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© A general view of the DR Congo’s Inga dam with eight massive turbines, only three of which work. (REUTERS/Marlene Rabaud)

lights on?

Premium badgeInfographics: Southern Africa’s hydroelectric dams, state of play and potential

In light of the power crisis in Southern Africa, Presidents Ramaphosa and Tshisekedi urged world leaders in Paris to invest in the Grand Inga Dam.

© eSwatini’s King Mswati is met by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on 21 October 2022. (photo: @iingwen)

lacking transparency

Premium badgeeSwatini: Mystery of Taiwan ‘loan’ deepens fear over kingdom’s finances eSwatini has denied that it pledged its public assets as collateral for a loan from Taiwan, but that has only deepened fears about the kingdom’s finan...
© Elias M. Magosi, the Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Photo: Supplied

‘enough talking’

Premium badge‘Developed countries have to make good on promises’, says SADC’s Magosi As the African Union (AU) summit wrapped up last week in Addis Ababa, I sat down with Elias M. Magosi, the Executive Secretary of the Southern African...
© Mourners place candles in a room of Radio Amplitude FM where a portrait of journalist Martinez Zogo has been placed to pay tribute to him, in the Elig Essono district in Yaounde on January 23, 2023.(Photo by Daniel Beloumou Olomo / AFP)

freedom in peril

Cameroon, Eswatini, Rwanda: Three devastating days that shook Africa In consecutive days this month, from 20-22 January, a trio of Africa’s brightest lights for freedom and accountability were violently extinguished. In...

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© A general view of the DR Congo’s Inga dam with eight massive turbines, only three of which work. (REUTERS/Marlene Rabaud)

lights on?

Premium badgeInfographics: Southern Africa’s hydroelectric dams, state of play and potential In light of the power crisis in Southern Africa, Presidents Ramaphosa and Tshisekedi urged world leaders in Paris to invest in the Grand Inga Dam.
© eSwatini’s King Mswati is met by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on 21 October 2022. (photo: @iingwen)

lacking transparency

Premium badgeeSwatini: Mystery of Taiwan ‘loan’ deepens fear over kingdom’s finances eSwatini has denied that it pledged its public assets as collateral for a loan from Taiwan, but that has only deepened fears about the kingdom’s finan...
© Elias M. Magosi, the Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Photo: Supplied

‘enough talking’

Premium badge‘Developed countries have to make good on promises’, says SADC’s Magosi As the African Union (AU) summit wrapped up last week in Addis Ababa, I sat down with Elias M. Magosi, the Executive Secretary of the Southern African...

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© A general view of the DR Congo’s Inga dam with eight massive turbines, only three of which work. (REUTERS/Marlene Rabaud)

lights on?

Premium badgeInfographics: Southern Africa’s hydroelectric dams, state of play and potential In light of the power crisis in Southern Africa, Presidents Ramaphosa and Tshisekedi urged world leaders in Paris to invest in the Grand Inga Dam.
© eSwatini’s King Mswati is met by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on 21 October 2022. (photo: @iingwen)

lacking transparency

Premium badgeeSwatini: Mystery of Taiwan ‘loan’ deepens fear over kingdom’s finances eSwatini has denied that it pledged its public assets as collateral for a loan from Taiwan, but that has only deepened fears about the kingdom’s finan...
© Elias M. Magosi, the Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Photo: Supplied

‘enough talking’

Premium badge‘Developed countries have to make good on promises’, says SADC’s Magosi As the African Union (AU) summit wrapped up last week in Addis Ababa, I sat down with Elias M. Magosi, the Executive Secretary of the Southern African...

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© In this file photo taken on September 22, 2018 Thulani Maseko, human rights lawyer and activist, looks on as he gives an interview to AFP in Lobamba, Eswatini. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)

probe

Premium badgeEswatini: Kingdom on edge after top rights-lawyer’s ‘assassination’ The embattled Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland) has been shaken after gunmen murdered Thulani Maseko, the country’s most famous human rights lawyer on S...
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the country’s fight against COVID-19, in Washington

Covid Discrimination

Premium badgeBiden says the US rethinking travel ban amid angry blowback in Africa President Joe Biden indicated this week that the US could soon end a weeks-old travel ban on African countries that has done next to nothing to stop t...
eSwatini South Africa © In this photo supplied by the South African Government Communication and Information Services, (GCIS) South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, middle, and eSwatini’s King Mswati 111, right during a welcome at their meeting in eSwatini Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (Photo/Elmond Jiyane — GCIS via AP)

dispossessed land

South Africa: The effect of apartheid’s borders still exists today The issue of land, especially its redistribution, remains contentious in South Africa 27 years after the formal end of apartheid.
United Nations General Assembly © King Mswati III of Eswatini addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday, 26 Sept. 2018, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

taiwan out

Premium badgeTaiwan – Eswatini: Is their diplomatic relationship coming to an end? Troops are out on the streets of the tiny southern African kingdom of Eswatini in an effort to quell anti-monarchy protests that look like they could ...
© Protestors in Eswatini have clashed with the army over the killing of a student (photo/Zambia24)

collision course

Premium badgeEswatini: ‘Greed’ of King Mswati III ruining prospects for youth, driving conflict Eswatini’s protests may have been tamped down by the Kingdom’s security forces. But a new alignment with South Africa’s opposition EFF party suggests ...
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trade within

Coronavirus: Africa needs AfCFTA to transform its economies Amidst global financial turmoil, it may seem counter-intuitive to suggest Africa push ahead with a once-in-a-generation remodelling of its economy. Ho...