Deploying the army in the Cape Flats constitutes nothing more than simply sticking band aid on a festering wound.
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Successes by the army and police on the Cape Flats will depend entirely on levels of cooperation established on an ad hoc basis.
Senegalese women cast their ballots in the presidential elections in February.
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Africa’s democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
An Eritrean migrant leaves a detention facility near Nitzana in the Negev Desert in Israel, near border with Egypt.
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The flow of unaccompanied minors from Eritrea has become the subject of international concern.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma recanted his decision to walk out of the Zondo Commission.
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The dilemma for Zuma and his legal team is this: by putting him on the witness stand, there is a risk that he would be found wanting, especially in terms of the detail of any matter.
A Kenyan women removes maize from husks.
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Understanding the political economy around maize production puts into context debates on key interventions in the value chain.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma at the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.
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Trump and Zuma seek to sell explanations of their misfortunes to the socially insecure and economically vulnerable. To an alarming extent they succeed.
Newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela and deputy president Frederik De Klerk in May 1994.
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The April 1994 election proved to be a watershed for South Africa.
Shaldene Prins is supported by a policewoman at the funeral of her husband who was killed during gang violence.
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The biggest problem with using the military to fight rime is that soldiers are not trained for law enforcement, but warfare, using maximum force.
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo attends a confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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African leaders who have sought ICC involvement have all seen the court as being beneficial to the survival of their governments.
Congolese Bosco Ntaganda in the courtroom during the closing statements of his trial in The Hague.
EPA-EFE/Bas Czerwinski
Ntaganda’s conviction represents real progress, and an actual significant victory, for the ICC.
Aerial view of Port Louis, Mauritius.
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A significant change in political mentality is required to shore up one of Africa’s leading lights.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma.
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South Africans may well be seduced by the prospect of Zuma appearing at the Zondo commission, but he was not alone in driving the state capture project.
Then President of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh and First Lady Zeinab arrive at the White House in Washington DC for the US Africa Leaders Summit in 2014.
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At least in the short term, it looks unlikely that Jammeh will face either his victims or consequences for human rights abuses
Harold Wolpe showed how poor rural areas subsidised low wages of migrant workers’ wages.
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During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
Some African journalists are concerned that foreign funders may influence what they cover and how.
EPA-EFE/Jayden Joshua
Western aid has resulted in an Anglo-American culture of journalism education which has proved impractical to implement in African countries with illiberal political regimes.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (left) and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki at the re-opening of the Eritrean embassy in Addis Ababa.
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It’s unclear how relations between Addis Ababa and Asmara will develop but the warmth has largely gone.
A Senegalese nun prays during a service at the St. Peters church in Dakar, Senegal.
EPA/Nic Bothma
Neither French nor American, Senegalese secularism stands midway between these two models
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.
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Election to the Security Council is prestigious for member states because it gives them a seat at the highest table of global decision-making.
South Africa’s child support grant helps fight poverty among children up to the age of 18.
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The child support grant, as a policy instrument, cannot work alone in ensuring that young people thrive and succeed.
Teenage girls who fall pregnant in Zambia are often mocked and feel isolated.
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There isn’t much space in Zambia’s rural areas for open, judgement-free communication with friends and parents about sexual matters.
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What should be done to ensure that the SDGs actually change countries’ development trajectories? Here are four practical steps.
Cyril Ramaphosa takes the oath as his inauguration as President of South Africa.
EPA-EFE/Yeshiel Panchia
Politics is being reduced to personalities in South Africa. The real issue is whether the damage that’s been done can be undone.
The International Criminal Court has renewed calls for the arrest of former Sudan leader Omar al-Bashir.
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Cooperation with the Sudanese government to try al-Bashir could amount to legitimising those who themselves have been implicated in genocide
Traditional leaders listen to a speech by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s in Makhanda, Eastern Cape.
EPA-EFE/Elmond Jiyane
The contested law also defines the jurisdiction of traditional leaders in terms of territory. But traditional community boundaries are actually set by personal relationships.
A Kenyan journalist has an altercation with a police officer.
EPA/Dai Kurokawa
Although Kenyan media houses have various accountability systems in place, their implementation is weak and inconsistent.