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Africa
Africa news and analysis from The Nation
May 15, 2019
From Algeria’s soccer stadiums, fans launched an uprising that brought down President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
May 6, 2019
The ANC has failed to tackle poverty and inequality—and will win the presidency anyway.
May 2, 2019
It’s time that our president—like the autocrats he is propping up across North Africa and the Middle East—finally be held accountable.
May 1, 2019
Ethiopia’s rivers and lakes are now drying up at terrifying speed.
May 1, 2019
A quarter-century after apartheid’s end, cities are overcrowded, and black citizens own a tiny fraction of their country’s farmland.
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April 26, 2019
“We held each other and cried. Everyone around us was crying and chanting.”
April 22, 2019
After years of critical coverage, the US Africa Command axed investigative reporter Nick Turse and The Intercept from its daily media review.
April 22, 2019
As a start, the US and other Western countries must help rebuild the vast areas destroyed by Cyclone Idai.
April 17, 2019
The international system is still structured to protect perpetrators. It’s time we adopt a prevention-focused policy.
March 28, 2019
The most striking feature of today’s uprising is that the gigantic rallies are peaceful and socially mixed, with men and women, old and young, taking part—and adamant in their resolve to get rid of the regime.
