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The closure of Koko Networks at the beginning of February 2026 elicited an interesting range of reactions in the country. Some cast suspicion on the Kenyan government, claiming that the company was denied the letter of authorization (LoA) because it refused to pay rent to the pol
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This well-written and well-argued volume revisits French political history, especially its colonial (and neocolonial) aspects, which are a blind spot for many historians and political scientists. The intellectual pillar of the book is the notion of ‘electoral imperialism’.
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This well-written and well-argued volume revisits French political history, especially its colonial (and neocolonial) aspects, which are a blind spot for many historians and political scientists. The intellectual pillar of the book is the notion of ‘electoral imperialism’.
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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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