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17 Jul 2026 / by Titilope F Ajayi
Central Africa’s shifting alliances between armies and armed groups

State security forces, militias and vigilante groups increasingly overlap, making insecurity more profitable and conflict harder to resolve.
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16 Jul 2026 / by Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo & Xhanti Mhlambiso
US immigration regime undoes FIFA World Cup’s promise of universality

By blocking many Africans from participating and attending, the US has made a mockery of FIFA’s apparent commitment to universal access.
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15 Jul 2026 / by Karen Allen
J’activists: the hybrid nature of conflict journalism in Sudan’s ‘silent war’

Female activists are filling the reporting gap in Sudan, but this raises concerns about credibility, protection and oversight.
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14 Jul 2026 / by Daniel Van Dalen & Ronak Gopaldas
Ghana’s Tarkwa negotiations are testing Africa’s new mining bargain

The debate surrounding the Gold Fields lease renewal is becoming a test of how African governments navigate resource politics.
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13 Jul 2026 / by Willem Els & Richard Chelin
What will it take for South Africa to outsmart Mandrax traffickers?

Despite many policing challenges, recent cocaine seizures by SARS, Hawks and international law enforcement, using private sector intelligence, show the way.

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10 Jul 2026 / by Marvellous Ngundu, Blessing Chipanda & Jakkie Cilliers
Delayed containment of Ebola could cost DRC and Uganda billions

Over US$700 million in additional health financing is needed to rapidly contain and prevent a wider regional crisis.
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09 Jul 2026 / by David Bruce
Mkhwanazi opened SA’s eyes to the scale of high-level police corruption

Mkhwanazi is the only senior SAPS member to publicly challenge what he believed was irregular interference in the police.

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