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A year-long investigation into bilateral loan agreements between six African nations and overseas creditors reveals a pattern of opaque contract terms and troubling asset-pledge clauses that could redefine national ownership.
With three military transitions in 18 months, regional alliances are fracturing along new fault lines. An exclusive look inside the negotiations.
Five years since ratification, the continental free trade agreement is generating results — but not always for whom it was designed.
State-backed monitoring technologies are proliferating across the region, often supplied by competing global powers with little regulatory oversight.
On the ground with the grassroots networks rewriting the rules of post-conflict recovery through radical inclusion and local leadership.