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A Building From the 1950s Gives Way: Six Dead, Three of Them Children, in Cairo’s Hadayek El-Qobba
An Aging Housing Stock, Unenforced Repair Orders and a Familiar Pattern of Collapses in…
No Name for the Crime: Cameroon’s Femicide Protests Push a New Law Toward Parliament
Nearly 70 Women Killed This Year for Gender-Related Reasons, and a Penal Code That…
Hearsay, Scanned Copies and Years of Delay: Malawi’s High Court Spells Out Why Bushiri Stays Home
A Final Judgment in A Six-Year Extradition Fight Between Malawi and South Africa No…
A $700 Million Gap in the Ebola Ledger: Africa CDC Tells Congo’s Aid Partners to Show Their Accounts
A Continental Health Agency Confronts the Gap Between Donor Pledges and Spending on the…
Seven Returned, 5,800 Arrived: Britain Threatens a Visa Ban on Every Eritrean
A Returns Dispute Between London and Asmara, and a Country Whose Young People Keep…
Twenty Teams and a Monthly Wage: Traoré Builds a State League Beside Burkina’s Football Federation
A Military Government Turns to Sport for Nation-Building, Days After A 7-0 Defeat Here…
Thirty-Eight Percent: Child Malnutrition in South Darfur Camps Crosses the Famine Line
Drought, War and an Aid Appeal That is Less Than Half Funded Thirty-eight percent.…
Cremation Is Not Closure: A Lagos Court Clears the Inquest Into Adichie’s Son’s Death
Medical Accountability, Coroners' Law and the Right to Answers A coroner's inquest is not…
Two Hundred and Seven Seats: Morocco’s PAM Seals a Four-Party Ruling Coalition
Post-Election Bargaining, A Woman Tasked to Form a Government and a Majority Locked In…
Fifteen Thousand on the Line: Ethiopian Troops Reach Zalambessa as Diplomats Race to Avert War
A Border Town, Dueling UN Letters and A Peace That Did Not Hold The…
A Resignation Letter at the Hearing Door: South Africa’s Deputy Police Chief Quits From Custody
Policing, Organized Crime and Public Trust The man who was once responsible for detecting…
When a Payments App Fails: Kenya’s Central Bank Asks for Power to Take Over and Sell It
In context: customer money, private platforms and public oversight What happens to your money…