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ICYMI: Get your copy of final issue of The Continent for 2023! 🎁 Africans of the Year 🔎 The news in review 🏆 A bumper edition of The Quiz 📚 And the books, movies, and music we enjoyed this year.

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All Protocol Observed.  Welcome to Issue 147 of The Continent  Money is the best soap: TotalEnergies is sponsoring Afcon — Africa’s biggest football competition — presumably hoping the stains of its core business are washed away.

All Protocol Observed  Welcome to Issue 149 of The Continent. The Ruto of the problem: Hustler-in-chief William Ruto was elected on promises of creating opportunities for ordinary people. But as is the case with the “grindset grift”, that’s not what’s happened.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 150 (!) of The Continent 🥳

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 160 of The Continent   Kenya has lost a lot in the devastating floods of recent weeks: property, infrastructure and lives, among them that of Benna Buluma.

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 165 of The Continent. No, it’s not just you: life is more expensive, wages are worth less and our leaders either can’t or won’t do what it takes to improve the situation.

We are thrilled to announce the Oxford Climate Journalism Network’s Advisory Board 🇮🇳Radhika Khosla 🇬🇧Joss Garman 🇩🇪Wolfgang Blau 🇿🇦Sipho Kings 🇸🇬Sharon Chen 🇬🇧Leo Hickman 🇰🇪David Obura 🇬🇧Meera Selva 🇫🇷Ivan Couronne 🇬🇧Katy Hartley 🇧🇷Gustavo Faleiros 🇬🇧Dr Friederike Otto reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ocjn-advisory-…

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All Protocol Observed. Welcome to Issue 171 of The Continent. We join Botswana 🇧🇼 to celebrate Letsile Tebogo, and his mum in the ancestral realm, to honour a journey that began 21 years ago in the village of Kanye and culminated in a record-breaking 200m dash in Paris.

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent. M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party. bit.ly/TheContinent189

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 190 of The Continent The world order is disintegrating. Whose interests will the African Union serve now? Read it here: bit.ly/TC190

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 194 of The Continent Zambia’s pact with copper mines has decimated another river. Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent194