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By David John | African Awakening Is Senegal’s old political order reassembling around President Bassirou Diomaye Faye? By DJ Bwakali In the image that travelled from Doha...

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...

From Strasbourg to Ouagadougou, a European Parliament vote has opened a larger argument about sovereignty, security and who gets to judge Africa On the morning...

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...

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...

There are political conferences that merely fill halls, pass resolutions and produce photographs for the evening news. Then there are political conferences that reveal...

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,...

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....

There are moments when a country’s wound becomes so deep that it forgets where the enemy is. A construction site in South Africa’s North West...

There are moments in global politics when power is not hidden in speeches, communiqués, press conferences, or diplomatic smiles. It is sitting quietly at...