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In 2022 the world is in the midst of another inflection point that few predicted. African countries have history they can draw on to respond.
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Instead of evicting pastoralists from their ancestral land, more effort must be made to create new opportunities for them.
Burkina Faso’s former President, Blaise Compaore, convicted for the murder of Thomas Sankara.
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The guilty verdict on Blaise Compaoré should be celebrated as a landmark victory for democracy and peoples’ movements in Africa.
Day one of the lockdown in South Africa on 27 March 2020 found some 100 African refugees living on a sidewalk in Cape Town.
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South Africa does not put refugees in camps. So, the government is responsible for their protection and well-being. Its performance was hit-and-miss.
Kenya is expected to import 700,000 tonnes of maize for 2022/23.
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Changes in maize production could create complications for Kenya, sub-Saharan Africa’s major importer, because of its policy on genetically modified maize.
South Sudanese president Salva Kiir (right) and first vice president Riek Machar.
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South Sudan wants to create a professional army from rival forces in under 12 months. It’s a lofty timeline that faces many challenges.
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Companies are moving their production back to developed countries. This is jeopardising the decades-long progress in global poverty reduction.
Students chanting slogans during a protest in Johannesburg in 2021.
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South Africans are increasingly dissatisfied with democracy because of its failure to address inequality.
Members of shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo protest the alleged theft of COVID-19 funds in Durban, South Africa.
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Extra-parliamentary politics forms part of a deeper defence that will give democracy more resilience in South Africa.
In 2019, members of an anti-banditry vigilante group disarmed in Zamfara but this has not halted attacks from bandits.
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To end banditry, Nigeria first needs to tackle poverty, hunger and unemployment.
Farmer-herder conflicts in some parts of the continent are in part driven by environmental degradation.
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Under certain conditions, climate can amplify security risks, with implications for lasting peace.
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Nigeria should urgently protect three freshwater ecosystems as these undisturbed environments are becoming rare globally.
A child in the Mathare informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
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The World Bank board operates on the basis of reaching decisions by consensus. This means that any executive director must earn the respect of their colleagues to affect change.
A Kenyan policeman stands next to a painted sign reading “keep peace stop violence” during protests in Nairobi in 2008.
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Every five years, underlying ethnic rivalries are rekindled through songs, words, euphemisms, epithets and slurs.
The constitutional right to food puts food systems and agricultural development firmly on the national development agenda.
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South Africa needs a more holistic approach to farming systems.
These types of projects can be quite harmful. They affect the land, people and biodiversity and must be planned with all this in mind - building in future climate scenarios too.
If the forecast system works, African cities need significant on the ground support.
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Could South Africa’s flooding in 2022 have been foreseen? It has long been a challenge for scientists and engineers around the world.
The coffin of Idriss Deby Itno during his funeral on April 23, 2021.
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Talks being facilitated by Qatar will determine whether Chad will be peaceful or once again be torn apart by armed conflicts.
Somali police officers in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2018.
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A transition is underway in Somalia. There are massive risks if it is not handled with great care.