Wednesday 12 August 2026
Africa
Current
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The U.S. State Department is preparing to reduce visa-processing services across Africa, cutting the number of U.S. embassies and consulates that handle visa applications from nearly 50 to 20, the Associated Press reported. The change is expected to take effect in June, though no final date has…
The U.S. State Department is preparing to reduce visa-processing services across Africa, cutting the number of U.S. embassies and consulates that handle visa applications from nearly 50 to 20, the Associated Press reported. The change is expected to take effect in June, though no final date has…
Opinion
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Military capture, institutional exclusion, regional conflict spillover, and collapsing national legitimacy are pushing Chad toward a dangerous phase of fragmentation that threatens both state survival and broader Sahel stability.…
Military capture, institutional exclusion, regional conflict spillover, and collapsing national legitimacy are pushing Chad toward a dangerous phase of fragmentation that threatens both state survival and broader Sahel stability.…
Cinema
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The film Out of Africa, set in colonial Kenya, explores the tension between romance, empire, and the European imagination of Africa. Beneath its love story lies a meditation on freedom, power, and belonging.…
The film Out of Africa, set in colonial Kenya, explores the tension between romance, empire, and the European imagination of Africa. Beneath its love story lies a meditation on freedom, power, and belonging.…
Current
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Africa has become the primary hub for the expansion of global jihadist groups, with Somalia at the forefront of a persistent and evolving insurgent threat, according to the U.S. intelligence community’s 2026 Annual Threat Assessment.
The report warns that affiliates of al-Qa‘ida and Islamic State…
Africa has become the primary hub for the expansion of global jihadist groups, with Somalia at the forefront of a persistent and evolving insurgent threat, according to the U.S. intelligence community’s 2026 Annual Threat Assessment.
The report warns that affiliates of al-Qa‘ida and Islamic State…
Culture
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Born in voice and memory, oral stories once shaped how the world was understood and lived. On the page, they return to those meanings, not to fix them, but to question and rethink them.…
Born in voice and memory, oral stories once shaped how the world was understood and lived. On the page, they return to those meanings, not to fix them, but to question and rethink them.…
Analysis
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A war that appears distant from African capitals quickly ripples across the continent.
From the Atlantic to the Red Sea, trade routes, energy markets, and fragile economies stand exposed to its shockwaves.…
A war that appears distant from African capitals quickly ripples across the continent.
From the Atlantic to the Red Sea, trade routes, energy markets, and fragile economies stand exposed to its shockwaves.…
Analysis
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Behind the language of rescue, a transnational adoption industry has turned African children into commodities, exposing them to trafficking, abuse, and lifelong displacement.…
Behind the language of rescue, a transnational adoption industry has turned African children into commodities, exposing them to trafficking, abuse, and lifelong displacement.…
Opinion
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Across ports, pilgrimages, and centuries of movement, Africans became woven into the social and political fabric of Palestine. Their presence reveals a solidarity rooted not in ideology alone, but in lived history, memory, and resistance.…
Across ports, pilgrimages, and centuries of movement, Africans became woven into the social and political fabric of Palestine. Their presence reveals a solidarity rooted not in ideology alone, but in lived history, memory, and resistance.…
Art
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More than a global pop wave, Afrobeats has become a language of identity shaped by the city, the diaspora, and digital circulation. Between rhythm and image, market and meaning, it repositions Africa as a producer of culture rather than a subject of nostalgia or crisis.…
More than a global pop wave, Afrobeats has become a language of identity shaped by the city, the diaspora, and digital circulation. Between rhythm and image, market and meaning, it repositions Africa as a producer of culture rather than a subject of nostalgia or crisis.…
Thoughts
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iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.…
iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.…
