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African Argumentsby Nagessa Oddo Dube2d ago
Enemies of Convenience: Ethiopia’s New Opposition Alignment and the Question of What Comes Next On September 20, 2026, seven Ethiopian armed and political movements announced the formation of the...
African Argumentsby Jon Abbink2d ago
Ethiopia’s volatile politics: the June 2026 parliamentary elections, the National Dialogue, and violent conflict In a surprise to absolutely no one, Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) led by...
African Argumentsby Oyugi Abednego Ochillo2d ago
How Zambia Defeated an Election Petition Without Ever Arguing the Case Zambia’s 13 August general election was already fraught before anyone tried to challenge its result, according to an account...
African Argumentsby Faisal Ali2d ago
How Middle Eastern powers are reshaping Somalia’s political order In June, when Somaliland’s president, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, stood alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the...
African Argumentsby Ibrahima Diallo4d ago
Drongo Company: Can Washington’s new PSYOP unit win back African trust? In mid-July, the US Army activated Delta Company of the 7th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion under 3rd Special...
African Argumentsby Hassane Sissoko4d ago
900 Tankers Under Escort: What Africa Corps Actually Does in Mali On September 14, 2026, more than 900 fuel tankers entered Bamako under military escort, the Malian government announced.
African Argumentsby Mandela Gapara4d ago
DRC: Peace in Eastern Congo Must Include the Banyamulenge Many people may have never heard of Minembwe, and those who know it may have learned about it through stories of war, displacement and...
African Argumentsby Constance Sorkpor4d ago
Same Cocoa Crash, Opposite Answers: what Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire Reveal about Power in Global Trade The world’s two biggest cocoa producers faced the same price collapse this year and made opposite...
African Argumentsby Jalal Selmi4d ago
The Algiers-Abu Dhabi Rupture: Redefining the Geopolitical Chessboard of the Sahel The dramatic decision by Algeria on September 10 to formally sever diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates...
African Argumentsby Diba Kosi Bilinga6d ago
What African Elections Can Learn from the BOORANA GADAA SYSTEM A Democracy Older Than the Ballot Box Every election season, much of East Africa braces itself.
African Argumentsby Gideon Ndubuisi and Elvis Korku Avenyo6d ago
Beyond Load Shedding: How South Africa’s Electricity Crisis Scarred Industry South Africa’s electricity system has staged a remarkable recovery.
African Argumentsby Saif Eddine Ghobr9d ago
Capacity Substitution: How Tunisia’s Problems Became Someone Else’s Priorities In the summer of 2023, a young man from Gafsa tried to cross the Mediterranean on a small boat. He did not make it.
African Argumentsby Jim Loucks9d ago
What Washington Agreed to Last Month Somaliland’s president spent two weeks in Washington this month offering almost everything he has. Access to the port at Berbera.
African Argumentsby Regine Nguini9d ago
African Newsrooms Can No Longer Delay Creating the Conditions for Women to Stay When one Black South African journalist decided to leave the profession after only four years, she did not walk away...
African Argumentsby Charlize Tomaselli9d ago
Not Energy, But Power: why Geothermal Energy Benefits Everyone in Iceland but not Kenya This article draws on in-person interviews at Mt Suswa, Olkaria, and Menengai with Coalition for Human Rights...
African Argumentsby Habib Badawi9d ago
The Salvador Pass: How a Nameless Desert Gap Became a Battleground for Libya’s Warlords A failed prisoner exchange in Niger has revealed a complex network of Libyan, Nigerien, Chadian, and Russian...
African Argumentsby Amged Shwehdy9d ago
Cybersecurity is the Infrastructure Africa is Forgetting to Build In June 2024, a ransomware attack on South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service rendered patient records inaccessible...
African Argumentsby Sergey Eledinov11d ago
Who Wins from Ukraine’s Drones in Mali? On 12 September, CNN reported that around fifteen Ukrainian drone specialists are working with the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) in northern Mali.
African Argumentsby Dr William Nii Ayitey Menson16d ago
A Child’s Fifth Birthday Should Not Depend on a Foreign Budget A fifth birthday should be unremarkable. For too many African families, it is not.
African Argumentsby Matthew de Waal16d ago
Ethiopia’s Foretold War Arrives No one can claim that a return to war in Tigray and northern Ethiopia is a surprise, but it makes it no less horrifying.
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