Tunisia is a Mediterranean market when Brussels wants trade, and an African frontier when Brussels wants border control.
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Deported to Liberia, again
Two centuries after the American Colonization Society shipped free black Americans to Liberia, Washington is sending its unwanted there once more.
Artificial Intelligence
The extinction pitch
Warnings from researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI that their own products could end humanity distract from the real damage AI is already doing.
The grid inside the grid
Africa’s new AI factories promise digital sovereignty. Their electricity deals may instead create private power islands inside public systems.
The stories shaping Africa’s AI future
From leapfrogging optimism to warnings of a new extraction economy, the frameworks now defining Africa’s AI moment will decide who gets to shape the future and who is shaped by it
My mother’s buried story
AI tools are built on Eurocentric datasets. For Brazil’s Afro-descendants — whose histories were already marginalized from literature, academia, and media — it poses the threat of industrial-scale erasure.
Culture
We are oil to you
What becomes possible when the psychic weight of labor, migration, and extraction is, even briefly, set down?
TV
From IMF history to astrophysics, Nairobi’s Drunken Lectures turn casual drinkers into an engaged public.
Politics
The war Abu Dhabi didn’t need to fight
The UAE shares no border with Sudan and faces no refugee crisis from its war. It has only an interest in the country’s gold, ports, and in making sure a popular revolution doesn’t spread.
The World Cup
Our coverage of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup in North America.
