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Saadia Mosbah’s Eight-Year Sentence and Tunisia’s Unfinished War Against Racism
By David John | African Awakening
On 23 June 2026, a Tunisian appeals court upheld the eight-year prison sentence imposed on Saadia Mosbah, one of...
What Europe’s Latest Vote on Burkina Faso Can and Cannot Do
From Strasbourg to Ouagadougou, a European Parliament vote has opened a larger argument about sovereignty, security and who gets to judge Africa
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Félix Tshisekedi may have opened the door to a third term. Congo’s constitutional debate must now be about power for its people and not...
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There are conferences that pass through the world like hotel air-conditioning: expensive, cold and quickly forgotten. Then there are conferences that carry the weight...
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There are political conferences that merely fill halls, pass resolutions and produce photographs for the evening news. Then there are political conferences that reveal...
Stopped at the Border: Omar Artan, Somalia, and the World Cup’s Moral Crisis
When the World Cup Stops Being Global
The FIFA World Cup calls itself the world’s tournament. It is marketed as football’s grand parliament of nations,...
Macron’s Loan. Dangote’s Billions. Africa’s Choice
The image is simple, almost ordinary.
A plane lands at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. Doors open. Protocol begins. Handshakes are exchanged. Cameras move closer....
When a Nation Starts Deporting Itself
There are moments when a country’s wound becomes so deep that it forgets where the enemy is.
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Africa’s ten largest countries are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Libya, Chad, Niger, Angola, Mali, South Africa, and Ethiopia. But these are...
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