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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa and SADC’s reluctance to remedy misgovernance in their neighbourhood contributes to migration, sparking xenophobia and causing diplomatic embarrassment. South Africa has, in a sense, been hoisted on its own petard with the recent xenophobic campaign against migrants – most of whom come from Southern Africa, particularly Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi.]]></description>
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            <title>Conflict and climate: double threat driving Great Lakes displacement </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Climate hazards are compounding decades of conflict-driven displacement, while fragmented responses expose vulnerable communities to repeated crises. Millions of people in the Great Lakes region have spent decades displaced by conflict, but climate change is adding a new layer to the crisis. Floods, landslides and rising lake waters are uprooting communities and sometimes displacing people who have already fled violence, exposing the limits of regional approaches that treat conflict and climate displacement separately.]]></description>
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            <title>Unusual suspects: elders in West Africa’s changing drug trade </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The apparent rise of trafficking by older adults could reflect a new criminal adaptation rather than individual criminality. Adults aged 50 and over are becoming more visible in West African drug operations, although data availability and official understandings of this phenomenon vary across states.]]></description>
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            <title>Africa must unlock the capital beneath its farmers’ feet</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Agriculture is the foundation for Africa’s economic takeoff, but without land tenure reform, its potential will remain untapped. Africa’s quality of governance has largely stagnated or declined over the past decade, as reflected in the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators, Afrobarometer surveys across countries and the Ibrahim Index of African Governance.]]></description>
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            <title>IDAC’s failures demand reform, not abolition</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa needs IDAC’s specialist anti-corruption capability, but the institution must be repaired and strengthened. Madlanga Commission testimony on South Africa’s Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) raises questions about the lawful use of investigative powers, adherence to statutory mandate, internal controls and some senior officials’ judgement. These are serious concerns, but do not warrant closing an important anti-corruption institution.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Hichilema wins a stronger mandate, but Zambia’s democratic test isn’t over</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Late electoral reforms and weak checks on power expose democratic fault lines and raise the stakes for Hichilema’s second term. Zambia’s 13 August election delivered a second five-year term for President Hakainde Hichilema, who secured 60.5% of the vote, against National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) candidate Brian Mundubile’s 37.8%. With last-minute changes to electoral law and a fragmented opposition, the result was not unexpected.]]></description>
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            <title>SADC’s geopolitical moment will not wait</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Durban summit identified the right economic priorities, but a geopolitical strategy and credible regional security approach are lacking. This week’s Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders’ summit in Durban struck several high notes. These included President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to focus South Africa’s SADC chairship on infrastructure development, and the summit’s emphasis on using critical minerals to accelerate industrialisation and regional integration.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Why the EU’s new AI law matters for South African newsrooms </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[SA and legacy media can use this world-first legislation to improve their role as guardians of information integrity in an African context. This month, transparency obligations under the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) law came into force in Europe. The groundbreaking European Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) has important lessons for South Africa and for legacy media, given their role as guardians of information integrity.]]></description>
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            <title>Chad’s quiet return to French military support</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chad’s rapprochement clashes with its recent emphasis on national sovereignty and risks reviving insecurity among neighbours and disillusionment at home. Chad and France appear to be reviving a longstanding military partnership that N’Djamena abruptly ended in November 2024. The rapprochement reflects enduring mutual interests, but also the limits of Chad’s efforts to diversify its security partnerships. How Chad manages France’s return without undermining its sovereignty claims or its Sahelian relations will be the critical test.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Can Mozambique’s new counter-terrorism centre deliver?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The centre fills a major counter-insurgency gap in the north, but the challenge will be translating good intentions into results. In November 2025, Mozambique established the National Centre for the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism and Violent Extremism (CTC) to coordinate its responses to terrorism. This is a long-overdue step after nine years of torment by Islamic State-backed insurgents, during which over 6 700 people have been killed in nearly 2 500 attacks in northern Mozambique.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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