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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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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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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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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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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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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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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Ramaphosa: South Africa’s economy in a ‘state of emergency’ - The Africa Report.com South Africa now looks to mitigate tariff ‘calamity’ by diversifying its export markets and investing in Africa’s free trade, while continuing talks with the United States.

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US hits South African exports with 30% tariff in race-policy standoff - The Africa Report.com Washington’s trade move sparks backlash, and rekindles debate over South Africa’s BEE race-based economic policies criticised by Elon Musk.

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Côte d’Ivoire: Inside Ouattara’s tactical fourth-term bid - The Africa Report.com With key opponents disqualified and the ruling RHDP in disarray, President Alassane Ouattara is running for a fourth term. His supporters call it duty. His critics say it’s déjà vu, and dangerous.

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South Africa vs. Trump: Wine, copper, auto sectors brace for tariff fallout - The Africa Report.com Cyril Ramaphosa’s government is scrambling to protect key export sectors from US levies.

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Nigeria 2027: Tinubu rebrands APC in his own image with Yilwatda at the helm - The Africa Report.com Bypassing legacy heavyweight Tanko Al-Makura and brushing aside what remains of Muhammadu Buhari’s political bloc, President Bola Tinubu has appointed untested loyalist Nentawe Yilwatda as national ch...

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South Sudan took 9 of Trump’s deportees. It’s still waiting for its payday - The Africa Report.com On the brink of civil war and slammed by a US travel ban, the East African country felt it had little choice but to cave to Washington.

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Nigeria: How Tinubu is dismantling the opposition – with governors, deals and even Davido in tow - The Africa Report.com From Osun to Delta, President Bola Tinubu is tightening his grip on Nigeria’s political landscape, trading re-election guarantees for loyalty and leaving the opposition in ‘disarray’.

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Uganda: Can Bobi Wine escape Museveni’s financial chokehold? - The Africa Report.com With just six months until Uganda heads to the polls, President Yoweri Museveni is ramping up efforts to constrain the finances of opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, as...

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US-Africa Week Ahead: Rubio to host Sudan talks; Congo progress; tariff deadline - The Africa Report.com The foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi and the UAE are expected in town for the next meeting of the Sudan Quad.

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Naturalised but not Ghanaian enough? Meet Kojo Choi, Ghana’s new man in Seoul - The Africa Report.com The appointment of the Korean-born Ghanaian fintech entrepreneur as the ambassador to South Korea reopens questions about race, loyalty and the meaning of ‘Ghanaian’.

Born in 1978 in Chuncheon, South Korea, as Choi Seung-eub, he spent his early years in Korea before moving to Ghana at age 14, when his father, Reverend John Choi – a Christian missionary – relocated the family to West Africa. www.theafricareport.com/388777/natur...

Kenya: Inside Ruto’s silent assault on the opposition – and Sifuna’s lone stand - The Africa Report.com As President Ruto co-opts opposition splinters, rewards defectors and pulls former rivals into his orbit, ODM’s Edwin Sifuna stands out as a rare voice of dissent.

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In South Africa, a government coalition partner battles fall out from a murder scandal - The Africa Report.com Kenny Kunene, the Patriotic Alliance’s deputy leader, is on suspension after his association with the suspected mastermind behind DJ Sumbody’s assassination caused a public putcry.

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Kemi Badenoch: UK Conservative leader’s citizenship statement stirs anger in Nigeria - The Africa Report.com Badenoch’s claim that Nigerian women cannot pass citizenship to their children has sparked outrage at home, fuelling long-standing criticism that she distances herself from her country of origin to ap...

Her critics argue that her sharp embrace of anti-immigration rhetoric, coupled with a dismissive tone toward Africa, reflects a calculated effort to reassure a white, conservative base that she is not like the rest of the immigrants. www.theafricareport.com/388407/kemi-...

Shock in Eswatini as Trump deports ‘uniquely barbaric’ convicts to the Kingdom - The Africa Report.com Eswatini government says the five deportees sent from the US are in jail and pose no threat to the country or citizens.

Amid mounting public pressure, the Eswatini government issued a rare statement confirming the presence of the five deportees in the country, confirming they are being held in correctional facilities in “isolated units”, where similar offenders are kept. www.theafricareport.com/388152/shock...

Momodou Jallow: Gambian-born Swedish MP fighting racism, threats and political silence - The Africa Report.com As Europe’s far right grows louder, the outspoken Left Party lawmaker is refusing to be silent despite the danger to himself and his family.

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