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            <title>South Africa needs smarter visas, not just harder borders </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A visa regime acknowledging the inevitability of some migration between neighbouring countries could affordably reduce irregular migration. Most migrants labelled ‘undocumented’ in South Africa are in fact documented. They come from neighbouring countries through regular channels with passports, but overstay their permitted time or work without authorisation.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[From drugs to arms to poaching, unmarked boats sustain a criminal economy threatening coastal livelihoods and security. In October 2025, a major maritime operation in the high seas revealed the evolving sophistication of organised crime along East Africa’s Swahili Coast. Acting on a tip-off, the Kenyan Navy intercepted the MV Mashallah, an unregistered ‘fishing’ dhow, 630 km east of Lamu in northern Kenya.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A year-long pause should end in stronger political backing, renewed legitimacy and broader ownership of transitional justice. Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Commission commenced its long-awaited plenary deliberations on 15 July. Key issues identified through the dialogue process will be covered, including transitional justice. The discussions are expected to last three weeks, after which the commission will publish its recommendations.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[State security forces, militias and vigilante groups increasingly overlap, making insecurity more profitable and conflict harder to resolve. Across Central Africa, it is becoming harder to distinguish between those tasked with providing security and those driving crime and conflict. The inability of governments to guarantee security encourages alliances among militias, community-based forces and national armies, complicating conflict management.]]></description>
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            <title>US immigration regime undoes FIFA World Cup’s promise of universality</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By blocking many Africans from participating and attending, the US has made a mockery of FIFA’s apparent commitment to universal access. The 2026 FIFA World Cup final this Sunday between Spain and Argentina is the culmination of what should have been the biggest celebration of diversity in football history.]]></description>
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            <title>J’activists: the hybrid nature of conflict journalism in Sudan’s ‘silent war’</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sudan’s ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, increasingly viewed as a proxy war driven by competing geopolitical interests, has triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. It also highlights a hybrid form of war reporting of what some, lamenting the dearth of international media coverage, see as a ‘silent conflict’. This reporting is being framed as a pragmatic, perhaps controversial, response to what researchers have called traditional media’s persistent ‘neglect’ of the fighting.]]></description>
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            <title>Ghana’s Tarkwa negotiations are testing Africa’s new mining bargain</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For decades, the bargain between states and mining companies was relatively predictable. Governments provided regulatory certainty, companies invested capital and extracted minerals, and the state captured value primarily through taxes, royalties and employment. Today, that bargain is being renegotiated. As geopolitical fragmentation reshapes global supply chains and critical minerals become strategic assets, African governments are instead asking: if the world places greater strategic value on our resources, why should we settle for yesterday’s terms?]]></description>
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            <title>What will it take for South Africa to outsmart Mandrax traffickers?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The May seizure of over 700 kg of methaqualone, or Mandrax, was one of the largest at a South African border post in recent years. Acting on intelligence, customs and police officials at the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe discovered the illicit substance hidden behind steel panels in a truck travelling from Malawi. Two foreign nationals were arrested. In 2020, an even bigger Mandrax seizure – 3.9 tonnes – was made in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal (see table), showing criminal syndicates’ capacity for domestic storage on an industrial scale.]]></description>
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            <title>Delayed containment of Ebola could cost DRC and Uganda billions</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda presents an urgent public health and development challenge for the Great Lakes region. Although smaller so far than the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic, history shows how quickly localised outbreaks can escalate when containment is delayed, and health systems are strained. The immediate policy priority is containment. Failure to control transmission would not only increase mortality but also impose high economic costs through reduced productivity, heightened fiscal burdens and disruptions to trade, investment and development. ]]></description>
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            <title>Mkhwanazi opened SA’s eyes to the scale of high-level police corruption</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It has been a year since KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s press briefing alleging collusion between senior politicians, police and organised crime bosses. The impact continues to reverberate throughout the country, particularly in the upper echelons of the South African Police Service (SAPS). But while Mkhwanazi has become a widely recognised public figure, there is some uncertainty about what he stands for. Some hesitate to affirm him for standing against both corruption and what he described as inappropriate interference in the police.]]></description>
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