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World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters
29th August 2025 The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of... →
Why the AfCFTA can’t simply plug the US trade gap
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 29th August 2025 Africa’s continental free trade area offers long-term promise, but expecting it to quickly compensate for US trade losses may be unrealistic.... →
Africa is expanding its digital public infrastructure for its digital future
By: In On Africa IOA 29th August 2025 Analysis in brief: Africa’s digital transformation is being pushed by demand from businesses and ordinary citizens, whose needs in the modern... →
FUL August 2025 Newsletter – Major events relating to the judiciary and the rule of law
29th August 2025 This briefing note seeks to provide a short overview of significant events in the preceding month, relating to Freedom Under Law’s work on the... →
Pressure mounting
By: Terence Creamer 29th August 2025 With industrial and trade policy firmly back on the global agenda, South African industry is becoming more vocal in highlighting the threats posed... →
Africa’s city planners must look to the global south for solutions: Johannesburg and São Paulo offer useful insights
28th August 2025 For decades, the dominant theories and models in urban studies have been built from the experience of a small set of mostly western cities. Other... →
South Africa’s new climate targets: balancing ambition with the realities of coal and climate finance
28th August 2025 South Africa has scaled back its ambitions to cut down on the greenhouse emissions that come from burning fossil fuels and which cause global warming. →
Criminal networks exploit Nigerian children in illegal oil trade
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 28th August 2025 Children are drawn into dangerous oil theft operations after witnessing the financial benefits that peers and adults gain from this illicit work.... →
Fact or fiction? Breaking down Gachagua’s US tour claims on bills, education and health
By: Africa Check 28th August 2025 During his six-week US tour which ended on 21 August 2025, former Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua sharply criticised the record of his... →
South Africa’s service delivery crisis: why protesters are using more militant tactics
27th August 2025 Post-apartheid South Africa is characterised by frequent public protests. On average, between 2007 and 2013, there were over 11 protests daily.... →
