020

Photos of citizens draped in the bloodied flag have spread around the world in the month the country should be celebrating 60 years of independence

A pan-African stand must be taken against political oppression in Tanzania

Africa Memory Kachambwa - 23 Oct 2020

As the country prepares for elections, the president is misusing state machinery to undermine, subjugate and repress citizens and civil society organisations

Catholic NGO boss accused of racism and abuse in Sudan

Africa Mohamed Amin, Ben Parker & Paisley Dodds - 22 Oct 2020

The aid worker allegedly called his security guard a ‘slave’

The natural resource curse in Cabo Delgado

Africa Nation Nyoka - 21 Oct 2020

A humanitarian crisis looms as a violent insurgency continues to sweep over northern Mozambique. As many flee to safety, the question remains: who, or what, fuels the fire?

The Nigerian government is killing its citizens — again

Africa Chude Jideonwo - 21 Oct 2020

‘Nigeria kills its people. Nigeria has always killed its people.’

Trouble brewing for Kenya’s coffee growers

Africa Ann Wangari - 19 Oct 2020

Kenyan farmers say theft of their crop is endemic – and they suspect collusion

How US foreign policy under Donald Trump has affected Africa

Africa Nomsa Maseko & BBC - 19 Oct 2020

Lesotho has been used as a microcosm in this article to reflect how the foreign policy has affected Africa

Elnathan John: Our merciful Nigerian father

Africa Elnathan John - 19 Oct 2020

“They say people disappear, young men with dreadlocked hair, with tattoos, or even just carrying a laptop in a backpack,” writes Elnathan John in a reflective essay about Nigeria.

Women who defy Mnangagwa are jailed, raped, tortured

Africa Kudzai Mashininga - 18 Oct 2020

Many of them end up in Chikurubi prison where the cells are cold, the blankets are filthy and the toilets are in the crowded cells

The October election season: Guinea, Tanzania and Cote D’Ivoire head to the polls

Africa Sidy Yansané, Leanne de Bassompierre & Simon Mkina - 16 Oct 2020

October is election month as three presidents seek another term in office. For two, it will be their third

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