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Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

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Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...

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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.
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‘enough talking’

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Book Review: Can Africa escape the constraints of Global North peacebuilding? Peacebuilding strategies imposed by the Global North are often ill designed to meet local realities in the Global South and bespoke local solutions ma...

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

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Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
© 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.
© 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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Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

What’s next?

Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
© 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.
© 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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Sam Matekane, in the centre of the photograph, in Maseru on 11 October 2022. © MOLISE MOLISE/AFP

rags to riches

Lesotho’s Sam Matekane: From farmer to richest man to Prime Minister Six months after launching his party, Sam Matekane crushed the competition and won the general election. He is expected to become Lesotho’s next head ...
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High THC

Premium badgeBassim Haidar bets South Africa can become global medicinal cannabis leader Billionaire entrepreneur Bassim Haidar is scaling up production of medicinal cannabis in South Africa and believes the country can become a leading su...
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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...
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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.
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Marijuana mania

Premium badgeLesotho: Africa’s budding medicinal cannabis cultivation Lesotho has launched its first contract scheme for growing medicinal cannabis, a sign of the boom in medical marijuana projects in Africa.