Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
SIDI TIEMOKO TOURE & ESSAM YASSIN MOHAMMED It is an indictment on the global food system that, despite having some of the richest and most endowed natural resources in the world and a burgeoning youth population, West Africa spends more than $2 billion a year importing aquatic foods to feed its people, almost half of […]
“I would rather die before I returned to Burundi.” CLAYTON BOEYINK, JEAN-BENOIT FALISSE & STEPHANIE SCHWARTZ For years, Burundian refugees living in Tanzanian camps have faced coercion by the Tanzanian authorities to return home to where they risk crushing poverty, government persecution, and the potential violence of local land conflicts. Now, yet again, the Tanzanian […]
INES M. POUSADELA When Ugandans went to the polls on 15 January, the outcome was never in doubt. As voting began, mobile internet services ground to a halt, ensuring minimal scrutiny as President Yoweri Museveni secured his seventh consecutive term. Far from offering democratic choice, the vote reinforced one of Africa’s longest-running presidencies, providing a […]
SENNEN HOUNTON & LYDIA ZIGOMO A bold action by governments, tech companies, and all communities is needed to confront the rising tech-facilitated GBV that is silencing women’s voices and threatening hard-won gains in Africa. New estimates show that violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world […]
Across Africa, contested ballots, violent crackdowns, coups d’état and military transitions morphing into long-term rule combined to make 2025 a year in which, as one analyst tells RFI, “the law of the strongest has become commonplace”. With no fewer than 10 presidential elections held across the African continent, the political stakes were high in 2025. […]
HAL BRANDS Russia is lining up a naval base on the Red Sea. US President Donald Trump seeks peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while threatening war in Nigeria. Extremists are on the march from the Sahel to southern Africa. Across the continent, foreign powers are scrambling for vital resources and real estate. […]
Massacres at the start of the war in Sudan should have shocked the world into action. They didn’t. And so more massacres followed. DR. JAVID ABDELMONEIM Over the last two months in Darfur, Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed horrifying atrocities in the city of el-Fasher. There, they have fired on and killed […]
KARLOS ZURUTUZA Ehmudi Lebsir was 17 when he trudged more than 50 kilometers across the desert to stay alive. Half a century on, the Sahrawi refugee still has not gone home to what was then Spanish province of Western Sahara. On 6 November 1975, six days after Moroccan troops pushed into the territory, hundreds of […]
Former President Peter Mutharika’s return to power through democratic elections is a model for peaceful transitions elsewhere. CHRISTOPHER VANDOME The changing of governments via democratic elections is not the norm in Southern Africa, a region characterized by dominant parties and national liberation movements. Peaceful transitions deserve notice. The democratic change of government in Malawi shows […]
As the Trump administration exerts pressure on countries to aid in its mass deportation efforts, some nations in Africa have agreed, prompting legal battles. MATHEW MPOKE BIGG When the British government asked some African countries if they would accept deported migrants in 2021, it got a cold shoulder from all but Rwanda. When the Trump […]