Africa needs to take advantage of a copyright law to protect and explore its unique local products.
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Peacebuilding – Analysis and Comment
Nigeria’s religious leaders can shape the environmental worldviews and behaviour of their congregations
To rebuild lost trust in the media will require more commitment and effort than just papering over ethical cracks.
Women’s motivations for joining terrorist networks belie Kenyan media accounts of naive girls manipulated through romantic notions of Jihadi brides or wives.
With the community, the group of theatre-makers and academics created a play that could also serve as a policy brief on what’s missing from the battle to reduce drug use in Durban.
Empowerment can mean different things for different women, but access to information is key. In Mali radio is the main source of information.
The current tensions have been driven by a delay in elections.The only feasible solution is to ensure that they take place.
Nigerian students are consuming alcohol in alarming quantities, and for psychological reasons. What can be done?
A new book explains the manifestations of the oil curse in Nigeria and Angola since independence.
Whites lived well under apartheid and it is not absurd for black leaders to want all to live in the same way.
Adolescent girls face unique challenges in times of conflict and crisis yet they are rarely consulted about how to engender peace in their communities.
We propose five principles that could guide a proper ethical and legal framework for germline editing and similar technologies.
New technologies and supermarket supplier development programmes can help integrate small agro businesses into local and global value chains.
The pandemic will not end for anyone, anywhere until it is controlled in every country. Tanzania’s approach will make it that much harder for normality to return.
The Ghanaian media decides how the public understands proceedings from the Supreme Court.
At the top of President Biden’s foreign policy agenda are COVID-19 and climate change. He has also pledged to make diplomacy and multilateralism the primary means of US foreign policy.
Former fighters described Ongwen as a model fighter and an effective commander – but testimony in his trial detailed the former child soldier’s alleged personal role in the rape of underage women.
If a country refuses, or blocks, humanitarian aid this act violates international law.
Forest rangers were subjected to occupational violence by their employers. This in turn can provoke a violent reaction to illegal activities, resulting in violent policing tendencies.
Ethiopia’s party system is extremely volatile due to the prevalence of weakly institutionalised and fragmented political parties.
For those keen to advance democracy and freedom in Uganda, the starting point is to take in the lessons of history.
The election of commissioners is a key step in the reform process of the African Union Commission.
There is a need to be alive to tensions between short- and long-term objectives, as well as the assumptions we hold around what we consider to be “better” and how to achieve it.
Public participation increased the quality and quantity of some public services, though not in all sectors, and some services were affected more than others.
Clashes between farmers and herders in Nigeria have their roots in history and an overriding arc of insecurity, but new challenges are contributing to the problem.