With the demise of Pierre Nkurunziza, all eyes are on Burundi’s new president as he inherits a political framework that has repressed press freedom and silenced independent media voices.
Ugandan farmer with adviser looking at milk records for a dairy cow.
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The deal that South Africa will get from the International Monetary Fund will in part depend on how well South Africa’s representatives negotiate.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 145-metre-high, 1.8-kilometre-long concrete colossus is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa.
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Mills Soko, University of the Witwatersrand and Mzukisi Qobo, University of the Witwatersrand
Africa accounts for nearly 27% of the World Trade Organisation’s membership and 35% of members from developing countries, but an African has never run it.
New technologies are helping people to choose when and how to have children.
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Cameroon’s anglophone crisis is not simply a dispute between two feuding groups: a range of international actors have been architects of the current situation.
The value of women to political tickets in Ghana is being recognised as more women are contesting elections at various levels.
Russian soldiers march during a Victory Day parade. The country makes guns and armoury as its main beneficiation output.
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Changes caused by COVID-19 in the higher education sector could alter the power dynamics between African researchers and those from developed countries.
A balloon of Google’s “Project Loon” to supply remote areas with Internet connections.
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