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2026-05-01 17:21:49 UTC

All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 237 of The Continent
Mali has been at war since 2012 but its people press on. This time it's different: coordinated attacks and insurgent blockades are halting daily life, while Assimi Goïta fights to stay in power.
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2026-04-24 17:44:32 UTC

All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 236 of The Continent
Geopolitics is contested with narratives as much as bombs. In Iran, journalists risk prison or worse for working with foreign outlets. One writer, under a pseudonym, explains why they persist.
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2026-03-20 20:22:03 UTC

All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 233 of The Continent
This week, we meet an aspiring chef from Botswana. He was promised a job in a Russian hotel - only to end up in a remote military training camp, with dozens more Africans.
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2026-03-13 19:26:23 UTC

All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 232 of The Continent
This week, we visit Ethiopia’s Tigray region – fearing the next war, while still reeling from the last.
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2026-02-27 19:08:16 UTC

All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 230 of The Continent.
Sudan's war is spilling over its borders - and Chad's president is suddenly very nervous indeed.
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2026-02-13 08:45:29 UTC

🛑New Investigation Alert
We received a trove of documents created by a Russian influence operation last October. The company from which they leaked was dissolved the very next month. This weekend we are launching a series delving into them.
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2026-02-06 17:45:21 UTC

All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 227 of The Continent
The DRC town paying for our coltan addiction
After a deadly landslide in Rubaya, the M23 rebel movement barred journalists from the coltan mines they control. Despite the blackout, The Continent spoke to local sources to understand what’s really happening — and why these dangerous mines remain vital to the global tech economy.
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2026-02-02 08:05:15 UTC

A recent survey found that the average Nigerian company experienced more than 300 power outages a year. The World Bank says Nigeria loses 5% to 7% of GDP a year to its lack of reliable power. At $25‑billion, this is one of the largest structural drags to its economy. https://continent.substack.com/p/another-entry-in-the-long-log-of

2026-02-01 08:05:54 UTC

Jonglei State is seeing renewed fighting between government forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and an armed opposition aligned with former first vice-president Riek Machar. More than 180,000 people have already been displaced in the South Sudanese region. https://continent.substack.com/p/tensions-soar-as-juba-seeks-to-retake

2026-01-30 18:24:20 UTC

All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 226 of The Continent
The story of Kenya’s first semiconductor plant shows how quickly geopolitics can turn promise into collateral damage for the Global South.
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2026-01-27 08:05:21 UTC

Kenya plans to spend 100-million shillings ($775,000) paying influencers and bloggers to push its narrative in a bid to formalise long-reported, co-ordinated online campaigns to counter youth-led protests. https://continent.substack.com/p/need-for-speed-ruto-shells-out-for

2026-01-26 08:04:43 UTC

Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Timket, or Epiphany, on 19 January. Families usually gather for a day of faith and community. In the US, however, ICE knocked the wind out of the holiday in Minneapolis and St Paul in Minnesota, where many people who immigrated from the Horn of Africa live. https://continent.substack.com/p/a-holy-day-on-ice

2026-01-23 20:04:19 UTC

All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 225 of The Continent
Superpowers don’t only control African minerals with loans, bribes and threats. Sometimes it’s through financial sleight of hand, as is the case of a Malawian mining licence granted in 2017.
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2025-12-11 09:46:22 UTC

At 10am in Karen, Nairobi, on the last Saturday of the month, three dozen people hand over their phones. It’s the first rule of the Serenity Social Club’s Disconnect event – a whole day of no screens or digital notifications. In their place are yoga, pottery, crocheting, conversations with strangers – or even just sleeping on the grass. https://continent.substack.com/p/airplane-mode-for-scattered-souls

2025-11-24 08:35:22 UTC

Two years ago, negotiators at COP28 in Dubai agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels”. Now, that language has been dropped from the final proposal emerging from the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil, underscoring deep divisions over the future of global energy. https://continent.substack.com/p/hope-percolates-despite-fossil-foolishness

2025-11-15 09:33:25 UTC

Mali’s capital Bamako isn’t yet spiralling into chaos, and the militants are not quite at the gates, but the fuel crisis has cracked the image of control the junta has worked hard to project https://continent.substack.com/p/bamako-is-grinding-towards-a-halt

2025-11-14 11:00:39 UTC

Just us: A dog and his companion share a moment of almost sacred stillness and solitude on the shores of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, in an image that was recognised at the recent Uganda Press Photo Awards.
Photo: Lucas Oyugi
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2025-11-09 10:05:11 UTC

The high court in Johannesburg has ordered an anti-migrant vigilante group to stop blocking foreigners from entering government health facilities and schools, actions it said were unconstitutional. https://continent.substack.com/p/judge-eviscerates-xenophobic-vigilantes

2025-11-08 11:05:52 UTC

Samia Suluhu Hassan ran all but unopposed in Tanzania’s presidential elections on 29 October. The only surprise came from the streets when protests broke out. Under the cover of an internet blockade, security forces met the protesters with force. Official statements now claim it was all nothing but a few skirmishes with “foreign” rioters. Our readers recount what they saw. https://continent.substack.com/p/beneath-suluhus-blackout-a-blanket

2025-11-04 09:20:40 UTC

Nearly a million people across six states in South Sudan are battling floods, the UN Office for the Co‑ordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns. About 335,000 people have also been displaced – many are crammed onto shrinking patches of higher ground in Jonglei and Unity states, two of the hardest‑hit. https://continent.substack.com/p/water-water-everywhere-but-not-a

2025-11-01 08:27:19 UTC

The Rapid Support Forces seized El Fasher this week after besieging the city for more than 500 days. It was the last Darfuri city not under the paramilitary group’s control. The 6th Infantry Division of the Sudanese Armed Forces and allied groups withdrew on Monday. This brought El Fasher’s long resistance to an end and gave the RSF control of all five states in the Darfur region. https://continent.substack.com/p/sudans-split-in-two-again-is-now

2025-10-29 12:57:36 UTC

After a brief pause, young Moroccans returned to the streets of Rabat on Saturday. Rallying outside Parliament, they demanded better healthcare, education reforms, and action on corruption and rising prices. https://continent.substack.com/p/moroccan-youth-protesters-stay-on

2025-10-25 09:34:03 UTC

In 2024, the IOM tracked 446,000 people leaving the Horn of Africa via the “Eastern route”, crossing into Yemen to reach the Arabian Gulf. Ninety-six percent were Ethiopian, and a third of those were Tigrayan – although Tigrayans make up only 6% of Ethiopia’s population. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-exodus-out-of-tigray

2025-10-24 12:02:50 UTC

Building up: The annual replastering of the Djinguereber Mosque, also known as Djingareyber, in Timbuktu. It was erected in the 14th century during the reign of Mansa Kankou Moussa and is 700 years old.
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2025-10-24 09:40:13 UTC

In 2002, actor and filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine's car broke down in the Ugandan town of Mbirizi. While waiting for repairs, he wandered off with his camera and stumbled on a small photo studio run by Ssalongo Kibaate Aloysius. That chance meeting sparked a 22-year journey to share Kibaate’s art with the world. https://continent.substack.com/p/review-how-to-keep-a-promise

2025-10-23 09:21:30 UTC

International “aid” for Africa is shrinking – hastened this year by chaos and renewed insularity in the United States. Africa’s trade with the world is shrinking too. For heavily indebted countries, a perfect storm has made landfall. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-end-of-aid

2025-10-08 08:45:16 UTC

For five months after Israel’s war on Gaza began, Sherif Naim couldn’t open his laptop. Now, he runs Taqat — a solar-powered co-working hub helping 700+ freelancers survive war. Others like Gaza Talents are doing the same: rebuilding, even under bombardment. https://continent.substack.com/p/employment-is-resistance-in-gaza

2025-10-01 09:24:18 UTC

Zimbabwean authorities took farmlands back from white farmers in the early 2000s to redress colonial imbalances. Two decades later, in lithium-rich areas, land is parceled off again – this time to Chinese miners. https://continent.substack.com/p/zimbabwes-lithium-boom-uproots-locals

2025-09-28 09:42:46 UTC

It was raining hard in Tokyo when the Botswana men’s 4x400m relay team made history on Sunday, claiming gold at the World Athletics Championships and stunning the sprinting community.
Victory in those conditions felt especially auspicious. It rains so little in Botswana that the country’s people revere precipitation. The Setswana word for rain – pula – also means wealth or blessing, and lends its name to the country’s currency. https://continent.substack.com/p/world-champs-when-it-pours-the-pula

2025-09-22 08:08:49 UTC

Over the next 18 months, the United States will overhaul its role in global health. A new state department policy, published on Friday, outlines a slower, more orderly pullback than this year’s abrupt closure of USAID. https://continent.substack.com/p/a-more-orderly-aid-exit-but-an-exit

2025-09-16 08:13:48 UTC

Many African countries are spending up to 9% of their national budgets on climate disasters. Leaders are trying to future-proof the continent for a world of evaporating climate finance and accelerating pollution. https://continent.substack.com/p/bootstraps-and-shoestrings-how-africa

2025-09-07 08:47:41 UTC

Days after a massive landslide buried about 1,000 people, only a few rescue workers have managed to reach Tarsin, a remote village in the Jebel Marra area of Darfur in Sudan. The landslide on Sunday also killed more than 5,000 animals, including sheep and camels, destroying survivors’ livelihoods. https://continent.substack.com/p/they-fled-to-the-mountain-then-the

2025-09-06 09:57:28 UTC

In May 2022, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Last week, Israel targeted and killed five journalists in one attack. In between those dates, Israel became the largest killer of journalists in the world. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-worlds-greatest-killer-of-journalists

2025-09-05 19:17:05 UTC

All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 212 of The Continent.
We join more than 250 newsrooms in 70 countries blacking out front pages in solidarity with journalists in Gaza.
Read Ansam al-Kitaa’s despatch from Gaza City: https://bit.ly/212_TC
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2025-09-04 12:12:17 UTC

From the beginning of the new school year, pregnant girls will no longer be excluded from school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. All schools except Catholic ones, if men of the cloth have their way. https://continent.substack.com/p/what-would-jesus-do

2025-09-03 10:19:54 UTC

The Sahrawi people living in the Tindouf camps of southwest Algeria are facing their worst nutrition crisis since 2010. The Almasar Library Centre in Smara camp started a seed bank, giving families seedlings and training them to create home gardens.
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2025-08-29 11:01:44 UTC

Andabluesian: An elder descends through the distinctive alleys of the Medina of the northwestern Moroccan city of Chefchaouen, where the blue hues of its buildings are complemented by ornate mosaics.
Photo: Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP
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2025-08-27 12:23:00 UTC

The ylang-ylang trade sustains about 10,000 producers in Comoros, which is significant in a country with a population of less than a million. But it also drives deforestation. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-fading-forests-of-sensual-ylang

2025-08-19 09:24:05 UTC

The war in Sudan is often reduced to numbers – 12-million people displaced – or shorthand – “two generals fighting for power”. Then there are the labels – “forgotten”, “nihilistic”, and “war about nothing”. This framing oversimplifies the actors at its centre and erases the people in its path. In North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher , residents who are organising to survive an ongoing 14-month RSF siege defy such flattening.
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2025-08-16 08:56:32 UTC

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. https://continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sudan-war-really-about-nothing
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2025-08-16 08:18:15 UTC

The who, why, and means of the Sudan war. https://continent.substack.com/p/foreign-interests-drive-local-dynamics

2025-08-15 11:00:54 UTC

Golden age: Faid Kassime (centre), accompanies a gold dowry to his wife’s family home in Moroni, Comoros – as part of Grand Mariage rites held years after an initial Petit Mariage seals a couple’s union.
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2025-08-10 09:53:29 UTC

Blondie, a five-year-old research lion, was struck down in his prime by a trophy hunter. He was a dominant male with 10 cubs in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. His death risks destabilising his pride and increasing human-wildlife conflict in the area. https://continent.substack.com/p/cecil-20-another-research-lion-killed

2025-08-08 17:34:59 UTC

All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 208 of The Continent
A gold discovery near Zambia’s West Lunga Park has triggered a chaotic rush. Thousands have flooded Kikonge, clashes have turned deadly, and illegal buyers are cashing in. It’s a gold rush with no rules — just risk, riches, and unrest.
Read it here: https://bit.ly/TC_208
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2025-07-26 09:28:11 UTC

There’s money to be made in Tigray, which produces most of Ethiopia’s gold. But billions of dollars are being lost to an illicit trade run by ex-generals and smugglers bound for the Emirates. https://continent.substack.com/p/tigrays-plundered-gold-is-being-laundered

2025-07-25 19:58:44 UTC

All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 206 of The Continent.
After war ended in Tigray, a new invasion began — by profiteers. Ex-fighters dig for gold. Former generals seize mines like war trophies. Locals face chaos. Meanwhile, gold flows unchecked to the UAE — untraced, unregulated, and lucrative.
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2025-06-20 18:46:09 UTC

All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 204 of The Continent
Trafficking of African women into abusive domestic work remains rampant. This week we reveal a man moving women from Zambia to Pakistan — where they're exploited. Authorities know, but he's walking free.
Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/204_TC
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2025-06-20 09:31:09 UTC

Review: Femi Kuti journeys sonically through both his life and Nigeria's history. https://continent.substack.com/p/review-personal-is-political

2025-06-17 08:05:07 UTC

We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale. https://continent.substack.com/p/lagos-unbound-tempest-beneath-your

2025-06-15 09:06:39 UTC

A self-funded convoy of lawyers, doctors, farmers, students and families is winding its way overland across North Africa, heading east from Tunis to Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Their goal is to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. https://continent.substack.com/p/civilian-convoy-in-overland-bid-to

2025-06-11 08:04:58 UTC

On average, doctors in Ethiopia earn just $80 a month – a fraction of what their counterparts elsewhere in Africa take home. Now, doctors and healthcare workers are going on strike to demand better pay. But instead of negotiating, the government is locking them up. https://continent.substack.com/p/doctors-on-strike-ethiopian-government

2025-06-09 08:10:35 UTC

President Trump’s so-called “big beautiful bill,” includes a 3.5% tax on remittances by non-citizens. New analysis by The Continent shows this could raise transaction costs to over 9% in at least eight African countries, especially for small transfers. https://continent.substack.com/p/trump-tax-will-cost-some-african

2025-06-07 14:08:07 UTC

Trying to weather the storm
Amid worsening drought and crop failure, Africans are adjusting their lives and habits to climate change.
Check out Afrobarometer’s latest survey in this week’s issue of The Continent: https://bit.ly/202_TC
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2025-06-05 08:21:11 UTC

Two DJs played a 24-hour set in an unfinished arts centre in Kampala — not for clout, but to help build it. Locals danced, kids joined in, and their livestreamed gig raised money to get the job done. As DJ Kampire puts it, "The only antidote to despair is to do something." https://continent.substack.com/p/a-24-hour-rave-to-build-ugandas-first

2025-06-04 07:14:23 UTC

We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu. https://continent.substack.com/p/lilongwe-and-how-we-hold-the-space

2025-05-25 11:04:06 UTC

We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Addis Ababa with Amanuel Sileshi. https://continent.substack.com/p/addis-alive-and-unrelenting

2025-05-24 08:59:32 UTC

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2025-05-23 20:28:12 UTC

All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 200 of The Continent.
In an exclusive investigation, reporters went undercover to expose how Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, helped rig Mozambique’s election.
Get your copy of this week's edition here: https://bit.ly/200_TC
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2025-05-17 08:10:12 UTC

Arab artists are leaning east towards the Gulf states, which are pouring billions of dollars into culture to push past their ‘petrostate’ image on the world stage. It’s hurting feelings in Cairo. https://continent.substack.com/p/out-of-egypt-art-flows-where-the

2025-05-11 08:32:22 UTC

A Nairobi court this week sentenced four convicted ant smugglers from Belgium, Vietnam and Kenya to each pay a $7,700 fine, or spend one year in jail, for attempting to smuggle 5,440 Giant African Harvester Queen Ants out of the country. https://continent.substack.com/p/dont-go-putting-our-ants-in-your

2024-12-17 10:02:45 UTC

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2024-12-13 19:01:50 UTC

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2024-12-13 19:01:23 UTC

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That's a wrap!
Welcome to our special Africans of the Year edition. Read about the people who made the continent better.
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2024-12-13 08:23:05 UTC

Review: The Shadow Scholars gives us a peek into the world of Kenyan college grads who are commissioned and paid by students in the most prestigious institutions in the western hemisphere to produce essays, papers, scholarly articles and graduate theses on their behalf. https://continent.substack.com/p/review-outsourcing-academia

2024-12-12 14:51:32 UTC

After a year of intracontinental jockeying for position, Africa is making a name for itself on the netball court. Three countries are in the top 10 in the world: South Africa in fifth, Uganda in sixth and Malawi in seventh. https://continent.substack.com/p/up-and-up-and-soon-the-top

2024-12-12 08:51:32 UTC

Borderlands: The story of the city of Kigoma is also the story of the MV Liemba and the MV Mwongozo. Both ferries have been removed from active service, leaving no government-owned ferries operational on Lake Tanganyika, leaving the city stranded. https://continent.substack.com/p/boats-to-nowhere

2024-12-11 12:29:56 UTC

Here’s this week’s quiz.
It’s a mixed bag. Give it a go. You might surprise yourself.
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2024-12-11 10:12:30 UTC

Producing a weekly newspaper from a virtual newsroom is a lesson in open communication, that's why we do reader surveys. What do you want to see more or less of? What are we getting right? What can we improve on? Please fill this one out. Thanks in advance. https://forms.gle/kx9mzC8ayibrwdGn9

2024-12-11 08:10:57 UTC

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Western sanctions targeted Russian exports, like refined oil. But in the eight months following the invasion, an oil tanker loitering just outside Maltese waters sold nearly two million barrels of Russian oil to Nigerian importers. Blended with products from elsewhere, it was then sold as oil from Malta. It also sold at prices 24% higher than unblended Russian oil. https://continent.substack.com/p/done-dirty-nigerians-pay-a-premium

2024-12-10 10:49:07 UTC

Data is important. It’s not what we think we know, it’s what we can prove.
Your responses to our reader survey help us make a case to the people who support journalism that they need to keep supporting The Continent. https://forms.gle/kx9mzC8ayibrwdGn9

2024-12-10 08:19:39 UTC

If court appeals fail, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will become Namibia's fifth president next March. Every one of those presidents, including her, has come from the governing Swapo, which took power in 1990 after the country got its independence from South Africa. https://continent.substack.com/p/first-woman-president-crowned-after

2024-12-09 08:08:06 UTC

A football fixture in Guinea staged in honour of the president ended like the 2009 protest against Dadis Camara: in tragedy. https://continent.substack.com/p/horrific-end-to-dear-leader-football

2024-12-08 08:03:16 UTC

French foreign lesions: Colonial atrocities are finally catching up to Paris, and Macron’s government is too weak to put up a fight. https://continent.substack.com/p/french-foreign-lesions-this-reckoning

2024-12-08 07:40:47 UTC

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2024-12-07 08:31:01 UTC

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2024-12-07 08:01:47 UTC

The issue of Ghana’s national debt will decide 7 December’s presidential election. Much depends on the length of voters’ memories. Francis Kokutse reports from Accra. https://continent.substack.com/p/its-the-stupid-economy

2024-12-07 07:10:53 UTC

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2024-12-06 22:34:58 UTC

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This is our last regular edition. Next week you’ll get our annual special Africans of the Year edition. That’s profiles of some incredible people who have made the African continent better, as well as our highlights of the year in news, film, photography and music. Check out our archive (it's free) https://thecontinent.org/archive

2024-12-06 22:28:11 UTC

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Welcome to Issue 185 of The Continent
France isn't having a great month. This week, its government collapsed. And last week, not one but two of its former African colonies told it to get lost. A lot of western analysts are blaming Russia. This misses the point.
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2024-12-06 09:36:18 UTC

Test of time: A teacher monitors pupils as they write their end-of-year exams in the northern Sudanese village of Usli, which is home to sites of archaeological renown, some dating back to 1,500 BC.
Photo: AFP
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2024-12-05 08:06:27 UTC

REVIEW: The British Museum is a cemetery, a place where human remains are kept. Bones, skulls and more, some local to the United Kingdom but much, much more from its former colonies says a new book by Noah Angell. https://continent.substack.com/p/review-the-spirit-of-our-past-stalks

2024-12-04 08:18:49 UTC

Tech companies are hoarding African data. The African Union wants them to hand it over. If a TikTok user from the US or Europe wants any of their data that the platform collects, they can request it from the company. The same is not true for African TikTok or YouTube users, who aren’t even given the option to apply. https://continent.substack.com/p/give-us-our-data-back-says-au

2024-12-03 08:22:41 UTC

COMMENT: It’s easy to be sceptical of pan-Africanism. The notion that Africa isn’t just a geographical space but a metaphysical entity whose population, though genetically the most diverse on earth, shares culture, heritage and a common fate, can seem dubious. But, the idea is bred of necessity not genetics. https://continent.substack.com/p/we-must-lead-the-world-or-be-damned

2024-12-02 08:04:52 UTC

Borderlands: Fnideq, like other Moroccan towns near the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, has become a beacon for Africans trying to head north. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-last-resort-so-close-to-fortress

2024-12-01 08:15:25 UTC

Barbra Banda is accurate, brisk, creative, daring and an example of women’s sporting excellence – so it’s no surprise she has the footballing world at her feet. On Tuesday, she was named BBC’s Women’s Footballer of the Year, an award voted for by readers of their website. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-beeb-says-babs-is-best-no-lie

2024-11-30 16:19:31 UTC

More than a month after the presidential election, Mozambicans still haven't heard from president-elect Daniel Chapo of the ruling Frelimo party. Civil disobedience and urban warfare are immobilising the capital Maputo as the country’s election dispute continues. https://continent.substack.com/p/mozambique-hubris-among-the-elites

2024-11-30 08:07:02 UTC

The link between coffee and anxiety is well established. This time, however, it’s not the caffeine that is making Ugandan farmers nervous, but the government’s plans to take control of the country’s biggest cash crop. https://continent.substack.com/p/coup-de-latte-inside-ugandas-coffee

2024-11-29 22:00:31 UTC

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2024-11-29 21:57:48 UTC

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Welcome to Issue 184 of The Continent
Coup de latte: The trouble Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is brewing.
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2024-11-29 08:10:20 UTC

Malawi doesn’t let displaced foreigners integrate. So the residents of its only refugee camp hold a festival each year to celebrate their cultures together. https://continent.substack.com/p/tumaini-at-10

2024-11-28 08:26:01 UTC

Hug it out: Ugandan wrestlers perform at the Nyege Nyege Festival in Jinja, which draws over 10,000 revellers and artists each year – as well as the ire of scandalised religious leaders.
Photo: Badru Katumba/AFP
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2024-11-28 08:10:14 UTC

REVIEW: Could Awa Holmes' Soft Love really be a take on the cross-cultural, strangers-to-lovers trope that actually feels fresh? https://continent.substack.com/p/review-when-love-goes-south

2024-11-27 08:46:36 UTC

Drop begging-bowl diplomacy and stress to richer nations that in a catastrophically hotter world, they will burn along with the rest of us, says Patrick Gathara. https://continent.substack.com/p/another-cop-another-incineration

2024-11-26 08:04:28 UTC

By prioritising peace talks in areas where rebel movements cropped up, the military junta in Niamey may have secured its rule, and saved Nigerien lives. https://continent.substack.com/p/niger-words-over-war

2024-11-25 08:12:53 UTC

Mali is not the only African country going hard after global giants. In other lawsuits, Malawi is seeking more than $314-billion from Columbia Gem House, TotalEnergies and Star Agritech. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-rich-better-have-malawis-money

2024-11-24 09:32:51 UTC

African negotiators at this year’s UN conference on climate change in Baku, Azerbaijan were blindsided on Monday when a facilitator representing Botswana was replaced by one representing Honduras, without explanation. https://continent.substack.com/p/african-negotiator-mysteriously-dropped

2024-11-23 08:08:47 UTC

People are moving relatively freely through Beitbridge, southern Africa’s busiest border post – just not in the way the African Union intended. https://continent.substack.com/p/free-movement-if-the-price-is-right

2024-11-22 22:00:11 UTC

All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
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2024-11-22 08:37:54 UTC

Review: Maturity brings wisdom and experience. But how refreshing it is to let whim and whimsy guide your actions – if only because you don’t know any better, writes @npub1veg…2gvn https://continent.substack.com/p/review-oh-to-be-young-and-this-naive