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Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

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A media nerd whose work centres politics, gender, social commentary, and pop culture.

Morocco’s First Female Prime Minister Inherits a Country Hungry for Change

Morocco’s First Female Prime Minister Inherits a Country Hungry for Change

Young Moroccans who took to the streets will judge her on jobs, prices and clinics rather than on the symbolism of her being the first woman prime minister. Still, her appointment marks a genuine first in a kingdom where the outgoing government had just four women ministers. Whether it becomes a turning point, or simply a new face on an old system, will depend on what she achieves in the coming months.

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Morocco’s First Female Prime Minister Inherits a Country Hungry for Change

Young Moroccans who took to the streets will judge her on jobs, prices and clinics rather than on the symbolism of her being the first woman prime minister. Still, her appointment marks a genuine first in a kingdom where the outgoing government had just four women ministers. Whether it becomes a turning point, or simply a new face on an old system, will depend on what she achieves in the coming months.

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

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7 hours ago

Morocco’s First Female Prime Minister Inherits a Country Hungry for Change

Tik Tok Disruptions: Is Nigeria’s North Experiencing Some Sort of Censorship?

Tik Tok users across several parts of Nigeria’s northern region have been struggling to access the platform, and many have turned to VPNs to get around the problem, according to multiple X posts about the subject. Comments from users in Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto and other areas in the region show that the app either won’t load at all or becomes nearly unusable when connected through standard mobile data.

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2 weeks ago

Tik Tok Disruptions: Is Nigeria’s North Experiencing Some Sort of Censorship?

Proposed King’s College Concession Highlights Crises in Nigeria’s Unity Schools

Classes across more than 100 schools were supposed to resume on Monday, September 14, as Nigeria’s Federal Unity Colleges opened for the first term of the 2026/2027 academic session. Instead, many remained shut. Workers under the Joint Congress of Unions of the Federal Ministry of Education suspended resumption nationwide after the Federal Government’s push to hand over the management of King’s College, Lagos, one of the country’s oldest and most revered schools, to Kings College Lagos Old Boys Association (KCOBA) under a proposed 35-year concession arrangement.

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2 weeks ago

Proposed King’s College Concession Highlights Crises in Nigeria’s Unity Schools

Protests Grip DR Congo as Tshisekedi Eyes Third Term Amid Mounting Crises

Security forces fired tear gas and arrested demonstrators across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, September 16, as protests against President Félix Tshisekedi’s proposed constitutional changes escalated into some of the most sustained unrest the country has seen in months. The country is already stretched thin by a record breaking Ebola outbreak, an entrenched conflict over its mineral rich mining regions, and a humanitarian emergency that the United Nations has repeatedly described as among the most severe and neglected in the world.

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2 weeks ago

Protests Grip DR Congo as Tshisekedi Eyes Third Term Amid Mounting Crises

Nigeria’s Crisis of Public Intellect

Social media has made this particularly easy because it rewards confidence far more consistently than it rewards accuracy. Complicated issues are difficult to make viral because nuance does not always survive the algorithm. A careful explanation of the historical, political, and economic causes of insecurity is considerably less exciting than a confident declaration by VDM that someone is secretly responsible for it. The algorithm does not care which one is correct. It cares which one keeps the people watching. This has created an environment in which being interesting can become more valuable than being informed.

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