Muslims preparing for prayer in a mosque.
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Having the Quran in Igbo language will help in propagating Islam in the south eastern part of Nigeria.
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Adolescent girls are disproportionately affected by sexual and reproductive health issues. These proposed law substantively addresses these disparities.
Nigeria’s large population of young people may become a burden if not healthy and well educated.
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Nigeria must prioritise investment in education, health and infrastructure to harness the opportunities of its huge population.
South African police minister, Bheki Cele, centre, at the scene of the tavern shooting that claimed 16 lives in Soweto.
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Historically, most mass shootings in South Africa have been associated with three main things: gang conflicts, rivalries in the minibus taxi sector and factional or inter-group feuds.
Various political administrations have failed to prudently manage the economy
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Ghana hasn’t been able to withstand economic shocks or manage its debt because it hasn’t dealt with structural economic problems.
Protesting food delivery workers in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Digital platform work is often seen to suit workers’ skills, interests and schedules. But it comes at a cost to their economic security and control over the work process.
Kenyans protest rising food prices and call for urgent government action in Nairobi in May 2022.
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The economy has taken centre stage in Kenya’s 2022 elections, but political promises have fallen short of offering realistic solutions.
The New Development Bank has not been forthcoming with information on its funding of South Africa’s Medupi power station.
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The New Development Bank doesn’t have mechanisms that communities can use to hold it accountable or seek redress.
Detail of the cover of the new book featuring art by Norman Catherine.
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This book succeeds well in describing and criticising, through many examples, how whiteness works.
A classroom burnt during a typical outbreak of eco-violence in Okolo-Agatu, Benue State, north central Nigeria.
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Labels that emphasise the social identities of the contending parties not only impede efforts to comprehend their causes but also obscure their vast dimensions.
Voters in Johannesburg queue to vote in South Africa’s May 2019 national elections.
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Referenda may well have a place in the country’s democracy, but if the form of an electoral system can be referred to a referendum, why not capital punishment, abortion or LGBT rights?
Ethiopian women at a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in the country’s southern region.
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In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
The aftermath of the looting and violence of July 2021 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
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South Africa needs a multi-pronged strategy for building peaceful, sustainable neighbourhoods, communities, and a nation where the rule of law prevails.
The cause of the deaths of 21 young people in a South African pub is still unclear.
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Adolescent alcohol consumption is driven by several factors such as the availability of alcohol and social norms.
South Sudan has struggled to find stability since independence.
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Local institutions and systems of governance and peace-building are working despite insurmountable challenges.
Ivory seized on a Kenya flight arriving in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2016.
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Bilateral and multilateral cooperation is the best way to deal with a growing list of transboundary concerns.
G7 leaders convene at Schloss Elmau, Germany.
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The G7 summit offered the most recent insights for Africa into how western nations are considering their stakes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact that could have on developing nations.
A Kenyan elections official registers a voter’s details.
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The presence of fringe presidential contenders is a marker of maturing democracies.
A woman votes in Lesotho’s 2017 national election. New elections are due in October.
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The country has had five governments in 10 years. Every time a government collapses, the reform programme follows suit.
Refugees take shelter in front of the UN refugee centre in South Africa.
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Most refugees rarely gain citizenship in host countries and the work that is available to them is informal, irregular and precarious.