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In a hard corner of southern Ethiopia, the multiple causes of the global food crisis converge
To charge Sudan’s president with genocide and war crimes in Darfur is momentous - and dangerous
Robert Mugabe’s coronation is the time to start preparing in detail for the aftermath of his regime
The Mugabe's regime's violations have created a tipping-point. Now the hard questions start
A one-man election faces Africa's leaders with a choice - to turn
against Robert Mugabe at last
Regime violence has killed the election. A Harare voice looks to the region for hope
Tokyo was once the unsung hero of African development. China's arrival changes everything
The wave of anti-immigrant in South Africa reflects both local politics and global economics
South Africa's shifting attitude towards Zimbabwe may have decisive effects in both countries
Rwanda’s people, refusing to be trapped in or defined by the 1994 genocide, write a new chapter in their history
Robert Mugabe's
post-election tactics leave Zimbabweans poised between fear and hope
People are losing their fear and voting for change even in Robert Mugabe's political strongholds
Zimbabwe's president turns 84 with a lavish party in his starving country. Wilf Mbanga, former friend turned exiled editor of "The Zimbabwean", writes to him (archive)
The wars provoked by Sudan's revolutionary Islamist regime are failing to deliver the regional control Khartoum seeks
How far were the pogroms prefigured by Kenya’s political elite long before the first ballot was cast?
The French president's view of Africa is rooted in imperial fantasy
The effects of war, poverty and displacement dominate the daily lives
of Somalian women
In an old civilisation's millennium, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's voice will be heard (archive)
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