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South Africa’s government is looking fragile

A spat over the budget exposes deepening rifts

Abiy Ahmed’s agricultural revolution is too good to be ...

The prime minister claims to have made Ethiopia Africa’s breadbasket. The number...

Binyamin Netanyahu likens himself to Donald Trump

Israel’s prime minister is again under pressure from lawyers and security men

After the bloodshed, can Syria’s president unite his co...

A deal with the Kurds may yet shore up Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rule

Another civil war looms in South Sudan

It could merge with the one in neighbouring Sudan, to catastrophic effect

Israel’s strikes may be only the start of a new offensi...

Politics mean Binyamin Netanyahu wants to keep open the possibility of a return ...

The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret

How has it managed to outshine its peers?

America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a region...

Donald Trump has promised to hold Iran accountable for the Yemenis’ attacks

Nigerian politics is a nasty place for women

A sexual-harassment scandal in parliament shows why

A coup attempt in Tigray raises tensions in the Horn

Ethiopia and Eritrea are engaged in a dangerous game of brinkmanship

The war in Gaza has unsettled the Jewish diaspora

They have found uneasy alliances with their new protectors on the right

A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives

But someone needs to pay for it—just when aid budgets are being slashed

Nigeria’s president pushes the limits of his power

A crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta raises questions about the rule of law

Israel courts the Middle East’s minorities

Why Israel seeks alliances outside the Arab and Sunni Muslim majority

Syrians are still surprisingly upbeat

Our pioneering poll reveals much optimism, but also big sectarian divisions

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