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The Secretary: How Middlemen and Corporations Armed the Rwandan Genocide
Date: 11 May 2023
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Welcome to Issue 109 of The Continent.
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CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER KENYA
Raila Odinga is seeking to finally become the first citizen. He’s running against William Ruto, a self-styled outsider who began his career selling chickens.
With the help of Debunk.Media we profile the pair.
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Welcome to Issue 92 of The Continent.
Glencore is one of the world’s biggest commodities traders. It specialises in working with any country, and any regime, making it wildly profitable, with over $3-billion already banked by the company this year.
Those profits, by its own admission, are thanks to greasing many wheels. As payback, the Swiss company is forking out over a billion dollars in fines to western regulators. That could make it one of the most corrupt companies in the world.
But none of that money is going to the African countries where the crimes were committed.
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Welcome to Issue 90 of The Continent.
The sales pitch of a new, comprehensive report by the International Energy Agency makes for hopeful reading. Electricity in every home, 500 000 lives saved from air pollution, industrialisation, more control over exports, more wealth and more resilience to climate change. This is the dream sketched out in meticulous detail this week by researchers. It’s all possible. It’s relatively cheap. And it would transform Africa. The scale and timeline are ambitious. But it is a plan that policymakers can use. And Afrobarometer polling shows it’s desperately needed.
And as with all things, there are naysayers. The plan sees more gas power plants being built and gas is a fossil fuel, which traps heat in the atmosphere, driving climate change. This has seen objections to the plan despite building the plants adding just half a percentage point to global emissions.
ICYMI: Also in issue 89
* South Africa: Taps run dry in another major city
* Malawi: Shepherd Bushiri’s second coming
* China: How Runako Celina exposed Afrophobia and racism on social media
* Kenya: Girlboss. Gatekeep. Gaslight? Who is Martha Karua?
* Nigeria: “You’ve all failed. Goodbye!” How it all went so wrong for Nigerian basketball
* Eritrea: Isaias Afwerki’s influencer plan
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Welcome to Issue 88 of The Continent.
In a story that is exactly as bizarre as it sounds, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is accused of hiding $4-million in his couch and under his mattress – and then, when it was pilfered, trying to cover up the crime and pay off the criminals. He denies it. It’s hard to tell at this stage how much is true and how much is attempted political assassination. What we do know for sure is that this is an insight into the desperate power struggles within Africa’s oldest political party as it gets ready to choose its next leader.
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Welcome to Issue 86 of The Continent
Petrol is 132% more expensive in Sudan this year than it was a year ago. That number is 123% in Zimbabwe, 76% in Sierra Leone and 50% in Malawi. Driven by speculation, opaque financial markets, middlemen, Russia’s war in Ukraine and poor local governance, the price increases are making life more expensive across Africa. The Continent reports from the places where people are working, eating and earning less as a result.
Also in this issue:
* Anthrax: A known killer is back, making food less accessible in Sierra Leone.
* Mozambique: While Frelimo squabbles about who’s to blame, attacks resume.
* Magnificent Mané: Once banned from the beautiful game, he’s now playing in the Champions League final.
* Forewarned is for nothing?: Flood warnings in South Africa should caution against weak governance.
* Monkeypox circus: Victims, villains or vectors. Our colleagues in the West let prejudice tell the story.
Trust us, there’s more inside.
Defying Disinformation: How can we combat the infodemic?
In ARC Insider’s latest podcast episode, our editor-in-chief Simon Allison discusses the new challenge of the infodemic and how The Continent and online journalism can tackle it.
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Welcome to Season 6 and issue 83 of The Continent.
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