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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? By DJ Bwakali In the image that travelled from Doha to Dakar, Karim Meïssa Wade is waiting at the foot of a presidential aircraft. There is no document in his hand. No contract. No declaration of alliance. Nothing in the frame proves that money has changed...
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 Tunisia’s most prominent Black human-rights defenders and a tireless campaigner against racism. The state says Mosbah was convicted on financial-misconduct charges, including money laundering and illicit enrichment. Mosbah has denied wrongdoing. Her lawyers and leading human-rights...
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 On the morning of 22 June 2026, Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister, Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré, summoned Philippe Bronchain, Head of the European Union Delegation in Ouagadougou, to deliver a message of outrage. The immediate trigger was a resolution adopted...
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 a reset button for its president. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is not short of crises. It is not short of natural wealth. It is not short of citizens who have paid the price whenever...
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 of centuries. The reparations conference taking place in Accra, Ghana, belongs to the second category. Officially, it is called the High-Level Consultative Conference on the Next Steps to the Landmark UN Resolution on the Trafficking of Enslaved...
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 the direction in which a country is moving. The first congress of PASTEF-Les Patriotes, held in Senegal in June 2026, belonged to the second category. It was not simply an internal gathering of a ruling party. It...
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, a month when borders are supposed to soften, flags are supposed to meet, and the world’s best players, coaches, referees, journalists and fans are supposed to gather under one global roof. But what happens when that...
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. Officials smile with the practiced discipline of diplomacy. But sometimes history does not arrive shouting. Sometimes it arrives through airport choreography. In the space of one week, Ethiopia received two very different visitors. On Wednesday, May 13,...
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 province. Men in work clothes. Contractors. Local officials. Activists. A confrontation over jobs. But this time, the people being chased away are not Zimbabweans, Mozambicans, Nigerians, Malawians, or Congolese. They are South Africans. Their crime is not...
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 the table. That is why Africa must pay attention to two tables. The first is the U.S.-China summit table in Beijing, where two economic giants sit across from each other with the full weight of their national...
