Satellite internet can close digital divide, but Global South must not trade access for dependence on foreign firms.


Al Jazeera columnist
Satellite internet can close digital divide, but Global South must not trade access for dependence on foreign firms.

South African universities must resist donors who use financial power to impose political obedience.

From Kenya to Ghana to Mali, governments are insisting their minerals be processed at home before they leave.
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Zimbabwe is compensating European farmers. The original dispossession goes unrecognised.

What is being done to Iran today could be done to Africa tomorrow. Africa must reject this illegal war.

From Zimbabwe to Zambia, US health deals are raising fears of a new era of biomedical extractivism.

Africa faces a historic sporting and moral choice over the US-hosted tournament.

Much of postcolonial Africa still fails to confront the political vision for which Patrice Lumumba was eliminated.

Inflammatory US rhetoric risks turning Nigeria’s internal crisis into an excuse for military intervention.
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The failed coup exposed how far Benin’s democracy has already decayed.
