Getty Images
A world without pastoralists would not only be a poorer place, but we would lose an important lifeline to our collective future.
Increases in the number of women lawyers does not equate institutional change in the legal profession.
Wikimedia Commons
Philanthropic investments must support the capacity of women in law and leadership.
Shutterstock
Africa contributes less than 1% of research worldwide on movement behaviours in children. This means that research on movement behaviours has largely excluded over 16% of the world’s population.
Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Kenya’s experienced fast population growth and urbanisation - this has brought about some big challenges.
Shutterstock
In a world where economic sanctions make trade in US dollars almost impossible, gold has offered a way to evade these restrictions.
Kenya has over 18.2 million children and youth in educational institutions.
Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images
Kenya’s budgetary allocation misses opportunities to improve basic education and address unemployment.
Getty Images
Intelligence reports offer information that can avert threats to national security or promote national interests.
Getty Images
Calls to secede have been heard from time to time in Kenya – most often around elections.
Activists protest outside the Ugandan Embassy in Washington DC on April 25, 2023.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
The Ugandan law is one of a spate of laws across Africa that are said to protect the heterosexual African family.
Africa’s secondary school enrolment rates still lag far behind those of other world regions’.
David Dorey/Contributor/Getty Images
The introduction of free education should follow a gradual process, starting with the lowest levels.
Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images
African governments have more influence on China-funded projects than mainstream narratives acknowledge.
The oldest known footprint of our species, lightly ringed with chalk. It appears long and narrow because the trackmaker dragged their heel.
Charles Helm
This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.
shutterstock.
Avoid ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes. They are, more often than not, bogus and fraudulent business ventures.
Kenya Lamu Port Project.
Infrastructure that links mines to ports isn’t enough – it needs to be accompanied by policies that encourage productive investment in factories.
Two juvenile baboons passively share information about a food source when one sniffs the other’s muzzle while feeding.
Susan C. Alberts
Early life environments and adult social bonds both have strong effects on survival.
Supporters at the launch of the Jubilee Party manifesto in Nairobi, Kenya, in June 2017.
Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images
The fluidity of the country’s short-lived coalitions is a major cause of instability in Kenya.
The Burundian flag flies at the head of a convoy of buses moving refugees back home from Tanzania in 2019.
Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP via Getty Images
Tanzania’s refugee policy in the 1990s is a good example of how geopolitics affects ordinary refugees.
Democracy cannot survive without free media.
Getty Images
Finding the right balance between media freedom and limits remains one of the greatest challenges modern democracies face.
A Kenyan investigator at a mass gravesite in Shakahola in April 2023.
Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images
The media attention, public backlash and judgement of the dead in the cult saga have made processing the loss difficult for families.
A demonstrator at Queer Republic protests in Nairobi, Kenya.
John Ochieng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
A backlash against progress in gender and sexual rights is common.