Africa is home to 55 countries, an ancient and complex history, modern cities, some 3,000 languages and over a billion people. From Algeria to Zimbabwe, here’s a snapshot of each country on a continent you need to know more about.
If we abandon 1652 – when Dutch settlers arrived at the Cape – as the historical starting point and go back a thousand years, a different story emerges.
3 July 2024 – A Wikipedia edit changed Leon Schreiber’s nationality just 12 minutes after president Cyril Ramaphosa’s unity cabinet appointments were due to be announced. For the previous four years, the page had correctly put the new Home Affairs minister’s birthplace in South Africa.
23 June 2024 – The absurd and harmful claim has met approval from social media users across the world.
20 June 2024 – A legal migrant from Zimbabwe was awarded R17 million in damages after a court found South Africa’s health department “100% responsible” for her child’s severe disability. She is not the woman in the photo, shot nowhere near South Africa.
22 March 2024 – The US did lift sanctions against powerful people in Zimbabwe, only to impose “new sanction tools”. And Zidera, the law that sanctions the country itself, remains.
8 February 2024 – Xenophobic posts mislabel a photo of a local oddity from Georgia – a train carriage converted into a river bridge – to sustain a harmful stereotype of Zimbabwe.
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