News
Five People Refused to Leave the Plane in Monrovia and Were Flown to Malabo Instead
The first United States deportation flight under Liberia's third-country agreement landed on 20 August. Five people refused to disembark, were…
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Africa
Fifty-Five Countries Signed the African Passport. Almost None of Their Citizens Can Use It.
The African Union adopted a protocol for free movement and a continental passport in 2018. Years later, only a small…
Opinion
Africa Supplies the Peacekeepers. It Still Has No Vote on the Wars.
African states supply most of the world's UN peacekeepers, often to wars authorised by a Security Council on which no…
Africa
How the Sahel is Rewriting the Postcolonial Script
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are expelling Western forces and declaring sovereignty a governing doctrine. The rupture is real, but…
Conflict & Security
The Hidden Forces Shaping Burkina Faso’s Struggle for Sovereignty
Behind Traoré's sovereignty rhetoric lie gold rents, a Russian security deal that swaps one patron for another, and an interior…
Africa
The Power and Plurality of 54 Nations Africa Is Not A Country
Treating Africa as a single country is not a careless shorthand. It is a flattening that erases 54 distinct political…