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Regional reporting and analysis from across Africa, covering diplomacy, security, politics, business, and major developments shaping the continent.

Poverty households are exchanging younger women for cows in southern Sudan

Youngster marriage within the east-central African nation of South Sudan has elevated dramatically as poverty-stricken households promoting their daughters for gasoline. The customized has risen to such ranges that regional administrative heads have requested the federal government of the capital, Juba, to undertake a strict legislation banning observe. Talking to Anadolu Company (AA), James Konyi Korok, head of Pibor's administrative division, stated the scenario was alarming however they had been…

the meeting place for civic action “in the face of the autocratic press” in Africa

In Senegal, it is the end of the popular university for civic engagement, a major meeting with the "Afrikki" platform, which brings together militant civic movements from the continent and the diasporas. Their activists met virtually face-to-face at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar to discuss "civic action in the face of the autocratic press" in Africa.…

In the spotlight: the withered flowers of the Tunisian revolution

"The 10th anniversary of the revolution: everything is bitter, but hope is still possible!" This is the big title Time in Tunis this Thursday morning. "Here we are! Ten years ago, on December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, an unemployed person from Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire to protest against the Ben Ali regime. And the Tunisian 'revolution' has fought to become a reality. for ten years.Nothing goes further in the…

in Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of protest, 10 years of disappointed hopes

The protest as a memory. It has been ten years since the revolution began in Tunisia. Death by death, in the middle of the country, in Sidi Bouzid by a street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, led to an unprecedented uprising that led to the fall of Ben Ali. The government maintains a low profile when it comes to scoring goals on December 17, but the day promises to be tense given the small improvement in…