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    The movement to save Virunga National Park

    A beloved national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing devastating oil exploitation. Pascal Mirindi tells Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya about the local resistance movement

  • Two wind turbines in an arid landscape in the foreground, leading out to the sea and a distant mountainous island or peninsula

    Tunisia’s struggle for energy democracy

    Tunisian unions are not only fighting for better terms and conditions in the energy sector. They want democratic control, writes Ilyes Benammar

  • Nigerian doctors in scrubs of various colours hold up placards demanding 'End SARS'

    #EndSARS: Two years since the Nigerian police murder which sparked a youth movement

    Two years since protests successfully demanded to end SARS, police brutality continues to be a problem in Nigeria. Obiora Ikoku reports

  • Black and white photo of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser waiving to a crowd in Mansoura, 1960

    Egypt at 100 Years of Independence

    Heba Taha explores the drastic political transformations of the Egyptian state 100 years since independence

  • Algeria's Islam Slimani challenges for the ball at AFCON 2013

    Why football matters in Algeria

    The Algerian national football team’s recent victory in the Arab Cup raises old and new debates on the question of national identity, writes Mahfoud Amara

  • Protesters behind a Nigerian flag at a demonstration

    Nigeria’s endless quest for democracy

    For Nigeria’s switch to civilian rule to be truly democratic, it must ensure that sovereignty resides with its people, writes Synda Obaji

  • After the ‘Arab Spring’

    Despite the carnage of Syria and Libya and ruinous stalemate of Yemen, the euphoric appeal of the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to feed revolutionary processes across the region, argues Toufic Haddad

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