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How Africa can curb illicit financial flows to strengthen economies post Covid-19

Africa Paul Akiwumi - 6 Oct 2020

The AfCFTA is set to be implemented at the same time as the globe tackles post-Covid-19 recovery. Deeping continental integration can help to boost economies, particularly if stemming illicit financial flows is prioritised

Museveni isn’t worried about winning the election, but about what comes next

Africa Eric Mwine-Mugaju - 4 Oct 2020

Uganda’s president is likely to win the next election. But Bobi Wine’s constituency poses the most serious threat yet to his continued rule

Searching for Kwabena

Africa Olivier van Beemen - 3 Oct 2020

His image was used to sell pineapples in Europe. But he knew nothing about it – and they got his name wrong

Sierra Leone’s president cracks down on his predecessor

Africa Abdul S Brima - 3 Oct 2020

Travel bans issued to Ernest Bai Koroma and dozens of top officials as Sierra Leonean corruption investigation gathers momentum

The African Union’s (un)official statement on the US elections

Africa Babatunde Fagbayibo - 1 Oct 2020

The United States has never been shy to pass judgment on African elections. What does it look like when Africa passes judgment on America’s chaotic vote?

Tanzania’s opposition leader on reggae, resistance and his own resurrection

Africa Simon Mkina - 30 Sep 2020

Sixteen bullets and 27 operations later, Tanzania’s main opposition leader has recovered from a brutal assassination attempt – and is now in the middle of an even bigger fight

Tanzania’s opposition finds that forming a united front is not so easy

Africa Simon Allison & Simon Mkina - 30 Sep 2020

Having missed the chance to form a coalition, a so-called ‘endorsement’ may be the next-best step

Why we must fight to secure places for more women and young people in politics

Africa Nic Cheeseman & Winihin Jemide - 30 Sep 2020

Too often, governments talk the talk on gender equality, but fail to walk the walk

Women accuse aid workers of sexual abuse during the DRC’s Ebola crisis

Africa Robert Flummerfelt & Nellie Peyton - 29 Sep 2020

More than 50 women have accused Ebola aid workers from the World Health Organisation...

Disaster as climate crisis, tectonic shift swell Rift Valley lakes

Africa Caroline Chebet - 25 Sep 2020

The current tectonic cycle squeezes out water from the Earth’s aquifers; the previous cycle caused water to drain out of thelakes into the Earth’s aquifers

This is how Lungu is planning to rig Zambia’s 2021 general election

Africa Sishuwa Sishuwa - 25 Sep 2020

The president is trying to amend the Constitution and create a new voters’ roll in a bid to stay in power

‘Insult’ arrest kicks off poll race in Kenya

Africa Patrick Gathara - 25 Sep 2020

MPs’ detention may signal the silencing of dissent and a bid to railroad changes to the Constitution

Cameroon is a ship without a captain

Africa Maurice Kamto - 21 Sep 2020

Ahead of planned protests, Cameroon’s main opposition leader argues that change is more urgent than ever

‘He ain’t heavy, he’s a policeman and he’s paying . . .’

Africa Andrew Arinaitwe - 20 Sep 2020

The story behind Ugandan photojournalist Nicholas Bamulanzeki’s iconic picture of the policeman in the floods

Inside Zim’s illicit gold mine trade

Africa Stephen Tsoroti & Ankita Anand - 18 Sep 2020

Desperate people mine the mineral, but it is ‘untouchable big people’, including top state officials, who reap the real benefits

Manifesto against the presidency for life in Africa

Africa Tierno Monénembo, Véronique Tadjo & Eugène Ebodé - 17 Sep 2020

If we do not take care, presidents will make lawlessness the standard of our civic life. Let’s make sure it does not come to that!

US foreign policy may be creating instability in Africa

Africa W Gyude Moore - 17 Sep 2020

Sometimes, the best foreign policy might be not to get involved at all

The cost of Covid: 25 years of progress, halted

Africa Simon Allison - 16 Sep 2020

Development has been set back by two decades, says the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers report

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