• Doha Ali

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.

• Ahmed Ismat Ahmed

One year after the Rapid Support Forces took the city, the fight over how many died has become part of the crime.

• Alicia Houser

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.

• Wini Omer

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.

• Rachel Dubale

In Addis Ababa, the war in Tigray once arrived only in fragments. What happens when the dark we made for ourselves no longer holds?

• Saif Eddine Ghobr

Tunisia is a Mediterranean market when Brussels wants trade, and an African frontier when Brussels wants border control.

• Natalia Cintra
• Tosin Durodola

Two centuries after the American Colonization Society shipped free black Americans to Liberia, Washington is sending its unwanted there once more.

• Samuel Giraut
• Semhar Haile
• Mwangi Mwaura
• David Njenga
• Elvira Pietrobon
• Pierre Wenzel
• AbdouMaliq Simone

From traders’ credit circles to self-built water networks, Africa’s urban majority keeps finding ways to thicken city life. Can these popular economies still decouple the future from capital’s calculations, even as they open new frontiers for capture?

• Yasmine Benabderrahmane

Political rivalries increasingly overshadow the bonds between Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians, as social media amplifies the contradictions of Maghrebi identity.

• B Camminga

Trans and gender diverse people are routinely told that what they are is new. In South Africa, they have not merely survived history, but they have also shaped it.

• Benjamin Fogel

As Bolsonarismo outlives Bolsonaro, what does Brazil reveal about where politics everywhere is heading?

• Joshua W.J. Brown

What happens after abolition, when control over human movement still has a price?

• Husam Mahjoub

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.

• Aidan Huang

A dispute inside a household in N’Djamena becomes a lesson in what money cannot substitute for: recognition, trust, and everyday human dignity.

• Ayoola Babalola

Dangote’s refinery ended Nigeria’s dependence on imported fuel and became Africa’s most important energy asset overnight when Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz. But it also became the country’s most powerful monopoly.

• Richard Seymour

Warnings from researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI that their own products could end humanity distract from the real damage AI is already doing.

• Ngozi Nwosu-Juba

From the Women’s War of 1929 to the Anlu uprising three decades later, African women were organizing and resisting long before donors arrived to ‘give them a voice.’

• Sushovan Dhar

A joke born from a Chief Justice’s insult grew to 22 million followers and forced out a cabinet minister in eight weeks. What does this reveal about India and about the limits of leaderless revolt everywhere?

• Ahlam Chemlali
• Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

European officials are calling the EU-Mauritania migration deal a success. Here’s what the numbers don’t count.

• Markus V. Hoehne

Washington’s own record of intervention in the Horn of Africa — not Mogadishu’s — is the strongest case against recognizing Somaliland now.