President Carter’s interest in southern Africa was crucial to keeping the peace.
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Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and under appreciated part of his legacy
Foreign aid drives development in cities such as Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa.
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Gender parity in the top echelons of donor organisations is key, given that Africa’s cities rely on international aid for development.
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Asia’s much touted low-cost, export-oriented manufacturing model increases gender discrimination.
Wine remains among South Africa’s major agricultural exports.
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South Africa’s focus should be on maintaining smooth relations with critical export markets while searching for new ones.
This form of skilled labour migration should be rethought.
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Hosting migrants isn’t only motivated by humanitarian reasons. In Germany immigration provides solutions to demographic and economic problems.
Research suggests that only about 1,000 to 1,500 Príncipe scops owls exist in the wild.
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A local legend of a mysterious bird with big eyes grew into the discovery of the Príncipe scops owl. A biologist on the team tells the story of finding and cataloging this new species.
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Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, has a chief heat officer, the first in Africa. She has her work cut out for her.
Members of a European Union election observation team speak to voters in Zimbabwe.
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Voters speak favourably about the potential of observation to improve overall electoral quality and transparency.
Protests against police violence from the #EndSars movement face off soldiers in Auchi, Nigeria.
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Africa’s powerhouse is about to elect its president in a highly volatile climate. Scholars have noted that each election gives way to violence, resulting in a high death toll.
Agriculture is still largely manual in a several parts of the continent.
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Average farm machinery use in Africa is among the lowest in the world.
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There has been an epidemic outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea for the first time. Here’s what you need to know about the virus, and how it spreads.
Delegates at an African Union summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2022.
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Member states need to arrive at binding, transparent and enforceable priorities to see progress.
Some African countries are already doing well in open research.
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Africa has been slow in embracing Open Science.
Guinea worms are long, white parasites that emerge from the legs of infected people through painful blisters.
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After nearly 40 years of effort, Guinea worm disease is on the cusp of being the second human disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated on Earth.
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A pioneer of cinema, his films established a truly African cinema for Africans.
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Kenya, Malawi, Gabon, Nigeria and Togo are already interested in scaling carbon credit production.
People buy produce at a wholesale market in Nakuru, Kenya, on Dec. 24, 2022.
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Many developing nations have little cold storage and lose much of their perishable food before it gets to markets. Climate-friendly refrigeration can provide huge environmental and social benefits.
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.
Pope Francis in Nairobi, Kenya, during his first papal visit to the African continent in 2015.
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African Catholics are growing in number. They are also reinventing and reinterpreting Christianity.
Chinese workers are part of most Chinese government-funded projects in Africa.
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Countries that lean towards democracy are less likely to welcome Chinese labourers.