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Utopia: Imagine a plastic-free life in your town

Climate
At a bustling fruit and vegetable market in Imbaba,...
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Masked as Religious schooling driven to forced begging, inside the plight of Senegal’s forgotten Talibé children

Culture
At five in the morning, while the streets of...
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Egypt’s Migrant Dilemma: What Does the State Really Want?

Refugees
At eleven o’clock at night, the Hadayek el-Ahram district...
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  Palestinians stuck in Egypt between two nightmares: returning to Gaza or facing an unknown future

Refugees
Since 2 February, when the reopening of the Rafah...
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The Voice That Echoed as Freedom: Umm Kulthum Through African Ears

Culture
I was not setting out in search of Umm...
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Mali’s Agony: Iyad Ag Ghali and the Human Cost of Terror

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It was close to four in the morning when I woke up in the courtyard of our house in Bandiagara. The town...

Guinea-Bissau: Barons, Coup-Makers, and the Poor

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It feels all too familiar, given how often it occurs and how similar the pattern is across the African continent, particularly in...

When coast guards and pirates steal our boat engines and left migrants face death at sea

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Gangs aboard Tunisian fishing vessels steal the engines of migrant boats to sell to smugglers