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DAKAR, SENEGAL – FEBRUARY 09: Protesters barricade a street by burning wood, tires and using iron panels as they gather at the Nation Square to stage protest against postponement of presidential election in Dakar, Senagal on February 09, 2024. Following the intervention of security forces during the protest, demonstrators set fire to many vehicles in the region and set up barricades by burning tires in some streets. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Senegal: Macky Sall’s latest choice less murky when seen through oil and gas

The president’s official reason for postponing the upcoming election has been met with suspicion. Analysts say: follow the money

File photo: Members of the Nigerian Army Military Police detain  a man suspected of smoking illegal substances during a rally for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu at Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on February 21, 2023 ahead of the Nigerian presidential election.  (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)

Nigeria is ‘disappearing’ its people

A new investigation says the military is involved in the disappearance of thousands of citizens

Rocky road: Ethiopians seeking political asylum, or just a better life, in Gulf states, walk along a highway in Yemen to cross into Saudi Arabia on 23 August. Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images

Saudis use ‘sportswashing’ to paint over alleged killings

The government denies any wrongdoing, describing the allegations of the murder of Africans on the country’s borders as unfounded

Thuso Mbedu in ‘The Woman King’.

Amazing Africans of the year show world how to achieve true greatness

Here are some of the people who made it in worlds as diverse as entertainment, sport and politics — and made a difference on the continent

Protestors hold South Africa national flags while gathering at the Church Square to march under the banner “#Put South Africans First” to the Union Buildings against the extension of Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Renewals in Pretoria on November 24, 2021. (Phill Magakoe /AFP via Getty Images)

Zimbabweans stuck in limbo in South Africa

The legal challenge to Zimbabwean Exemption Permit deadline in December is being led by the controversial Simba Chitando, who is the head of Zanu-PF’s Sandton branch and whose…

Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop poses after winning the women’s 1 500m race during a Diamond League meeting at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photograph by Marco Mantovani/ Getty Images)

The Continent’s Africans of the Year: Agnes Tirop

She was not your property: Agnes Tirop was on track for global superstardom, before her race was brutally cut short.

SUN VALLEY, IDAHO – JULY 08: CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Facebook face plants

This outage comes at a precarious time for Facebook, which is still navigating the fallout of whistleblower Frances Haugen accusing the company of prioritising profits over…

King Henry VIII, as rendered by Holbein the Younger.

Local government elections: Dear ANC, look before you leap

In love, as in politics, look before you leap

Signs are that the transport sector is on the path to recovery.

High court orders Prasa to halt ‘irregular’ GladAfrica tender

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa did not publicise the tender and gave it to the consultancy despite its bid being R346-million more than that of another company.

Inglorious husband:
Jacob Zuma with Gloria
Bongekile Ngema, one of
his four current wives.
 (AFP)

All the president’s women

It was the women in Jacob Zuma’s life who threw the former South African president’s character flaws into sharpest relief. And it was women who ultimately brought him down

Three strikes against KPMG – now what?

The private-sector players who facilitated public-sector fraud

Let us never forget the private-sector players who facilitated public-sector fraud

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed  (Eduardo Soteras/AFP)

Fact-based journalism is best

Governments around the world are imitating the work of independent media and repurposing it for propaganda

Ted Kaczynski, pictured here in 1999, wrote in his manifesto about how technology would be the downfall of America. (Stephen J. Dubner/Getty)

How the Unabomber was caught or, why we need subeditors

Subeditors are the people who turn a reporter’s words into coherent work with the correct use of grammar and language, without removing the author’s voice or misrepresenting the…

After the coup, Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism returned to power in 2020 with Luis Arce winning the presidency. Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP

Capitalism rotten to the cor(p)

Pushback from strong social movements have recovered democracy for the people of Bolivia and Chile

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)
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Watch it again: Ramaphosa details economic recovery plan

According to the Presidency, the plan aims to expedite, in a sustainable manner, the recovery of South Africa’s economy

Peter Tonon prays over the body of his mother Lieselotte Tonon, 85, at a socially-distanced viewing at the Clayton and McGirr Funeral Home on June 09, 2020 in Freehold, New Jersey. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)

Death in small-town America

As the coronavirus continues its deadly march, funeral directors in small-town America quietly attend to burying the dead

Former president of Botswana, Ian Khama. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Why do presidents cling to power?

Four former heads of state speak about what being president is actually like

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)
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Watch it again: Ramaphosa addresses the nation

President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation on developments in South Africa’s risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of Covid-19.

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Timeline: The first 100 days of Covid-19

This timeline captures key events that occurred in the first 100 days of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa

President Cyril Ramaphosa . (GCIS)
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Watch it again: Ramaphosa on risk-adjusted Covid-19 strategy

President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to address his fellow South Africans on developments in the risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of the coronavirus