List of Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Annals of wars we don’t know about: The South African border war of 1966-1989
Reading South African accounts of the 23-year long Border War between South Africa and the Angolan liberation movement UNITA on the one hand, and the Angolan government and army, supported by large Cuban forces on the other, is almost hypnotically compelling.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nigerian Officials: Military Expects to Win Back All Boko Haram Territory This Month
Nigerian officials visiting Washington Wednesday said the army expects to regain all territory currently under control of Boko Haram by the Nigerian presidential elections on March 28.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Are Chadian Youth Rioting Over a Motorcycle Helmet Law?
In Chad, a new law passed requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets. But the cost of helmets has now tripled and students fear they won't be able to afford their daily rides to class.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beware the Malaise
Political discontent is following economic stagnation in more places than you think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Boko Haram Turns Robin Hood’s Strategy on Its Head
Forget oil or gold. West Africa’s most dangerous terrorist group is funding its rampages by ignoring the rich and targeting the poor.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 You’ve Reversed a Long Way, Baby
It’s International Women’s Day -- and no one wants to talk about the Islamic State’s hold over women. Why Beijing+20 looks more like Beijing minus 2000.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mugabe’s New Best Friends in Brussels
Why is Europe suddenly cozying up to Zimbabwe’s nonagenarian kleptocrat?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cities Saving States
Nigeria is a mess, but its biggest city is thriving. Can Lagos show other misgoverned countries the way?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Mountain Kingdom, on the Brink
As southern Africa's democratic success story Lesotho goes to the polls, the prime minister's anti-corruption crackdown has brought a bitter power struggle into the streets.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beware Former Dictators Calling Themselves ‘Converted Democrats’
Forget the ICC complaint and 20 months of military rule, Nigerian presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari says he is a democratic “convert.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Transfer Denied: The Hidden Costs of Washington’s War Against al-Shabab
Somali-Americans worry that U.S. efforts to cut the money stream to the African terrorist group could lead to mass starvation back home.
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035 Unmade in the USA: a Special Report
Special Feature: The inside story of a foreign-policy failure.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Threatens South Sudan With Sanctions … Again
The United States introduces draft U.N. Security Resolution threatening to hit South Sudan's warring parties with sanctions.
