The wall in Western Sahara marks the practical frontline of a conflict most of the world has stopped watching.
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France’s ethnically diverse squad reflects the nation’s multi-faceted history: its colonial heritage, migration patterns and the French Football Federation’s training policy that dates back to the 1990s.
A new continent-wide map is helping identify where Africa’s groundwater can support drinking water and irrigation. Monitoring boreholes tracks aquifer health.
Dialogue was at the heart of how Saint Augustine practised both philosophy and theology.
Pope Leo’s Africa visit offers a powerful historical reminder of the continent’s foundational role in shaping the early church.
Africa represents the fastest-growing part of the Catholic Church. The pope’s 2026 journey will stop in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Algeria and Angola.
Through its support for Western Sahara, Algeria exerts a form of pressure on Morocco and influences regional political dynamics.
Morocco is entrenching its control of Western Sahara, or what it calls the ‘Southern Provinces’.
He won global fame for his politically charged films about the fight for independence in Algeria and was central to building the country’s film industry.
Elite competition for dominance over illegal mining locations leads to funding of armed bandits, and the use of violence against civilians in north-west Nigeria.
These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic.
Whereas oil producers like Saudi and the UAE are spending heavily to diversify away from carbon, the same can’t be said of many other Opec members.
Most sports are organized according to a strict male-female binary. Nature isn’t.
Women’s boxing has faced an uphill battle at the Olympic Games. Gender testing is just the latest issue it has had to deal with.
A psychiatrist and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon wrote fiercely against racism and colonialism. His ideas continue to inform political movements yet his misogyny and embrace of violence are problematic.
Listening to El Medioni’s work is a deep dive into the history of north African Jews over the last 150 years, long pre-dating his birth.
The Sahara Desert is green and vegetated every 21,000 years. A climate model shows why.
The two football-loving nations are also political allies with a shared history.
South Africa is a large peninsula on the strategic Cape sea route. Some 90% of its trade flows through its harbours. The navy defends the country’s sovereignty and national interests.
The earthquake was caused by the collision of two tectonic plates.
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Visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and Senior Professor of International Studies and Director of Research in Geopolitics, Kedge Business School
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Director of the Leaders of Africa Institute and Research Affiliate with Davidson College, Davidson College
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Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
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Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in French Studies, University of Westminster
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Director of programmes, African Academy of Sciences
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Associate professor, University of Ibadan
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Associate research scientist, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Afrobarometer Senior Analyst/Methodologist, University of Cape Town
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Tshwane University of Technology
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Associate Professor of History, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Aberdeen