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In Dakar fishing village, surfing entices girls back to school For generations, Seynabou Tall's ancestors have fished, dived and rowed off the coast of Dakar, where the 14-year-old, who quit school nearly four years ago, is now learning to surf.

In Dakar fishing village, Senegalese girls enticed back to school with offer of surfing lessons.

Why are Gulf power struggles in the Horn framed as regional diplomacy and not militarisation? Africa is not a chessboard

UK imposes fresh sanctions to dismantle Sudan’s 'war machine' The UK has imposed new sanctions against 6 individuals fuelling Sudan's war, following the Foreign Secretary's visit to the Sudan-Chad border.

You can’t dismantle a war machine while ignoring the international actors who fuel it especially arms routes long linked to Gulf states

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I’m sharing this because Sudanese refugee women in Kampala are choosing to organise, speak, and heal on their own terms, even as humanitarian systems continue to underfund and sideline refugee women’s needs.

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Football in Africa: Between National Chauvinism and Hopes for Liberation - African Feminism (AF) The just-concluded 35th AFCON edition held in Morocco showed that racial hierarchies and the legacy of colonialism continue to shape the continent profoundly. This is a continuation of the debate by t...

“Many of these countries emphasized closeness to Europe as a marker of value, while African belonging was often considered secondary, even burdensome.”

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Why Africa Cup of Nations Final Fell Apart in Morocco - African Feminism (AF) The 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), recently concluded in Morocco, was far more than just a sporting event. It served as a lens through which pre-existing social, political, and reg...

“Football is political, and AFCON’s birth was rooted in African anti-colonial resistance. Football arenas and discourse, therefore, cannot be divorced from the continent’s political and economic realities and contestations.”

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Opinion: Why are Canadian arms fuelling foreign conflicts? Ottawa must close a loophole in the Arms Trade Treaty that is allowing Canada’s defence exports to be used in abusive ways

Why are Canadian arms fuelling foreign conflicts?

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Bridging Policy and Practice: Roundtable on the OECD EU Peer Review - newettg In Brussels we convened a rountable titled Bridging Policy and Practice roundtable to examine how European development cooperation is navigating an increasingly complex global landscape. Following the...

We convened today for Bridging Policy and Practice: Roundtable on the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social EU Peer Review.

We discussed how to align the EU’s strategic interests with its commitments to poverty reduction, inclusivity of Team Europe, and the HDP Nexus in fragile regions.

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what does it mean to love a country? notes on Uganda, solidarity and enjoyment

I wrote about loving a country, especially mine following the #Uganda election open.substack.com/pub/kemigish...?

How reproductive violence is being used in conflicts to deny people’s future A new typology helps explain why perpetrators target reproduction and why international law has been so slow to hold them accountable.

Reproductive violence is war by another name.

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The liberation struggles of Palestine, Congo, and Sudan do not exist in isolation; they represent a unified resistance against Western imperialism, global oppression, and resource extraction.

With what are you apologizing? If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.

“The Black demand for reparations is impossible within the terms of this world order. If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.”
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Global financial inequalities are not anomalies; they show the neocolonial financial order working exactly as designed.
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Iran and Ethiopia have a security deal – here’s why they signed it Addis Ababa’s willingness to work with regional rivals in the Middle East shows its practical approach to foreign relations.

Whose security are we talking about? This is militarised diplomacy disguised as partnership

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G20 is too elite. There’s a way to fix that though – economists The G20 has an important role to play in global affairs. But its lack of representation and informal way of working need to be fixed first.

It’s not just that the G20 excludes most of Africa, it’s that it reflects a colonial economic order that treats Africa as a resource pool, not a decision-maker. One seat (SA) wasn’t justice. Adding the AU in 2023? Still symbolism without power.
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Perspective - War in Sudan: 'People are having to eat charcoal or boiled leaves to survive' The head of one of the main relief agencies trying to help the people of Sudan says the situation in the country is the worst it has ever been. She says the month of April has been the bloodiest for…

War in Sudan: 'People are having to eat charcoal or boiled leaves to survive'.

The cover of Issue 197 of The Continent (3 May 2025) is illustrated by satirical cartoonist Gado. It shows a man atop a rampaging elephant directing it with a cane. In his hand is a briefcase labelled "Big Conservation". Underfoot of the elephant are trampled villagers. Others are attempting to flee. The header reads: "The nightmare sold as a Disney fantasy".

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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.

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Calling women who have been murderer money-hungry is a grotesque way to excuse male violence.

To stand in solidarity with displaced Sudanese women is to reject erasure. It is to name the violence and the systems behind it.
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Boganda, Samora, and Habyarimana: When plane crashes change history What’s surprising about Habyarimana’s death and its aftermath is how it created deep fissures within the international community and Africa.

CAR’s Boganda, Mozambique’s Samora Machel, Rwanda’s Habyarimana – and Dag Hammarskjöld: When plane crashes change African history.

At the end of the day, every ‘military victory’ in Sudan means more weapons, more warlords, and more suffering for the people. Sudan’s future cannot be built at gunpoint

South African soldiers in DRC: 'This was a suicide mission' | City Press By late this week, the South African troops were effectively prisoners or hostages of the M23 rebels after bloody battles during the rebels' advance on Goma.

South African soldiers in DRC: “This was a suicide mission”

Headline reads “how conflicts in the DRC and Sudan undermine Trump’s Africa policy”.

Respectfully - is the policy in the room with us now?

Omdurman: Shelling at busy Sudanese market 'fills morgue with bodies' The attack caused "utter carnage" at a nearby hospital, where dozens sought medical attention.

Omdurman: Shelling at busy Sudanese market 'fills morgue with bodies'

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” - Alice Walker

Military interventions have failed to end DRC’s conflict – what’s gone wrong A comprehensive strategy does not seem to be an immediate priority for Congolese authorities with an eye on elections.

Stop outsourcing peace in the DRC to bureaucrats and regional armies. Invest in grassroots movements. The most overlooked peacebuilders are women who engage militias. We know of rebels who’ve been reintegrated into society bse they listened to women peacebuilders.
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Goma didn’t fall to M23. It fell to global capitalism, imperialism, and the greed of multinationals stealing DRC’s resources.

Biya to defy critics and run again As the 91-year-old president prepares to run for an eighth term in October, speculation is intensifying about how the regime ends

91-year old Cameroonian president Paul #Biya intends to run for an eighth term in October. With little in the way of independent institutions capable of challenging Biya, only the military pose a threat for the aging nonagenarian.