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    Jun 12
    All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 243 of The Continent Sport is supposed to rise above politics, but this year’s Fifa World Cup has become a showcase for just the opposite: the arbitrary exercise of political power. bit.ly/243_TC
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    Mar 11, 2023
    All Protocol Observed  Welcome to Issue 119 of The Continent @ombachi13, a Kenyan chef who whips up meals on his balcony in Nairobi, is TikTok’s number one Africa-based content creator.
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    Mar 4, 2023
    All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 118 of The Continent. It is a very dangerous time to be a black person in Tunisia.
    The cover of Issue 119 of The Continent shows Tunisia’s president Kais Saied wearing a navy suit and polka-dot tie. The caption reads: “Blame black people — Tunisia’s president finds a scapegoat”
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    Sep 26, 2022
    🧵 There’s an ongoing fight for the future of farming and Africans are finding they are having to farm the way the Gates Foundation wants them to.
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    Nov 7, 2025
    All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed. Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC
    The cover of The Continent, dated 8 November 2025 (Issue 219), bears the headline “Tanzania’s darkest week” and features a striking political cartoon by Gado that echoes Honoré Daumier’s 1831 caricature Gargantua.
At the top, the masthead appears in bold black letters on a beige background. Below it, the illustration dominates the page. It shows a woman seated on a throne-like chair, drawn to resemble Tanzania’s leader. Her mouth is open wide, and a long wooden ramp extends from her mouth, down which small, faceless figures carry large sacks labeled “Corruption,” “Incompetence,” “Fear,” and “Election Fraud.” They march upward to feed these vices into her mouth, while behind them, a long line of weary people stretches toward the horizon, waiting their turn.
To the left stands a sign reading “Abductions”, beside a huge pile of skulls — a chilling symbol of death and repression. Below, masked soldiers with rifles shoot civilians on a blood-spattered ground, surrounded by the bodies of the
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    Apr 29, 2023
    All Protocol Observed Welcome to Season 11 and Issue 122 of The Continent.
    Illustration by Wynona Mutisi: Three men (from left) Moussa Faki, Roger Nkodo Dang and Fortune Charumbira are depicted in the style of the Japanese pictorial maxim of the three wise monkeys embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". The three stand against the backdrop of the green African Union flag.
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    May 6, 2023
    All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 123 of The Continent. Bless the reign down in Africa: Britain’s new king gets to have a big party to celebrate winning the genetic lottery and the rest of us are supposed to just forget how his family acquired all that power and wealth.
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    Jul 7, 2022
    Canada’s silence on the horrors of Ethiopia’s 18-month war has led to accusations that gold deposits and other precious minerals in the northern Tigray region at the centre of conflict are behind why Canadian Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau has not spoken out.
    Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau standing against the backdrop of Canadian flags.
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    Aug 10, 2024
    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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    Sep 30, 2023
    All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 137 of The Continent Is he unlucky, incompetent or simply not the man for the job?
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    Mar 11, 2023
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    Sourcing ideas from friends and family, he sets each video around making that night’s supper. Millions watch. We follow the former Rugby Sevens national team player’s second act.
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    May 10, 2025
    In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders in Tanzania. The victims seem to have one thing in common: They are all opponents or critics of the government of President Samia Suluhu Hassan. continent.substack.com/p/blunt-force-…
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    Mar 21, 2022
    The war in Ethiopia is not over yet – and the atrocities are mounting, writes @RAbdiAnalyst. The video of a Tigrayan man being torched by men in uniform, then thrown into a smouldering pyre and literally “cooked” has stunned Ethiopians and shocked the world.
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    The Continent
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    Mar 18, 2023
    All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 120 of The Continent
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