![[ROAPE] Is France funding terrorism in the Sahel?](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1540575467063-178a50c2df87?w=800&q=85)
Virtually absent before the turn of the century, terrorism has swept across the Sahelian countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, transforming the region into the global epicentre of jihadist violence and accounting for nearly half of all terror-related fatalities worldwide. O
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Before there was a Commission, there were generations who died too young – not because of bad genes, but because of stolen land, unpaid labour, and a minority world that extracted everything it could and called it progress.
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Shops looted, police stations ransacked, roads barricaded, buses damaged, lorries burnt. The artisanal miners of Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces – the cobalt and copper heartland of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – are angry. In January 2026, Congolese media outlet
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This journal was founded during a period when the socialist transformation of newly independent countries of Africa and Asia was on the agenda and the existence of the communist party-led socialist state of Cuba was a reality in Latin America. We made no bones about aiming to pro
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The world’s wealthiest nations, holders of the strongest passports, the most militarily powerful and most diplomatically influential countries either voted no or refused to vote yes. Global South said yes. Global North said no — or said nothing, which in diplomatic language means
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On 11th and 12 May 2026, the French president, Emanuel Macron, together with his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, were co-hosting the Africa-France Summit in Nairobi, dubbed Africa Forward Summit.
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Power cuts were a regular feature of childhood in Nairobi. When the electricity failed, my father would gather our family by candlelight and draw. On one such evening, he sketched a woman: a baby strapped to her back, a water pot balanced on her head, a basket of provisions carri
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Paul Ani Onuh examines how Nigeria's 2022 naira redesign and cash withdrawal limit policy — ostensibly aimed at price stability and financial inclusion — became a weapon in elite political competition ahead of the 2023 election, with the costs of its chaotic implementation falling overwhelmingly on
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Victor Iwuoha and Martin Doevenspeck introduce the concept of 'biometric coloniality' to explain how digital ID systems in Nigeria reproduce colonial relations of domination through a 'digital consensus' among the EU, US, China, World Bank, and major foundations. The biometric state is complicit in
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Rama Salla Dieng argues that Senegal's 2026 anti-gender legislation — raising prison sentences for same-sex relations to ten years — is not a cultural or religious phenomenon but a political displacement strategy by a government in fiscal crisis, operating through patriarchal governance structures w
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