A family cooking with firewood in Qunu, the rural village where former South African President Nelson Mandela grew up.
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The essential ingredients in achieving the development goals are partnerships combined with smart thinking about how to deploy 21st century technologies.
Dozens of displaced people gather along the fence of the MONUSCO base in DRC.
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A specific regional protocol could ease the management of internally displaced persons in the region.
Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, present the redesigned banknotes in Abuja.
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For a country that aspires to reduce bureaucracy and liberalise its financial sector, currency redesign and cash withdrawal limits can only be counter-intuitive.
Volunteers from Litterbroom Project, Green Corridors and members of a local community in Durban clean up beaches after heavy rains and winds.
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Volunteering can help people gain soft skills, improving their labour market prospects.
A May 2022 drone image of the submerged main entrance to Lake Nakuru National Park.
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Several reasons have been advanced for rising levels in Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes. New evidence points to the most significant cause: higher rainfall.
There should be a rethink of Nigeria’s public university system.
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In its present form, the new Higher Education Bill lacks a governance framework that addresses the complaints of fee-paying students.
Pope Francis in Nairobi, Kenya, during his first papal visit to the African continent in 2015.
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African Catholics are growing in number. They are also reinventing and reinterpreting Christianity.
Women are severely underrepresented in editorial leadership and in news coverage.
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The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
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Machine learning techniques showed that individual identity is important to spotted hyenas.
South Africa’s agricultural sector has great potential to reduce poverty and create jobs.
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Year after year, challenges have distracted the country from its agricultural expansion goals.
Key to preventing cholera is a good supply of water.
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Cholera has persisted longer in Africa largely due to worsening hygiene and sanitation situations in urban areas.
Frene Ginwala addressing the media in 2017, tireless in her fight for justice.
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A younger generation of feminists will remember her, above all, for her remarkable championing of the struggle against patriarchy.
Sahrawi protesters demand an end to hostilities by Morocco in the occupied territory of Western Sahara at the Square of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in 2021.
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Western Sahara remains largely under occupation and without any kind of international human rights monitoring.
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Destructive mining in Congo’s protected areas is rampant because it generates money for citizens, officials and armed groups.
“Antelope”, a sculpture by Samson Kambalu, at Trafalgar Square in London with Malawian Baptist preacher and Pan-Africanist John Chilembwe in the foreground.
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John Chilembwe features on Malawi’s banknotes and is remembered in a public holiday every year. But he is little-known elsewhere.
Pregnant schoolgirls weigh up several factors when deciding whether to stay in school throughout and after their pregnancies.
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Under South African law, girls have the right to continue their schooling through and after their pregnancies.
Le célèbre réalisateur Ousmane Sembène (au centre, avec sa pipe légendaire) et un groupe de figurants sur le plateau.
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Né il y a 100 ans cette année, le cinéaste le plus légendaire d'Afrique - et un romancier prolifique - reste d'actualité grâce à ses œuvres politiques magnifiquement conçues.
Post harvest losses are rampant in several parts of Africa.
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Solar-powered cold storage technology is of prime significance in efforts to cut post-harvest losses.
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The findings suggest that poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and levels of local human development are higher.
A woman works in an Ethiopian textile factory.
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Manufacturing firms exposed to increased Chinese competition employed fewer female production workers than men.
Chinese workers are part of most Chinese government-funded projects in Africa.
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Countries that lean towards democracy are less likely to welcome Chinese labourers.
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Through the choice of images in publications, women and children of colour in low and middle income countries were treated with less dignity and respect than those in high income countries.
Flamingos feeding in salt marsh on an estuary in South Africa’s Western Cape province.
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By adapting and applying existing policies, South Africa can protect and restore its critical ‘blue carbon’ sinks.
Children feel empowered and learn more about financial independence when they understand basic concepts.
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Parents and caregivers are the greatest influence on children’s financial socialisation.
Used cars are popular all over Africa.
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Africa’s used vehicle dependency is often attributed to low income and weak regulation.