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African Argumentsby Ibrahima Diallo19h 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 Sissoko19h 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 Gapara20h 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 Sorkpor20h 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 Selmi20h 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 Bilinga2d 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 Avenyo3d 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 Ghobr6d 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 Loucks6d 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 Nguini6d 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 Tomaselli6d 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 Badawi6d 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 Shwehdy6d 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 Eledinov7d 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 Menson13d 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 Waal13d 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.
African Argumentsby Ismail Abukar13d ago
Breaking the Pretoria Architecture: How Ethiopia’s Fragmented Wars Converged into a Single Existential Threat When the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement was signed in November 2022...
African Argumentsby Fundi Skweyiya-Gushu14d ago
China’s Humanoid Robots: A New Test for African Technology Sovereignty For African governments, the significance of China’s humanoid-robotics programme is not that robots may one day appear on...
African Argumentsby James Mulei14d ago
Reading Okot p’Bitek through eyes taught to look away In 1931, Okot p’Bitek was born in Gulu, northern Uganda.
African Argumentsby Yassir Gadid17d ago
Türkiye’s Security Export: Why Africa’s New Air Force Costs Less Than a Fighter Jet’s Spare Parts Drones have become a primary mechanism of warfare on many fronts around the world.
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