A Journal of Analysis and News
News, analysis and opinion articles about Africa.
Simon Fraser University researchers are learning more about ancient graffiti—and their intriguing comparisons to modern graffiti—as they produce a state-of-the-art
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Diverse wheat matters Ethiopia is one of Africa’s major wheat producing countries. But it might surprise you to learn that
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By Ali Younes Barbara Leaf, the US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, had productive meetings with the
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In Part II of this series, we left with a note that basically said that the Horn of Africa States
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Casualties mounted in Las Anod as the troops of Somaliland, a separatist breakaway region from Somalia with no international recognition
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Bananas are one of the most popular food products in the world that can be found in every supermarket today.
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Beyond the rapidly changing geopolitics, internal economic bottlenecks and all kinds of conflicts have shaken African governance, and posed tremendous
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Known as Africa’s “last colony” Western Sahara is a stretch of desert territory along part of Africa’s Atlantic coast, bordering
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By Peter Fabricius* Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to walk away from his country’s highly successful 54-year partnership with
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All Mr. Mohamed wanted was a job and a marriage. A 22-year-old Somali farmhand, Mr. Mohamed, skeptically retorted, “is that
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