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Mirjam de Bruijn, currently in Mali for 'Voice4Thought', has given several interviews about the situation in Mali after the coup on 18 August. 'The international community should not condemn this development, but accompany it', she said to daily newspaper Trouw. 

Both African migration and queer Africa are loaded with negative stereotypes in global discourse, including misunderstandings on the interconnected reasons why marginalised people migrate. In Senegal, the open-endedness of both migration and of queerness has the possibility to create surprising networks and collaborations between queer Senegalese around the world, offering directions for a different kind of queer activism, writes Loes Oudenhuijsen in the ASCL Africanist Blog.

Is Africa still the 'war-torn continent' or can we see a change to peace and stability? In her contribution to the Clingendael Spectator series 'Africa: 60 years of independence' ASCL researcher Lidewyde Berckmoes describes three trends in interventions for peace and stability in Africa. 

Prof. Chibuike Uche was interviewed by Belgian magazine Knack about Nigeria's and the wider continent's economic development. He speaks candidly about the African Union ('an organisation that has its headquarters built by the Chinese can't defend African interests'), the European Union ('one really has to explain to me why the EU sees free trade as the solution for everything, but not for agriculture') and development aid ('hasn't played any role in the economic development of Africa'), and has strong ideas about transferring power to Nigeria's regions. The interview is in Dutch.