A government ban on the media in South Sudan is making it difficult to verify reports about the trial of opposition leader Riek Machar, and in the...
Category - Africa
Stories and features from across the continent
Africa, General, Kenya
Regional Crackdown: How East Africa’s Regimes Are Targeting Critics Beyond Their Borders
By Delilah Paulo
Raila Amollo Odinga, who has died at the age of 80, was something of a paradox in post-independence Kenyan politics. A leader who repeatedly ran for...
By William Moige
By Emmanuel Mutaizibwa
By Josephine Chinele
By Samuel Baker BYANSI
Africa, General
Migrant Battalion: How African governments collude with Russia to recruit young women into its arms industry
Young Africans recruited from at least fifteen African countries were promised good salaries and skills training, but once there, they were often...
By Mkhululi Chimoio With the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) picking up momentum, there is a race to implement a free trade area that...
Listen to an audio version of this story here or in the player above. PART TWO: A Trump-like businessman and his brothers cash in on DRC’s...