South Sudanese children play at a refugee camp in northern Uganda.
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Refugee law puts humanitarianism above considerations of state sovereignty.
Food inflation is hitting people across the board in multiple countries.
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Inflation is bad for any country’s economy. It also hurts the wealth and financial well-being of individuals and households.
A Nairobi protest against homophobic statements made by a government minister.
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Kenya’s LGBTI community continues to face the deadly consequences of homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
A church-goer attends an inclusive church for the LGBTI community in Rwanda.
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A significant number of Rwanda’s LGBT community experience hostility. This includes at work and when trying to access health services.
An activist leaves Kenya’s high court after a 2019 ruling refused to scrap laws criminalising homosexuality.
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LGBTI refugees from other countries expect Kenya to be safer but are quickly disillusioned.
The Supreme Court of Kenya in Nairobi.
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The country’s courts have already exhibited a significant level of maturity in rulings touching on the executive.
Refugees and asylum seekers were forced to live in the open in Cape Town following xenophobic attacks in 2019.
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Despite regular incidents of anti-migrant violence, peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships between South Africans and migrants can and do exist.
Social media can be used to share important information in times of crisis.
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Social media platforms can be used to share critically important information about disaster management.
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam: increasing temperatures under climate change are likely to be a significant risk to human health in informal settlements.
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Informal settlements in Dar es Salaam are highly vulnerable to the health effects of heat.
Tribalism often leads to diversion of funds meant for development in Africa.
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Although there is strength in diversity, members of ethnic groups in power distributing resources to members of their ethnic group at the expense of national growth entrench poverty in Africa.
Land ownership in South Africa remains skewed towards white farmers.
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Land reform had not been held back by the constitution but by capacity constraints and a lack of political will.
Amina Ahmed, wife of Mubarak Bala, recently convicted of blasphemy, displays her husband’s photo in Abuja, Nigeria.
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Insults against religion are illegal in Nigeria’s multi-faceted legal codes.
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How can a big infrastructure project benefit marginalised communities?
The state-owned National Oil Corporation should hold adequate reserve fuel to address national shortage.
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Money accumulated as stabilisation fund should be released to oil marketers promptly to avoid artificial shortages.
A policeman marches with a Somali flag during a parade in the capital Mogadishu.
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Whoever wins the presidential election will inherit a host of challenges that have persistently tormented previous Somali leaders.
Subsidies for black farmers would deliver an inclusive sector and correct past racial biases.
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Subsidies for black farmers in South Africa would build a new ‘crop’ of commercially oriented farmers.
A vendor selling cereals in Nairobi.
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The Ukraine crisis is significantly increasing political stress and potential conflict throughout Africa.
Troops under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan on patrol in Juba.
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The UN voted to extend its presence in South Sudan for another year. However, its success in the country faces many challenges.
Nigeria is intent on increasing local manufacturing.
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As long as industrial policies in Nigeria are introduced only as a crisis response, import restrictions will continue to be their focus.
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COVID is only one factor contributing to the difficult debt situation in the region.
A Zimbabwean broom vender pushes his bike on the streets of Chitungwiza outside Harare.
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The informal sector in Zimbabwe is massive. Finding ways to connect it to the formal sector is vital.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir (right) and his deputy Riek Machar shake hands in Addis Ababa to signify a peace deal in September, 2018.
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Kiir and Machar have been pivotal figures in most of South Sudan’s short history as an independent nation.
Access to clean water is essential in preventing a number of infections.
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Evidence suggests that involving marginalised communities in setting priorities and designing collective action can lead to improved health outcomes.
A woman receives food aid at a distribution centre in Ethiopia.
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The origins of Ethiopia’s food crisis can be traced to a bitter feud between Eritrean and Tigrayan liberation fighters.
Illegal oil refineries are operated by oil thieves in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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The illegal refinery process ignores all environmental, health and safety procedures and can have catastrophic consequences.