On February 28, the US and Israel attacked Iran expecting a quick victory. Over six months later, the conflict grinds on—a reminder that hubristic wars often end in disaster.

An industry where people insure others and kill them for the payout has become so common, and so wrapped up with organised crime, that it now has its own police task teams.

By Phillip van Niekerk and Francois Misser

An armada of buses has carried nearly 50,000 frightened Malawians from Johannesburg back home, leaving behind the lives they built—and everything the mobs that drove them out took from them.

Mogadishu, emerging from the long shadow of state collapse and civil war, is striving to reclaim its place as the beautiful, cosmopolitan coastal capital that once united millions of Somalis.

Political rallies are banned. Dar es Salaam resembles a war zone. Tanzania's most celebrated political prisoner sits in solitary, while President Samia spends $3 million in DC to polish her image

El Obeid, a city of half a million people in Sudan, is bracing for an assault that everyone can see coming, but no-one knows how to stop

How did South Africa reach the point where families who had lived peacefully among their neighbours for years were forced from their homes and into a camp behind barbed wire?

Downtown Joburg was not beautiful, but it was alive. Now everyone speaks of fear—of raids, of protests, of looting, fear of being identified as foreign.

A journalist walked into one of the classrooms at the school where 46 children and seven teachers were abducted. The children’s bags and books were still there, untouched.

There is something radical about Zumuntan Mata, a Christian women’s fellowship, reshaping a genre that dominates nightclubs.

By Redi Tlhabi

The slickness of the media operation this past weekend speaks to a determination to control the narrative, which is as critical a weapon in an anti-insurgency war as the Reaper drones and AC-130 Spect...

By Idoko Salihu and Peter Jerv

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By Sousa Jamba

Yes, Christians are being targeted – but its much more complicated than that.

By Sousa Jamba

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By Segun John

By Idoko Salihu

One of Africa’s oldest sources of wealth is financing its newest wars—from the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan to the smuggling networks in Eastern Congo, the insurgents in the Sahel and criminal syndic...

By Idoko Salihu

Cutting through the noise to explain what's actually changing in Africa and why it matters. Click to read Africa Unscrambled, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

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Hidden among the latest disclosures from the US Justice Department are emails relating to an intimate dinner organised by the late sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for Jacob Zuma in London in 2010.…

The Somalis of Minnesota are not the freeloaders of Trump’s imagination, but a community of immigrants struggling to get by.

By Salihu Idoko

Donald Trump really doesn’t like Somalis. He has repeatedly called them “garbage” and says their country stinks. “We don’t want ’em in our country,” he told a cabinet meeting. They should “go back to

We are again living through a credibility test of the international system — and once again, a great power has elevated an ideology around its racial identity, and black people are being made to feel ...

For months, the Trump administration—and some of its more excitable allies in Washington think tanks and Congress—have worked hard to brand South Africa a “rogue state”: a nation supposedly aligned wi...

A combination of ignorance and emotional manipulation resurfaced this weekend when US President Donald Trump erupted on social media, threatening a ‘fast, vicious and sweet’ military invasion of Niger...

Counting the bodies in the aftermath of Tanzania’s bloodiest election is no easy task.

Orwell feared those who would ban books. Huxley feared that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Huxley's prophecy is closer to modern dystopia.

Brent Neiman says that Trump’s tariff calculations are completely off. He should know.