Staff members of an e-commerce company in Rwanda.
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Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
A man pairs Kenyan maize flour staple ugali with a traditional vegetable known as murenda (jute mallow).
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Facing a growing bias against indigenous crops, Kenyan researchers set out to showcase the value in local options - and set a global standard.
Kenya election officials inspect voting packs at a holding centre ahead of the August 2017 elections.
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Electoral malpractice can be justified by some as preventing a greater injustice to the individual, community or nation.
Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate.
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Over two millennia, Swahili has built bridges among people across Africa and into the diaspora.
The Djenne market in Mali. Affordable food and safe markets are important for food security.
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Food security has six dimensions: availability, access, stability, utilisation, agency and sustainability.
US marines take part in the joint military exercises with the Kenyan Army near Lamu, Kenya. PEDRO UGARTE/AFP via
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Boni forest provides a haven for military training and a staging point for hit and run tactics.
Students at a primary school in Nairobi, Kenya, queue to have their temperature taken when public schools fully reopened on 4 January 2021.
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Despite government efforts to provide digital resources for students kept out of school for most of 2020, access to these platforms was deeply unequal
Farmers test new practices to cope with climate impacts in Kenya.
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Hardline positions could narrow the options available to farmers and conservation practitioners in a way that can be harmful to both.
Newsrooms in Africa are struggling to stay afloat amid declining revenue margins.
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Many countries are experimenting with different forms of government support for journalism, but the question is about what works best and is sustainable.
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Weather forecasting is complex and challenging. The process entails three steps: observation, analysis and communication.
Kenya imports potatoes from various countries for high-end consumers and market segments.
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Kenya should develop market standards that guide the quality of potatoes sold in local markets.
The anopheles gambiae mosquito transmits malaria to humans.
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What we call mosquitoes are actually 3500 different types of insects, and they all behave differently.
Rhino horn is coveted for rumoured medicinal properties and as a status symbol.
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Rhino horn consumers have a strong preference for wild rhino horn.
African tech entrepreneurs are performing well despite extreme challenges.
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A new handbook shows that African entrepreneurs are able to hold their own globally if given the chance.
Fishermen weigh a basket full of fish off the Indian ocean’s archipelago of Lamu on Kenya’s coast.
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COVID-19 greatly disrupted local market dynamics at landing sites, within the communities, and connections to more distant markets.
Women carry water buckets filled with water after fetching it from one of the illegal freshwater points in Mathare slum.
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Fetching water entails physical hardship that can often lead to mental agony and can sometimes even threaten a woman’s safety.
Women line up to collect water in their buckets in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi.
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The manner in which people access water differs according to income. People in high- and middle- income areas tend to have piped connections in their homes.
A display in the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar, Senegal.
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Museums allow us to delve deep into the past with eye-catching displays of artefacts, ancient textiles, high-quality images and short films that narrate how our ancestors lived.
Lydia Balidawa poses for a photo with a rehabilitated grey crowned crane at Uganda’s Pian Upe Game Reserve.
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The reduction of foreign tourism is an opportunity for Africans to experience many of the continent’s premier parks at a discount.
White rhinos.
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For rhino specialists, translocation has been one of the most important tools in the conservation box of tricks.