Big Pic New Year, New Me-skerem: An orthodox devotee prays at Bole Medhanialem Church in Addis Ababa during Enkutatash, the Ethiopian New Year holiday, which took place on Wednesday 11 September 2024. Happy 2017, Ethiopia! Photo: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP

Hit-making accordion players are terrorising the nation of Lesotho, moonlighting as hitmen.

Killer musicians are ripping Lesotho apart

The murder of a journalist by gangster accordion players highlights the fragile security situation here – and the government’s feeble response.

Some 37% of Israel’s crude oil is supplied by just three African states, according to new research by Oil Change International. Gabon provides 22% of Israel’s crude supplies, followed by Nigeria (9%) and the Republic of Congo (6%).

Three African countries are fuelling Israel’s war

Together, Gabon, Nigeria and the Republic of Congo are the largest supplier of crude oil to Israel. Critics warn this may make them complicit in ge...

Survivors of last year’s deadly earthquake in Morocco are still waiting for the government to deliver on its big reconstruction pledge.

‘How can we rebuild?’

Survivors of last year’s deadly earthquake in Morocco are still waiting for the government to deliver on its big reconstruction pledge.

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