The Continent

Tigray on the edge

COVER:

Most Africans would like their governments to stay out of foreign conflicts. But the US-Israel war on Iran has drawn in the island nation of Mauritius because the US needs its military base on Diego Garcia island in the British-administered Chagos...

Chad pays for Déby’s Sudan gamble

Chad pays for Déby’s Sudan gamble

COVER

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was applauded by his European audience for a speech that invited them to dream of empire again and discard the guilt of past sins (p12). That’s more than troubling when you consider the last time the West so nakedly...

COVER

Russian operatives claim to have drafted Mali’s new minerals charter, organised a “CAR for Trump” rally in the Central African Republic, and paid newspapers to publish stories. What documents refer to as “The Company” operated out of St Petersburg and...

READING IS RESISTANCE

Forward this paper to someone who needs to think differently. Get the latest edition of The Continent, plus every back issue (all 226 of them) by visiting https://www.thecontinent.org/ thecontinent.org. To subscribe (for free!), save The Continent’s...

COVER

East Africa’s first semiconductor plant was built to hedge against global supply shocks. Instead, it has become collateral damage in shifting US politics. The small facility in Nyeri in the Kenyan highlands benefited from Washington’s brief embrace of...

COVER

We assume that superpowers will play their geostrategic game of controlling global mineral wealth by compromising our leaders with a loan here, a grant there and a threat here. Few consider the far subtler, yet more opaque, pathways made possible by...

COVER

Khalil Gibran, a poet born in Lebanon in the late 1800s, wrote that we work so that we might keep pace with the earth and its soul. We’d argue that some of us work with love and purpose so deep, clear and abiding that they outpace the soul of the...

COVER

“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love,” wrote Tennesse Williams, the celebrated 20th century playwright. “Love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share:...