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Skills, knowledge and a qualification does not ensure successful employment outcomes for graduates.
Students at St Dominic Bukna Secondary School in Kisumu, Kenya, take their English test outdoors due to overcrowding in classrooms.
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More teachers need to be employed to cope with the increasing number of students in secondary schools.
Herder-farmer conflicts are on the rise in Ghana.
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Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
Late Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s, seen in this 2004 photograph, is one leader whose legacy will linger for long.
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Bouteflica’s two decades in power were the most damaging Algeria had experienced since independence from France in 1962.
Freed inmates prepare for rehabilitation and integration.
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Nigeria’s plan of de-radicalising and integrating former Boko Haram terrorists should be fine-tuned to achieve more.
A man removes water from a fishing boat in Idenau, Cameroon. Illegal activity by foreign fishing companies has depleted fishing stocks.
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Efforts to combat illegal fishing and fisheries crime must recognise the relationship between the sector and maritime security.
Young South Africans are bearing the brunt of the country’s high joblessness numbers.
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South Africa’s youth unemployment tax incentive is effectively a subsidy to the profits of companies.
UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima.
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Greater urgency is needed in the response to pandemics, to end AIDS and to end COVID-19.
Bag sellers at Kumasi market in Ghana. Over 80% of workers on the continent work in the informal sector.
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While inequality is a global problem, its growth is most pronounced and the political, social and economic challenges it poses are most complex and pronounced in the global South.
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Almost half of the countries in Africa have vaccination rates below 2%.
Relatives of the victims at Hissene Habre’s 2015 trial in Dakar, Senegal
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For Hissene Habre’s victims, the clock is ticking –many elderly ones have already died and will never see the compensation they were owed.
Law Society of Kenya official Mercy Wambua holds a placard at the Supreme Court in Nairobi after a protest over government disobedience of court orders.
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Constitutional amendments sought to make it easy for Kenyatta and Odinga to craft a broad tribal coalition against the deputy president.
The use of child soldiers often prolong wars.
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In many conflict areas, children are especially susceptible to the effects of war. And using them as soldiers prolongs the conflict.
Une photo, prise en août 2015, de gants et de bottes désinfectés dans un centre de traitement d'Ébola à Conakry, en Guinée ; des leçons sont tirées pour gérer le virus de Marburg.
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De nombreux pays africains ont acquis beaucoup d'xpériences en matière de gestion de épidémies de fièvres hémorragiques virales qu'ils peuvent appliquer à celle du virus à Marburg.
Informal workers in West Africa have been hardest hit by covid-19 lockdowns.
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Informal employment is significant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plight of informal workers needs to be highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A vaccination done at a pop-up site in Johannesburg. Not enough South Africans are coming forward to get their shots.
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Epidemics do not require the total eradication of the disease to end.
Cows’ milk yields rise when they eat Brachiaria grass.
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This grass may hold the key to improving milk yields from cows kept by small-scale farmers across the African continent.
Vaccinating domestic dogs is a successful and cost-effective way to prevent rabies in dogs.
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Domestic dogs have been shown to be the only species necessary to maintain rabies across most of Africa. This means that dog vaccination should control the disease in all species.
Farmers harvesting rice
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Smallholder rice farmers in Ghana should be supported by the government to access finance needed to adopt modern technologies for greater productivity.
Aerial view of the UK’s national synchrotron, Diamond Light Source Ltd (Diamond) on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire,
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Making vaccines in South Africa by building on the foundation that’s been laid is possible. But only if substantial and sustained investment in human resources and infrastructure becomes a reality.
A herd of elephants in Mali.
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Elephants avoided areas where others were poached.
Mauritanian soldiers stand guard near the border with Mali in the fight against jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region.
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Jihadi groups take advantage of endemic poverty, inequality, high unemployment levels, illiteracy, ethnic divisions, and poor governance to spread their campaign of violence in the Sahel region.
Over 40% of the countries on the UK’s COVID-19 ‘red list’ are in sub-Sahara Africa.
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When the UK’s red list is considered at a more granular level, the difficulties become immediately apparent.
Jerry Rawlings became a stalwart of democracy on the continent later in his life.
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Rawlings was a polarising figure, a person who led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in multiparty polls.
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In principle, most conflicts end with peace negotiations. In the Ethiopian situation, it is a matter of when, not if.