Fifteen years after NATO’s intervention in Libya, economic collapse and foreign subjugation have fueled renewed support for Gaddafi-era stability.
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Burundi’s football league rarely draws headlines — making it an easy target for match-fixing networks now entrenched in its top division.
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Burundi’s football league rarely draws headlines — making it an easy target for match-fixing networks now entrenched in its top division.
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Cooking up the city
A new history of Mombasa shows how street food, colonial labor migration, and urban capitalism reshaped what — and how — Kenya eats.
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Could expanding protected land undermine biodiversity?
Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.
African Perspectives on Iran
After the subcontracting state
The withdrawal from the port city of Berbera by regional powers distracted by war, marks the end of an external system that managed the Horn of Africa — and the beginning of a deeper structural collapse.
Greater Israel and the new regional order
Israel’s campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran are not discrete crises but interconnected fronts in a broader project of regional dominance.
Who speaks for Iran?
Between imperial narratives and state propaganda, debates about the war on Iran often erase the diversity of Iranian society and the voices of its marginalized communities.
The empire strikes Iran
The US-Israeli war on Iran is the latest expression of a long imperial pattern — one shaped by opportunistic intervention, Western alignment, and the enduring racialized logic of empire.