Simon Allison

Front cover of The Continent Issue 230, showing Chad's president Idriss Deby on a red carpet, flanked by two military officials in ceremonial attire. The headline reads "Chad pays for Deby's Sudan gamble".

All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 230 of The Continent.

Sudan's war is spilling over its borders - and Chad's president is suddenly very nervous indeed.

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In this week’s edition of @thecontinent.org

A different perspective on the #MSC and the speeches there.

Wonderfully written op-ed in this week’s @thecontinent.org “Rubio’s was not a diplomatic speech
recognising the birth of a new world
order. This was racist, violent sentiment that admitted moral defeat and invited other countries to join in conquest.”- @nanjala.bsky.social

"The intent to devour us has been declared – and people who claim to be our allies are applauding it."

Here is an African perspective on the Rubio speech @munsecconf.bsky.social.
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"We are in desperate need of an African foreign policy and diplomacy that articulates, organises, and advances the defence of African people."

In this week's issue of @thecontinent.org

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This week's @thecontinent.org is on 🔥🌋

Here we go again.
Excellent cover story of @thecontinent.org in 3 parts.
"The US-Europe love pact rekindles their colonial kink"
"This time around, the
colonisers have AI"
And: "The African
Union is paralysed"
Read it!

“This time around, the colonisers have AI.When the West mastered gun technology, they exported their empire across the planet. The technology they have now is much more powerful.”

This week’s @thecontinent.org is a reminder that imperialist dreams never ended, they rebranded into neoliberal antics, weaved in the “global order” institutionalized in financial institutions, UN systems, and agreed upon white supremacy as a social contract until 👨man decided to go rogue.

Another hit.

Reading really is resistance.
🤍

'The Continent' 229, 21 février 2026:
-Internet et informatique devenues vitales: impact économique au Gabon et Rwanda.
-L'Afrique face à Trump et Rubio.
-Photos: la Saint-Valentin.
-Les Russes de la guerre de l'information (ép.2).
-Photo : Festival de pêche d'Arungu au Nigeria depuis 1934.
#Afrique

ladies, gentlemen, &c —
welcome to the weekend

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Excellent edition of @thecontinent.org. Its cover story notes "#US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was applauded by his hashtag#European audience for a speech that invited them to dream of empire again and discard the guilt of past sins." www.thecontinent.org

Y’all this weeks edition of @thecontinent.org is so good! Yes I already skimmed most of it even though it *just* came out. A truly Pan African paper. And it’s free!

"The Wagner Group collapsed. Its Russian infowar network lives on"

"Russian operatives engineered narrative-change campaigns across Africa, paid for media coverage, and drafted policies for governments. We have papers to prove it"

Good digging by @thecontinent.org !

what a cover...here we go again indeed 😭

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The Continent Issue 229 cover.

All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 229 of The Continent

🟠 Top Story: A new Western empire gathering pace. Last time, they had guns. Now they’ve got AI.

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Free mag, delivered straight to your phone. Featuring words from me.

Front cover of Issue 229 of The Continent, headlined 'Here we go again'. The image depicts Trump, Rubio and Vance as old-fashioned colonisers, fighting an imperial war.

Advert for The Continent newspaper, depicting as astronaut reading a newspaper surrounded by a pile of books. The tagline reads 'Reading is resistance'.

Our @thecontinent.org cover package:

Cartoon by Gado.

@nanjala.bsky.social on Rubio's standing ovation.

Myself on AI-fuelled colonialism.

And Christine Mungai on the levers - or lack thereof - with which Africa can defend itself.

Read a newspaper.

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The transnational effects of Ghana's illegal gold mining environmental crisis feature in this week's issue of @thecontinent.org Full story here: thecontinent.org

In the meantime Russia is ceaselessly and increasingly active in Africa. @thecontinent.org "has the receipts", they say. It aligns with what I've seen and heard

🔴🇷🇺#Propaganda Machine: Secret documents reveal Russia’s foreign influence strategy across three continents.

@thecontinent.org @istories.bsky.social @opendemocracy.net @aeowinpact.bsky.social Dossier Center

Breaking: An unprecedented leak of 1,431 internal documents shared by @thecontinent.org reveals the former Yevgeny Prigozhin network is still active, now under the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, running disinformation and influence ops across Africa and Latin America.

More on Russia's African inforwars in the latest edition of @thecontinent.org www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

The Continent Issue 228 Cover

1/ Issue 228 of The Continent is out: Wagner’s info warriors, post-Prigozhin. Leaked docs reveal their influence in 22 African countries. We focus on South Africa, Mali, CAR, Niger & Angola.

All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 227 of The Continent

In this week’s issue: what the Rubaya mine collapse tells us about the global economy and DRC’s governance void.

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