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Border closure is an implicit admission of the ineptitude and incompetence of Nigeria’s customs and immigration officers
Efforts to increase trade within the continent are being undermined from the start
Serious challenges lie ahead for Botswana’s governing party as it celebrates retaining power.
Hunger affects people’s health. It also affects their dignity and their ability to live full and productive lives.
The governments of the two West African countries could do more to enhance women’s participation in tourism.
South African actors are lobbying government to demand better working conditions and labour protection.
The commercialisation of universities in Kenya poses a serious threat to academic freedom.
Mmusi Maimane’s resignation highlights one of the core problems of democratic South Africa - the assumption that the only way to do anything is the way white men did it in the past.
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The solution to measles outbreaks is deceptively easy: vaccinate more children. This belies the challenges along the path to that solution.
Kenya’s constitution protects children from all forms of violence, but the country’s implementation strategies are weak.
The region has made progress but efforts must continue to end a harmful practice rooted in poverty and tradition.
The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics recognises the contribution of practical experimental work to development, but the value of putting diagnosis before treatment shouldn’t be lost.
Government leadership is needed to manage the aquifer as a system for all, including environmental services, rather than for the powerful few.
People sometimes release pets into the wild, resulting in biological invasions.
A film about Cape Town’s environmental resources features a cast as diverse as breakdancers and wetland activists - and is being used as a study aid globally.
Food insecurity remains a serious challenge among university students in South Africa.
The emergency in the DRC shows that despite all these positive changes, the global response to containing Ebola outbreaks is undermined by the lack of health care and public health infrastructure.
All signs point to the Democratic Alliance being in deep turmoil which will affect its strength as South Africa’s official opposition.
Fake copies of works by legendary black South African modernist artists are flooding the market - and one university is deploying a range of scientific tests to expose them.
Ending the Boko Haram insurgency is the last hurdle in Nigeria’s race against polio
Body mass matters in rugby. But other factors play a bigger role in determining victory.
Black consciousness in South Africa changed blacks and whites.
The book depicts how Onkgopotse Tiro’s time at Turfloop amounted to a revolutionising political script for generations to come.
Care facilities are often considered a last resort in South Africa. Personal care is assumed to be provided by family and household members.