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A voter casts his ballot at a polling station in Eldoret, Uashin Gishu

Briefing: Inside Kenya’s troubled elections

17 August 2017

Kenya is gripped again by electoral turmoil, but is trying to work it out

Analysis

Neighbours carry the burden of South Sudan’s fleeing millions
17 August 2017
A million refugees have fled into Uganda to escape South Sudan’s civil war. Can they ever return home?
Feature

Cathedral becomes refuge of last resort for South Sudan’s displaced
15 August 2017
The largest church in South Sudan has thrown open its doors, but those fleeing war need food as well as a safe place to sleep

“Recovery lending” helps disaster-stricken African farmers get back on track
14 August 2017 Feature
Young guns: Cameroon's Boko Haram problem
11 August 2017 Analysis
South Sudan: Time for humanitarians to get tough
7 August 2017 Opinion

Feature

Mind the gap: Why Zimbabwean researchers need to work with farmers
4 August 2017
A key response to the droughts bedeviling Zimbabwe’s farmers is within reach. Why isn’t it being grasped?
Opinion

Fighting violent extremism – humanitarians beware
3 August 2017
Governments are increasingly keen to embrace a countering violent extremism strategy, but humanitarians should be wary
Opinion

The dangerous fiction of Darfur’s peace
2 August 2017
If the international community wants Darfur in the headlines again, it’s going the right way about it
Feature

Somalia’s impossible fight against cholera
1 August 2017
Cholera is hard enough to fight in a functioning state – try Somalia
Analysis

The humanitarian fallout of Congo's new conflict
31 July 2017
How a local dispute spiralled out of control in the south of the Congo.
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Unwelcome stranger: An African asylum seeker in Israel
31 July 2017
Watch the story of Anwar, a Sudanese anti-government activist who fled Darfur and sought safe haven in Israel

Kenya’s nail-biter election could turn on the price of a bag of maize
24 July 2017 News
Sporadic violence and presidential tussle put Côte d'Ivoire’s hard-won security at risk
21 July 2017 News
The Somali pirates are back (SPOILER ALERT: they never really left)
19 July 2017 Feature
Climate-friendly farming solution fizzles in Zimbabwe
18 July 2017 Feature
How jobs can help Niger win the war against Boko Haram
17 July 2017 Analysis
In Nigeria, healing the scars of war might curtail its spread
13 July 2017 Feature

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