The scene in Mali’s capital on Aug. 18, 2020, after Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and his prime minister were overthrown by the military.
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A coup may be a quick fix for a problem leader, but history shows that coups beget more coups.
African leaders at the 33rd African Union Heads of State Summit at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in February 2020.
The Africa peace and security posture is not everything it was intended to be, but it is credited with a number of success stories.
Men chew khat leaves in Nairobi’s Mathare slum.
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Diaries of young Kenyans in Nairobi reveal lives of joblessness and endless searching for money, all punctuated by substance use.
Residents of Lamu, Kenya, accuse the government of ignoring their concerns and going ahead with the construction of a huge port.
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Africa’s blue economy initiatives focused on economic outcomes. Limited attention was given to social equity and ecological sustainability.
High school students wear face masks as they wash their hands on August 3, the first day of partial resumption of classes in Lagos, Nigeria, since the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Nigeria’s management of the COVID-19 outbreak, and other future outbreaks, will require improved diagnostic capacity, effective testing and tracing, and massive investment in health infrastructure.
African leaders have their work cut out to make the continental free trade area a success.
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Africa has opportunities to integrate further and bring its economies into the global economy.
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Research shows that governments, more often than not, shut down the internet to hide gross violations of human rights.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s global finance expertise would serve the WTO well given the nexus between trade and finance.
Africa accounts for nearly 27% of the World Trade Organisation’s membership and 35% of members from developing countries, but an African has never run it.
Fertility rates: hard to predict.
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Why there’s no need to panic over warning of ‘jaw-dropping’ fertility decline.
Glass related artifacts excavated from Igbo Olokun, Ile Ife. Left: glass beads, Right: fragments of glass making crucibles.
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Africa has always contributed to global technological breakthroughs and economic systems.
Akinwumi Adesina leads a bank that has the USA as its second largest shareholder.
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There is concern over the growing influence of non-regional players in decision making at the regional bank.
A victim of the Aids pandemic is buried in Cape Town in 2004.
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The British press ignored the millions of deaths from HIV/Aids in Africa for far too long.
Ugandan police officers and members of a paramilitary force patrol the capital Kampala during the curfew.
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The ruling elites in parts of Africa are destabilising efforts to maintain order by living by their own rules
Outgoing International Criminal Court prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda.
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The court has focused on African cases to the exclusion of developed countries, as well as developing regions such as Latin America.
An imam leads the prayer during the funeral for COVID-19 coronavirus victims at a mosque in Cape Town.
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It is important that procedures surrounding funerals are developed by public health officials alongside traditional and religious authorities.
Burundi’s president-elect Evariste Ndayishimiye signs a condolence book for Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza.
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The sudden death of Burundi’s former president, Pierre Nkurunziza, marks the end of a long reign, characterised by violent political crises.
An albino child and his mother get a visual test as part of programmes to expand social awareness for albino people in Lagos, Nigeria.
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It’s important to unravel how disability is understood as a step towards improving the well-being of disabled people.
A Chinese language teacher speaks with students at the Confucius Institute at the University of Lagos.
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Claims of Chinese self-isolation reflect a longstanding, global “Yellow Peril” discourse that persists despite discrediting evidence.
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Removing social medicine from the education of medical students would be to their detriment - as well as their future patients.
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While more people are using the internet and social media during the pandemic, they aren’t entirely happy with what they see.