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 | Daily |
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| Issues | 666 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Africa's shadow enforcers
The Continent: Issue 244
Across the continent, governments have long relied on police and soldiers to maintain control. Increasingly, they are outsourcing that role to actors who work in the shadows. In Kenya, they are known as goons: youn...
Making football political again
The Continent: Issue 243
Sport is supposed to transcend politics but this year’s Fifa Football World Cup has become a showcase for just the opposite: the arbitrary exercise of political power. Players, referees, journalists, and supporters...
South Africa: The hidden calculus of xenophobia
The Continent: Issue 242
The conventional explanation for South Africa’s recurring waves of xenophobic violence is now familiar: a stagnant economy, high unemployment, and migrants cast as convenient scapegoats. But that’s not the whole st...
Cameroon's $300-million gold drain
The Continent: Issue 241
African countries lose about $90-billion a year to illicit financial flows. These are “mostly linked to trade misinvoicing in extractive commodities, half of them in gold”, according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. C...
Ebola: Short-term panic, long-term neglect
The Continent: Issue 240
The current Ebola outbreak reported in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is the 17th since the disease was first identified 50 years ago. More than half of those outbreaks have been reported in the past...
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