Stories about Sub-Saharan Africa from January, 2025
Around twenty elections shaped Africa in 2024
In 2024, over twenty African countries, including around ten French-speaking ones, were set to hold presidential, legislative, and referendum elections.
In Uganda, children born of sexual violence confront cultural shame and bureaucratic roadblocks
Recent research by Equality Now highlights several obstacles survivors face in seeking justice, including insufficient legal definitions, weak law enforcement, societal rape myths, and victim-blaming.
2025: The year we decide the internet's future
In 2024, critical discussions began that could reshape internet governance, with debates extending into 2025. At stake is the shift from a multi stakeholder model ... to a government-dominated approach.
Esu is not satan: A Yoruba campaign against religious discrimination
"Esu is the deity that guides the entrances, exits, crossroads, and markets in Yorubaland. It is described as neither completely good nor evil. Esu punishes those who break cosmic laws."
Cameroonian journalist revisits the 2010–2011 Ivorian political crisis in a documentary
Côte d’Ivoire has endured numerous violent political crises and is only just recovering from the 2010–2011 crisis, which is the subject of a documentary revisiting the events of that period.
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