Winter wheat being harvested in the fields of the Tersky Konny Zavod collective farm in the North Caucuses.
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Every agricultural role-player is keeping an eye on the developments in the Black Sea region.
Protecting persons from ‘false information’ is not a legitimate justification for restrictions on the right to freedom of expression.
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Criminal libel and seditious libel laws have existed under both military and constitutional rule in Ghana.
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E-payments make it easy for banks to keep trail of transactions because they are recorded in real time.
Representatives at the AU-EU Summit in Brussels.
Bolder action is needed if the African Union and the European Union are to find common ground on migration.
A man pairs Kenyan maize flour staple ugali with a traditional vegetable known as murenda (jute mallow).
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Facing a growing bias against indigenous crops, Kenyan researchers set out to showcase the value in local options - and set a global standard.
Head porters from the northern part of Ghana are victims of institutional weakness.
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Unresolved historical injustices, deepened in new forms, undermined compliance with Ghana’s COVID lockdown.
Kenya election officials inspect voting packs at a holding centre ahead of the August 2017 elections.
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Electoral malpractice can be justified by some as preventing a greater injustice to the individual, community or nation.
Ghana’s economy is in dire straits.
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Ghana’s economy is in its most precarious state in decades.
Chagos Islands, situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia.
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In the early 1960s, British and American diplomats conspired to establish a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest atoll of the Chagos Archipelago.
Social media is popular among young Nigerians.
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The study indicates that social media platforms are central to how young adults make sense of COVID-19 news and messages.
South Africa’s energy sector is being guided by an outdated Integrated Resource Plan.
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South Africa’s biggest successes in the last year in relation to energy have been in regulatory matters.
House painter Emanuel Chisiya and other jobseekers wait for casual jobs work offers on the side of a road in Cape Town.
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Many formal sector jobs are increasingly precarious and poorly paid, meaning that formal work is not an avenue to greater social equality for many people.
Uganda is heavily reliant on foreign financial aid.
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It’s individuals, communities, and institutions who build the necessary confidence to pursue complex and challenging solutions to their problems.
Some African and European leaders at the last AU-EU summit in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, November 2017.
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The persistent power inequalities between Africa and Europe do not bode well for supposed change. This is why the latest summit is important.
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A more devolved approach to national economic policy could build on the strengths of every region.
Armed and Security Forces of Mali servicemen stand guard on a military vehicle.
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A new wave of military coups could put the dividends of democracy out of reach in a region troubled by the effects of jihadism.
Burundi President Évariste Ndayishimiye at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The return of financial inflows from foreign investment or aid support will go a long way towards jump-starting economic recovery.
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The sums aren’t adding for South Africa on either the spending or revenue side. It’s a problem that’s developed over time with no action being taken.
Thousands of people have fled inter-ethnic clashes in northern Cameroon.
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The failures of nominally elected governments has denied leaders - as well as the democratic system - a vanguard popular constituency.
Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has undertaken several anti-corruption projects.
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Corruption must be made a high-risk enterprise so that when offenders are caught, the laws will be enforced