Tag: africa
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Russian private military security contractors (PMSCs) are pivotal players in ongoing proxy wars in the Greater Middle East and its periphery. Their covert operations—real and imagined—are also critical in shaping… more ›
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Since the beginning of September, the Malian state – represented by Assimi Goïta (the president of the transition government) and Sadio Camara (his defence minister) – and a private military… more ›
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Everyone was sworn to secrecy and told that the meeting in Khartoum would never take place. For months, however, secret negotiations took place to plan it. Emissaries flew by helicopter… more ›
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In this story from Nataal issue 3, Ekow Eshun, Selly Raby Kane and Sunny Dolat discuss Afrofuturism in fashion “Afrotopia is an active utopia that takes as its task the… more ›
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Abidjan, Dakar and Paris: the Ivory Coast-based art gallery owner Cécile Fakhoury today runs three eponymous spaces in three different world capitals dedicated to artists from the African continent, defending… more ›
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A selection of the 25 shortlisted photographers for the Contemporary African Photography prize introduce their work. The CAP Prize is awarded annually to five photographers whose works were created on… more ›
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Virologist Oyewale Tomori, whose career in science dates back to the early years of Nigerian independence, offers a personal perspective on the state of African science in 2022. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01148-6 more ›
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Commercial Registry documents seen by Bloomberg provide the first evidence that the compound is owned by Meroe Gold, a company the U.S. Treasury says has ties to the Wagner Group, which it describes… more ›