Review: The Shadow Scholars gives us a peek into the world of Kenyan college grads who are commissioned and paid by students in the most prestigious institutions in the western hemisphere to produce essays, papers, scholarly articles and graduate theses on their behalf.
After a year of intracontinental jockeying for position, Africa is making a name for itself on the netball court. Three countries are in the top 10 in the world: South Africa in fifth, Uganda in sixth and Malawi in seventh.
Borderlands: The story of the city of Kigoma is also the story of the MV Liemba and the MV Mwongozo. Both ferries have been removed from active service, leaving no government-owned ferries operational on Lake Tanganyika, leaving the city stranded.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, Western sanctions targeted Russian exports, like refined oil. But in the eight months following the invasion, an oil tanker loitering just outside Maltese waters sold nearly two million barrels of Russian oil to Nigerian importers. Blended with products from elsewhere, it was then sold as oil from Malta. It also sold at prices 24% higher than unblended Russian oil.
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If court appeals fail, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will become Namibia's fifth president next March. Every one of those presidents, including her, has come from the governing Swapo, which took power in 1990 after the country got its independence from South Africa.
A football fixture in Guinea staged in honour of the president ended like the 2009 protest against Dadis Camara: in tragedy.
French foreign lesions: Colonial atrocities are finally catching up to Paris, and Macron’s government is too weak to put up a fight.