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Politics
A constitutional ruling rewrites the political calendar
Judges rarely set election dates, but their reading of a clause can move the whole timetable.
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Central Africa
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Economics
Who captures the value of a battery metal
Mining is the start of the story. Processing, and who owns it, is where the margin lives.
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Security
What follows when a peacekeeping mandate expires
When a mission leaves, the gap it fills tends to be political before it is military.
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Security
What a border costs the traders who cross it
Informal trade is huge and badly counted. This is what the numbers can and cannot tell us.
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Politics
How a new election law changes the shape of the opposition
Thresholds and list rules decide which parties survive long before voters do.