Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and US president Donald Trump during a press conference at the White House in 2018.
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The Trump administration’s policies affected Africa in detrimental ways.
Failure to invest in girls has socioeconomic impacts on multiple generations.
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Social norms, practices and attitudes in African societies hinder the lives, survival and development of girls.
Enthusiastic ANC supportets celebrate a recent election victory.
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The trouble is that the ANC’s branch structure, designed initially as a means of grassroots democracy at work, is in a mess.
Former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki share a light moment at a meeting of the G8 and developing nations in Tokyo in 2000.
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Former presidents Obasanjo and Mbeki have arguably made the most important contribution to Africa in the 21st Century by promoting peace, democracy, regional integration and pan-Africanism.
Students of St. George’s Girls’ Secondary School in Nairobi.
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Our findings suggest that it is time to take Kenyan youth seriously as politically important actors.
Nigerian pop star D'banj performing on stage in London.
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When pop star D'banj signed up to help get Goodluck Jonathan elected president, fans turned on him. But a hit song turned things around.
The informal sector plays a big role in waste management in Nigeria.
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Waste management should be treated as an essential service, and in Nigeria that means recognising informal workers.
Ugandan singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine being arrested on charges of unlawful assembly.
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In surpassing opposition stalwart Kizza Besigye, Robert Kyagulanyi has done what many Ugandans thought impossible. But can he topple Museveni?
Ethiopian refugees fleeing fighting in Tigray province queue to receive supplies at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref province.
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The standoff between Abiy Ahmed and the armed forces in Tigray has already caused thousands to flee their homes.
Child labour poses significant threats to children’s safety
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Children’s work circumstances put their welfare in danger, policy and action are needed urgently from government and non-governmental organisations.
Finding common ground.
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What the largest study of diversity attitudes found from a survey of 11,000 adults in England and Wales in 2020.
Nigerian rapper Olamide makes music focused on women.
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Nigerian music is gaining momentum across the world, but a study of hip hop lyrics and videos shows how the music also negatively affects women.
A group of protesters demanding better governance in Nigeria just as the country marked its 60th Independence Day anniversary on October 1, 2020.
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Although it’s failed to deliver democracy to citizens, Nigeria is not the collapsed and disintegrated entity which a 2005 US National Intelligence Council analysis predicted it would become by 2020.
Ethiopian soldiers in 2005 on a hilltop outpost overlooking the northern town of Badme, in the Tigray region.
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The Ethiopian premier is manipulating ethnic rivalries to shift the agenda from democratic reform to authoritarianism.
Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed (centre) pictured outside his office awaiting dignitaries in February 2020.
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The tensions that had been simmering between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Abiy administration eventually boiled over.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, chair of the state capture commission.
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Justice Raymond Zondo found that the test for recusal had not been met.
A real problem for the Democratic Alliance is that it cannot hope to displace the dominant African National Congress.
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The problem for the Democratic Alliance is not one of policy. There is real substance in its commitment to substituting racial criteria for overcoming historical disadvantage.
Africa’s mainly informal economies are particularly vulnerable to the ravages of COVID-19.
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The continued entrapment of African countries in the global circuit of capital and its proclivity to large scale accumulation imperils the ability of many to cope with the pandemic.
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Nigeria is not getting full benefits of increased funding for its military
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule in court in Bloemfontein, on corruption charges.
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For every office holder who may lose a seat because they are prosecuted, another job opens up.