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President Yoweri Museveni has ruled for almost 40 years. Photo: Sumy Sadruni/AFP

Free Kizza Besigye and give democracy in Uganda a chance

The veteran politician was abducted in Kenya, apparently by Ugandan intelligence officers

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In a year-long investigation released last week, UK-based Lighthouse Reports revealed that EU funding is being used for an ongoing wave of “desert dumps” across Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. File photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Senegalese migrants on hunger strike in Western Sahara after Moroccan navy interception

North African countries are arresting black people they suspect are headed to Europe, and abandoning them in ‘desert dumps’

  • Des Erasmus
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