Africa’s new information war: The leaked files that expose a manufactured solidarity
The Mail & Guardian | 19.05.2026 14:23
A cache of leaked documents has exposed a sprawling foreign influence network operating across 34 African countries, revealing how Africa’s political space is being quietly reshaped through disinformation, elite capture and engineered narratives. The revelations force a reckoning with the continent’s own vulnerabilities and with the manufactured solidarities that have seduced parts of Africa’s political class and youth.
