Insights
- Tunisia’s migrant crisis and the authoritarian turnTunisia’s migrant crisis is being used to justify authoritarian measures because irregular migration gives the government a threatening external story at a…
- Sudan’s gold economy and the war it helps sustainSudan’s civil war is often described through front lines, air strikes and battles for major cities. Yet some of the conflict’s most important movements happen…
- Ghana's cocoa belt is quietly running out of farmersWhen an Adelaide shopper unwraps a block of Haigh's milk chocolate or tears into a family-sized slab from the corner shop on a Friday arvo, the mind rarely…
- Somalia's clan-based electoral model is running out of roadFor more than two decades, Somalia has tried to build a federal state on top of a society organised by clan lineages, using an electoral arrangement that…
- How Comoros' instability is reshaping tourism and remittancesNestled in the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and the southeast African coast, the Union of the Comoros has spent most of its post-independence history…
- How Lesotho's water exports give the kingdom quiet leverageSurrounded on all sides by South Africa, the mountainous Kingdom of Lesotho often appears in headlines only when something goes wrong: a coup, a political…
- Rwanda’s plastic bag ban and the businesses learning to adaptRwanda’s zero-tolerance approach to plastic bags is often presented as a success story in environmental policy. Since 2008, the country has restricted the…
- Madagascar’s vanilla boom and the hidden cost to childrenMadagascar supplies most of the world’s natural vanilla, a crop prized by food manufacturers, pastry chefs and home cooks. Its distinctive flavour appears in…
- Why Guinea-Bissau’s Coups Keep ReturningGuinea-Bissau is often described through the language of political instability: another military intervention, another disputed election, another government…
- Ethiopia’s Tigray Truce and the Grievances Beneath ItThe peace agreement signed in Pretoria in November 2022 stopped the large-scale fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, bringing relief after two years of war.…