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What’s at stake in Tanzania’s election as authoritarianism rises in East AfricaHaving barred her major rivals from the polls, Tanzania's current president will run virtually unopposed in the Oct. 29 general election. -
Madagascar’s president is said to have fled country amid coupAn opposition lawmaker said Madagascar’s president had fled the country after warning of an attempt to “seize power illegally.”
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Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil producer. Its citizens eye a different future.Africans are rapidly taking up solar power, a grassroots transformation led by individuals and businesses, rather than governments or power companies. -
First Nepal, then Madagascar, now Morocco. Gen Z puts pressure on governments.Young people from Peru to Indonesia are using social media to organize Gen Z protests that have toppled two governments. How far will the wave spread?
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In Boko Haram’s shadow, a Nigerian perfume-making tradition lives onFor centuries, women in northern Nigeria have worn a smoky fragrance called gabgab. But now the Boko Haram insurgency has put its future at risk. -
Liberia’s government wants to ban FGM. Many of its women don’t.Activists in Liberia want to end female genital mutilation there. But first, they need to get the buy-in of those who practice it. -
Jobs at stake as major US-Africa trade deal set to expireThe African Growth and Opportunity Act, which has given thousands of African products duty-free access to U.S. markets since 2000, is set to expire on Tuesday. -
Malawians look to presidential election for change amid economic crisisMalawi is to hold a presidential election this week as the nation struggles under an ongoing economic crisis and food and fuel shortages. -
‘Something to tap into’: Ballet school shows Kenyans that dance is for everyoneFor former professional dancer Mike Wamaya, there’s nothing out of the ordinary about children from the Kibera settlement dancing ballet. -
In Sudan, some feel safe returning to Khartoum, seeking to rebuild their livesAbout 1.2 million war-displaced people have returned to Sudan since 2024. They're encountering infrastructure and homes that are destroyed or damaged. -
Their communities survived stigma and shame. Can they survive without USAID?On July 1, USAID was formally dissolved. In Uganda and Congo, that loss of funding has also broken apart communities that relied on it. -
In Darfur, Sudan, kidnapping is now a weapon of warSudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is using kidnappings to help fund its war efforts and, in the process, unleashing terror on Darfur’s civilians. -
Lost your USAID funding? These aid matchmakers have a solution.Project Resource Optimization is connecting formerly US-funded aid projects – including one providing clean water in Nigeria – to new donors. -
Exiled by war, Sudan’s women find freedom from female genital mutilationExiled from their country by civil war, Sudanese mothers in Egypt are refusing to subject their daughters to female genital mutilation (FGM).
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