Review: French director Boris Lojkine’s newest feature L’Histoire de Souleymane follows Souleymane Sangare, an undocumented Guinean immigrant played by first-time actor Abou Sangare, whose asylum hearing is imminent. Hectic is an understatement.
Review: A ride through Paris – and life – with Souleymane
A beautifully humanising film takes us into the frantic, undocumented life of a delivery rider.
Big Pic All’s well that ends swole: A competitor warms up ahead of the 2024 Mr & Miss East Africa Bodybuilding Contest in Nairobi, which celebrates strength and dedication in East Africa’s vibrant fitness culture. Photo: Luis Tato/AFP image
More than 1.7-million people in Malawi live with disabilities. But the hospital system is not set up for them, so they suffer indignity – and worse.
Dehumanising hospitals fail mothers with impairments
More than 1.7-million people in Malawi live with disabilities. But the hospital system is not set up for them, so they suffer indignity – and worse.
Photo Essay: The Tigray Disabled Veterans Association in Mekele, survived the war in Tigray and is rehabilitating disabled people regardless of their role in the carnage.
Photo Essay: The scars we bear
The Tigray Disabled Veterans Association in Mekele, survived the war in Tigray and is rehabilitating disabled people regardless of their role in th...
COMMENT: A second Trump presidency is not necessarily a disaster for the African continent. Over the course of the next four years, if he is true to form (and there is little reason to believe he has learnt anything from his first term), the rest of the world will be working out how to function without its self-appointed “indispensable nation”.
Trump’s return is Africa's signal to move on
As the once and future president makes America grate again, the nations and institutions forging a new world order will simply pick up the pace
Several thousand people took to the streets of Maputo on Thursday to continue their protest against the official results of the 9 October presidential election. It was the culmination of what opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane called the “third phase” of the protests.
Mozambique: Aluta continua in the capital
The army has been deployed to quell unrest as the opposition leader pledges to keep resisting.
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 181 of The Continent. Trump is back: on the African continent we must build the post-American world order we want; the sun is setting on liberators in southern Africa; and rebuilding limbs in post-war Tigray. Read the full issue here: https://bit.ly/TC181 image
While base jumping is unregulated in South Africa, regulatory bodies are starting to form elsewhere. The Swiss Base Association, for example, works with authorities, locals and other air sport parties such as paragliders to keep the sport safe for everyone involved.
Photo Essay: Go jump
The daredevils who leap off skyscrapers for fun.
COMMENT: Sure, the US is still the premier military power on the planet and has demonstrated that it can hold the UN Security Council hostage on votes over Gaza. But politically, the US has probably never been more isolated and derided than it is today. And it only has itself, not the rest, to blame.
A new Dark Age is here
We should welcome it.
No one can afford a war that directly hits the central bank. Not even Libya’s militias, which – like everyone else – get their money from it. That calculation may be all that saved the country from another civil war.
Libya has avoided another civil war – but only just
A bitter dispute over the central bank laid bare the country’s fragilities