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If global media reports are to be believed, every person who leaves their home country in Africa is heading for Europe. Julien Brachet, a researcher at the Institute for Development Research, writes that’s “simply not true.” Eighty percent of Sub-Saharan migrants are merely moving between countries on the continent. However, that perception is making travel in the region more costly, secretive, difficult and dangerous.
Turkey goes to the polls on Sunday. The election is taking place under a state of emergency that has been in effect since an attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2016. With mainstream news sources in crisis, explains scholar Rabia Karakaya Polat, everyday Turks are taking to social media to express themselves. After Erdoğan declared that if the nation one day said “tamam” – or “enough” – he would step aside, the hashtag #TAMAM has been tweeted almost 2 million times.
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Trucks returning from Libya to Niger.
Julien Brachet
Julien Brachet, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
As in the Mediterranean, travel through the Sahara is difficult and unnecessarily dangerous by increased checks and control.
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Enough?
EPA/Erdem Sahin
Rabia Karakaya Polat, University of Essex
A snap poll intended to boost the Turkish president's power has stirred up online opposition to his increasing authoritarianism.
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Politics + Society
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Fabio Andres Diaz, International Institute of Social Studies
In the most peaceful election in their modern history, Colombians have elected as their next president a conservative who will renegotiate the country's fragile 2016 accord with the FARC guerrillas.
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Business + Economy
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Odongo Kodongo, University of the Witwatersrand
As news of mega corruption scandals continue to dominate headlines in Kenya, the economy has taken a major hit.
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Health + Medicine
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Jean-Benoit Falisse, University of Edinburgh; Serena Masino, University of Westminster
In countries where health systems are limited, collaboration between traditional healers and health professionals may help fill the gaps.
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Environment + Energy
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Vazken Andréassian, Irstea
In South Africa, Cape Town fears "Day Zero", when the city will have to ration water drastically. The phenomenon threatens other cities as well but solutions exist.
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Science + Technology
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Olatunbosun Olaniyan, University of Huddersfield
VAR is part of a wider trend of digitalisation that threatens to make football less natural and spontaneous.
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