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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 13/02/2026

1/ Issue 228 of The Continent is out: Wagner’s info warriors, post-Prigozhin. Leaked docs reveal their influence in 22 African countries. We focus on South Africa, Mali, CAR, Niger & Angola.

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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

🔴🇷🇺#Propaganda Machine: Secret documents reveal Russia’s foreign influence strategy across three continents. @thecontinent.org @istories.bsky.social @opendemocracy.net @aeowinpact.bsky.social Dossier Center

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 30/01/2026

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 226 of The Continent The story of Kenya’s first semiconductor plant shows how quickly geopolitics can turn promise into collateral damage for the Global South. bit.ly/226_TC

This is the cover of The Continent, dated 31 January 2026, Issue 226. It is illustrated by Tanzanian satirist Gado. The background is deep blue and textured like a computer circuit board, with thin silver lines and nodes spreading across the page. At the centre is a microchip, tilted slightly. On the chip is the Kenyan flag — black, red, white, and green — with the national shield and spears in the middle. Beneath the flag, in bold white letters, are the words “MADE IN KENYA.” The chip is embedded into the circuitry, as if it is part of the system.
Surrounding the chip are dark, shadowy silhouettes of large hands reaching inward from the top and bottom edges of the cover. The hands are not detailed — they appear almost like cut-out shadows. At the top, the newspaper’s name “The Continent” appears in large white letters. Along the very top edge, in smaller text, it reads “AFRICAN JOURNALISM | 31 JANUARY 2026 | ISSUE 226.”
On the right-hand side, stacked in white text, is the headline:
“The fight to save Kenya’s first microchip maker.”

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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 28/10/2025

✨ #GIJC25 Spotlight ✨ Meet just a few of GIJC25's amazing speakers: Armel-Gilbert Bukeyeneza, @kuangkeng.bsky.social, Anuška Delić, Andy Lehren, @karolilagan.bsky.social, @marinawg.bsky.social, @namlyd.bsky.social & Hadi Al Khatib. 🗓️ Nov 20–24 📍 KL 🔗Register: twp.ai/9PWhYE

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I’m a big deal now, I think.

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social on How to Tell the Story of Sudan: The editor in chief of The Continent on how African writers cover Africa differently, with @moniango.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

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Lydia Namubiru, editor of The Continent, on how to cover Sudan.

The editor in chief of The Continent on how African writers cover Africa differently.

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RNS @rns.org · 23/08/2025

The rare event — opening a tabernacle made of wooden poles and roofed with iron sheets — illustrated the community’s expanding ranks in a country where until recently Rastafari was not considered a legitimate religion. religionnews.com/2025/08/20/i...

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In Kenya's capital, a new Rastafari temple shows the movement's endurance

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rare event — opening a tabernacle made of wooden poles and roofed with iron sheets — illustrated the community’s expanding ranks in a country where until recently Rastafari…

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The cost of smelting copper in China is now -$45 a ton. This is historically very unusual. Mining companies normally pay to have their metals processed, now they get paid. Hard to see how countries that plan to become wealthier by processing metals can compete with this.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This isn’t a hard man to track. The authorities could stop him if they wanted to.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Getting back into the swing of things after many moons of mostly academic writing with this fun piece on African women in the #wnba for @thecontinent.org. (Rather than overload alt text, get the screen readable version here. It’s a free magazine sent to your phone wa.me/27738056068?...)

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Mannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent) @mannietchawi.com · 13/06/2025

I HATE that this violence is happening in East Africa. But I’m grateful for the independent, thorough, and fair reporting work being carried out by the folks over at The Continent (@thecontinent.org)

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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Thank you @hararereview.bsky.social for including me in this tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o for @thecontinent.org www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 07/06/2025

Trying to weather the storm Amid worsening drought and crop failure, Africans are adjusting their lives and habits to climate change. Check out @afrobarometer.bsky.social’s latest survey in this week’s issue of The Continent: bit.ly/202_TC

Noticed a shift in the weather lately? You’re not the only one. A majority of Africans across 30 countries surveyed in 2024/2025 say the past decade has seen more severe droughts (55%). A similar proportion (54%) say crop failures have intensified.

So this week, with World Environment Day (5 June) fresh in our minds, we’re asking: How have these and other consequences of climate change affected lifestyles and livelihoods on the continent?

Asked about adaptations they and their families have had to make over the past five years, a third (33%) of respondents say they switched their water source or cut their level of consumption.

Three in 10 say they adjusted outdoor workloads or schedules (30%) and altered their eating or crop-planting practices (30%). A quarter (26%) of those who keep livestock changed their grazing patterns or reduced their holdings. And nearly one in five (18%) physically moved homes.

Climate change has hit the poor particularly hard: On every metric, they are between 12 and 15 percentage points more likely than the rich to have been forced to adapt their ways.

#ClimateChange #TheContinent #Africa

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Leonie Joubert @leoniejoubert.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Masterful writing. The #Continent is a fab innovation. Not just because it’s WhatsApp delivered. But because it’s African writers for African audiences. Sign up. @thecontinent.org @simonallison.bsky.social @siphok.bsky.social please tell author that this story is in-put-down able.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

This is actually a selling point. I want to be in conversation with people (even on the internet) and that disappears above a certain follower count online. You became a “public intellectual” around whom people build camps and shout boos and ululations.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

We gave ourselves, and the world, a new way to know Africa. Come celebrate our 200th issue. And of course get your weekly serving of excellent African journalism.

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

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Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

An edition to read on a big screen because the photos of Algiers are achingly beautiful. Our first in a limited series of photo essays on African cities.

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 04/04/2025

All Protocol Observed Welcome to The Museum of Stolen History. This season, we profiled eight historical artefacts from every corner of Africa. We call it The Museum of Stolen History, in recognition of the fact that much of Africa’s history has been looted or erased. Read it here: bit.ly/TCMoSH

The cover of The Continent's Museum of Stolen History special edition shows a cabinet of historical artefacts which were looted from the African continent. It was illustrated by Wynona Mutisi. It shows Ngwi Ndem (‘Bangwa Queen’), The Golden Crown, The Rashid (Rosetta) Stone, The Lions of Tsavo, Okukor, The Cullinan Diamond, Kakuungu and Ekori.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

But guys, why aren’t you sorting that Trump tariffs list before publishing it? Do you just want to see me run mad?

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 28/03/2025

Whoah guys, 70s Lagos photos!!!

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 28/03/2025

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 196 of The Continent Undeveloped photo films are gathering dust in studios all over Lagos. What is on those old camera rolls? Find out here. bit.ly/Continent196

The cover of Issue 196 of The Continent is a photograph from the Abi Morocco Photo collection featuring a Lagosian wearing sunglasses, a short-sleeved shirt and trousers and reading a copy of Newsweek. The man has one leg propped up on a chair, bent at the knee, facing the photographer. The headline reads: "The lost Lagos photos"

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Simon Allison @simonallison.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I published a story in this week's edition and, for the first time in my career, wondered: will this mean I won't get a visa for the United States? "South Africa’s ruling party has already defeated one white supremacist state. Can it stand firm against another one?"

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

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Semafor @semafor.com · 19/03/2025

Several African nations could soon run out of HIV drugs following Washington’s freeze on foreign aid. The US funding program for HIV drugs is credited with saving 26 million lives, and its potential closure threatens to “undo 20 years of progress,” the WHO chief said.

A chart labeled "Share of all deaths caused by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa" between 2000 and 2021 shows a steady decline beginning in 2003, when the US launched its aid program to fund HIV/AIDS drugs

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

„When AIDS Was Funny“, a short film powerfully illustrating how bone-chillingly hateful and indifferent the Reagan administration was www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzD...

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Reagan Administration's Chilling Response to the AIDS Crisis

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Did a Google search for US news with “-Trump” and it’s like there’s a media blackout on the rest of the country. His game on the media to monopolise coverage works all the time.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The US is not a real place. 🤣🤣

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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The story was on the front page of the Sunday (March 16) newspaper along with three color pages inside. Here’s a gift link to read the story and share it with others. bit.ly/4hIRu37

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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

For more than a year, my colleague Justin Scheck and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found.

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East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia (Gift Article)

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This app needs to do more to attract non-US users.

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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The appeal of creeping authoritarian rule is that the initial victims are those "despicable others". But by the time it gets to our turn (Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller's point) there's nothing (objective and subjective) to compare the erosion of values with.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This. About every place on earth.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Shooting an entire episode in one take is the podcast-isation of film. I’m not arguing about it.

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Soila Kenya @soila.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Living in this country is like having the most unpleasant case of chronic deja vu 😩

R&R: Ruto and Raila, the two faces of Kenyan democracy. Photo: Simon Maina
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Another year, another handshake
The threat of losing power and influence can make friendships flower where there were none. Kenya's political class are masters of spitting fire and fury one day then signing a partnership to "ease the prevailing tensions the next - or last Friday, to be specific. When Gen Z-led protests demanded change at the top, William Ruto looked like hed struggle to keep the presidency. But in his hour of need, former foe Raila Odinga, fresh off of his failure to run the African Union, started to get friendly. The two will now work hand-in-hand to run a country they were instrumental in screwing up.

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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Are you getting Africa’s best newspaper? Click to receive the current issue.

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 14/03/2025

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 194 of The Continent Zambia’s pact with copper mines has decimated another river. Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...

The cover of Issue 194 of The Continent is by illustrator Wynona Mutisi. It shows a Zambian Air Force helicopter dumping lime onto a acid polluted river. The headline says "Acid flows in Zambia's rivers".

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 15/03/2025

Despite robust environmental laws on Zambia’s books, they are rarely effectively policed, and community complaints against them are not taken seriously. In 2011 and 2015, communities in the Copperbelt sued Sino-Metals – the company whose dam has now burst – for destroying their fields.

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Rivers of acid

There are 50-million litres of acidic sludge coursing through Zambia’s river network. This was a man-made disaster, but will anyone clean up the toxic mess?

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This journalist who was beaten by Ugandan state agents, believes they were the Special Forces Command soldiers he saw emerge from the State House compound earlier that day.

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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Reading US journalism actually stresses me. The false empathy and false respect in this is so stressful. You gotta love your countrymen enough to get beyond politeness and actually save their children’s lives. What the hell?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

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