South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is now more popular than his governing party, the ANC.
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The ANC has lost so much support among its traditional voters it’s now forced to look beyond them to retain power.
Supporters of Kenya’s draft constitution attend a “Yes” campaign rally ahead of the 2010 referendum.
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Weary Kenyans are entitled to wonder if the latest referendum push will be any different from the past two.
There’s huge societal value in opening up access to knowledge resources.
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Globally, the scholarly publishing system is in dire need of financial and legislative change.
South Africa needs to create more jobs - but there’s no clarity on how this might happen.
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South Africa’s job summit ignored the great chasms that exist on how to create jobs.
Nigerian children receiving the polio vaccine in Lagos.
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The global target to eradicate polio is being missed because a number of countries are struggling to reach high vaccine coverage.
Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro on the campaign trail in Rio.
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Jair Bolsonaro has very rightwing views likely to put a final nail in the coffin off Brazil’s Africa moment spearheaded by former president Lula da Silva.
Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili is a candidate in Nigeria’s upcoming 2019 elections.
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Can Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili become the next Nigerian president?
Kenya is ill-prepared for the environmental, health and safety impacts that accompany oil production.
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Kenya must address the needs and priorities of the oil sector in regards to environment, health and safety.
Censorship has been in the news again following Rwanda passing a new law.
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Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
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South Africa and Kenya have some valuable lessons for other African countries on how to finance urban infrastructure development.
Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has created a peace ministry to stabilise the East African nation.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has created a peace ministry but that may not be enough to stabilize the East African state.
Ajegunle City, Lagos State Nigeria in 2018: Busy streets bustling with commercial activity.
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A study of the mobility of poverty, or the movement of people in and out of poverty over time, provides a much more accurate picture.
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa have been a major concern for organisations working with migrants.
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Widespread concerns about the levels of immigration in South Africa make the issue appeal to voters across the economic and racial spectrum.
About 56% of Kenya’s urban population currently lives in a slum.
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The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni must answer several big questions about the country’s economic plans.
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The damage done during the preceding decade will have a negative effect on South Africa’s public finances and the economy for some time to come.
South African workers protesting against a proposed minimum wage earlier this year.
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Proposed changes to South African labour laws threaten to set back workers rights.
A KFC in Harare, like many other shops, has shut down as a result of Zimbabwe’s financial crisis .
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Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in North Africa.
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Study suggests that the UN’s own principles sometimes prevented it from living up to its objectives
Rift Valley fever is a disease passed from mosquitoes to animals then to people.
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Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases call for a collaborative approach to surveillance.
Zimbabwean Olympic gold medallist swimmer, Kirsty Coventry, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa after taking the oath of office.
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In mending the relations with Zimbabwe’s white community by roping in Kirsty Coventry and Bruce Grobbelaar, President Mnangagwa might just have pulled off a masterstroke.