Second life: one refugee family’s journey to Hull, via Darfur, Tripoli and Cairo
In 2015 the government's Gateway programme offered 750 refugees the chance to resettle in the UK. Our writer followed one family for six months as…
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We trust British politicians with third terms. So why not African ones?
We don't see a third term as a danger sign when it's Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair - so why…
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What the untold Soviet history of “Red Africa” reveals about the racism of modern Russia
Artists are attempting to resurrect a piece of cultural history that has been buried, but also highlight the difficulty experienced…
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Letter from Kenya: Give young people what extremists can’t – an inclusive society
Radicals don’t wake up one day and join Isis or Al Shabaab. Extremism fills a gap; preying on people who…
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Is President Zuma fatally wounded?
The South African president, the country’s economy and even the future stability of the political system, are now in question.
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City of Thorns takes us inside the world’s largest refugee camp
Ben Rawlence's new book is an affecting foray into the minds of some of Dadaab's 500,000 residents - and a…
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The murder of my friend Giulio Regeni is an attack on academic freedom
We are grieving – but above all, we are furious about the manner of his death.
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South Africa today: betraying or upholding Mandela’s values?
A speech by the former cabinet minister on whether the ANC can reclaim the vision of a "rainbow nation".
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