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Adequate wastewater treatment systems are crucial to ensure that wastewater from the oil industry does less damage.
A Somali soldier looks out from a military base where a US special operations soldier was killed by a mortar attack south of Mogadishu in 2018.
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Al-Shabaab remains a strong regional actor and has proved itself to be a resilient force. It’s time to weigh a non-war strategic option
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A small but vocal lobby – some aided by US conservatives – have drawn battle lines around unisex bathrooms and gender pronouns.
South Africa’s democratic era presidents, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe, Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Mandela, the first president of a democratic South Africa, made big strategic choices – not necessarily the right ones, but certainly ones that were befitting of the times.
Mount Kenya.
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Mountain systems are sensitive to climate change. Loss of snow and ice sets off effects which have wide ranging consequences.
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Parents are enablers, motivators and facilitators of their children’s education.
South Africa’s Kusile coal-fired power plant is the fourth-largest coal plant in the world.
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Employment-intensive growth and a low emissions strategy can complement each other in South Africa.
Hydro-power is not sustainable to meet sub-Saharan Africa’s energy needs and must be supported wind, solar and geothemal.
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To address Africa’s heavy dependence on fossil fuels and hydropower, there is a need for investment in renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
Americans vote In the 2022 midterm elections on 8 November.
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Despite America’s deep divisions, the electioneering showed democracy’s resilience. This should be a boost for democracy advocates across Africa.
Internally displaced people from the Dinka ethnic group at the Minkamman camp in South Sudan in 2014.
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In 2018, Africa accounted for 70% of the world’s people displaced by armed conflict and human rights abuses.
An activist protests against the incarceration of hundreds of inmates imprisoned without trial in Nigeria.
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A central repository system offers practical solutions to reducing the large number of awaiting-trial inmates in Nigeria.
African continent is urbanising very fast and among the most vulnerable geographies to climatic change.
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Cities, which account for 70% of emissions globally, should be at the frontline of tackling some of the most severe effects of climate change.
A lot of Ghanaian settlements face social infrastructure deficits
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Ghanaian urban and development planners need to move away from looking up to examples of innovations from the global north.
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Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
Is a food courier who owns one scooter a worker?
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There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
Activists gather in front of Tel Aviv’s Embassy of Egypt to demonstrate in support of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.
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Many people accept the Egyptian government’s restrictions on freedoms, for a variety of conflicting reasons.
South Africa’s Kusile coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga.
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When it comes to dependency on coal power plants, South Africa is in a class of its own: 85% of its electricity is produced in coal power plants.
President William Ruto inspects a guard of honour in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2022.
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The purpose of term limits is to minimise corruption and open the government to new ideas that could solve national problems.
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Nigeria.
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Ahead of 2023 general elections, there are increasing concerns that the current spate of violence in Nigeria, if unchecked, could undermine electoral outcomes.
Activists demand compensation from rich countries at the COP27 climate conference.
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The lack of a clear formula to distinguish between donors’ adaptation and mitigation funds is hurting Africa’s climate response.