The use of wood to fuel cooking fires is ubiquitous in Ghana.
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Ghana needs improved supply systems to expand the use of clean fuels.
Regina Twala in a rare photograph with her first husband Percy Kumalo, 1936.
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A powerful new book restores the writer and feminist politician to her rightful place in history.
A family cooking with firewood in Qunu, the rural village where former South African President Nelson Mandela grew up.
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The essential ingredients in achieving the development goals are partnerships combined with smart thinking about how to deploy 21st century technologies.
Volunteers from Litterbroom Project, Green Corridors and members of a local community in Durban clean up beaches after heavy rains and winds.
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Volunteering can help people gain soft skills, improving their labour market prospects.
Women are severely underrepresented in editorial leadership and in news coverage.
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The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
Key to preventing cholera is a good supply of water.
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Cholera has persisted longer in Africa largely due to worsening hygiene and sanitation situations in urban areas.
Frene Ginwala addressing the media in 2017, tireless in her fight for justice.
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A younger generation of feminists will remember her, above all, for her remarkable championing of the struggle against patriarchy.
Madosini performing in Johannesburg in 2021.
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The queen of Xhosa music has passed away. She reinvigorated ancient Xhosa cultural traditions through performance and teaching.
Pregnant schoolgirls weigh up several factors when deciding whether to stay in school throughout and after their pregnancies.
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Under South African law, girls have the right to continue their schooling through and after their pregnancies.
Post harvest losses are rampant in several parts of Africa.
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Solar-powered cold storage technology is of prime significance in efforts to cut post-harvest losses.
A woman works in an Ethiopian textile factory.
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Manufacturing firms exposed to increased Chinese competition employed fewer female production workers than men.
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Through the choice of images in publications, women and children of colour in low and middle income countries were treated with less dignity and respect than those in high income countries.
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We need a combination of new approaches to reduce age disparate sex. And we need new technologies to protect young women.
Batches of copper sheets stored in a warehouse at Mopani mines, Mufilira, Zambia.
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The coming copper boom presents Zambia with an extraordinary opportunity – not only to enable mining profits, but to power inclusive growth.
Plastic waste washed up by the sea lies on the beach of the coastal city of St. Louis, Senegal.
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West Africa’s marine litter problem cannot be ignored. It can hinder the region’s economic and tourism growth, while putting people’s health at risk.
Members of the Nigerian Armed Forces Sniper Unit
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Spiralling insecurity is one of the biggest takeaways when considering Nigeria’s year in review, in 2022.
Nigerian star Tems performs at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK in 2022.
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Afrobeats truly conquered the globe, influencing music styles, packing out stadiums and lifting awards.
A past anti-FGM campaign meeting in Kajiado County, Kenya.
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In Kenya, the prevalence of female genital mutilation has dropped by 24.2 percentage points where an alternative rite of passage is being tried.
A banner is displayed to advertise diesel available at a filling station in Lagos, Nigeria.
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From the economic perspective, the year 2022 will be remembered, by many Nigerians, as a time of dashed hopes and disappointments.
Farmers in India are among communities around the world hit hard by unscrupulous microlending.
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Market-led microcredit innovations dominated by profit maximisation can harm the very vulnerable.