Peter Fabricius
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28 Aug 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
SA can’t tackle migration while ignoring Zimbabwe’s democratic backsliding

South Africa and SADC’s reluctance to remedy misgovernance in their neighbourhood contributes to migration, sparking xenophobia and causing diplomatic embarrassment.
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31 Jul 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Is Tanzania’s president ‘Looking East’?

Samia Suluhu Hassan’s state visit to Moscow could signal a global reorientation – or it could be just hedging bets.

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03 Jul 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Can an African Credit Rating Agency overcome investor scepticism?

Current credit ratings may disadvantage the continent, but wouldn’t an African agency amount to Africa ‘marking its own homework’?
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12 Jun 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Eswatini’s ominous quiet

Five years since violent protests shattered Eswatini’s calm, King Mswati III has done nothing to address the causes.

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22 May 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Uganda’s new foreign financing law further narrows the opposition’s chances

The law criminalising foreign political funding would only be justifiable if the country had a stronger democratic record.

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15 May 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Ruto and Macron sing a duet in Nairobi

Did France’s first Africa summit outside the Francophonie this week reset its relations with the continent?
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08 May 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Is Namibia's Nandi-Ndaitwah matching her anti-corruption rhetoric with action?

The president has fired ministers and condemned graft as treason – yet the system enabling it remains intact.
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24 Apr 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Spat with Trump distracts from Pope Leo’s Africa tour

The Pope used his Africa debut to address broader global issues – but left many local questions unanswered.

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17 Apr 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Sky-high hotel sale plunges Peter Mutharika back into scandal

An overpriced deal has put pensioners’ savings at risk – and raised questions about governance under Malawi’s returning president.
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10 Apr 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
Ruto bumps Ramaphosa from France’s G7 – or does he?

US President Donald Trump had threatened to boycott the G7 summit if South Africa’s president attended.
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20 Mar 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
The Madagascar upheaval – coup, revolution or ‘coupvolution’?

Coups in the Sahel set a discouraging precedent for whether Madagascar's military leader will leave office in two years.
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13 Mar 2026 / by Peter Fabricius
AGOA changes add to Africa’s rollercoaster ride of US tariffs

AGOA was designed to give investors predictability – yet its benefits are now threatened by the turmoil of shifting US trade rules.

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