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On a crisp morning in Citrusdal, trucks brimming with oranges idled under the blazing South African sun, farmers watched helplessly as port authorities halted shipments to the United States. A new 30 percent tariff, one of the highest imposed by the Trump administration, had shut off access to one of South Africa’s largest export markets. For families whose livelihoods depend on agriculture, the shock was immediate, putting an estimated 30,000 jobs at risk.

Society
The Earthquake of Al Haouz: The Difficult Reconstruction of a Tormented Area
Rabii El Gamrani 12 February 2024

One million and six hundred thousand people were affected by the earthquake of September 8, 2023, which caused about 3,000 deaths and the destruction or damage to some 50,000 homes; 60,000 people are still displaced. Journalist Rabii El Gamrani went to Al Haouz, in the heart of the High Atlas, to see how the reconstruction is going.
International Affairs
The Domino Effect: How Niger’s Coup Echoes Regional Instability
Kamal Tasiu Abdullahi 27 November 2023

The recent coup in Niger, which took place on July 26, 2023, is just the latest episode in a series of events that have sent shockwaves through the region and left governments and international actors scrambling to respond. Niger, a country that experienced a relatively fair democratic transition in 2021 with the election of Mohamed Bazoum as president, has once again descended into chaos.
Human Rights, Migrations
Before the Crossing: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Tunisia
Ilaria Romano 6 October 2023

A reportage about the sub-Saharian migrants who arrived in Tunisia with the idea of embarking and reaching Italian shores after grueling journeys and long periods of detention behind them, spent in migrant centers in Libya. In many of their stories, they have already attempted the crossing to the Italian island of Lampedusa, but have been stopped and sent back by the National Guard, or have been left at the mercy of the waves with their engine failing before being brought back to shore by some passing fishing boat
Human Rights, International Affairs
Identity and Violence: Abiy Ahmed’s Amhara genocide denial
Aster Carpanelli , Nicoletta Fagiolo 3 May 2023

Ethiopia under the Prosperity Party is a de facto one-party dictatorship and its regime seems to be reinforcing the ethnicity-based apartheid federalism
Human Rights
DRCongo’s Necro-Mining, the Flip Side of the Digital
and Green Revolution
Nicoletta Fagiolo 17 April 2023

Minerals for the growing global market for electronic devices are mined in the DRC, revealing an economic structure based on a resource-death equation
Migrations
Sub-Saharan Migrants in Ouled Ziane:
a New Urban Reality in Casablanca
Rabii El Gamrani 13 February 2023

On one of Casablanca’s busiest thoroughfares and in the adjacent and centrally located Ouled Ziane bus station, in the construction site of the tracks of the third tram line, hundreds of sub-Saharan citizens camp out day and night, consuming their lives waiting and idle and living on handouts and gimmicks. They are so-called transit migrants whose goal – unlike other sub-Saharan nationals who have chosen to settle in Morocco – is to reach the other side of the Mediterranean.
Migrations, Society
A Fractured Maghreb: Infighting and Grudges
Instead of Unity and Cooperation
Rabii El Gamrani 22 December 2022

The Maghreb countries cooperated with each other to the birth of the Arab Maghreb Union. Thirty-three years after, even circulating is hard
International Affairs
Contrasting Drives. Framing the Russia-Ukraine War from Africa
Matteo Fraschini Koffi 24 March 2022

Political, economic and cultural factors are influencing the positioning of African countries, and citizens, towards the conflict. Here’s how.
International Affairs
Comparing and Competing. Africans Weigh the EU and China’s Investment Strategies
Matteo Fraschini Koffi 7 March 2022

Competition between European and Chinese investments in Africa has become fiercer. Can African nations turn that into new opportunities for sound growth?