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Why is Arsenal wrapping up its Rwanda sponsorship deal?
A pioneering tourism deal that lifted Kigali’s global profile ends, as politics, public pressure and new ambitions converge.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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‘It’s not your war’: Ukraine’s military ombud warns Africans against joining Russia’s fight
As South Africa probes how 17 of its citizens ended up in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Kyiv’s military ombud Olha Reshetylova urges Africans to resist Moscow’s recruitment and avoid a war that offers them...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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UAE denies complicity as new report ties Bosaso flights to Sudan atrocities
Abu Dhabi says there is ‘no substantiated evidence’ of support for Sudan’s RSF, rejecting claims of weapons transfers through Somalia and urging a civilian-led peace process.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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El Fasher falls: Is Sudan’s partition now inevitable? - The Africa Report.com
When the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the capital of North Darfur, they didn’t just win a city, they may have taken a decisive step towards reshaping Sudan.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Samia’s iron fist: Tanzania’s election of fear, silence and disappearances - The Africa Report.com
Once hailed as a reformer, President Samia Suluhu Hassan now presides over a nation gripped by anxiety, with opposition leaders jailed, critics missing and ruling party figure Humphrey Polepole among ...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Cameroon: Where does Biya’s reelection leave Tchiroma? - The Africa Report.com
As President Paul Biya extends his four-decade rule, opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary faces shrinking choices in a system seemingly designed never to change.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The Gambia faces reckoning as exiled former president Jammeh vows November return - The Africa Report.com
Nearly nine years after fleeing into exile in Equatorial Guinea, the former dictator says he’s returning home – a defiant move that exposes President Barrow’s fragile grip, a stalled justice process a...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Trump era: Meet 11 Africans in the race to build an inclusive America - The Africa Report.com
The New American Leaders advocacy group has endorsed 69 immigrants, including 11 Africans, in local and state elections across the country next month.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Samia’s iron fist: Tanzania’s election of fear, silence and disappearances - The Africa Report.com
Once hailed as a reformer, President Samia Suluhu Hassan now presides over a nation gripped by anxiety. With opposition leaders jailed, critics missing and ruling party figure Humphrey Polepole among ...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Burkina Faso: Will Ouagadougou fall to jihadists? - The Africa Report.com
Behind the patriotic propaganda and Russian backing, Burkina Faso’s military is losing ground fast and the once unthinkable prospect of an isolated capital now looms large as jihadist groups choke its...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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After four decades in power, is Paul Biya’s grip on Cameroon slipping? - The Africa Report.com
As Issa Tchiroma Bakary declares election victory, Cameroon stands at a crossroads between an aging ruler’s tightening control, a defiant challenger determined to claim the ‘people’s mandate’ and a re...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Kenya without Raila: Who will inherit his multimillion-vote bloc? - The Africa Report.com
The death of Raila Odinga, Kenya’s most enduring opposition leader, has thrown both his party and Ruto’s government into uncertainty, as veteran senator Oburu Oginga is named interim leader to command...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Raila Odinga: The man who lost every election but won Kenya’s democracy - The Africa Report.com
He was jailed, tortured and denied the presidency five times, yet few shaped Kenya’s democracy or embodied its struggle more than Raila.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Binaifer Nowrojee: Kenyan lawyer steering Soros’s new era of global philanthropy - The Africa Report.com
Raised under dictatorship and punished for her father’s defiance, the Open Society Foundations president has built a life on conviction that justice, courage and local power still matter in a fracture...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Alone in Africa: Why Cameroon and Eritrea stick with Israel as others recognise Palestine - The Africa Report.com
As global momentum builds for Palestinian recognition, Asmara and Yaoundé remain the lone African holdouts, bound to Israel by survival and strategy.
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September 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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In Senegal’s shadow, The Gambia still waits in hope for oil - The Africa Report.com
Caught between its next-door neighbour’s oil boom and its own string of dry wells, The Gambia, one of Africa’s smallest nations, has seen oil become as much about politics and perception as geology.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Mandela’s grandson in Gaza flotilla warns of echoes of apartheid - The Africa Report.com
Nkosi Zwelivelile ‘Mandla’ Mandela has joined the Global Sumud Flotilla, saying that Palestinians endure conditions ‘worse than apartheid’ as famine grips the enclave.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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From austerity to CFA franc: Why Africa’s democracy is running on empty - The Africa Report.com
Africa’s democratic gains are eroding, a new report warns, citing neoliberal economics, colonial currencies and leaders clinging to power.
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September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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From Darfur to Washington, Africa is at the centre of today’s shifting power struggles. This week, I reported on two big stories: mercenaries in Sudan’s war, and Trump’s global retreat that’s reshaping Africa’s choices.
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From Abu Dhabi to Bogotá to Darfur: The mercenary dossier at the heart of Sudan’s war - The Africa Report.com
By accusing the UAE of bankrolling atrocities through Colombian fighters, Sudan has recast its conflict as a transcontinental proxy war with consequences for Gulf power struggles, Red Sea security and...
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September 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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From Abu Dhabi to Bogotá to Darfur: The mercenary dossier at the heart of Sudan’s war - The Africa Report.com
By accusing the UAE of bankrolling atrocities through Colombian fighters, Sudan has recast its conflict as a transcontinental proxy war with consequences for Gulf power struggles, Red Sea security and...
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September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Trump throws China, Russia and India into each other’s arms: Where does Africa fit in? - The Africa Report.com
Washington’s reduced footprint in Africa under Donald Trump has opened wider space for Beijing, Moscow and Delhi in Africa, forcing the continent to decide whether it can seize agency or remain contes...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Kenya: Ruto wants to buy off the street. Can he succeed? - The Africa Report.com
Kenya President William Ruto has unveiled a compensation plan for victims of protests, casting it as reconciliation. Yet with public anger rising and debt ballooning, can cheques buy lasting peace?
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September 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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DRC: Cobalt rush creates mineral frenzy that Africa is trying to harness - The Africa Report.com
The minerals that will power the world’s green transition could trap the Democratic Republic of Congo in old cycles of exploitation.
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August 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Wagner’s Mali retreat: Mission accomplished or mercenary fiasco? - The Africa Report.com
A new investigation finds the Kremlin’s mercenaries fuelled insurgent recruitment, splintered Mali’s junta and drained its finances.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Somaliland courts Trump’s favour while Somalia turns to Türkiye for support - The Africa Report.com
Competing alliances are tearing at the fabric of the Horn, as the self-declared republic sidesteps Mogadishu with a high-stakes bid with the US to officially recognise Somaliland as a sovereign state.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM