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Data suggests that Africa as a whole suffers a relatively high rate of casualties at munition sites where there are unplanned explosions.
From his positions at the United Nations, Professor Heyns made a huge impact on the protection of the right to life and the right of peaceful assembly.
Removing funding from research-led projects puts people in highly vulnerable situations.
Researchers found that both Kenyans and South Africans have a broadly negative view of China, possibly amplified by the pandemic.
Leon mulls over the Democratic Alliance’s biggest challenge: ‘how to maintain its majority support among minorities, and increase its meagre voter share among the black majority’.
Although there had been an increase in violence in Niger since the last election results were announced, the attempted coup, on March 31, raised concerns to a new level in the volatile country.
ECOWAS needs to be decisive in enforcing its protocols and sanctioning members that flout the provisions of its protocols and policies.
The conflict has put a temporary lid on plans that have been in the making for more than a decade since rich liquefied natural gas reserves were discovered in the Rovuma Basin.
When the Truth and Reconciliation was mandated to investigate human rights violations from March 1960, that left twelve years of apartheid rule unexplored.
South Africans deserve a fuller picture of the extent of police brutality, and the level of accountability, especially when people die at the hands of police.
Ratsiraka was a national hero and great patriot for some, for others a ruthless dictator.
Findings show that income transfer programmes must operate in deliberate coordination with ancillary social service institutions to deliver the maximum benefits for women’s empowerment.
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.
The existing electoral system has attracted extensive criticism for rendering elected representatives unaccountable to those who elected them.
Given the ever increasing importance of coordinated management Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt should manage all dams through the Nile Basin Commission.
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.
Issoufou has failed to strengthen fundamental democratic rights. If anything, the Issoufou era is a textbook case of democratic backsliding.
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.
Women MPs point to a toxic environment in which a politics of insults, ridicule and rumour work against having more women in political offices.
Though initial reactions towards abortion were negative, there were displays of understanding and empathy when discussing why women have abortions.
In the past five years, the rise of banditry and terror attacks have had devastating effects on children in northern Nigeria.