Timing is everything when it comes to making a decision about declaring a disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
The Chairman of Sudan’s transitional council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, speaks during the power sharing agreement ceremony.
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The Mnangagwa regime’s coercive acts are a continuation of the violence and brutality of the Mugabe era, while he seeks global re-engagement and selective national dialogue.
There’s nothing inherent in Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies that will result in economic growth.
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Even a cursory glance at earlier industrial revolutions will show that they have not been associated with the interests of the working or underclasses.
Mozambique uses income as a measure of poverty. On this basis, poverty has declined over the past two decades.
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Income is a useful measure for tracking economic progress over time. But a broader lens is needed to understand the relational and often political ways in which poverty emerges and is reproduced.
Is it time for South Sudanese President Salva Kiir (right) and former vice-president Riek Machar to meet face to face?
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South Sudan has been in the business of building peace for years but is no closer to implementing the roadmap to peace than when it drafted the first agreement.
The Atewa Forest is at the heart of a conservation battle in Ghana.
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Ghana’s quest to fill a significant infrastructure deficit has led to a barter deal with China that threatens one of West Africa’s most important environmental spaces.
A woman shelters in a church in the Central African Republic after deadly 2014 attacks involving Muslim and Christian fighters.
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A lesson from the 2012 massacre of mineworkers is the need for government to retain its role as primary governance agent, enforcing clear rules and ensuring the provision of public goods and services.
The government of President Idriss Deby in Chad blocked citizens’ internet access for 16 months.
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Corruption includes both what people do and what they fail to do. The critical issue is a person’s motive.
Projects that support Congolese women who have survived gender violence often promote ideal notions of how men and women should behave.
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Politicians, activists and media outlets continue to deconstruct old narratives and perpetuate new grievances. Nobody, however, is as busy reconstructing a new, inclusive story.
The thread that holds Ethiopia together could be unravelling.
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