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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 248 of The Continent The images of tens of thousands of people getting into Ceuta flashed around the world. They gave ammunition to anti-immigrant voices, notably the leaders of the US and Italy. The Spanish state quickly forced almost all the people back ho…

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to the two-hundred-and-forty-seventh edition of The Continent Scroll through social media and Rwanda looks like a success story. The capital, Kigali, hosts major sporting events and is even courting Formula One. But those polished images often overshadow the country'…

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to the third edition of The Atlas, our new international publication rooted in the south.  In the newspaper this week: When Cecil John Rhodes looked at the night sky, he was not awestruck. He was covetous. “I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. …

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 246 of The Continent We’ve been around for a while. But nowhere near as long as the family ruling Togo.  Faure Gnassingbé has been in charge for 21 years. His father, who died in office, was in charge for the 38 years before that. Last year the Constitution …

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 245 of The Continent For years, Muhoozi Kainerugaba was treated as a curiosity: an impulsive general whose social media outbursts often seemed too theatrical to take seriously. That’s no longer enough to explain his antics. After nearly 40 years in power, his…

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