South Africa needs to create more jobs - but there’s no clarity on how this might happen.
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South Africa’s job summit ignored the great chasms that exist on how to create jobs.
Nigerian children receiving the polio vaccine in Lagos.
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The global target to eradicate polio is being missed because a number of countries are struggling to reach high vaccine coverage.
Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro on the campaign trail in Rio.
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Jair Bolsonaro has very rightwing views likely to put a final nail in the coffin off Brazil’s Africa moment spearheaded by former president Lula da Silva.
Kenya is ill-prepared for the environmental, health and safety impacts that accompany oil production.
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Kenya must address the needs and priorities of the oil sector in regards to environment, health and safety.
Censorship has been in the news again following Rwanda passing a new law.
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Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
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South Africa and Kenya have some valuable lessons for other African countries on how to finance urban infrastructure development.
Ajegunle City, Lagos State Nigeria in 2018: Busy streets bustling with commercial activity.
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A study of the mobility of poverty, or the movement of people in and out of poverty over time, provides a much more accurate picture.
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa have been a major concern for organisations working with migrants.
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Widespread concerns about the levels of immigration in South Africa make the issue appeal to voters across the economic and racial spectrum.
About 56% of Kenya’s urban population currently lives in a slum.
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The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni must answer several big questions about the country’s economic plans.
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The damage done during the preceding decade will have a negative effect on South Africa’s public finances and the economy for some time to come.
South African workers protesting against a proposed minimum wage earlier this year.
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Proposed changes to South African labour laws threaten to set back workers rights.
A KFC in Harare, like many other shops, has shut down as a result of Zimbabwe’s financial crisis .
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Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in North Africa.
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Study suggests that the UN’s own principles sometimes prevented it from living up to its objectives
Rift Valley fever is a disease passed from mosquitoes to animals then to people.
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Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases call for a collaborative approach to surveillance.
Zimbabwean Olympic gold medallist swimmer, Kirsty Coventry, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa after taking the oath of office.
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In mending the relations with Zimbabwe’s white community by roping in Kirsty Coventry and Bruce Grobbelaar, President Mnangagwa might just have pulled off a masterstroke.
A different measure of poverty shows 70% of the world’s poor live in what the World Bank considers middle-income countries.
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The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
Private companies can provide services - like catering - for inmates.
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Turning prisons into a market opportunity could open them up to corruption.
Hunger is a daily reality across large parts of Africa.
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It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
Informal trading in Fordsburg, Johannesburg.
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South Africa needs to rethink the role of the informal economy as it mulls over ideas to beat joblessness.
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo and China’s President Xi Jinping at the 2018 summit in Beijing.
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Not enough credit is given to the agency African governments have in their dealings with China.
Rice fields in Madagascar. There is a project in the country to increase climate resilience in the rice sector.
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The private-sector plays an increasing role helping agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa adapt to a changing climate.
A significant number of South Africans can’t find jobs and scrounge for a living on the sidelines of the economy.
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South Africa’s jobs summit failed to acknowledge fundamental issues in the approach to development and job creation.
About nine out of ten Somalis above the age of 16 own a phone.
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Mobile money transfers have become the norm in Somalia. Transactions total as much as $2.7bn a month.
Dairy and livestock farming will not be viable over much of the subcontinent at the current rate of warming.
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Staying below 1.5°C will require urgent, deep and radical changes in almost every aspect of our lives.
Kenya needs more skilled local workers who can be employed in the oil sector.
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A major constraint that prevents Kenyans from benefiting from the oil sector includes the lack of specialised training or technical skills