After a long season of vigilantism and protests against undocumented foreign nationals, November’s local elections will test whether anti-immigrant populism has appeal for an electorate dissatisfied w...

After a long season of vigilantism and protests against undocumented foreign nationals, November’s local elections will test whether anti-immigrant populism has appeal for an electorate dissatisfied w...

After a long season of vigilantism and protests against undocumented foreign nationals, November’s local elections will test whether anti-immigrant populism has appeal for an electorate dissatisfied w...

A former diplomat involved in the plot to murder Lumumba may face trial if a magistrate allows the case to proceed

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But there is always a but. Lenacapavir could cost as much as $28,000 or as little as $100 – depending on where you get it.

Women are being lured to work in terrible conditions, then abandoned without their passports or hope of getting home. And the man responsible is still profiting, despite the authorities knowing about

Sidi Ould Tah’s presidency could be an opportunity to bring Africa fairer and more autonomous financing. If the centre holds.

‘The antidote to despair is to do something. And to do it with your friends and community.’

We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu.

Ahead of last year’s Mozambican election, Zanu-PF dished out fake IDs to its supporters, with clear instructions to vote for the incumbents next door. Some of them were actually undercover reporters.

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Arab artists are leaning east towards the Gulf states, which are pouring billions of dollars into culture to push past their ‘petrostate’ image on the world stage. It’s hurting feelings in Cairo.

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Exotic pictures in western media of huge metal cranes lifting elephants into a park at the Malawi-Zambia border masked ‘negligence’ that set up a brutal conflict between people and pachyderm.

Long after whistleblowers hold the powerful to account, the powerful hold them ransom. Protection laws, where they exist, are hardly enforced.

The Society, Work and Politics Institute, with Wits University Press, is excited to invite you to the launch of Dineo Skosana’s No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa. Sk...

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In studios across the city, negatives lay gathering dust. Now those forgotten negatives are being developed – bringing Lagos’s history into focus.

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A Kenyan citizen was facing execution in Vietnam. Her horrific ordeal began with lax security at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport.

Two men are suing the South African state in a bid to force its bureaucracy into closer alignment with its values.