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For decades, Africa’s place in the global oil economy was not merely subordinate; it was designed to be so. Crude flowed out. Refined fuel flowed back in. Value accumulated elsewhere. This was not an unfortunate equilibrium but a system built with precision: refining infrastructure in Europe, currencies of trade external, shipping, and pricing settled far beyond African control. To call this a market outcome is to misunderstand it. It was architecture. What the Dangote Refinery represents is a d ...

Artificial intelligence is lowering the cost of authoritarian control in Africa. The danger is not only mass surveillance, but a state that can abort reformist change before it is even born. Dictatorship used to be expensive. It needed informants, prisons, police files, propaganda and visible violence. Today, some of that work can be bought as software, financed through loans, connected to biometric systems and sold as modernization. The African question is not whether AI will suddenly turn a de ...

22 May 2026 The number of displaced people keeps rising in al-Karama Camp, just outside Damazin, the capital of the Blue Nile State. According to a local volunteer working for the Emergency Response Rooms, every day, more people arrive. In April, the UN estimated there were roughly 10,000 people within the camp, with many fleeing […] Ayin Network ->

As international diplomatic efforts intensify in attempts to overcome Libya’s prolonged political deadlock, a renewed US approach has emerged, marked by a noticeable tone of optimism that sits uneasily alongside the country’s fragmented and volatile realities. 15 years after the removal of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya—despite its vast hydrocarbon wealth and strategic location on the Mediterranean—remains unable to consolidate a stable political order or unify its fragmented sovereign ...

21 May 2026 A US Congress-led bipartisan bill recognising genocide in Darfur and calling for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to be designated a terrorist organisation has opened debate over humanitarian access, regional politics, and the future of Sudan’s war. Earlier this month, the US House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bipartisan draft bill […] Ayin Network ->

18 March 2026 As the conflict intensifies in the Blue Nile State region between the army, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allied forces, so too have the drone strikes. In just two months this year, from February to March, army drone strikes have killed at least 44 civilians in southern Blue Nile, according […] Ayin Network ->

18 May 2026 In a surprising diplomatic pivot, Sudanese army chief Lt Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is quietly attempting to carve out a new negotiating track with the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—a nation Sudan’s military government has long accused of fuelling its adversaries, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). According to diplomatic sources, Burhan’s unannounced arrival […] Ayin Network ->

15 May 2026 As Sudan’s devastating civil war grinds into its fourth year, the battlefields of Kordofan have been rocked by a high-profile shift in loyalty. Ali Rizqallah, the notorious field commander better known as “Savannah”, has officially announced his defection from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). His departure marks a significant psychological and strategic […] Ayin Network ->

13 May 2026 Weeks passed in silence for the wife of Sudanese refugee “Mohammed Al-Mahdi” after Egyptian police detained her husband in March. The couple lived in Cairo’s Badr district, where officers took Al-Mahdi from the shop where he worked to provide for his family. Al-Mahdi (35 years old) holds an asylum seeker document issued […] Ayin Network ->