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AFRICA FOR OPTIMISTS

On February 6, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to seek a fifth term in office.
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How South Sudan’s elite looted its foreign reserves

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked audit report shows how family and friends of top government officials benefited from letters of credit scam.
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Africa for pessimists and optimists: 2018 in review

Intractable conflicts, terrible presidents, climate change ...

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Exclusive: Inside the secret world of US commandos in Africa

Investigation reveals the scale of operations of America’s elite combat troops in Africa
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Africa's best inventions

The shortlist for the 2019 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation was announced this week. Here it is.
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Inside the Sudanese courts that put profit above principle

An investigation into the lucrative business of morality policing in Sudan, and its disproportionate impact on women
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Bending the curves

In South Africa, as in many other countries, men test for HIV at lower rates than women. The country’s latest national HIV survey found that about 72% of women 15 years and older said they had tested for HIV, according to 2012 data from the HSCR.
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Make health, not war: Drones for life in Africa

Rural towns in Rwanda and Malawi are using the aircraft to improve access to health.
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Border kids search for a better life

Although there are no official statistics, one policeman said, “between one and five” Mozambican children are caught every week trying to cross, unaccompanied and without proper documentation into South Africa
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Offline horrors hit home affairs

One of the department’s centres was unavailable for 130 out of South Africa’s 248 working days in the past year
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Boy Scouts in a war zone

There are more boy scouts than peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. Even in the midst of a civil war, the scouts are arguably more effective
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'South America’s biggest museum was destroyed by fire on my watch’

The director of Brazil’s National Museum on his grief, anger and guilt - and what he could have done differently
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Schooling behind bars

Bars don’t stop dreams: The importance of education
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Election Season: Rwanda, Kenya and Angola

Three August votes highlight three very different democracies
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Science and art: Bringing closure by identifying the dead

Thousands of unidentified bodies pass through Joburg’s mortuaries every year. Meet the forensic specialists who put names to them — and give closure to families.
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Finding Rhapta

Kevin Davie goes on a journey to find a Roman-era city off the East African coast, using a captain’s log written 2 000 years ago.
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Somalia's enduring love affair with Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan probably doesn’t know it, but he is big in Somalia. So big that he even has his own Somali nickname.

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GHANA MUST GO: The ugly history of Africa’s most famous bag

In 1983, Nigeria expelled two million undocumented West African migrants, half of whom were from Ghana.
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The villages in Malawi that prepared for the floods - and survived

In the heavy rains that preceded Cyclone Idai, a broad swathe of southern Malawi was submerged by flood waters.
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Ghosts of the past linger between the walls of 18 Norman Street

From being a home for a family then a spaza shop frequented by neighbours, then an inconspicuous brothel to becoming a popular drug den, 18 Norman street has ghosts of the past lingering between its walls.
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The only way was murder

This is the story of a mother who made a deadly decision in defence of her daughter
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Hated at home, queer exiles find cold comfort in SA

Queer asylum seekers from all over Africa hope to find refuge in South Africa, a country whose Constitution famously forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. But they don’t always receive the welcome they are expecting
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The Promised Land

South Africa begins the arduous task of grappling with its past and future as hearings into the proposed amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution show

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He was hijacked by pirates - and then mistaken for one

One man’s ordeal in the Gulf of Guinea, the world’s most dangerous shipping route

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Who is the media?

The analysis conducted by the M&G Data Desk looked at employment equity data from ten of the country’s biggest and most influential media houses, analysed ownership and funding structures, and collated press and broadcasting complaints.

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