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Is South Africa’s Sovereignty Slipping Away?
The story does not begin with a border dispute, a separatist march or a government crisis. It begins with a private jet descending quietly...
Congo’s Deadliest, Most Consistent Import: Mercenaries
There is a pattern in Congo’s modern wars that keeps repeating like a bad chorus. When the national army looks tired, when commanders panic,...
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How Burkina Faso’s 2014 Revolution Shaped Ibrahim Traoré
October 30, 2014. Dust and smoke hung like a cloud in Ouagadougou’s hot streets. Burnt shells and tear gas canisters littered the crowded streets....
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Is Senegal’s Old Political Order Reassembling Around President Faye?
By David John | African Awakening
Is Senegal’s old political order reassembling around President Bassirou Diomaye Faye?
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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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Congo Must Not Rewrite Its Constitution Around One Man
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...
Reparations in Accra: Africa Is No Longer Asking History to Be Polite
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...
PASTEF’s Congress Was Senegal’s New Political Order Assembling Itself
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.
A construction site in South Africa’s North West...
A Tale of Two Tables: Why Africa Must Stop Negotiating as Fragments
There are moments in global politics when power is not hidden in speeches, communiqués, press conferences, or diplomatic smiles. It is sitting quietly at...
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