Pope Francis (in white) at the opening session of a major congress on the Catholic Church’s future on 4 October 2023.
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Divisions and tensions in the global church are affecting the church in Africa.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2004, shortly after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus.’
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African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva during the World Bank Group and IMF meetings in Washington in April 2023.
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Many sources of finance, including those from the World Bank and IMF, don’t adequately cater for African nations’ specific needs.
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In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we hear from the scientists behind a new malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford.
Hemachatus nyangensis in Nyanga National Park, Zimbabwe.
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The Nyanga rinkhals can tell us about our own evolution.
China provides billions of dollars in loans and direct investments to African nations each year.
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Politicians and scholars debate whether China’s economic investments in Africa benefit or exploit local populations. But what does the public think?
Pirates leave a Ukrainian merchant vessel for Somalia’s shore in 2008.
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The success of the Somali case illustrates what a high degree of shared interests among international actors can achieve.
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Without refugee status people aren’t able to receive valuable support, like the right to live and work in a country.
An African white rhino cow and calf.
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What would you do with 2,000 farmed rhinos? An African charity wants them to help their wild cousins.
AU chair Azali Assoumani (left) greets India’s prime minister Narendra Modi at the 2023 G20 summit.
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The African Union’s membership in the G20 is an important complement to existing strategic partnerships.
Supporters of Niger’s pro-coup National Council for Safeguard of the Homeland celebrate.
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No US president has set foot on sub-Saharan Africa since 2015 – and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Mother and baby take refuge from drought and hunger at a refugee camp in Somalia.
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Africa has made good progress towards reducing maternal mortality and newborn deaths over the past decade. But climate change is reversing the gains.
An average giraffe has a home range almost as large as Philadelphia.
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The largest ever giraffe tracking study shows how these massive animals are responding to human pressures across many different habitats throughout Africa.
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Russia was using the mercenary group to further its foreign policy aims in west Africa. There’s no reason to think Prigozhin’s death will change that.
The cathedral is being built in Accra, not far from the shoreline.
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With modern borders drawn up by colonial powers, some African governments have turned to religion to try to forge national unity since independence.
Artist AbdulAlim U-K (Aikin Karr) combines the fractal structure of traditional African architecture with emerging technologies in computer graphics.
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By bridging culture and computation, heritage algorithms challenge the myth of ‘primitive cultures’ and forge a new understanding of science and art.
Elephants are being forced into confrontations with humans.
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Measures to address tensions between wildlife and humans are critical for Tanzania.
Smoke rises above buildings in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in June 2023.
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The interplay between diversity and urban planning in Sudan has created vibrant cityscapes, but also led to segregation and division.
General Abdourahmane Tchiani, Niger’s new leader.
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Niger had been seen as a relatively stable nation in an unstable region. The coup could spark fears in the West that the nation may align interests with Russia and the Wagner Group.
Vladimir Putin is trying to repair the damage done by his decision to pull out of the grain deal which had supplied many African countries.
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Vladimir Putin is engaged in a bid to woo support among African leaders, but the summit masks the darker reality of Russian influence-seeking in Africa