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Nairobi harbours all the ingredients for zoonotic spillover to occur between animals and people, particularly in the most densely populated areas of the city.
The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing progress made to increase access to affordable, reliable and sustainable domestic energy sources in Kenya.
Current learning systems do not allow all learners to realise their full potential.
African city planners need to promote inclusive cities where residents are not captive walkers but walk because it is accessible, safe and pleasurable to do so.
Hassan, like Magufuli before her, has taken office without her own political base and will also have to contend with revived factional manoeuvring.
Electoral disputes and petitions are becoming a prominent feature of the electoral process.
Arbitrary detention and torture are both prohibited under local and international laws.
There are concerns that the longer girls spend out of school, the more they are at risk of dropping out.
Ghana’s early lockdown strategy impacted an already vulnerable working class.
Opponents to South Africa’s Bill restricting alcohol advertising claimed it would unjustifiably violate human rights, such as freedom of expression, and consumers’ rights to information.
The existing electoral system has attracted extensive criticism for rendering elected representatives unaccountable to those who elected them.
Until vaccines that are capable of protecting all populations against TB are developed, treatment is the best option to preventing infection.
Given the ever increasing importance of coordinated management Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt should manage all dams through the Nile Basin Commission.
Dam politics have resurfaced in Africa as the continent’s urban population grows.
Solar-powered cold chain technologies can be game-changers in the fight against COVID-19 in resource-limited settings in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
The low levels of familiarity with key historical events indicate that there are serious shortcomings in the development of national collective memory in South Africa.
Nigeria’s academic community is mourning the death of engineering professor and university administrator, Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe.
The independent theatre will be a monument to how a failed department of arts and culture could not match state support with public philanthropy.
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Understanding when there will be extreme heat and extreme cold can help people prepare.
Issoufou has failed to strengthen fundamental democratic rights. If anything, the Issoufou era is a textbook case of democratic backsliding.
Several countries on the continent had introduced COVID-19 vaccination by early March 2021.
The legitimacy of SWAPO, the former liberation movement that has governed since 1990, has been eroded amid growing corruption and a deepening economic crisis.
Due to the poor security response of the Nigerian state, insurgency will continue to pose a serious threat to its northeast border communities.
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Nigeria must do more to tackle banditry, terrorism and kidnappings which have led to the closure of some schools in the northern part of the country.