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1. Binyamin Netanyahu has lost his aura of invincibility
2. Drought killed 43,000 people in Somalia last year
3. A dictator and his entitled son are holding Uganda captive
4. Shia Muslims are no longer in the ascendant
5. After 20 years of trauma, Iraq is struggling to recover
6. New drugs may protect girls having sex with older men from HIV
7. How an east African country became an odd sort of global powerhouse
8. Binyamin Netanyahu is exploiting Israel’s divisions
9. China brokers an Iran-Saudi rapprochement
10. The growth of Africa’s towns and small cities is transforming the continent
11. As they cut back on hiring, Arab bureaucracies are spending more to get less
12. Fiddling with Egypt’s clocks
13. Why Baghdad may have the worst traffic in the Middle East
14. Tunisia’s autocratic ruler adopts the “Great Replacement” theory
15. A new type of Palestinian militia is emerging
16. Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s political kingmaker, wins a flawed election
17. How America plans to break China’s grip on African minerals
18. The son of Iran’s last shah bids to regain the throne
19. Saudi Arabia is reconciling with regimes it once tried to topple
20. A Nigerian trade in insects that bite
21. Young Africans are logging in and clocking on
22. Why South Africa is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit
23. Bashar al-Assad does not want to let a calamity go to waste
24. Proposed legal reforms could be dire for Israel
25. Can a political underdog save Nigeria?
26. Taking stock of America’s flagship trade programme for Africa
27. After decades of empty talk, reforms in Gulf states are real—but risky
28. Israel’s government is facing anger from new and unexpected quarters
30. Lebanon’s judges battle over their probe of Beirut’s port blast
31. South Africa’s blackouts hurt the economy in unexpected ways
33. Nigeria’s presidential race goes down to the wire
34. Why bicycles are crucial to Congo’s cross-border trade
35. A white, gay, Zulu-speaking mayor is shaking up South African politics
36. Togo promises development, not democracy
37. A populist plan to pay off private debts is another sign of Kuwait’s ills
38. A crisis of confidence in Egypt
39. Why Zimbabwe’s schools have taken to selling chickens
40. Iran and its Arab neighbours are divided over a name
41. How young Sudanese are still fighting for democracy
42. Turkey eyes reconciliation with a Syrian regime it tried to topple
43. South Africa’s disintegrating freight railway is crippling firms
44. Binyamin Netanyahu rushes to take on Israel’s Supreme Court
45. The Arab world’s rulers have turned journalists into courtiers
46. A century-old choice created one of the Gulf’s oddest geopolitical features
47. Protests have subsided in Iran, but clerics cannot yet proclaim victory
48. Ethiopia’s war in Tigray has ended, but deep faultlines remain
49. Kenya’s blood shortage and the kicking of an aid addiction
50. After eight dismal years, Nigeria prepares to replace President Buhari
51. Sudan’s troubled east is a microcosm of a wider crisis
52. Women in the Middle East are leading a revolt against prudish men
53. Israel’s new government will test the ties with Arab states
54. Israel’s new government is the most right-wing ever
55. A farcical election pushes Tunisia towards one-man rule
56. Ghana has struck a preliminary IMF deal and halted debt payments
57. What the price of Zanzibari coconuts says about African development
58. Iraq’s new prime minister vows to clean up the country
59. China is helping Zimbabwe to build a surveillance state
60. Commercial cattle-raiding is impoverishing Uganda’s herders
61. Morocco’s World Cup success sparks a debate about Arab identity
62. The party of Nelson Mandela is imploding
63. What Tanzania’s “per diem town” says about African governance
64. One of the world’s poorest countries is betting big on schools
65. Cyril Ramaphosa is contesting efforts to oust him
66. Iran’s rattled government may be backing down
67. The Gulf looks to China
68. As religious schools in Israel grow, maths is neglected
69. Kenya’s boda-boda taxis are unruly in life—and death
70. How technology is helping reduce the menace of landmines
71. A sofa stuffed with cash imperils South Africa’s president
72. Iran’s regime is using threats, arrests and pay rises to silence workers
73. Can Bahrain’s division between Sunnis and Shias be healed?
74. How do budding African footballers make it to the top?
75. While Iran’s turmoil persists, jitters spread through the region
76. What Saudi Arabia’s football victory means for the Middle East
77. Why the African cocoa cartel is a bad idea
78. Fifty years after expulsion, Asians are thriving again in Uganda
79. Iran’s protesters are painting for freedom
80. Why Algeria’s rotten regime has been lucky
81. Food inflation in Africa is shrinking portions
82. Qatar’s neighbours hope for a World Cup tourism boom
83. A Ghanaian brewery shows how hard life is for small businesses
84. The changing nature of Israeli politics
85. A Netanyahu government may raise the temperature in a boiling West Bank
86. Egypt, host of the UN climate summit, persecutes its own greens
87. A peace deal highlights the pointlessness of Ethiopia’s war
88. Africa will remain poor unless it uses more energy
89. Somali clans are revolting against jihadists
90. Qatar races to ready itself for an unusual World Cup
91. Netanyahu seems on track to be Israel’s next prime minister
92. Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu bids for an election comeback
93. Could Iran’s regime fall?
94. Ethiopia’s peace talks may be overtaken by battlefield advances
95. A change in Iran could reshape the Middle East
96. Will William Ruto serve the people or himself and his pals?
97. How organised crime is blighting South Africa’s economy
98. Why teenage mothers in Zimbabwe struggle to get educated
99. Why America and Saudi Arabia are still inseparable
100. Iran’s protests spread, as a notorious prison burns
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