A family sitting under a treated mosquito net.
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The pandemic coincides with the long rainy season in Kenya. Rain increases mosquito breeding sites, vector density and thus transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.
A cabbage farmer in Kumasi prepares his land.
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Policies should protect arable land from urban encroachment and make peri-urban households less vulnerable.
A communal hand pump in Ethiopia.
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Neglecting existing communal water supplies risks leaving many of the most vulnerable and remote communities unserved.
The peace process is at an impasse in Libya’s protracted civil conflict.
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The peace process has unfolded in fits and starts, and thus far there doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel.
An injured woman and her children arrive at a hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State, after a Boko Haram suicide bomb attack.
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Some Boko Haram victims suffer double jeopardy when they return home to their kith and kin.
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Nigeria’s pre-eminent position in Africa, lost to corruption and political patronage over the years, can be regained by putting its house in order.
Ugandan protesters call for an end to President Yoweri Museveni’s despotic rule.
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Trouble in Africa’s cities is due to the fact that electoral competition drives leaders to be biased towards rural areas.
Supporters of outgoing Senegalese President Macky Sall cheer during a rally ahead of presidential elections in 2019.
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Africa is now formally free of colonial rule. Yet, the aim of remembering and furthering the fight for self determination remains relevant as ever.
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The inequalities in South Africa’s education are systematically being exposed at a scale not experienced before.
South African police and military enforcing lockdown regulations in Cape Town, South Africa.
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The court says people need to be able to trust the government to abide by the rule of law, make rational regulations, and not intrude on the rights of those subject to the law.
A red marks the face of Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, on a wanted poster at the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit office in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Though genocide survivors would ideally want Kabuga to be prosecuted in Rwanda, it won’t be possible, for legal or political reasons.
People receiving food handouts in Lagos, Nigeria.
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The Nigerian government must adopt a process that is open in implementing its social assistance programmes.
A woman walks past a police armed vehicle in Eastleigh - Nairobi’s “little Mogadishu”
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Nairobi’s refugees have few savings and depend on the day-to-day cash they generate from street vending.
Workers with face masks seen at The Hat Factory in Cape Town, South Africa. But most employers don’t abide by health and safety regulations.
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Compliance with occupational health and safety requirements is already poor and few inspections of workplaces are being done.
Persistent rampant povery has been blamed on the compromises made by the African National Congress during negotiations to end apartheid.
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Book sheds new light on the evolution of the economic policy of the African National Congress, South Africa’s governing party.
An aerial view of a waterfront slum in Lagos, Nigeria.
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The Lagos state government must go beyond food packages as stimulus, and build capacity for poor people.
Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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While there is great potential for online higher education to reach many people, caution needs to be paid if online education is to live up to the hype.
Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed.
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A delayed election could balkanise the country along ethnic lines and become the most severe political crisis in Ethiopia’s modern history.
A bottle of Covid Organics, a herbal tea that authorities in Madagascar gave to students.
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Authorities around the world can do more to ensure that correct information and messages on the pandemic reach everybody.
Women spend considerable time finding water for their homes.
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The study confirms that collecting water for daily use weighs more heavily on women, making life more difficult for especially older women.