All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
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Review: Maturity brings wisdom and experience. But how refreshing it is to let whim and whimsy guide your actions – if only because you don’t know any better, writes @npub1vegn...2gvn
Drought has highlighted the failure of the state to build dams and improve the country’s water security, and Zimbabweans are having to dig deep to compensate.
The Kenya Peasants League says it is collecting a million signatures to support its appeal against a ruling that okayed genetically modified crops – the latest front in a decades-long battle to keep GMOs out of Kenya.
Today’s No 77 Wilhelmstraße is unremarkable: a residential building in Berlin. But it was at this address on 15 November 1884, that German chancellor Otto Von Bismarck gathered European leaders to carve up Africa, in what is now known as the Berlin Conference.
Opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane claims to have won the presidential election last month. He’s probably right. But instead of preparing to take office, he has been forced to flee Mozambique.
The Constitutional Council evaluating allegations of electoral fraud in Mozambique’s 9 October presidential poll is stacked in favour of the accused Frelimo ruling party, according to a leading human rights defender in the country.
A presidential guide to stashing dodgy cash: A million dollars of unknown provenance is nice but brings its own problems: Where to store all that money, and how to make it look legitimate. Mozambican elites found a solution in South Africa.
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 182 of The Continent
Even independent observers say the people of Mozambique voted for change in the 9 October presidential election. But the ruling Frelimo party isn’t going anywhere – perhaps because staying in power is simply too lucrative. That means that the man who should be president might never be.
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Operation Vala Umgodi, a joint effort by police and the army to combat illegal mining in South Africa, appears to have a new motto: By any means necessary. In the most recent escalation by the task team, this meant starvation and dehydration.
