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Pro-coup demonstration in Niger’s capital Niamey.

Francophone Africa

France has a serious image problem in Africa

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by Karim Okanla
Contaminated for millennia: the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

HBO miniseries

“Chernobyl”: The cost of lies

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by Mustafa Shrestha
Deng Xiaping’s personal authority mattered less than competent administration based on evidence and a shared vision: poster in Shenzhen in 2019.

Development studies

Why development depends on a national elite’s shared vision

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by Hans Dembowski
After criticising the government, Jack Ma disappeared from public life in 2020.

Political economy

How Xi Jinping is exacerbating China’s economic misery

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by Hans Dembowski

Elections

Elections in Zimbabwe are accompanied by political violence

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Beijing in June 2023.

Role models

A powerful role model for African girls

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by Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola
Violent protests against Peru’s President Dina Boluarte and the police in January.

Democracy

Peru’s crisis of democracy continues

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by Daniel Callo-Concha
by Antonia Bihlmayer

Our view

More fiscal space is needed when states prove too “small”

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by Hans Dembowski
Unveiling a statue of Nelson Mandela at Cape Town’s city hall in 2018: Helen Zille (left), premier of Western Cape Province, and Patricia de Lille, mayor.

Diverse society

White South Africans generally accept majority rule today

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by Roger Southall
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