The 2020 COVID lockdown witnessed an upsurge in crime in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Nigeria should consider embracing a decentralised policing system as community mobilisation during COVID lockdown ensured law and order.
The Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu where a 30-hour Al-Shabaab siege left 21 people dead in August 2022.
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Al-Shabaab’s evolution over nearly two decades has been centred around three major goals.
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Nigeria’s Afrobeats stars love to identify with Fela’s activism and music - but their tributes are becoming opportunistic and empty.
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Royal women play important roles in succession disputes, such as the naming of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu’s heir.
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The complexity of construction projects has driven an increase in building waste, which is difficult to recycle and reuse. But there are ways to minimise the problem.
Nigeria’s economy needs to diversify away from oil.
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There should be a better long-term strategy for foreign direct investments in Nigeria that’s not tied to its oil reserves.
Some people take the new drugs to prolong sex.
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People in Nigeria are creating new drugs either because they can’t afford more traditional narcotics, because they’re not controlled or because they’re strong.
Northern Ghana was treated as a periphery outpost by colonial administrators.
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Ghana’s northern region would be more developed now had it received a fairer share of colonial investments.
Poor retention in health services is one of the most important reasons people interrupt HIV treatment.
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When antiretroviral therapy is working effectively, HIV cannot be transmitted. This allows people with HIV to live fuller lives without the fear of infecting others.
Akin Mabogunje.
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Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje was Nigeria’s first professor of geography. He has died at 90.
July 1976: President Nyerere (right) watches as President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia greets Chinese Vice-Premier Sun Chien at the handing over ceremony of the Tanzania-Zambia railway.
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Tazara upgrade requires huge capital but new tracks could be incompatible with the existing Southern Africa rails.
Quantifying the financial costs of overweight and obesity is important for national policy.
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Lowering obesity and overweight rates will lift the burden on healthcare spending.
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The study analysed the content of six news outlets from 1994 to 2014, looking at how core socio-economic issues were reported.
People trained in the informal sector are equally skilled or better than those who attended formal training.
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Skills training in Zimbabwe excludes students from poor backgrounds. The informal sector should be used as a training ground for them.
Final year students of Geography, 2014 cohort, University of Nigeria Nsukka who participated in the research.
Nigerian students can support positive environmental behaviour if they learn about the impact of solid waste management on society.
A container ship docks at the Lamu Port in Kenya.
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Mega infrastructure projects entrench existing inequalities when they ignore the economic realities of vulnerable groups.
Kenyan President-elect William Ruto at a press conference after the Supreme Court decision.
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The 2022 election proved that the country’s situation and its people have changed since the violence that marred past elections.
Action flick Wolf Warrior II is one of China’s most commercially successful films ever.
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China is seen as Africa’s saviour and friend in the film - which is still full of racist stereotypes.
French President Emmanuel Macron.
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In Africa, French will only continue to embed itself - if speaking it is in the interests of Africans and not attached to French foreign policy interests.
Waste pickers at the Olusosan landfill work in a hazardous environment.
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Lagos waste pickers were dissatisfied with their unhealthy working conditions, poverty and stigmatisation.