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SA’s anti-immigration movement raises the stakes on social media

Vigilante videos, AI-generated content and Mandela-linked framing are fuelling millions of mentions and xenophobic sentiment.
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Arms smuggling: a key threat to South Sudan’s December elections

South Sudan’s fragile transition is increasingly shaped by forces beyond its borders that drive illicit arms flows into the ...
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Unregistered small vessels: the hidden threat sailing East Africa’s coast

From drugs to arms to poaching, unmarked boats sustain a criminal economy threatening coastal livelihoods and security.
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South Africa needs smarter visas, not just harder borders

A visa regime acknowledging the inevitability of some migration between neighbouring countries could affordably reduce ...
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Central Africa’s shifting alliances between armies and armed groups

State security forces, militias and vigilante groups increasingly overlap, making insecurity more profitable and conflict ...
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Factional Dynamics within Boko Haram

The first in a two-part study examining current dynamics in violent extremist organisations. This report is the first in a two-part study examining current dynamics with regards to violent extremist ...
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What will it take for South Africa to outsmart Mandrax traffickers?

Despite many policing challenges, recent cocaine seizures by SARS, Hawks and international law enforcement, using private ...
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J’activists: the hybrid nature of conflict journalism in Sudan’s ‘silent war’

Female activists are filling the reporting gap in Sudan, but this raises concerns about credibility, protection and oversight ...
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Ghana’s Tarkwa negotiations are testing Africa’s new mining bargain

The debate surrounding the Gold Fields lease renewal is becoming a test of how African governments navigate resource politics ...
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Ethiopia’s National Dialogue could give transitional justice new momentum

Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Commission commenced its long-awaited plenary deliberations on 15 July. Key issues identified through the dialogue process will be covered, including transitional justice.
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The genesis of insurgency in northern Mozambique

Based on fieldwork in four districts, this report explores the emergence of violent extremism in Cabo Delgado. Insurgents have attacked towns and villages in Cabo Delgado, the poorest province in ...