Loading packed fertilisers at Russia’s PhosAgro Group in the town of Pochep.
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The ultimate crop yields that farmers harvest depends on the use of fertilisers.
Winter wheat being harvested in the fields of the Tersky Konny Zavod collective farm in the North Caucuses.
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Every agricultural role-player is keeping an eye on the developments in the Black Sea region.
Women workers sow children’s underwear at a textile factory in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
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Chinese private investments in Ethiopia are highly diverse, fluid and complex.
Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba is sworn in as head of state in Burkina Faso on February 16 after the January military coup.
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A man with the Malian National flag joins a demonstration in Bamako after the military junta called for protests against sanctions imposed over delayed elections.
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Unimpressive democratic conditions and foreign influence in African countries make recent attempted and successful military takeovers unsurprising.
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A new study reveals the major players and routes involved.
A member of the Yansakai vigilante group poses with a gun in Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria.
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Aside from human rights abuses, vigilantes may be unreliable, poorly skilled, and lacking transparency and accountability.
After South African scientists sounded the alarm about the new omicron variant, countries around the world closed their borders.
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English Quakers on a Barbados plantation.
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Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.
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The answers to Nigeria’s poor social science research output seem to lie in quantity and quality of personnel, time available for research, funding, support institutions and policy.
Former President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been detained.
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Africa saw more coup attempts in 2021 than the preceding five years combined.
Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva at the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards.
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As ill health besets the Nigerian film and theatre legend, a tribute is in order. In his career he has always placed his country and industry first.
African tech entrepreneurs are performing well despite extreme challenges.
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A new handbook shows that African entrepreneurs are able to hold their own globally if given the chance.
A researcher at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, works on the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus in December 2021. African countries were penalized by Canada’s travel ban even though they discovered the Omicron variant via complex sequencing work when western nations failed to.
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Ottawa’s travel ban against African countries made clear its underlying policy: What matters is not your test result, but where you’ve been. It’s yet another example of anti-Africa discrimation.
Although African nations contribute the least to climate change, many are bearing its worst burdens.
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The African continent stands to lose the most from climate change - here’s what local governments can do to protect it.
Women are more likely to work in sectors hit hard by the pandemic, like hospitality.
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The pandemic has increased vulnerability and poverty for female-headed households more than for male-headed households.
US president Joe Biden and Democratic Republic of Congo president Felix Tshisekedi at the G20 summit in October 2021.
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Africa can make important contributions to the issues on the agenda: defending against authoritarianism; fighting corruption; and respect for human rights.
Inequality within countries is growing globally
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Ghanaian postcolonial intellectuals viewed terms such as development, neo-colonialism, self-reliance, and indigeneity as central to discussions of global inequalities.
The African Development Bank Group headquarters in Le Plateau, the business district of the Ivorian capital Abidjan.
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African countries can’t afford to tread water waiting for the global multilateral and private financing system to become more equitable.
TikTok exploded in Nigeria during the 2020 lockdowns.
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TikTok has exploded in popularity among young people in Nigeria. Here’s why it’s such a hit.