The recognition of Somaliland by Israel sent shockwaves through the region. “Somaliland is now a fact.”

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Major battlefront news from Sudan, but no breakthrough yet. Reading Time: 3 minutesNEWSFLASH The Sudanese army said it broke a years-long siege on the city of Kadugli on Tuesday, potentially providing tens of thousands of people a reprieve from famine and ⁠si...

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How many warnings do you need? New disasters foretold in Sudan:
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Sudan needs a Mandela
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On this day 17 years ago something terrible happened in Kenya. But the graves of the people who were burned alive are nowhere to been seen: english.theafricanists.info/features/the...

A new deal for peace has been signed today but there is still no peace in sight in Congo

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Who is Hemedti, the man at the centre of the Sudan war?
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Waarom blijft de tragedie in Soedan escaleren? Massamoorden, seksueel geweld en een onbeschrijfelijke humanitaire crisis. De wereld zag de afgelopen dagen gruwelijke beelden uit de Soedanese stad El Fasher. Gevluchte Soedanezen over de hele wereld...

Om het nog een keer te vertellen; Podcast De tragedie van Soedan:

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El Fashar, an atrocity foretold Reading Time: 7 minutesBy Ahmed Gouja from Nyala Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale. This analysis is based on open-source v...

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Former minister Jan Pronk is like a ventriloquist from another civilization: english.theafricanists.info/interview/ja...

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The wandering souls of Sudan after 500 days of starving out El Fashir Reading Time: 4 minutesA ragged horizon, chunks of rubble protruding from the ground like rotten teeth, and refugees resembling walking skeletons. This is how Sudanese artist Adlan Yousif (33) rememb...

How Sudan is withering away
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De stille vernietiging van Soedan In de Soedanese stad Al-Fashir is een ramp aan de gang. De stad is al vijfhonderd dagen afgesloten van de buitenwereld. Alles raakt op en de vraag is hoe lang de mensen het daar nog volhouden. Getuige...

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The end of an era. The development worker goes home, what remains of the morality that drove him Reading Time: 7 minutesDevelopment aid by the white Western world to poorer countries is in retreat. It marks the conclusion of an era. What drove Westerners to dedicate a portion of their lives to w...

The end of an era. Now that the western development worker goes home, what remains of the morality that drove him
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We must safeguard our native seeds Reading Time: 5 minutesVendors enthusiastically wave carrots and rhubarb, lift fish high, and greet with chickens. Women and children lay out bags of onions or potatoes along the roadside, as trucks ...

The struggle for our seeds:
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De strijd om onze zaden:
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How visual arts in Kenya capture the state of the country Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the hills just outside the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, lies the home of visual artist Evanson Kangethe, along a dirt road. Born in 1961, this somewhat stocky man with a mane of...

Visual arts in Kenya: the truth is abstract.
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The bookseller in the frontline Reading Time: 7 minutesThe girls from Butere Secondary School were overwhelmed by a choking haze of tear gas. It happened in early April in the town of Nakuru, during Kenya’s national drama festival....

Activists in Kenya find solidarity on the frontline against repression, but the bookseller stands alone
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“Health systems in Africa face collapse. Modern diseases on the rise”
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War in South Sudan gets very ugly once more Reading Time: 4 minutesIt is a war without a name, but a war nonetheless. In South Sudan, planes are attacking the population in opposition areas and tens of thousands of civilians have fled. Uganda ...

In their endless fight for power, politicians in South Sudan have started another dirty war with fire bombs against civilians
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Part 2 What the visit of the Dutch king to Kenya achieved Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Dutch state visit to Kenya, already fraught with controversy due to an internet campaign against the visit, got an extra controversial tail. No, there were no demonstration...

How the visit of Dutch king Alexander to Kenya conjured a surprise at the end:
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What the king of the Netherlands discussed with Gen-Z Reading Time: 4 minutes“Are there no secret agents of the Kenyan government here?”, asks a nervous youngster just before the conversation begins with King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, the royal...

The morning the Dutch king saw Kenyan president Ruto he also talked with members of Gen Z
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Withdrawal of USAID causes crisis Reading Time: 5 minutesMany African countries are facing a crisis due to the withdrawal of American aid, especially but not only in the health sector. Even if courts in the US would stop the dismantl...

Withdrawal of American aid causes a crisis
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The war puts the dams in Sudan at risk Reading Time: 6 minutesThe war in Sudan has been devastating. Not only have millions of people fled, hospitals, schools, museums, places of worship and apartment buildings have been targeted, but now...

The war in Sudan has been devastating. Not only have millions of people fled, hospitals, schools, museums, places of worship and apartment buildings have been targeted, but now the dams in the Nile are also at risk: english.theafricanists.info/interview/th...

De prikkelende geur van het komende regenseizoen. Reading Time: 7 minutesDit is een bewerking van de Stephen Ellis-lezing die ik op 4 december 2024 hield bij het Afrika-Studiecentrum van de Universiteit Leiden. Afrika heeft zich adembenemend snel on...

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