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Tom Westcott
Tripoli, 18 Frebruary 2019
The well-worn description of migrants in Libya is of desperate people trapped in hellish detention centres trying to get to...
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James Jeffrey
Mekelle (Ethiopia), 15 November 2018
A group of Eritreans lines up outside a small, green army tent surrounded by yellow scrubland at the top...
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Lucinda Rouse
Senegal-based freelance journalist covering West Africa
Dakar, 1th August 2018
Light sentences raise questions about the state’s response to Islamist extremism
Unlike other nearby West African...
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Sally Hayden
Khartoum, 23th July 2018
Potential witnesses worry about retaliation and complain about the lack of protection
As the UN’s refugee agency investigates allegations of bribery...
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Niamey, May,4th 2018
Niger calls them mercenaries and wants them expelled. The UN reckons they were potential victims of slavery or extortion searching for safety....
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Fabien Offner
Freelance journalist based in Dakar
The region has never been so militarised. Here’s an overview of the international players in uniform
In 2011, several African...
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Samuel Oakford
Freelance journalist based in New York, and regular IRIN contributor
At least 14 UN peacekeepers were killed and more than 50 wounded when armed...
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Obi Anyadike
Editor-at-Large and Africa Editor
Difa, 17 July 2017
Demobilising ex-combatants as part of a peace deal is hard to do at the best of times....
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Loren B. Landau
Caroline Kihato
Johannesburg, 5th July 2017
South Africa’s National Assembly recently passed a bill to set up a new border management agency. The Border...
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Philip Kleinfeld
Bangui, March 23rd, 2017
The first time the Séléka rebels captured Danielle* she was visiting the shallow grave where her husband, father, and brothers...
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Peter Lind
Cape Town, 6th February 2017
The once-fertile fields of South Africa’s Western Cape region are filled with scorched patches of earth, dying plants,...
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Sally Nyakaniyanga
Adjumani, Uganda, 30th September 2016
Josephine Maziku arrived at Uganda’s Nyumanzi Transit Centre in June this year six months pregnant and with...
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Jenny Gustafsson
Alger, 28 September 2016
As so-called Islamic State recruits members from across the world, one Muslim country has set itself apart. Despite...
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Beni, 26th August 2016
Civilians in Congo turn to self-defence groups to stop massacres
People in the eastern Congolese city of Beni have had enough of massacres....
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