On this day a year we told you the system was rigged.

The Pandora Papers was one of world’s biggest data leaks in history. It took 150 newsrooms around the world – including The Continent – to sift through the nearly 12-million files obtained by the @ICIJorg. In Issue 63 (October 9 2021) we looked not just at the individuals implicated in the documents, but also what they tell us about the world the super wealthy built – and how they pick and choose the rules. As @WillFitzgibbon said: “We have receipts…”

🧵 Background on 🇧🇫 coup

The Sahel is what ecologists call a “realm of transition” – a vast, semi- arid landscape stretching from one coast of Africa to the other, separating the harsh desert of the north from the more fertile savanna and rainforests of the south. After this week, political scientists might start using the term too.

👆 The above was part of a news analysis which was in a news package The Continent carried in Issue 73 on 29 January 2022.

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Welcome to Issue 102 of The Continent.

Cover story: In the hypocrisy of climate geopolitics, the trade-off is simple. African countries are expected to toe the global north’s line, in exchange for cash. But the cash never arrives, even as Africa is forced to do as it is told. Leaders smile for the cameras at climate negotiations before going home to countries that cannot develop. This dynamic must change. African countries need to do it their own way. Fast.

🧵 There’s an ongoing fight for the future of farming and Africans are finding they are having to farm the way the Gates Foundation wants them to. 💡 As Million Belay and Bridget Mugambe see it, there are two competing – and mutually exclusive – visions for the future of African agriculture.

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Welcome to issue 63 of The Continent.

The system is rigged. And it’s working as intended. The Pandora Papers is the biggest data leak in history. It took 150 newsrooms around the world – including The Continent – to sift through the nearly 12-million files obtained by the @ICIJorg.

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Welcome to issue 59 of The Continent.

In our newsroom we aspire to live by the African-American saying “Say it with your chest”. And we invite others to do the same. When we interviewed @AfricaCDC boss @JNkengasong, he said, “Europe is trying to vaccinate 80%. The United States is trying to vaccinate everybody. They will finish vaccinating, impose travel restrictions and then Africa becomes ‘the continent of Covid’”. He was right.

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Welcome to the ninth issue of The Continent. Have you ever wondered why so many African flags seemingly follow the same colour scheme?Lazy designer? Coincidence? Nope.

Find out how Marcus Garvey, a black star and a Ghanaian woman named Theodosia Okoh inspired this week’s foray into vexiollogy.

There will be a quiz!