An activist leaves Kenya’s high court after a 2019 ruling refused to scrap laws criminalising homosexuality.
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LGBTI refugees from other countries expect Kenya to be safer but are quickly disillusioned.
A general view shows the Standard Gauge Railway train constructed by the Chinese Communications Construction Company and financed by Chinese government.
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The fear that borrowers’ strategic assets are at risk from Chinese banks continues to fail the test of evidence.
The Monument of the African Renaissance sits on a volcanic hill overlooking Dakar.
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Senegal’s colonial heritage has been interpreted to conceive an African future, turning colonial heritage into an archive of a possible Afrotopia.
Legacy schools in Ghana are over subscribed.
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Grouping of high schools in Ghana into categories perpetuates inequalities.
The Supreme Court of Kenya in Nairobi.
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The country’s courts have already exhibited a significant level of maturity in rulings touching on the executive.
Refugees and asylum seekers were forced to live in the open in Cape Town following xenophobic attacks in 2019.
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Despite regular incidents of anti-migrant violence, peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships between South Africans and migrants can and do exist.
Social media can be used to share important information in times of crisis.
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Social media platforms can be used to share critically important information about disaster management.
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam: increasing temperatures under climate change are likely to be a significant risk to human health in informal settlements.
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Informal settlements in Dar es Salaam are highly vulnerable to the health effects of heat.
Tribalism often leads to diversion of funds meant for development in Africa.
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Although there is strength in diversity, members of ethnic groups in power distributing resources to members of their ethnic group at the expense of national growth entrench poverty in Africa.
Land ownership in South Africa remains skewed towards white farmers.
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Land reform had not been held back by the constitution but by capacity constraints and a lack of political will.
Amina Ahmed, wife of Mubarak Bala, recently convicted of blasphemy, displays her husband’s photo in Abuja, Nigeria.
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Insults against religion are illegal in Nigeria’s multi-faceted legal codes.
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How can a big infrastructure project benefit marginalised communities?
The state-owned National Oil Corporation should hold adequate reserve fuel to address national shortage.
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Money accumulated as stabilisation fund should be released to oil marketers promptly to avoid artificial shortages.
President Cyril Ramaphosa testified at the Zondo commission.
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Rebuilding South Africa after the devastation of state capture would not be possible without the work of the Zondo commission.
British Home Secretary Priti Patel (left), and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta, seal asylum seeker deal with a handshake.
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The deal undermines every human being’s right to seek asylum and commitments enshrined in the Refugee Convention.
A policeman marches with a Somali flag during a parade in the capital Mogadishu.
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Whoever wins the presidential election will inherit a host of challenges that have persistently tormented previous Somali leaders.
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Gomis was the last surviving founder of Orchestra Baobab, Senegal’s most famous band.
Shane Cooper (striped shirt) with his Mabuta band members.
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The album Follow the Sun shows how South African jazz draws from diversity to speak fluidly across borders.
Dar’s rapid bus transit system is expected to be faster to build and cheaper to operate than railways. SAID KHALFAN/AFP via
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Local realities shape the transport system, making it less directly applicable as a model elsewhere.
Subsidies for black farmers would deliver an inclusive sector and correct past racial biases.
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Subsidies for black farmers in South Africa would build a new ‘crop’ of commercially oriented farmers.
A vendor selling cereals in Nairobi.
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The Ukraine crisis is significantly increasing political stress and potential conflict throughout Africa.
Troops under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan on patrol in Juba.
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The UN voted to extend its presence in South Sudan for another year. However, its success in the country faces many challenges.
Nigeria is intent on increasing local manufacturing.
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As long as industrial policies in Nigeria are introduced only as a crisis response, import restrictions will continue to be their focus.
Policies to stop the spread of COVID disadvantaged mothers and newborns.
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The direct effects of COVID-19 disease on pregnant women, newborns and children are acknowledged. But the indirect effects of the pandemic have been equally devastating.
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COVID is only one factor contributing to the difficult debt situation in the region.