Coffee harvest at a farm in Zambia.
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The findings show that Zambian agricultural policies do reduce headcount poverty and inequality.
Accra’s population has doubled over the past decade.
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Accra could keep its political role while some of its other functions are distributed around the country.
Policewoman Christina must solve a murder that evokes a brutal past.
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The genocide of the Herero people lives on in today’s Namibia and Perivi Katjavivi’s film illustrates this.
The integrity of the academic project should underscore universities’ work at all times.
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Where both capacity and integrity are weak, dysfunction is inevitable.
The Head of a Celestial Church of Christ parish stands in front of the church where worshippers were killed and valuables stolen by the Badoo gang in 2017.
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Through their mastery of the environment and target selection, the Badoo cult gang was able to unleash terror among residents.
Kampala is one of the three Eastern African cities that transformed with little historical precedence.
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East Africa is one of the fastest urbanising regions in the world, but it’s still in the early phases. There’s a big opportunity to get the region’s cities right.
Where people live can determine their station in life.
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Lowering spatial inequalities can reduce economic and social inequities.
Somaliland has been assessed as holding commercial quantities of oil and gas. EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via
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Any new wealth will create new social, economic and political tensions.
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Artificial Intelligence comes with a litany of ethical risks and dilemmas. Some are universal, but some are unique to particular countries, like South Africa.
Supporters of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema wave during a rally in Mwanza.
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After years of censorship, opposition parties have to – all at once – rejoin public debates, reorganise and remotivate demoralised supporters.
Being too hot isn’t just uncomfortable: it can be dangerous.
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Simply put, southern Africans are experiencing heat stress more often than in 1979.
Ghana is trying to put together a debt restructuring programme to satisfy major stakeholders.
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Ghana’s finance ministry is struggling to build consensus on the country’s debt burden.
Young people play football on a street in Goma, eastern DRC.
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Football provides a way for unpopular elites to build political capital – but also creates space for citizens to voice dissent.
Kwame Nkrumah’s political legacy is struggling to stay afloat in Ghana.
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The recurrent bickering and fragmentation within the Nkrumahist parties raises doubt as to whether they can rise to the call by Ghanaian electorate.
The African National Congress’s fully black leadership belies its commitment to non-racialism.
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Mzala’s distinctive intellectual contribution combined a sophisticated grasp of revolutionary theory with the reality of ethnic nationalism.
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Kenya, Malawi, Gabon, Nigeria and Togo are already interested in scaling carbon credit production.
The use of wood to fuel cooking fires is ubiquitous in Ghana.
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Ghana needs improved supply systems to expand the use of clean fuels.
An official of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) counts votes cast in an election.
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Ethnicity, religion, money, history and insecurity are among the forces that will be at play.
Workers sew garments at a textile factory in Cape Town, South Africa.
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South Africa’s world-leading wage inequality has as much to do with what bosses are doing as it does with how educated or experienced workers are.
A border crossing between Uganda and Kenya at Malaba. The two countries have made strides in improving mobility between them.
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It’s likely that free movement will advance first among groupings within regional communities.