#africa
12 posts tagged africa.
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Ebola reaches Kampala and the world is unprepared
The Bundibugyo strain's spread from eastern DRC to Uganda's capital reveals how systematically dismantled global health infrastructure now faces its most serious test in a generation.
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Ethiopia votes, and the world barely notices
Ethiopia's first elections since the Tigray peace deal matter enormously for Africa's stability, yet the West's attention deficit toward the continent's largest war-to-democracy transition is a strategic failure.
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Ebola outpaces the response in Congo
With 900-plus suspected cases, hospital attacks, and a WHO director-general warning that containment is losing the race, the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo reveals what gutted global health institutions actually cost.
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Ebola crosses the Uganda border
The Ebola outbreak's confirmed spillover from eastern Congo into Uganda exposes the cost of gutted international health institutions and the dangerous gap between WHO alarm and actual containment capacity.
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Ebola rerouting exposes hollowed-out US response
America's Ebola travel rerouting is the right instinct but the wrong substitute for the gutted global health infrastructure that might have contained the DRC outbreak before it became a border question.
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Ebola returns to the DRC's forgotten war
A new Bundibugyo-strain Ebola outbreak in conflict-ravaged Ituri province has killed 65 and exposed 246 suspected cases, with Uganda already reporting spillover.
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Macron's Africa billions and Europe's colonial conscience
A $27 billion investment pledge signals Europe's belated recognition that losing the African relationship to China and Russia is a strategic, not merely a moral, failure.
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Ramaphosa defiant, the ANC fractured, and Phala Phala's long shadow
The South African president's refusal to resign over the farm cash scandal is constitutionally sound but politically revealing: the ANC's grip on power has outlasted its grip on governance.
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Pretoria's impeachment cloud and the ANC's long fade
A constitutional court ruling has put Cyril Ramaphosa's removal back on the table — but the deeper story is the disintegration of the post-1994 ANC settlement and what replaces it.
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Mali's prison raid and the slow strangulation of Bamako
Al-Qaeda-linked fighters storming 'Africa's Alcatraz' and blocking food convoys to Mali's capital is the moment the Sahel collapse stopped being a regional problem and became a strategic one.
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Taiwan, Eswatini and the map China is quietly redrawing
The overflight row that delayed President Lai's state visit is a small episode in a much larger pattern — Beijing is teaching the world to treat Taiwanese sovereignty as conditional.
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Nigeria's two faces: kidnapping and counterterrorism
The abduction of 50 Nigerian schoolchildren and the US-Nigeria joint killing of an IS commander on the same week expose the contradictions of West Africa's security crisis.