ISS TODAY OP-ED AU takes aim at Africa’s new brand of mercenaries, but strong oversight, clear reporting lines are needed 3 min 0 By Moussa Soumahoro
ISS TODAY OP-ED What’s in a game? Video games, ‘militainment’ and Russian influence in Africa 4 min 0 By Karen Allen
GEOPOLITICS OP-ED Outside world can help turn the Sahel away from its disastrous path 7 min 2 By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
SWOOP ON CAMP Libyans arrested at SA security training firm linked to group which once tried to topple UN-backed Tripoli government 5 min 31 By Julia Evans and Peter Fabricius
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED The world turns its back while the noose tightens around Sudan 7 min 8 By Phillip van Niekerk
FROM ARCHIVES: EDITORIAL Lest one day we forget: With Putin’s Russia, South Africa is committing a historic mistake 9 min 79 By Branko Brkic
COUP D’ETAT OP-ED ‘Coupnomics’ and endangered democracies — there is no such thing as a ‘good’ coup 4 min 0 By Odilile Ayodele and Babatunde Fagbayibo
PUTIN’S REVENGE Prigozhin meets his maker: Payback time as Wagner Group’s leadership decapitated 5 min 26 By Phillip van Niekerk
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED A key African democracy bites the Sahelian dust as Presidential Guard seizes control in Niger 5 min 0 By Phillip van Niekerk
WAR IN EUROPE Russia will emerge stronger after Wagner mutiny – foreign minister Lavrov 3 min 2 By Reuters
ISS TODAY OP-ED President Andry Rajoelina and the extreme personalisation of power in Madagascar 4 min 1 By Peter Fabricius
MERCENARY ARMS US says Russia’s Wagner seeking to transit military equipment through Mali 1 min 1 By Reuters
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED Wagner's Yevgeny Prigozhin – the man who would be king on two continents 6 min 0 By Phillip van Niekerk
WAR IN EUROPE Russia's Wagner mercenaries control more than 80% of Bakhmut, says leader 2 min 0 By Reuters
INTERVIEW Finland’s evolution is again being shaped by its menacing neighbour, Russia 6 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
OP-ED The dogs of war are back – but is Ramaphosa finally seeing the light on Wagner? 6 min 5 By Greg Mills
UKRAINE UPDATE: 19 JANUARY 2023 Ukrainian Interior Minister and senior officials die in helicopter crash; Zelensky urges allies to speed up aid 3 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 17 JANUARY 2023 Death toll rises from Dnipro missile strike; South Africa set to welcome Russian warships despite criticism 5 min 0 By Bloomberg