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In 2022, the only mortal remains of Patrice Lumumba, a single gold-capped tooth, were returned to his family, more than 60 years after his murder. Only now are Belgian prosecutors planning to go after anyone for their role in the 1961 killing.
Belgium could start a Lumumba trial next year
A former diplomat involved in the plot to murder Lumumba may face trial if a magistrate allows the case to proceed
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June 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
In 2022, the only mortal remains of Patrice Lumumba, a single gold-capped tooth, were returned to his family, more than 60 years after his murder. Only now are Belgian prosecutors planning to go after anyone for their role in the 1961 killing.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved injectable lenacapavir for HIV treatment. But there is always a but. The drug could cost as much as $28,000 or as little as $100 – depending on where you get it.
‘Once-in-a-generation’ HIV drug has been approved
But there is always a but. Lenacapavir could cost as much as $28,000 or as little as $100 – depending on where you get it.
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June 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved injectable lenacapavir for HIV treatment. But there is always a but. The drug could cost as much as $28,000 or as little as $100 – depending on where you get it.
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Zambian women are being lured to work in terrible conditions in Pakistan, then abandoned without their passports or hope of getting home. And the man responsible is still profiting, despite the authorities knowing about. @thecontinent.org investigates continent.substack.com/p/unmasked-t...
Unmasked: The man trafficking Zambian women to Pakistan
Women are being lured to work in terrible conditions, then abandoned without their passports or hope of getting home. And the man responsible is still profiting, despite the authorities knowing about
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Zambian women are being lured to work in terrible conditions in Pakistan, then abandoned without their passports or hope of getting home. And the man responsible is still profiting, despite the authorities knowing about. @thecontinent.org investigates continent.substack.com/p/unmasked-t...
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Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!! Mais quand le monde va-t-il s'occuper d'autre chose que de ce que porte les femmes !!!
June 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!! Mais quand le monde va-t-il s'occuper d'autre chose que de ce que porte les femmes !!!
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Welcome to Issue 202 of The Continent
It's Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, but droughts in Algeria have left lambs scarce. To keep tradition alive, the government is importing sheep and distributing them via lotteries.
Get this week's edition here: bit.ly/202_TC
Welcome to Issue 202 of The Continent
It's Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, but droughts in Algeria have left lambs scarce. To keep tradition alive, the government is importing sheep and distributing them via lotteries.
Get this week's edition here: bit.ly/202_TC
June 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 202 of The Continent
It's Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, but droughts in Algeria have left lambs scarce. To keep tradition alive, the government is importing sheep and distributing them via lotteries.
Get this week's edition here: bit.ly/202_TC
Welcome to Issue 202 of The Continent
It's Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, but droughts in Algeria have left lambs scarce. To keep tradition alive, the government is importing sheep and distributing them via lotteries.
Get this week's edition here: bit.ly/202_TC
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Sidi Ould Tah's AfDB presidency could be an opportunity to bring Africa fairer and more autonomous financing. If the centre holds.
Farewell Adesina, hello Ould Tah
Sidi Ould Tah’s presidency could be an opportunity to bring Africa fairer and more autonomous financing. If the centre holds.
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June 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sidi Ould Tah's AfDB presidency could be an opportunity to bring Africa fairer and more autonomous financing. If the centre holds.
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Two DJs played a 24-hour set in an unfinished arts centre in Kampala — not for clout, but to help build it. Locals danced, kids joined in, and their livestreamed gig raised money to get the job done. As DJ Kampire puts it, "The only antidote to despair is to do something."
A 24-hour rave to build Uganda’s first contemporary art centre
‘The antidote to despair is to do something. And to do it with your friends and community.’
continent.substack.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Two DJs played a 24-hour set in an unfinished arts centre in Kampala — not for clout, but to help build it. Locals danced, kids joined in, and their livestreamed gig raised money to get the job done. As DJ Kampire puts it, "The only antidote to despair is to do something."
Build an arc: A Congolese teenager laughs in the rain as she has a go on the swings while waiting for assistance at the Cishemere Transit Centre near Buganda, a commune in Burundi.
Photo: Luis Tato/AFP
Photo: Luis Tato/AFP
June 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 201 of The Continent.
Travel with us to Bissau Biennale, West Africa’s most improbable art fair.
Get your copy of this week's edition here: bit.ly/201_TC
Welcome to Issue 201 of The Continent.
Travel with us to Bissau Biennale, West Africa’s most improbable art fair.
Get your copy of this week's edition here: bit.ly/201_TC
May 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 201 of The Continent.
Travel with us to Bissau Biennale, West Africa’s most improbable art fair.
Get your copy of this week's edition here: bit.ly/201_TC
Welcome to Issue 201 of The Continent.
Travel with us to Bissau Biennale, West Africa’s most improbable art fair.
Get your copy of this week's edition here: bit.ly/201_TC
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We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu.
Lilongwe, and how we hold the space we make
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu.
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The rumours were wild: Zimbabwe’s ruling party was encouraging its supporters to vote in Mozambique’s presidential election with fake IDs. But when undercover reporters investigated, they too were offered the chance to commit cross-border electoral fraud – and they weren’t the only ones.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party recruited people to vote – in Mozambique’s election
Ahead of last year’s Mozambican election, Zanu-PF dished out fake IDs to its supporters, with clear instructions to vote for the incumbents next door. Some of them were actually undercover reporters.
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May 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The rumours were wild: Zimbabwe’s ruling party was encouraging its supporters to vote in Mozambique’s presidential election with fake IDs. But when undercover reporters investigated, they too were offered the chance to commit cross-border electoral fraud – and they weren’t the only ones.
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Arab artists are leaning east towards the Gulf states, which are pouring billions of dollars into culture to push past their ‘petrostate’ image on the world stage. It’s hurting feelings in Cairo.
Out of Egypt: Art flows where the money goes
Arab artists are leaning east towards the Gulf states, which are pouring billions of dollars into culture to push past their ‘petrostate’ image on the world stage. It’s hurting feelings in Cairo.
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May 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Arab artists are leaning east towards the Gulf states, which are pouring billions of dollars into culture to push past their ‘petrostate’ image on the world stage. It’s hurting feelings in Cairo.
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 199 of The Continent
Cairo, long the beating heart of Arab culture, is getting anxious as Arab artists lean out – towards Gulf money.
Get your copy of this week's issue here: bit.ly/TC_199
Welcome to Issue 199 of The Continent
Cairo, long the beating heart of Arab culture, is getting anxious as Arab artists lean out – towards Gulf money.
Get your copy of this week's issue here: bit.ly/TC_199
May 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 199 of The Continent
Cairo, long the beating heart of Arab culture, is getting anxious as Arab artists lean out – towards Gulf money.
Get your copy of this week's issue here: bit.ly/TC_199
Welcome to Issue 199 of The Continent
Cairo, long the beating heart of Arab culture, is getting anxious as Arab artists lean out – towards Gulf money.
Get your copy of this week's issue here: bit.ly/TC_199
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Hey, who wants something nice?
So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
May 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hey, who wants something nice?
So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
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It was a conservationist’s dream. Three years ago, nearly 300 elephants were moved into a park on the Malawi-Zambia border. Now 10 people have been killed by elephants and a lawsuit claims 12,000 others have paid the price for that alleged conservation success story. @mcbrams.bsky.social reports.
It was a fairytale fantasy of wildlife and people – until the killing began
Exotic pictures in western media of huge metal cranes lifting elephants into a park at the Malawi-Zambia border masked ‘negligence’ that set up a brutal conflict between people and pachyderm.
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May 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It was a conservationist’s dream. Three years ago, nearly 300 elephants were moved into a park on the Malawi-Zambia border. Now 10 people have been killed by elephants and a lawsuit claims 12,000 others have paid the price for that alleged conservation success story. @mcbrams.bsky.social reports.
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Long after whistleblowers hold the powerful to account, the powerful hold them ransom. Protection laws, where they exist, are hardly enforced. You can't ask Babita Deokaran or Ahmed Hussein-Suale. They were killed for trying to tell the truth. #WorldPressFreedomDay
No country for truth-tellers
Long after whistleblowers hold the powerful to account, the powerful hold them ransom. Protection laws, where they exist, are hardly enforced.
continent.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Long after whistleblowers hold the powerful to account, the powerful hold them ransom. Protection laws, where they exist, are hardly enforced. You can't ask Babita Deokaran or Ahmed Hussein-Suale. They were killed for trying to tell the truth. #WorldPressFreedomDay
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 197 of The Continent
At the Zambia-Malawi border, what Big Conservation sold like a fantasy in Disneyland has turned into a recurring nightmare. Nobody seems to have thought about the people living in the area and now 10 people are dead.
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Welcome to Issue 197 of The Continent
At the Zambia-Malawi border, what Big Conservation sold like a fantasy in Disneyland has turned into a recurring nightmare. Nobody seems to have thought about the people living in the area and now 10 people are dead.
bit.ly/TC_197
May 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 197 of The Continent
At the Zambia-Malawi border, what Big Conservation sold like a fantasy in Disneyland has turned into a recurring nightmare. Nobody seems to have thought about the people living in the area and now 10 people are dead.
bit.ly/TC_197
Welcome to Issue 197 of The Continent
At the Zambia-Malawi border, what Big Conservation sold like a fantasy in Disneyland has turned into a recurring nightmare. Nobody seems to have thought about the people living in the area and now 10 people are dead.
bit.ly/TC_197
Book launch: No Last Place to Rest — Coal Mining and Disposession in South Africa by Dineo Skosana
Date: 15 April 2025
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Venue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room (Wits, East Campus)
Date: 15 April 2025
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Venue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room (Wits, East Campus)
April 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Book launch: No Last Place to Rest — Coal Mining and Disposession in South Africa by Dineo Skosana
Date: 15 April 2025
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Venue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room (Wits, East Campus)
Date: 15 April 2025
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Venue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room (Wits, East Campus)
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