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What the rest of the world is publishing about the Horn of Africa — and what the Horn's own newsrooms are publishing about everywhere else.
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In 1931, Okot p’Bitek was born in Gulu, northern Uganda. It is perhaps fitting that a man who would spend much of his life questioning what Africans had been taught to admire was himself born at a rather interesting intersection of worlds.…
Drones have become a primary mechanism of warfare on many fronts around the world. Those fronts range from the war between Russia and Ukraine to the conflict between the United States and Iran. Drones are used to achieve air superiority, a…
A familiar claim keeps surfacing in the rhetoric of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s ruling juntas, echoed enthusiastically by Russian state media: the West is deliberately working to destabilise the Sahel’s military governments. It’s a tidy…
South Sudan is approaching a critical moment in its political transition . Elections are scheduled for December 2026 , while questions around constitutional reform, political inclusion and the faltering implementation of the 2018 peace…
On March 23, 2026, a Federal High Court in Abuja handed down a 72 year sentence, to be served as eight years concurrently, to Chukwunyere Nwabuoku, the former acting Accountant General of the Federation, for laundering funds while he ran…
Over the past few years, access to digital music platforms has changed what is possible for artists in countries such as Togo. A musician no longer needs to be based in Paris, London, Lagos or Johannesburg to place a release on Spotify,…
This piece is the winner of the Canon Collins 2026 essay competition . The annual competition invites essays that demonstrate thought leadership and offer fresh perspectives on issues affecting southern Africa. ++++++++++ An essay on why a…