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Monday, 25 January 2021

vaccination championships

Covid vaccines: Russia, China, India…Who is supplying Africa?

Covid vaccination campaigns have kicked off across the globe. But while many developed countries are busy inoculating their populations, the ... continent is grappling with growing bilateral agreements with foreign laboratories and mobilising its health professionals.

the beauty in the struggle

South Africa: Jonas Gwangwa – The political musician

Music is not a zero-sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s ... struggle for a national culture, it must be trombonist, composer and cultural activist Jonas Mosa Gwangwa, who was born on 19 October 1937 in Orlando East, Johannesburg, and died on 23 January 2021 in Johannesburg aged 83.

egypt sisi

One-Way Ticket

Sisi’s Egypt: Mega-projects, scared citizens, no succession plan

When Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke to cadets at the country’s Military Academy in Cairo in December, he did so from behind ... a bullet-proof glass pane.

Saturday, 23 January 2021

UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva

goodbye is the hardest word

Libya: After five years at the helm, PM Sarraj having trouble letting go

Libya's prime minister had pledged to step down, but an about face has seen him angling to stay on in a new role, say officials. ...

Friday, 22 January 2021

Science, not magic

Nigerian author Tade Thompson takes the science fiction world by storm

Tade Thompson’s literary creations have been racking up awards right and left. ...

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Aftermath of the uprising

Egypt: 10 years on, is its revolution an unfulfilled dream of the Arab Spring?

Ten years on from the mass protests that shook Egypt, activists and protesters say nothing has improved, as President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's ... militarised regime is dominating the public sphere. Citizens warn that police brutality, corruption and poverty are rampant.

Ace Magashule, the secretary general of South Africa's ruling African National Congress reacts as he appears at the Bloemfontein high court in the Free State province, South Africa

last minute reprieve

South Africa: Ramaphosa rival Magashule plays the long game

The African National Congress has postponed at the 11th hour a long-awaited discussion on the fate of its highest-ranking full-time official, ... secretary general Ace Magashule. Magashule has refused to step down as recommended last month by the party’s integrity commission, consisting of elders appointed to police leaders’ morals, after he was charged with corruption.

Thursday, 21 January 2021

hard talk

Benin-Nigeria border: Buhari tells Talon to stop the smuggling

The two heads of state met face-to-face on January 19 to discuss the partial reopening of the border between Benin and Nigeria. Patrice Talon ... made a proposal to Muhammadu Buhari to install Nigerian customs police at Benin's port. Buhari in turn expressed his displeasure at the return of smuggling across the border.

Soldiers loyal to Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar stand in formation during Independence Day celebrations in Benghazi, Libya

nothing lasts forever

Egypt – UAE: Has Libya come between the longtime allies?

Through thick and thin, the United Arab Emirates has been a longtime supporter of Egypt in the fight to defeat political Islam, until now. Libya ... has shown itself to be the one thing that will divide these longtime allies.

An electoral baptism

Morocco: A new dawn for the Amazigh cause

This new year begins with an electoral baptism in Morocco: that of the Front de l'Action Politique Amazighe (FAPA), founded in January 2020. ...

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