Picturing the bandits
A peace deal in Katsina, Nigeria, lets one armed group buy biscuits and plan for Hajj, but not lay down its weapons. Photographer Terna Iwar tells the Nigerian Scam what he saw.
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The left can defeat reactionaries
From Michigan to Maine, candidates running on Medicare for All, taxing the rich, and opposing further aid to Israel won in the United States midterms, dismantling the claim that socialism is an electoral liability.
Nigeria's petrol subsidy was also an electricity policy
When the grid fails, a fuel subsidy can double as an electricity policy. What happens to the people who rely on it when the state removes it before building anything to replace it?
There are no apolitical girls in war
To understand the war in Sudan requires looking far beyond its borders, without losing sight of the people who believed that another Sudan was possible.
El Fasher, a year later
One year after the Rapid Support Forces took the city, the fight over how many died has become part of the crime.
Tanzania’s peace was never peaceful
A year after security forces opened fire on protesters across Tanzania, the violence looks less like a rupture than the return of a colonial past.
It’s not the refugees, it’s the austerity measures!
Rather than the cause of Africa’s economic crises, refugees are themselves victims of the political and economic decisions that produce displacement, deprivation, and insecurity.
Morocco’s long game
How Morocco stopped waiting for golden generations to emerge and began building the systems needed to compete at the highest level.
Eyes open in Addis
In Addis Ababa, the war in Tigray once arrived only in fragments. What happens when the dark we made for ourselves no longer holds?
How a child inherits care
Across generations of displacement, struggle, and war in Sudan, ordinary acts of care become a form of inheritance that no violence can erase.
Why does Tunisia become African only when Europe needs it to be?
Tunisia is a Mediterranean market when Brussels wants trade, and an African frontier when Brussels wants border control.
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.