The Ghanaian currency is facing its worst run of depreciation in years.
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The Ghanaian currency is facing structural hurdles.
African forest elephants.
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This was the first national DNA-based assessment of any free-ranging large mammal in Africa.
Old picture of construction on Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, which began generating power on February 20.
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The project violates colonial-era water rights but promises cheap and clean power to East Africa.
Kwame Nkrumah’s vision still resonates with Ghanaians.
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Nkrumah’s rhetorical vision used the politics of the crowd to build a postcolonial community outside of the conscripts of colonialism.
Ajay, right, and Atul Gupta are on the run from the law in South Africa. Their sibling Rajesh is wanted on fraud and money laundering along with Atul.
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A judicial commission has found that the Guptas orchestrated massive corruption and the capture of the South African state, with the help of their friend, former president Jacob Zuma.
Kenyan women at a past demonstration wear white headscarves to call for peaceful elections.
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The country’s political landscape is muddied by sexist language that glorifies the belittling of women in leadership.
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The number of retirees at risk of poverty is growing, making them three times more likely to experience poverty than any other age group.
Mother and child fleeing fighting between DRC and rebels backed by Ugandan forces shelter at a refugee camp in Zambia in 2003.
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The case raises the question of what happens when a court that’s designed to keep international peace starts assigning crippling damage awards.
Chief Emeka Anyaoku, a global icon with local roots.
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The former secretary-general of the Commonwealth represents the true essence of a public intellectual and leader; his sense of duty defines his legacy.
African Union and European Union flags the AU-EU Summit in Belgium.
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African participants have decided to press the reset button and begun to act as equal partners – but more can be done to improve the summit process.
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Social media platforms can be put to great use when it comes to promoting sexual health. But invoking threats and fear limits information reach and impact.
Loading packed fertilisers at Russia’s PhosAgro Group in the town of Pochep.
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The ultimate crop yields that farmers harvest depends on the use of fertilisers.
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Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity.
People wait to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
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South Africa is in a new phase of the COVID pandemic. But vaccination remains crucial.
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Governing a city like Lagos, with deep-seated socioeconomic inequalities, is not a job for the fainthearted.
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Hippos are very vocal creatures. They display certain aggressive behaviour when strangers are in their territory.
Inequality polarises societies and makes them less inclined to act for the common good.
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The reduction of inequality is crucial from an ethical point of view as well as the fact that will open new possibilities on how to tackle climate change.
A gang member shows his tattoos.
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The study revealed a link between youth, troubled behaviour and a lack of access to recreational spaces in marginalised communities.
Zimbabwe midfielders Ishmael Wadi (left) and Kundai Benyu celebrate a goal during their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations group match against Malawi in Cameroon.
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The suspension of members by FIFA over what it calls third-party interference – mainly by governments – goes back to 1990.
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La gestion internationale des épidémies, consiste parfois à céder leur contrôle à un groupe d'experts étrangers qui possèdent une compréhension superficielle d’une région très complexe.
Des milliers de personnes ont fui les affrontements interethniques dans le Nord du Cameroun.
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Les échecs des gouvernements élus de manière symbolique ont privé les dirigeants – ainsi que le système démocratique – d'une base populaire avant-gardiste.
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Africa runs the risk, yet again, of being an onlooker while others make policy for the continent.
Joseph Kony, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (Centre) arrives for a past peace talks at a jungle in Southern Sudan.
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Fresh efforts to capture Kony comes amid growing influence of Russia in the Central African Republic.
Kenyan players celebrate a win against Tanzania in a match played in Cairo. Sporting bodies say Copyright Amendment Bill threatens sports development. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via
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A fair copyright law should protect creative works in the face of fast changing technologies.
A deserted Lagos road during the pandemic lockdown in April 2020.
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Lockdown and stay-at-home orders may not benefit societies dominated by informal economies.