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Welcome to Issue 200 of The Continent.
In an exclusive investigation, reporters went undercover to expose how Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, helped rig Mozambique’s election.
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Arab artists are leaning east towards the Gulf states, which are pouring billions of dollars into culture to push past their ‘petrostate’ image on the world stage. It’s hurting feelings in Cairo.
A Nairobi court this week sentenced four convicted ant smugglers from Belgium, Vietnam and Kenya to each pay a $7,700 fine, or spend one year in jail, for attempting to smuggle 5,440 Giant African Harvester Queen Ants out of the country.
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Welcome to our special Africans of the Year edition. Read about the people who made the continent better.
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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.
