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  "path": "/thought-leader/opinion/2026-05-19-africas-new-information-war-the-leaked-files-that-expose-a-manufactured-solidarity/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-19T07:23:58.000Z",
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  "textContent": "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 […]",
  "title": "Africa’s new information war: The leaked files that expose a manufactured solidarity"
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