Lynsey Chutel

Lynsey Chutel is the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly Africa Brief. She is a journalist based in Johannesburg.

Stories by Lynsey Chutel

A woman displays her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO Group in Herzliya, Israel, on Aug. 28, 2016.

Pegasus Lands in Africa

Africa Brief |

July 28, 2021, 3:11 AM

Armed people gather around a fire to keep warm at a road block set up to prevent looters from reaching the community in Phoenix Township, North Durban, South Africa, on July 15.

Is South Africa’s Unrest an Insurrection?

Africa Brief |

July 21, 2021, 5:53 AM

Soldiers in the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces guard the John Garang Mausoleum during the country’s 10th anniversary independence celebrations in Juba on July 9.

South Sudan’s Lost Decade

Africa Brief |

July 14, 2021, 6:45 AM

Women queue to vote at a polling station in Gabiley, Somaliland, on May 31.

Somaliland’s Strategic Case for Independence

Africa Brief |

July 7, 2021, 1:00 AM

Autorickshaws wait for customers next to the downtown market in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, on June 25.

Will a Cease-Fire End Ethiopia’s Civil War?

Africa Brief |

June 30, 2021, 5:22 AM

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