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Anti-foreigner sentiment is on the rise in South Africa

Paul Martial — 2026-05-16T04:18:23Z

Xenophobic riots are intensifying. They are fuelled by the economic and social crisis, but also by the actions of politicians.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / South Africa, Racism and Islamophobia

The struggle of Gen Z hijacked in Madagascar

Paul Martial — 2026-05-11T09:37:35Z

The record is hardly a glowing one for the Malagasy military, who seized power by presenting themselves as the protectors of the people against the former repressive regime.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Youth and student movements, Madagascar

Guinea in the spiral of dictatorship

Paul Martial — 2026-05-07T09:53:33Z

The latest measure to dissolve political parties in Guinea reinforces a dictatorship that prefers to adopt an extractivist policy at all costs rather than respond to the social needs of the population. Forty political parties were dissolved on the night of Friday 6 to Saturday 7 March by the Guinean government, on the eve of the legislative elections scheduled for May 2026.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Guinea

Comorian healthworkers strike against wage inequality

Paul Martial — 2026-04-30T10:25:49Z

A strike of unprecedented magnitude is shaking the main hospital in the Comoros. The issue: the fight for equal pay, regardless of status.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services , Comoros

The ravages of agribusiness in Africa

Paul Martial — 2026-04-18T07:28:45Z

The results of the Green Revolution in Africa are negative for the agricultural world and for the environment. On the other hand, they have encouraged the establishment of multinationals on the continent.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Ecology and the Environment, Africa, Farmers/peasants/land

Senegal: Debt fuels authoritarian drift

Paul Martial — 2026-03-18T14:53:37Z

Senegal has entered a zone of strong turbulence. Audits of the west African country's economic situation show that the figures published by the former government led by Macky Sall were false.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Senegal

When Russia draws its cannon fodder from Africa

Paul Martial — 2026-03-03T14:44:35Z

Victims of propaganda, many young Africans in search of a better life go to Russia. Yet they find only the violence of war — and too often, death. To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Russian authorities set up recruitment campaigns in Africa, first through Wagner mercenaries, before these networks diversified.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Africa

USA/Africa: privatisation of health aid

Paul Martial — 2026-02-12T11:34:10Z

Recent agreements between the United States and some fifteen African countries are radically reshaping health cooperation on the continent, even as Washington has just left the World Health Organisation (WHO).
These new partnerships are part of the so-called America First Global Health strategy, which makes aid conditional on US priorities. In December, Washington signed memoranda with some fifteen countries setting specific objectives for epidemic surveillance, laboratory strengthening (…)

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Africa, Zambia, Guinea-Bissau

The proper use of conspiracies

Paul Martial — 2026-01-16T21:26:38Z

The announcements of coup attempts, whether real or imagined, are evidence of the junta's weakness, as it is unable to curb the advance of the jihadists.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Burkina Faso

Wagner's atrocities in Mali

Paul Martial — 2025-12-28T10:37:07Z

In Mali, the violence exerted by Russian mercenaries against the civilian population is taking place in a climate of total impunity, without condemnation or reaction from the Malian authorities. This strategy of terror worsens an already catastrophic security and social situation.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Mali