All Protocol Observed. Welcome to Issue 176 of The Continent. El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur province, is no stranger to conflict. Its residents witnessed the Darfur Genocide, and many did not survive.

For her work advocating for gender equality in Morocco, Ghizlane Mamouni has received death threats from people who in the analogue world might not have had access to her. A list of 22 people, including herself, was posted online, naming them “enemies of Islam”, and calling for them to be killed.

African women are online – but at what cost?

Big Tech’s global boom fuelled a rise in the varieties of violence African women suffer. Our governments have yet to figure out how to protect us.

REVIEW: Mai Sennaar's 'They Dream in Gold' is a love letter to love itself, and to difficult families.

Review: In defiance of loss, we love

A world-wandering love finds itself in music, in the harmonics of pain, and in the deep fullness of time.

ANALYSIS: The TPLF is tearing itself apart, which could further destabilise Tigray and Ethiopia.

To internal conflict, add internal conflict

The TPLF is tearing itself apart, which could further destabilise Tigray and Ethiopia.

More than 200 Sudanese professors and researchers have written to the president of South Sudan asking for his help in returning artefacts looted from the National Museum of Sudan this year.

RSF determined to leave no war crime untried

With genocide already ticked off the list, Hamdan Dagalo’s forces now stand accused of looting cultural artefacts to erase Sudan’s history.

BIG PIC Gathering dust: A haboob advances on a grove in Dongola, Sudan. These giant clouds of dust occur across the world (and on Mars and Titan, one of the moons of Saturn) but got their name in Sudan. Photo: AFP

Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei died on Wednesday from injuries she had sustained on Sunday, when her former boyfriend poured petrol on her and set her alight. She became the third woman athlete to die at the hands of a man in western Kenya in the past three years.

Man kills Olympian. Again.

Rebecca Cheptegei paid the ultimate price for outpacing the man in her life. She’s far from the only woman athlete to have done so.

When President Samia ascended to power, she promised to chart a more democratic course for the country. It’s not too late to make good on her vow, but the red flags are getting redder.

Tanzania is at a dangerous crossroads

President Samia promised to chart a more democratic course for the country. It’s not too late to make good on her vow, but the red flags are gett...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 175 of The Continent. No one likes to speak ill of the dead. Nonetheless, many Tanzanians breathed a quiet sigh of relief at the passing of former president John Magufuli. His successor, Samia Suluhu Hassan, initially promised to be less authoritarian. But then people started disappearing. To make this story more accessible to Tanzanian audiences, we are publishing it in English and Kiswahili. Get your copy here: https://thecontinent.org

Be leaf: Children in Amanikro, Côte d’Ivoire craft masks in Olivier Khouadiani’s Mi Ti, ‘Head’ in Baoulé, which sees the spirit realm blurring into our own. It is part of the World Press Photo/NOOR Foundation exhibition ‘Celebrating Communities’ which opens on 14 September at Fondation Donwahi in Abidjan.