The Continent
The Continent is a weekly newspaper produced by African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors. It's designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp (and other social messaging platforms).
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 679 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Home and back again: Malawians turn the bus around
The Continent: Issue 257
This year’s anti-migrant protests in South Africa drove tens of thousands of people out of the country. One of the biggest groups to leave were Malawians, repatriated home on dozens of buses sponsored by Lilongwe....
Nigeria’s great shea escape
The Continent: Issue 256
Shea is far more important than the tub of body butter on a supermarket shelf might suggest. Most people encounter it as a cosmetic ingredient, but the world’s largest buyer of shea is the chocolate industry. Shea...
How Tigray’s peace deal came undone
The Continent: Issue 255
Ethiopia has a long history of epic monuments - think of the obelisks in Aksum - and when our team started debating this cover image, the sleuthing unearthed the Peace Monument in Wello Sefer, Addis Ababa.
The pea...
Beyond the spectacle of Mauritania’s iron train
The Continent: Issue 254
Mauritania’s iron ore train holds some of the world’s records for length and tonnage, as it hauls ore from iron-rich hills in the Sahara to the coast for export. The train has also gained interest in recent years f...
The Africa that 9/11 made
The Continent: Issue 253
The 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington DC are usually remembered as an American event. But the political order it produced was global, and Africa was – and became – one of...
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